Mmmm, Ergonomic

greyhame on Jan. 31, 2007

I can’t count how many times I’ve seen a mouse in a turtleneck go all “Creepy Uncle” on an optical mouse. At one point it got so bad that we had to put out mouse traps around the display, which worked for like a few months. Then there came the lawsuits from angry consumers with swollen red fingers. It wasn’t pretty.

Wow there is absolutely no good way to segue way from a mouse violating a mouse to idiotic terrorism paranoia.

This Article was sent to me today and it fills me with equal parts humor and revulsion. To think that makeshift Light Brites of “Ignignaut” flipping the bird would send the whole city of Boston “into a panic” over fears of terrorism is laughably sad. Not that Ignignaut would not be totally stoked knowing that the whole city of Boston was paralyzed with fear at the awesome terror inducing power of the great Mooninite civilization.

My personal opinion of this is that the extent to which this has been blown out of proportion is more criminal than the trumped up charges they are going to lay on these two poor shmoes who were just doing a job they were paid to do. Instead of making this into a media frenzy they should be playing it down in shame that the authorities never even noticed the devices were there. Score one for fear mongering.

“Bow Down and Suck His Knees!”