Practicalmadness

So I awoke this morning hoping to re-read, improve and finish my epic-length Year! In! Pictures! entry before I’m due at work, but, well, you see, back when I was a highly-paid and miserable web designer, before my own personal bubble burst, I bought a Logitech MX1000 laser mouse. A laser mouse is like an optical mouse, only a million times more powerful, a fact I remind myself of when I find that its extra shortcut buttons are impossible to configure the way I want them. Unlike the Microsoft mouse I got for Christmas last year, that I loaned to Lucy when I got the new Logitech one.

Anyway, one of the cool features of this mouse is that it’s rechargeable, with power-saving features that can keep it going for about two months on a single charge. I mention this now because I managed to go about two months without charging it, and this morning I am without mouse.

Yes, I have other mice. Yes, I even have this Wacom tablet that I’m using as my primary pointing device this morning. It is not the same. I am accustomed to reaching slightly up, slightly to the right, grabbing a disgustingly ergonomic cordless mouse and having my way with it. I am used to a scroll wheel. I don’t care that my mouse takes 1-2 hours to charge. I want it now.

Regardless, the reason I’m coming to you now is comments. I’ve spilled much ink (and blood— er, red ink) over the issue of Movable Type comments and whether they should be enabled on this site. You see, very few people have ever commented on this site, and I ended up removing the comments forms to deal with a spam issue.

I do still feel, however, that offering a comment form is sort of the neighborly thing to do, and in the last two days I’ve seen a couple examples of interesting comment form designs that would be a huge improvement over what I had been using.

Then again, I could just add an “e-mail David” link at the bottom of every post.

So I’m considering comments, working on new posts and even considering a site redesign just for kicks, since I introduced the “torn paper/op-art colors” aesthetic early last year and I’m due for a change.

Some of those posts I’m working on:

• Year! In! Pictures!!! In which I take some random shit from my iPhoto library and spin a narrative of my 2004.

• Macworld preview, for the Mac fans in the audience, where I report on some of the crazy rumors surrounding the coming product announcement in a vague, noncommital ways that still hopefully honors the spirit of my Apple corporate confidentiality agreement.

• Music! I’m thinking of starting a feature called ‘Media Consumption Tuesday,’ where even if I’m not going out and buying stuff released that day I can at least talk about some of the media I’ve consumed lately. Like all the DVDs I bought for Christmas and Birthday.

• An urgent plea: I will trade Gmail invites for clean underwear. I have stipulations: underwear must be relatively trendy, from a reseller such as H&M and the Gap. In addition to a Gmail invite, I have other things to trade. But please. I am a lazy man who does not like to venture into his cold, dark basement to do laundry, and also a lazy man who can’t plan enough time in his morning to stop by H&M or the Gap himself and buy fresh underpants.

  Ideally I will trade one Gmail invite for one pair of boxer briefs. I will up the ante if necessary. The money is less the issue than the laziness. I need underpants.

• By the way, not one person wrote in to ask me for Gmail invites. Clearly it was not understood by some of you that those Gmail invites were free. Now I shall have to charge you. We take the following forms of payment: PayPal, gift cards to Starbucks/H&M/, underwear, fresh prosciutto.