Working Daze by John Zakour and Scott Roberts for June 19, 2024

Yep, that’s a cat for you.

And apparently, it’s working!

Let him have his toy mouse, and just use a touchpad.

A long time ago, I went into work and couldn’t figure out why the mouse wasn’t working. At least until I found that a mouse had eaten through the mouse lead. This was in the days when it wasn’t easy to just grab another one and I had to wait for IT to deliver another one. I had to use all of my keyboard shortcut knowledge that day. It’s actually surprising how much you can actually do with a good knowledge of shortcuts to get most things done. Some are impossible of course.

At least they aren’t sitting on your keyboard, Roy.

“Hello, Computer!” ☺

And this is why I like dogs.

I once had a cat that liked to sit on the mousepad. She scrunched her body so it would entirely fit on the mousepad. This was in the days of rolling ball mice. Needless to say, I had to get an optical mouse (and they were REALLY EXPENSIVE) because the mouse ball kept getting clogged up with cat hair.

We use pads, trackpads and trackballs.

The cat is an old school mouse mover to placate mouse movement tracking software. The only problem is cats have shorter attention spans than most programmers.

Is the cat named Neko?

Good cat.

now he has your attention, so pet him already