Mouseless Open Thread .. ;) 21 January 2007
Posted by marisacat in Inconvenient Voice of the Voter.trackback
A Chinese calligraphy pawn ticket just seems so appropriate… 😉
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Deflates bloated egos like a champion fencer in a balloon warehouse.
- Alan Smithee
Marisacat -"...polish on a mud wallow"
- Meteor Blades [May 24 at Mcat]
Marisacat -"... doyenne of donkle deconstruction"
- Who is IOZ [January 2 2007]
Marisacat -"... hardened professionals and their primary strength lies in their being completely unconflicted."
"... the primary difference is that on the level of criticizing other blogs and bloggers, they can actually do some damage."
"... Not what I look for in a liberal blog product."- peeder - MLW, Daily Rant [3.24.07]
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- As if nothing happened
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October 7 1955
"a remarkable collection of angels
on one stage reading their poetry"
"I think Allen Ginsberg standing up there reading - putting himself on the line - was one of the two bravest things I've ever seen. Remember, it was '55. People had crew cuts, and they looked at you like you were misplaced cannon fodder. The country was being run by Luce publications. It was a dangerous, cold, ugly time, and it was scary. . .
In all our memories no one had been so outspoken in poetry before. We had gone beyond a point of no return. None of us wanted to go back to the grey, chill, militaristic silence, to the intellectual void - to the land without poetry - to the spiritual drabness. We wanted to make it new and we wanted to invent it and the process of it as we went into it. We wanted voice and we wanted vision."
-Michael McClure
Democrats…
Same as goddam fucking forever.
Over and over, in election year after election year, GE and MidTerms both… the Dems start to purr and preen, they stretch luxuriously - at just being TOLD they are going to win [...]
It never fails.
... in February of 2002, looking over the already joyless congressional stragglers willing to be drafted for duty… they barely dreamed, yet, it was even possible (Howard, a different person then, had not arrived to say it could be done)… but one thing was clear, we could not rely on the party to swing it. Could not. You could smell it, they would screw the deal. And I am not talking about Howard and primary issues here. By the end, that was a passing political story. Chuck it on the heap.
[...]
Upshot? The Republicans make it thru. They hold on.
Amazon PayPage
If you click on La Louche the picture or the words, it leads to the Amazon PayPage, a way to ... oh let's say help with the cat can deliveries.
Thanks to all who made the very kind suggestion.
Marisacat 
I wonder what it says?
Harry’s Stuff
the site I found it at (an old Brit who was in China and HK at that period) says for a pcket watch…
wow, it’s beautiful!
In 1968 Harry drove from Kuwait to London – in a dear little Fiat… The link is to a photo and a couple of grafs about Basra.
Iraq was the secular breath of air between islamic law Kuwait and Iran. That is not a comment in support of Saddam nor the Ba’ath party. however American both may have been… 😉
On a related note, are there any other fans of Sung Po-Jen’s Capturing A Plum Blossom here ?
You can’t find a mouse in SF??
Can you borrow one from a neighbor? I’ll bet more people have extra mice than cups of sugar.
oh I can find a mouse. It is just going out and getting it.
Or two day delivery…
I admire Harry’s list of favorite movies.
the calligraphy is hard to read, but the vertical column down the middle appears to say 15 dollars and 80 cents. the cool thing about it is all the different layers of writing: a printed blue form, with black brush writing for the price and other information, and red ink chops (carvbed seals, serve the f(x) of signatures) and red rubber stamp for the date.
hop[efully gong will pop in and give us a better translation.
Marisa,
did you try taking the mouse apart and cleaning the trackball and the inside with qtips and rubbing alcohol?
Also, they sell quite nice solid state ones without all the trackball nonsense for a quite reasonable price (I got mine for 15 bucks)
colleen… ooo thanks. I did open the mouse… and cleaned the ball (tho it was new, used once, dropped in the drawer as “extreme need back up” LOL) it seems to be a cheap Chinese thing (it came iwth some keyboard). The rolling ball seems to be inside a badly designed roller space, it can retreat inside the mouse. So no matter the surface it is set on, a defect…
My Belknap that died did not have the underneath ball…
I found a reliable (35 rave reviews after I discarded several possibles, where people wrote: “worked for a few days and then…” ) Microsoft optical 4 button with a versatile scanner button. And no underneath roller ball.
Circuit City… about to order it… 😉
wu ming… thanks for the translation!
SV it is a wonderful list of movies. I have seen only a small number of the oldest ones. But i also see listed several I had forgotten about that are so nice to think of again.
He seems, despite a clear love for certain eras of German films (really into Leni!, clearly a lover of Lubitsch too) not to have cared for Fassbinder. Don’t think I saw a single one…
oops I see they call that center button a mouse a “scroll wheel”. Not a scanner button.
Oh, and FWIW: I’m mouse-less all the time when I’m using the Mac. The mouse is in fine health, but our house is so small and cluttered that there’s really no place to put down the laptop, the mouse, and the pad all at once. 😮
Best wishes and speedy recovery to everyone who’s having mouse-related issues.
so ms_xeno does your laptop have that rolling ball/mouse in the center of the keys? (you can tell I just look at the pictures, tho I did break down and read the specs on a 25.00 mousette… LOL)…
Nope. It’s a genuine antique (2002) Mac OSX, and so has only the keypad.
Howdy folks,
ITS FRICKIN SNOWING HERE!
http://www.kvoa.com/Global/category.asp?C=40643&nav=menu216_5
In other news, it looks like Blair is headed for some legal hotwater:
UK Guardian
I wish I knew, I’ve wanted to be a Knight since I rirst read about King Arthur as an eight year old…boys and swords, well you know…
sans souris, sans soucis…
… and the souris I have is sans merci… 😉
Tuston – don’t the Minutemen have a Knights of the Templar franchise in AZ?
Arcturus- Indeed they do, in Tempe of all places:o)
But I’m precluded from membership due to my long term affiliation with the JAMMs
That’s allright though, ’cause these day’s I’d rather beat any sword I find into a plow rather than look for maidens to save or dragons to slay…
I’d like to beat some swords upside their empty little low-browed heads. I bet the tone produced by the flat of a sword off of those hollow wood blocks would be an interesting little chiming sound.