Back on track

It has been a rough couple of weeks. After a trip to a prospect in Anaheim and finishing redecorating four rooms in our house, we had a team barbecue. At the same time, I've been transitioning to a new laptop (more info later). For your reading entertainment, may I suggest a short essay on keyboards vs. mice.

If I was an alien looking to slowdown the technological advancement of the human race, I would have implanted into their society the things we call the keyboard and the mouse. In fact, the only personal proof I have that this was not the case is if aliens were involved they would have updated the pain by now. Like making the "shift" key a foot pedal or something. ... To this end (again, I work 99% of the time in text, I fully understand my observations are irrelevant for more graphical professions) I have structured my desktop to be purely manipulatable by keyboard. I didn't do this consciously - it happened in stages and one day I noticed my mouse had dust on it. Using the mouse feels like using a pen in my left hand. I can do it, my output will inevitably be the same (albeit harder to read maybe) but I'm faster with the pen in my right hand.