The era of the corded mouse is all but over with modern variable height, super slippery desks but the lion kingdom figured it would try to get as much life as possible out of this one with a more optimum cable layout.  The sideways cable avoids impacting the keyboard & is shorter than going down the rear.  It interferes with the pinky finger, but only about as much as it interferes with other objects in every other orientation.  It might be a matter of getting used to the pinky finger interference.





The best mouse lions ever used was of course the 1985 Microsoft mouse.  "grey eyed"  That had excellent button clicks & friction even on bare wood.  The angle of the buttons around the corner was what did the magic.  This business of fabric covered EVA is all about getting the perfect friction.  Helas, the problem with EVA is it warps when it gets hot.  It would need a separate mouse pad on top.

It doesn't seem there will ever be a perfect mouse unless lions build it.  The mane problem is creating a scroll wheel.  There are better buttons.  There are ways to make a corded mouse work so it doesn't need batteries.  The scroll wheel would entail a custom spring mechanism, encoder, maybe hall effect sensors.  The perfect scroll wheel has assertive detents to differentiate scrolling from button presses.  The enclosure would resemble the 1985 mouse.


If a lion was still alive in 1988 & had only the olivetti M24 pictured, what would he do with it?  Write an object based, vector drawing program & a wysiwyg text editor in BASIC.  That's all it ever was used for.  The commercial offerings were trash.  Maybe obtaining the fonts would be a pain.  We couldn't transfer font files from a commodore 64.  Printer resolution was too low for true type.  It would have entailed some serious manual drawing, but that was how all font files were made.




Another week ends with a big fed drawdown & big stonk market rally.  It may be that too many people are getting into the stonk market, expecting a repeat of the last 15 years, & hence continuing very high inflation.  This could cause more tightening than they're expecting & a trend more like 2000-2005, since a reduction in interest rates isn't going to happen until inflation expectations drop.  The mad rush into stonks is being caused by inflation expectations.  The lion kingdom doesn't believe there can be a reduction in inflation without a reduction in stonks below the 32 handle, but the government does fudge the numbers.  


Lions don't run to get around as much as they breathe to get around. It may be a passing metabolic phase, but breathing slower & deeper has been giving more speed than faster & shallower. The amount of power created by engines depends on how much air they can pump so it makes sense that air pumping makes a big difference in animal speed. The best mode of air pumping is counter intuitive.















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