Summer Is Coming; Will Your Mousing Hand Survive?

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Summer Is Coming; Will Your Mousing Hand Survive? 215

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 25, 2004 @05:59PM from the don't-take-the-salmon-fishing-job dept.

japala writes "Many of us will have to use our computers even when it's summer. Getting sweaty and frustrated, but you have to get the work done or that last level played. Why not cool your mousing hand down with something as unique as BreezePad. DIY all the way baby!"

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Summer is coming? (Score:4, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:00PM (#8967728)

Wow, it's about time Slashdot started breaking some real news like a season starting. Anyway, if you don't have AC, I pity you and your computer.

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Gotta take care of the mouse hand. (Score:5, Funny)

by mikeophile ( 647318 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:01PM (#8967738)

For some of us, it represents half our love lives.

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is this really necessary? (Score:3, Funny)

by quelrods ( 521005 ) * writes: <(quel) (at) (quelrod.net)> on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:02PM (#8967743) Homepage

"See that's what you have to do, come up with some really great idea and never have to work again. Like that guy, that invented the pet rock."

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Hehe... (Score:5, Funny)

by AkaXakA ( 695610 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:04PM (#8967770) Homepage

Just leaves your hand in perfect shape for the other good use... ..sax.

What? You were thinking something else than Saxophone? You dirty minded /.'er... ;)

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Re:Gotta take care of the mouse hand. (Score:5, Funny)

by sburnett ( 540700 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:05PM (#8967772)

Only half?

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Spell checker (Score:4, Funny)

by AVryhof ( 142320 ) writes: <amos@NospaM.vryhofresearch.com> on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:05PM (#8967776) Homepage

Perhaps the slashcode's submit script should have a spell checker.

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Re:Summer is coming? (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:05PM (#8967777)

Hey now, that's awfully Northern-Hemisphere-centric of 'em! :)

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Wannabe (Score:5, Funny)

by spellraiser ( 764337 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:07PM (#8967794) Journal

Many of us will have to use our computers even when its summer.
Excuse me, but just what kind of a geek are you ??

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What Mouse? (Score:5, Funny)

by chickenwing ( 28429 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:09PM (#8967815) Homepage

You use the mouse? I'd rather have cooling for my foot peddles.

I like the idea of a cool stream of air blowing up my pants...Oops, did I say that out loud.

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Getting sweaty and frustraited... (Score:2, Funny)

by st0rmshadow ( 643869 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:11PM (#8967829)

Mousing? Is that what you internet perverts are calling it now?

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The truly l337... (Score:2, Funny)

by djcreamy ( 729099 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:12PM (#8967844) Homepage

....use nothing but a keyboard

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Well, it survived... (Score:4, Funny)

by No Such Agency ( 136681 ) writes: <abmackay AT gmail DOT com> on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:14PM (#8967859)

My mousing hand survived Quake, Quake 2, Half-Life, Counterstrike, a smattering of non-FPS games, and (so far), America's Army. However, when it's released, Half-Life 2 may turn out to be the final nail in my carpal tunnel, cooling or no cooling.

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Wimpy computers (Score:5, Funny)

by andy_shepard ( 315539 ) writes: <andy+slashdot@andyshepard.org> on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:16PM (#8967870) Homepage

What kind of pathetic little computers do you use that your computer room isn't hot year round?

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I bought one... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:18PM (#8967886)

...and it blows.

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Re:Hehe... (Score:5, Funny)

by Haydn Fenton ( 752330 ) writes: <no.spam.for.haydn@gmail.com> on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:18PM (#8967889)
I was jus gonna say, if you didnt know what it was about, the whole story would sound like masturbation to me...
- "Getting sweaty and frustraited"
- "Summer Is Coming"
- "Will Your Mousing Hand Survive"
- "DIY all the way baby"
- ..but then again i'm a /. geek, right?
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Re:Obligatory /.ing joke (Score:3, Funny)

by FrYGuY101 ( 770432 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:19PM (#8967891) Journal

More obligatory Slashdot jokes:

Yeah, but does it run Linux?
Imagine a beowulf cluster of those!
I for one welcome our new climate-controlling-mousepad overlords.
In Soviet Russia, Mousepad cools YOU!

1: Slap fan on mousepad
2: ???
3: Profit!

Sadly, I can't figure out any way to work in either hot grits, or Natalie Portman.

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Oblig... (Score:5, Funny)

by CGP314 ( 672613 ) writes: <CGP@ColinGregor y P a lmer.net> on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:20PM (#8967898) Homepage

Summer Is Coming; Will Your Mousing Hand Survive?

Must... Resist... Lame... Masturbation Joke.

-Colin [colingregorypalmer.net]

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Re:Gotta take care of the mouse hand. (Score:4, Funny)

by maxbang ( 598632 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:35PM (#8967975) Journal

I'm Jewish, you insensitive clod!

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Re:Wimpy computers (Score:5, Funny)

by Realistic_Dragon ( 655151 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:39PM (#8968004) Homepage

AC beats computers (by cooling).

Electricity company beats AC (by huge bills).

Computers beat electricity company (by cracking the customer database).

It's a whole new game for the summer folks!

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Re:Warming (Score:5, Funny)

by SmackCrackandPot ( 641205 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:41PM (#8968021)

You obviously need a mouse wookie [furtasia.com]

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totally insensitive (Score:2, Funny)

by big daddy kane ( 731748 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:46PM (#8968046)

you insensitive clod I live in Antartica!

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Re:Drysol is the answer (Score:1, Funny)

by dhalgren99 ( 708333 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:47PM (#8968056) Homepage

Wait, wait, wait. You say:

"(Yes, this means there is a cure for ball-sweat)"

And yet, you also say:

" The stuff can really burn the first couple times you use it."

Not to mention:

"Other alternatives include iontophoresis (don't buy the unit, just build one yourself with some aligator clips, a resistor and a bunch of 9V batteries in series).

Surgery is also an option for overactive sweat glands, but I'd say the risks outweigh the benefits in that instance."

Something's not right in that reply!

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subliminal hit (Score:2, Funny)

by quetzalc0atl ( 722663 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:50PM (#8968068)

>sweaty and frustraited
>cool your mousing hand down..

riiiiight...thats something that one dude shouldn't say to another dude

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As the title says... (Score:5, Funny)

by AstrumPreliator ( 708436 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @06:55PM (#8968089)

Slashdot Is Coming; Will Your Server Survive?

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Re:Warming (Score:4, Funny)

by patrixmyth ( 167599 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @07:01PM (#8968114)

I have a heated keyboard and mouse (touchpad anyway); It's my P4 laptop computer.

It would also keep my legs warm if I actually kept it on my lap, and it puts out enough heated air from the side vent to use as a hand-dryer/blow-dryer. Thanks Intel!

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forget mice. use a trackball. (Score:3, Funny)

by herrd0kt0r ( 585718 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @07:09PM (#8968166)

using a mouse requires movement of the entire upper extremity.

using a trackball requires movement of yr thumb.

it's much more efficient, and now i have MUSCLES, something i never could've gotten, using a mouse. of course, only my thumb is awesomely rippled, but hey, it's a start.

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Anybody Who Visits /. (Score:3, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @07:11PM (#8968182)

Is almost certainly "sweaty and frustrated" by definition.

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Re:Gotta take care of the mouse hand. (Score:2, Funny)

by The Infamous Grimace ( 525297 ) writes: <emailpsc@gmail.com> on Sunday April 25, 2004 @07:21PM (#8968230) Homepage

Well, if you use only one hand, give your other hand a shot. It's a unique experience.

Like gettin' some strange? =)

(tig)

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Re:Drysol is the answer (Score:5, Funny)

by Fnkmaster ( 89084 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @07:27PM (#8968262)

Other alternatives include iontophoresis (don't buy the unit, just build one yourself with some aligator clips, a resistor and a bunch of 9V batteries in series).

I'm sorry, did you just recommend I put an alligator clip, a resistor and a bunch of 9V batteries in series with my balls to cure ball sweat? You sir are a disturbed man.

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Re:Serious problem for some users (Score:3, Funny)

by Spoing ( 152917 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @07:46PM (#8968376) Homepage
1. Many slashdoters may think this is a joke, but it is a serious problem for some users. I had a friend at college who's hand would sweat so profusely that he had to put a rag over his mouse to keep it from shorting out. No joke!
Sure that was "sweat", sunshine?
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Re:Better Solution? (Score:3, Funny)

by ottothecow ( 600101 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @07:59PM (#8968445) Homepage

the next time my mouse dies
Maybe you wouldnt have that problem if you didnt buy a $16 mouse in the first place ;)

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Re:Warming (Score:3, Funny)

by billcopc ( 196330 ) writes: <vrillco@yahoo.com> on Sunday April 25, 2004 @08:01PM (#8968462) Homepage

Underachiever!

You're not recycling that energy nearly enough unless you've got an Athlon XP2800 laptop. Buy now and Dell will include a voucher for a free ambulance ride to the hospital for your 2nd degree thigh burns

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Re:not a good idea (Score:2, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @09:01PM (#8968815)

Is this the Goldielocks mouse pad ? First too warm, then too cold, then too warm, then too cold. Ahhh...just right!

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Re:What Pants? (Score:4, Funny)

by rueger ( 210566 ) writes: on Sunday April 25, 2004 @10:25PM (#8969157) Homepage

Pants? You wear pants? ...Oops, did I say that out loud?

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Will my mousing hand survive? (Score:3, Funny)

by dougmc ( 70836 ) writes: <dougmc+slashdot@frenzied.us> on Monday April 26, 2004 @02:27AM (#8970103) Homepage

... probably. It almost didn't survive Diablo 2, which should have been renamed `carpal tunnel syndrome in a box', but it did, because I just stopped playing -- it was just too hard on my mouse pointing finger. Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click Click ...
Now I'm just more careful about what I play :)

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Re:Better Solution? (Score:3, Funny)

by yourruinreverse ( 564043 ) writes: on Monday April 26, 2004 @03:25AM (#8970319)

"Hey geek, does anyone even know you exist?"
"Yes, in fact I have many fans."

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Re:Better Solution? (Score:3, Funny)

by martingunnarsson ( 590268 ) * writes: <martin&snarl-up,com> on Monday April 26, 2004 @04:47AM (#8970613) Homepage

Perhaps this should give people a clue that violence is not always a good way of fixing things...

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Who... (Score:5, Funny)

by adamofgreyskull ( 640712 ) writes: on Monday April 26, 2004 @05:40AM (#8970762)

Who is Summer?? PICS?!

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Summer is coming? (Score:4, Funny)

Gotta take care of the mouse hand. (Score:5, Funny)

is this really necessary? (Score:3, Funny)

Hehe... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Gotta take care of the mouse hand. (Score:5, Funny)

Spell checker (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Summer is coming? (Score:5, Funny)

Wannabe (Score:5, Funny)

What Mouse? (Score:5, Funny)

Getting sweaty and frustraited... (Score:2, Funny)

The truly l337... (Score:2, Funny)

Well, it survived... (Score:4, Funny)

Wimpy computers (Score:5, Funny)

I bought one... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Hehe... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Obligatory /.ing joke (Score:3, Funny)

Oblig... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Gotta take care of the mouse hand. (Score:4, Funny)

Re:Wimpy computers (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Warming (Score:5, Funny)

totally insensitive (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Drysol is the answer (Score:1, Funny)

subliminal hit (Score:2, Funny)

As the title says... (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Warming (Score:4, Funny)

forget mice. use a trackball. (Score:3, Funny)

Anybody Who Visits /. (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Gotta take care of the mouse hand. (Score:2, Funny)

Re:Drysol is the answer (Score:5, Funny)

Re:Serious problem for some users (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Better Solution? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Warming (Score:3, Funny)

Re:not a good idea (Score:2, Funny)

Re:What Pants? (Score:4, Funny)

Will my mousing hand survive? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Better Solution? (Score:3, Funny)

Re:Better Solution? (Score:3, Funny)

Who... (Score:5, Funny)

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