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What's the gunk that accumlates on the rollers of a ball mouse?

xSauronx

Lifer
Jul 14, 2000
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mouse ball-hair?

anyway, who the hell has a ball mouse anymore? those things are worthless
 

lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
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Dead skin, old food, misc stuff... Why are you still using a ball mouse? Optical mice were the best invention since hardware accelerated graphics.
 

nerp

Diamond Member
Dec 31, 2005
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Skin cells and oils from your hands. It's the same material that coats your entire house in a thin layer. If you ran your hands over your kitchen counter as much as your ball mouse on your mousepad, you'd be scraping black gunk on a regular basis.

Welcome to life on planet earth. :)
 

her209

No Lifer
Oct 11, 2000
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Originally posted by: lxskllr
Dead skin, old food, misc stuff... Why are you still using a ball mouse? Optical mice were the best invention since hardware accelerated graphics.
I'm old school.
 

sandorski

No Lifer
Oct 10, 1999
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Originally posted by: lxskllr
Dead skin, old food, misc stuff... Why are you still using a ball mouse? Optical mice were the best invention since hardware accelerated graphics.

WitchCraft!!
 

RadiclDreamer

Diamond Member
Aug 8, 2004
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Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Dead skin, old food, misc stuff... Why are you still using a ball mouse? Optical mice were the best invention since hardware accelerated graphics.
I'm old school.

That isnt old school, thats cheap school.
 

natto fire

Diamond Member
Jan 4, 2000
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Actually, it is the feces of the creatures that eat the previously mentioned dead skin cells and food gunk and oils. Be thankful for that or there would be a lot more matter than you presently have to deal with...
 

her209

No Lifer
Oct 11, 2000
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Originally posted by: xSauronx
Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Dead skin, old food, misc stuff... Why are you still using a ball mouse? Optical mice were the best invention since hardware accelerated graphics.
I'm poor.
sucks
I have an optical mouse that I'm not using.
 
Dec 30, 2004
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get another job?
optical mice are $10

go work at McD on the weekends for a few hours, quit after a few weeks, profit!
 

rudder

Lifer
Nov 9, 2000
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Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Originally posted by: her209
Originally posted by: lxskllr
Dead skin, old food, misc stuff... Why are you still using a ball mouse? Optical mice were the best invention since hardware accelerated graphics.
I'm old school.

That isnt old school, thats cheap school.

He is like school on a Saturday... no class.
 

marvdmartian

Diamond Member
Apr 12, 2002
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wouldn't that be mouseball framunda?? :confused:

Actually, there's a scientific name for it: buyanopticalmousealready ;)
 

shortylickens

No Lifer
Jul 15, 2003
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If you look around you can find an optical mouse for 5 bucks.

Dude, seriously, think about it.
 

zanejohnson

Diamond Member
Nov 29, 2002
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even my mom uses an optical mouse on her original slot athlon 600mhz, win98se, machine...she insists on win98 for some midi piano program she loves