Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/10/26/large-mouse-pad-really-ties-a-desktop-together.html
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I bet these large mice have a pretty cool pad…
Back on topic, 
I also prefer a large mouse pad that completely covers my keyboard tray, less problems with running out of mouse pad or the pad moving around.
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Yeah, a desk covering mouse pad seems great until my groggy at 6am ass spills my tea while getting set up for work (an unfortunately frequent occurrence).
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“Back in my day” we called this a blotter or desk pad.
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In my opinion, not experience, if you keep your coffee/tea cup next to your mouse, you’re going to have something bad happen. Not an if, but a when.
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Softening a glass desk, yay! Nice transition from the New Yorker conference break thing (c.f. “I’m this close to my own Paris Review column! Gonna snort a line of matcha off my meter-long mousepad!”)
There was no mouse in the pic though, right? Oh…Apple Modern. Ease you into the novel writing game. What’d I do with that pool cue mouse/controller I once got?
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The mouse is the white thing to the right of the keyboard. It’s one of those new fancy mice without a tail.
Original mouse prototype
Note that the cord emerges from the posterior, almost like a tail.
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There I go, seeing a numeric keypad where there is a mouse. How did we ever operate computers without iomniflorbisters, eh?
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In my time, we had t’ punch th’ holes int’ th’ punchcards wi’ our teeth!
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