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#### New Shimmer, it's a dessert topping _and_ a floor wax. #####
Snapshot from original SNL skit (season 1 with Chevy Chase)
https://i.stack.imgur.com/bXXBj.png[^]
Man (played by Dan Akroyd): "Mmmm....tastes great on my ice cream."
Woman (played by Gilda Radner): "And just look at that floor shine."
You can (only) listen to the skit now (because of NBC restrictions) on Youtube[^].
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I have a trackball. Like all reasonable people.
A "mouse pad surface"? Like, in "moving" your arm?
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I have a trackpad on my laptop but can't bring myself to use it, so I disable it and use a mouse. But years ago, I used Mac laptops that featured a trackball above left and right mouse buttons, and I didn't have a problem with those.
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Not very handy on a laptop, due to placement. Hardly matters for a IDE too; but for gaming, I prefer the trackball.
In an IDE, you should hardly use the mouse. Most things have keyboard shortcuts. There, the mouse is too slow for a keyboard.
In games where you mouse a lot; well, it doesn't make you faster if you use a trackball. It's just easier on the hand muscles.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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I rarely play games, and then only those where speed is hardly ever a factor. If I want that, I'll get it on the tennis court. But I think you've provoked me into paying more attention to shortcuts in VS. I just got a new laptop. The previous one was 5 years old, and its ZXCV keys had started to fail intermittently!
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I always found the original Windows short cut keys of
Shift+Del
Ctrl+Ins
Shift+Ins
to work better on a full keyboard. Save the letters for words.
Most apps still support these, but do not advertise it.
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I wasn't aware of those but can do the XCV ones with my left hand. It would take a long time to train an old right hand to do the others. 
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I rarely use the mouse when editing code or documents. My right hand lives on the cursor diamond and Home, End, Del and my left hand is hovering over Ctrl and Shift.
Select a word/variable is Shift{select}+Ctrl+Right{or Left}{move one word}
Select some lines:
Home{start of text},
Home{start of line},
Shift+Down{Down…}
Shift+Del{cut}
Give me laptop with a touchpad if you want to hear some choice language.
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Well...
Some of us like to get exercise while we code and game   Trackballs are okay for coding but not as good for gaming...
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oofalladeez343 wrote: Trackballs are okay for coding but not as good for gaming...
I just explained the opposite 
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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this is great info!
diligent hands rule....
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Back in the day every other PC mag came with a free mousepad (a.k.a. advertising). But certainly since optical mice, I've never found any reason to use a mousepad. The edges get in the way, and it's just not necessary. Even on a smooth patternless desktop I've never had a problem with the mouse detecting movement, and certainly not on my fake-woodgrained desk surface. Occasionally when I've worked at client sites I've found the desk to be just the wrong height, or the surface to be too rough for my baby-soft hands (  ) in which case I just use a notepad or something. Mousepads seem to be a solution looking for a problem.
Disclaimer: YMMV.
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One of the nice parts of going mad (yes there are actually some bright spots to it, at least in my case) is as it loosened some of my screws it gave me more room to maneuver analytically and think outside the box.
One of the things it did for me intellectually was get me more interested in fuzzy "human" data and with it, an interest in philosophy and language.
One of the things it did for me experientially is it gave me "visions" if you will (visual hallucinations) and with those, some I think? rare insight into something I call the meta - the clockwork of action/reaction chains that drive our collective story forward.
One of the things it did for me professionally is make my code less structured, yet IMO more elegant. The way I attack problems has changed somewhat - or maybe going mad just brought something that was already there to the fore, I'm not sure.
So part of me is grateful for the experience. It's certainly not all good, and on balance the bad almost certainly outweighs the good, but I like to try to take away as much useful experience as I can from my circumstances.
Real programmers use butterflies
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I put my money on the fact that you are not mad or going mad, at all. Perhaps a bit eccentric, but that is always good IMHO. Just saying...
What ‘Am I Crazy?’ Really Means[^]
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This is one of those irregular verbs:
- I have character
- You are eccentric
- He is crazy
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Another one is
- I'm a freedom fighter
- You're a rebel
- He's a terrorist
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Greg Utas wrote: You're a rebel
She's a rebel, she's a saint
She's the salt of the earth, and she's dangerous
She's a rebel, vigilante
Missing link on the brink of destruction
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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- I provide background information
- You leak
- He is in violation of section D of the Official Secrets Act
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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Nailed it! 
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It's a bet you would lose. Eccentric people don't hallucinate and have significant delusions when unmedicated.
Real programmers use butterflies
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So, what anti-psychotic meds are you "not taking" and why are you not taking them?
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I'm currently medicated. I don't want to get into my specific medications here.
Real programmers use butterflies
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Well, I wish you the best on this adventure. At least you are able to find ways to benefit from all of this, which is always good.
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honey the codewitch wrote: Eccentric people don't hallucinate and have significant delusions when unmedicated
Nope, they pay shady characters to buy substances that make them do it.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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