Dance After Dark Photography

I’d just like to mention that I have proven once again that I am, in fact, retarded.

I splurged yesterday and bought myself a new keyboard and a Graphire4. The keyboard is the spiffy clear & white model that comes with new Macs, and the Graphire is a long-overdue replacement for the Graphire2 tablet that’s been getting temperamental over the past year. It lasted forever, so I can’t complain.

How am I retarded? I’m getting there.

The reason I bought the new keyboard is that my old one cuts out sporadically. I’m actually willing to blame the Graphire2’s problems on that also, since it was plugged into the keyboard’s USB port instead of directly connected to my G4. The cord wasn’t long enough to do anything else, and the short cord & groovy features of the new model were enough to make me just replace it anyway. That aside, the keyboard made for some interesting typing. Sometimes a letter or three wouldn’t register, but I type fast enough that on occasion I’d miss an entire paragraph before I realized the keyboard wasn’t working any longer. (Long story short, sometimes I’m thinking about other things while I type, so I’ve got my eyes closed or directed up toward the ceiling. Strange, but it works for me.)

Skip ahead to today, and I’m getting all kinds of frustrated because the brand spankin’ new Graphire keeps right-clicking when I hit the left click button. I updated the drivers, same problem. I noticed that it would continue doing this until I hit the Escape key on the keyboard, so I’m thinking that the keyboard is part of the problem. Just as I’m beginning to curse the world, I notice one small detail that had slipped past unnoticed.

I’ve been resting my hand on the Control key. On a Mac, that makes a left-click into a right-click. This keyboard has absolutely no extra space around the edges. There’s about a millimeter of plastic around the outside, so when I rest my hand on the board as I’ve been wont to do, I am in fact holding down the Control key. Hitting Escape fixed it because I picked up my left hand to do so.

I’m not just retarded. I’m a fcuking moron. (heh)