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2 consumer queries
1 recommendation sought, 1 'keep an eye out for me'.
A) Who can name be a brand/model of keyboard/mouse arm they like? I need more than just a drawer - I'm set up with the monitor at the end of one leg of the L of my cube desk, not in the bend - and I need it to hold the mouse as well as the KB. I'm seeing prices in the Staples catalog from $120-$350 and I really can't tell what's any good.
and now for something completely different.
B) growing up, when corn-on-the-cob season rolled around, we always had a butter-applying device the likes of which I just can't find anymore: It looks kinda like a chimney and worked kinda like a deoderant applicator - it was about the 'diameter' of a stick of butter, and about half the length. You put the butter in it, put in the bottom 'press' in and then push the butter up to the top, where you'd rub it against the corn. (The top end had a cob-shaped notch in it for easy application.) When you were done, there was a little lid to keep the butter covered.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Have you seen them in the gadget store near you? Do you want to buy me one or 2 or 3 and I'll pay you back? Let me know!
Thanks!
A) Who can name be a brand/model of keyboard/mouse arm they like? I need more than just a drawer - I'm set up with the monitor at the end of one leg of the L of my cube desk, not in the bend - and I need it to hold the mouse as well as the KB. I'm seeing prices in the Staples catalog from $120-$350 and I really can't tell what's any good.
and now for something completely different.
B) growing up, when corn-on-the-cob season rolled around, we always had a butter-applying device the likes of which I just can't find anymore: It looks kinda like a chimney and worked kinda like a deoderant applicator - it was about the 'diameter' of a stick of butter, and about half the length. You put the butter in it, put in the bottom 'press' in and then push the butter up to the top, where you'd rub it against the corn. (The top end had a cob-shaped notch in it for easy application.) When you were done, there was a little lid to keep the butter covered.
Does this sound familiar to anyone? Have you seen them in the gadget store near you? Do you want to buy me one or 2 or 3 and I'll pay you back? Let me know!
Thanks!
This thing?
Dollar Stores around here had them, if no one finds one up your way I can mail one.
Re: This thing?
I'll let you know!
Thanks...
Re: This thing?
buttererer
this it?
Re: buttererer
Maybe they're just not popular in New England??
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http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/Shopping_cart.asp?s=SC&add=Y
It's cheap, it's made entirely of steel (so it's not at all flimsy!), and ti clamps onto a desk edge (up to about 3.5" thick desks). It puts the mousing surface about 2" below the bottom edge of the desk (this is a fixed height). It pivots around the clamp point, and the wrist rest pivots independently of the mousing surface.
For the other, my parents had the same widget in a different form factor- but it came from Tupperware. Keep it in mind in case you're desperate, I suppose...
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Do you have a better pointer?
Is it http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?T1=109+0170&dept=&search=&child= ?
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http://www.cyberguys.com/templates/searchdetail.asp?T1=109+0235&dept=&search=&child=
(If that's not it, it's called "Swing Out Mouse Desk".)
What you found looks like the keyboard-and-mouse version of what I have, and it's probably pretty good too.
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A total geek alternative would be a spray bottle filled with melted butter...
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with the Cirque. You mentioned the butter dispenser then, and we found
one shortly thereafter, took
a picture, and emailed you about it. The web server says the picture was uploaded November 2004.
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