The Vent and Rant Thread - Page 383

pilotbob · 09-26-2009, 12:54 AM

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Originally Posted by montsnmags

The stupid, little ball on my Apple mouse is like that. I've found some cleaning instructions, including a tip to do with a small strip piece of sticky tape, but by the gods it gives me the irrits when it'll scroll in the less-used up direction but not in the more often-used down, and, with me being of an "impatient-with-hardware" mindset, it's cruisin' for a bruisin' when it does it.

Marc... been having this problem too. I finally decided to google a bit. I found a video about how to open the mouse and clean it... um.. left that as last resort. I have tried lots of the "tips" but this one work brilliantly for me.

Get a clean white piece of paper. Take the mouse and turn it over and run the mouse ball on the paper pushing down on it the whole time. Move it up and down, left to right, corner to corner. Try the mouse. I just did this for the first time tonight and the mouse is working like new again... I am so happy... (but I still have that vid on how to take it apart if worse comes to worse.)

Oh, here is the video:

BOb

Patricia · 09-26-2009, 05:21 AM

The white paper trick also works well to clean an optical mouse that is not working well.

pilotbob · 09-26-2009, 11:37 AM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

The white paper trick also works well to clean an optical mouse that is not working well.

Hows that? Can't you just clean an optical mouse with a cloth (or q-tip) and a bit of alcohol? The whole lens is exposed.

BOb

Patricia · 09-26-2009, 03:22 PM

Perhaps. But if you're in your office at work, then alcohol and Q-tips may be hard to come by. (Particularly if your workplace has introduced a no-alcohol policy. Mine is trying to do this. The results could be very interesting.)

kennyc · 09-26-2009, 03:31 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Perhaps. But if you're in your office at work, then alcohol and Q-tips may be hard to come by. (Particularly if your workplace has introduced a no-alcohol policy. Mine is trying to do this. The results could be very interesting.)

You mean like Rubbing Alcohol?

lilac_jive · 09-26-2009, 03:38 PM

OH MY GOODNESS I'M SO HAPPY! I had my appointment today at the Apple store to have my iPhone looked at. I told them honestly that I dropped it, they took it in the back for five minutes and came out with it fixed. FOR FREE! It was amazing

They said a connector just got loose. How awesome is that? I got a cute case for it too, with clouds on it.

Bilbo1967 · 09-26-2009, 03:41 PM

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Originally Posted by lilac_jive

OH MY GOODNESS I'M SO HAPPY! I had my appointment today at the Apple store to have my iPhone looked at. I told them honestly that I dropped it, they took it in the back for five minutes and came out with it fixed. FOR FREE! It was amazing

They said a connector just got loose. How awesome is that? I got a cute case for it too, with clouds on it.

Congrats. Good to hear of some good service and a happy ending.

kennyc · 09-26-2009, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by lilac_jive

OH MY GOODNESS I'M SO HAPPY! I had my appointment today at the Apple store to have my iPhone looked at. I told them honestly that I dropped it, they took it in the back for five minutes and came out with it fixed. FOR FREE! It was amazing

They said a connector just got loose. How awesome is that? I got a cute case for it too, with clouds on it.

Patricia · 09-26-2009, 05:28 PM

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Originally Posted by lilac_jive

OH MY GOODNESS I'M SO HAPPY! I had my appointment today at the Apple store to have my iPhone looked at. I told them honestly that I dropped it, they took it in the back for five minutes and came out with it fixed. FOR FREE! It was amazing

They said a connector just got loose. How awesome is that? I got a cute case for it too, with clouds on it.

That's really good news, Lilac.

Meanwhile, my aged mother has contrived to have an argument with the entire family, except me. As the eldest, I'm expected to try and make peace, but am putting off the task until tomorrow. (I'm hoping that she'll realise that alienating the entire family is a bad idea, but am not sanguine about her understanding this. Logic is not her strong point.)

kennyc · 09-26-2009, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

That's really good news, Lilac.

Meanwhile, my aged mother has contrived to have an argument with the entire family, except me. As the eldest, I'm expected to try and make peace, but am putting off the task until tomorrow. (I'm hoping that she'll realise that alienating the entire family is a bad idea, but am not sanguine about her understanding this. Logic is not her strong point.)

Uh oh. That doesn't sound good. Best of luck with it.

fugazied · 09-26-2009, 07:08 PM

Here's a vent, my 7 month old pug puppy just weed on my mattress!!! arrrgh.
She should know better by now, I'm not sure why she was so naughty!

montsnmags · 09-26-2009, 09:08 PM

I am so tired, here, there and everywhere. Why is it that we feel so inclined to insult, ridicule, deride, manipulate, condescend and slap at each other like kids in a playground, either aggressively or passive aggressively, not only over our opinions, but our unsolicited opinions, and even those that are so farking irrelevant to anything important; things that don't matter; things that aren't relevant to the conversation; things that are nothing but complete subjectivity where "right" is about as useful a term as determining someone's preference for anchovies;? Where do we get off behaving like %^&*s to each other, purely because we have an opinion THAT MUST BE SHARED? Why are we so gods-damned inclined to form some subjective opinion, a "taste" for something, and then look for ways to bling it up with ethical and moral stance? Why do we conflate subjectivity into an ethical soapbox? Why are people so quick to judge a person based on some minute, specific aspect of some associated subject of some fringe field of interest's subset of operation? Why do we feel so compelled to require other people to live their lives as we live, when the way they live their lives has no bearing or effect on us?

There's a saying "Opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one", but the unspoken corollary to that is "SO FERFARKSAKE STOP BEING AN OPINION!"(*).

I'm tired of the arseholishness and general arrogance of people trying to determine what others think and do and say. I'm tired of stupid, minor issues being falsely and ridiculously turned into major battles that must be fought with such vehement, aggravated deaf insistence (lest one be damned for all eternity). I'm tired of people thinking that have some kind of moral right to my thoughts; that I am somehow less-than-human and must not be permitted to determine my own life's path - choose my own thoughts, words, actions, emotions - despite that choice affecting no-one else's individuality.

I think I'm just a neurotic introvert tired of people, and so now tired of himself.

(One takes small twinklings of reassurance where one can get them, be they Zelda's "cake" or pilotbob's mouse-cleaning suggestions. I thank ye both for that, and for others that I have yet to read because I needed to vent first)

It's getting dark, and there's a the hint of a smidgen of a tweak of a snifter of plantain in the air, wrapping around the outline of something slightly gibbonesque. The big, red button marked "ADRIAN" on my UserCP is calling to me like a large, liquorice, lozenge of diazepam. My invisible and inadvertently violent Big Brother is parting his non-lips, in preparation of announcing, "It's time to go..."

Marc

(*) I stole this, even if I paraphrased it, but I can't remember where from.

zelda_pinwheel · 09-26-2009, 09:15 PM

oh, boo, i feel the same way sometimes. let's both push the big red adrian button and go get drunk together somewhere.

zelda_pinwheel · 09-26-2009, 09:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Patricia

Meanwhile, my aged mother has contrived to have an argument with the entire family, except me. As the eldest, I'm expected to try and make peace, but am putting off the task until tomorrow. (I'm hoping that she'll realise that alienating the entire family is a bad idea, but am not sanguine about her understanding this. Logic is not her strong point.)

urgh, families !! so pointlessly complicated, sometimes. i do hope she'll come to her senses without your intervention, however unlikely that is. good luck...

kennyc · 09-26-2009, 09:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by montsnmags

I am so tired, here, there and everywhere. Why is it that we feel so inclined to insult, ridicule, deride, manipulate, condescend and slap at each other like kids in a playground, either aggressively or passive aggressively, not only over our opinions, but our unsolicited opinions, and even those that are so farking irrelevant to anything important; things that don't matter; ....

I think I'm just a neurotic introvert tired of people, and so now tired of himself.
....
Marc

Um yeah, Why CAN'T we all just get along?

09-26-2009, 09:08 PM	#5742
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	I am so tired, here, there and everywhere. Why is it that we feel so inclined to insult, ridicule, deride, manipulate, condescend and slap at each other like kids in a playground, either aggressively or passive aggressively, not only over our opinions, but our unsolicited opinions, and even those that are so farking irrelevant to anything important; things that don't matter; things that aren't relevant to the conversation; things that are nothing but complete subjectivity where "right" is about as useful a term as determining someone's preference for anchovies;? Where do we get off behaving like %^&s to each other, purely because we have an opinion THAT MUST BE SHARED? Why are we so gods-damned inclined to form some subjective opinion, a "taste" for something, and then look for ways to bling it up with ethical and moral stance? Why do we conflate subjectivity into an ethical soapbox? Why are people so quick to judge a person based on some minute, specific aspect of some associated subject of some fringe field of interest's subset of operation? Why do we feel so compelled to require other people to live their lives as we live, when the way they live their lives has no bearing or effect on us? There's a saying "Opinions are like arseholes, everybody has one", but the unspoken corollary to that is "SO FERFARKSAKE STOP BEING AN OPINION!"(). I'm tired of the arseholishness and general arrogance of people trying to determine what others think and do and say. I'm tired of stupid, minor issues being falsely and ridiculously turned into major battles that must be fought with such vehement, aggravated deaf insistence (lest one be damned for all eternity). I'm tired of people thinking that have some kind of moral right to my thoughts; that I am somehow less-than-human and must not be permitted to determine my own life's path - choose my own thoughts, words, actions, emotions - despite that choice affecting no-one else's individuality. I think I'm just a neurotic introvert tired of people, and so now tired of himself. (One takes small twinklings of reassurance where one can get them, be they Zelda's "cake" or pilotbob's mouse-cleaning suggestions. I thank ye both for that, and for others that I have yet to read because I needed to vent first) It's getting dark, and there's a the hint of a smidgen of a tweak of a snifter of plantain in the air, wrapping around the outline of something slightly gibbonesque. The big, red button marked "ADRIAN" on my UserCP is calling to me like a large, liquorice, lozenge of diazepam. My invisible and inadvertently violent Big Brother is parting his non-lips, in preparation of announcing, "It's time to go..." Marc () I stole this, even if I paraphrased it, but I can't remember where from. Last edited by montsnmags; 09-26-2009 at 09:13 PM.*

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09-26-2009, 05:21 AM	#5732
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	The white paper trick also works well to clean an optical mouse that is not working well.

09-26-2009, 03:22 PM	#5734
Patricia Reader Posts: 11,504 Karma: 8720163 Join Date: May 2007 Location: South Wales, UK Device: Sony PRS-500, PRS-505, Asus EEEpc 4G	Perhaps. But if you're in your office at work, then alcohol and Q-tips may be hard to come by. (Particularly if your workplace has introduced a no-alcohol policy. Mine is trying to do this. The results could be very interesting.)

09-26-2009, 03:38 PM	#5736
lilac_jive Grand Sorcerer Posts: 5,870 Karma: 27376 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Pennsylvania Device: PRS-505	OH MY GOODNESS I'M SO HAPPY! I had my appointment today at the Apple store to have my iPhone looked at. I told them honestly that I dropped it, they took it in the back for five minutes and came out with it fixed. FOR FREE! It was amazing They said a connector just got loose. How awesome is that? I got a cute case for it too, with clouds on it.

09-26-2009, 07:08 PM	#5741
fugazied Wizard Posts: 1,305 Karma: 1958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: iPod Touch	Here's a vent, my 7 month old pug puppy just weed on my mattress!!! arrrgh. She should know better by now, I'm not sure why she was so naughty!

09-26-2009, 09:15 PM	#5743
zelda_pinwheel zeldinha zippy zeldissima Posts: 27,827 Karma: 921169 Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Paris, France Device: eb1150 & is that a nook in her pocket, or she just happy to see you?	oh, boo, i feel the same way sometimes. let's both push the big red adrian button and go get drunk together somewhere.

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