The most perfect mouse for modeling

I’ve found an optical three-button mouse that is just a dream to use when modeling! I never liked Logitech mice except for the Dual Optical (for gaming), but this little one is perfect. It’s a quite ordinary, $12 mouse for any computer with a PS/2 jack, the Logitech OEM Optical Wheel Mouse.

What’s so good about it? Well, it’s not a bloated blob like the trendy mice of today, it’s not too small like laptop mice, it’s not flat and long like Microsoft Intellimice. It fits inside a normal palm, so it’s easy to pick up and reposition. The buttons are the best on any of the 30 or so mice I’ve tried. Responsive, clicky, a good solid feel.

My best pad combo is to buy an ordinary plastic desktop writing pad with a grainy surface. It works great. You find menus quickly and stop dead on them. I suppose it would be great for point and click games like Warcraft, too. Just enable (god forbid!!) mouse acceleration (“Enhance Pointer Precision”), up the sensitivity a notch, and you can keep all the action within the range of your wrist instead of gliding over the pad. It has relieved tension on my shoulder muscles.

I’m buying another one to bring to school.

Speed-modeling and Japanese tech gems

Ahhh, another summer over. Got a tan and shaved my beard. Back to school with new energy. Me and my friend Patrik’s 3D game got finished in time for 10 extra uni credits. Sold unwanted stuff and bought some collectible stuff on eBay, as well as a telescope which will come in handy on the dark (and cold) nordic nights. As soon as the moon shows its pesky (yes, pesky!) face…

Collectibles? Well, if you’re not nerd enough, Japanese wristwatches with built-in games from the late seventies / early eighties won’t turn you on. But they were one-of-a-kind and unlike vintage LED watches very little information can be found about them on the internet.

Top ten tips for debunking UFO footage

I’m not a UFO believer; nor the opposite. Certainly there are many unidentified flying objects out there – but to jump from unidentified to identify it as alien craft is a big leap. I’m sure even the most ardent UFO believer will agree that a UFO does not equal a flying saucer with aliens in it.

Most of us have had first-hand experience of an aeroplane, for example, or even flown in one. Therefore, we can pretty easily identify an aeroplane – even if it’s so far away as to be only a dot in the sky. But to say a UFO is an alien craft is based on WHAT knowledge of alien craft? (Usually by claiming that it moves like no man-made craft – which still requires that you know of all man-made moving things in the sky.)

World Trade Center re-revisited

The 9/11 tragedy keeps springing up again. Not least in book form. The video links below recommend reading for the inquiring mind.

It’s a tragedy because of the amount of lives that were extinguished, both at September 11, 2001 and in the war where USA exacted revenge on Iraq. Being respectful is never wrong, but accepting explanations without proof is always wrong. Judging the truth needs a mind which is distanced from emotional attachment, on both sides.