Another late night coding session, though I'm actually taking the opportunity to write some music which has needed writing for a while. This note links to a realaudio rendition of what I was listening to all day. The note at the end of the entry is today's output.

The wheel mouse is a pretty good thing. Maybe it started off when someone decided that a mouse should also work when it's upside down, though for an auxilliary function, sort of like a pencil and its "erase" mode. (users of Wacom tablets are already familiar with its dual-sided stylus). Well, what happens when you turn a mouse upside down normally? You get a really lame trackball and you keep accidentally clicking the buttons. With the new WHEEL mouse, you can scrol lthe window up and down! Auxilliary! Except for two things: it's inconvenient to turn the mouse upside down and it turns out to be really fun to twiddle the mousewheel rightside up. Yay! I seem to remember a mouse with a trackball in the TOP, too. But I don't think that's a great idea. Next: the upside-down keyboard.

Watching a few animations of Hopper (of Rocky & Hopper) that I found on a random visit to Goopy.com. He's got some really floppy arms there. Then again, he is a penguin. They're flippers/wings. Still, it looks like he's just got prehensile baloney pasted to his sides.