Left is right
August 19th, 2007 | by A T M |7 years in IT. Innumerable number of mouse clicks in a day. Countless. Single Click, Double clicks, Scroll, drag and moving around on the pad. Thumb and the first finger of my right hand are tired. It started showing up a week back. Unbearable pain with repetitive injury inside.Paapa. I needed to give them a break and show some vacation time. So I did. How ?
Left hand. It never occured to me that I have a left hand I can use. I swapped the button functions. And am training my left hand to do the job of right hand.
Shift in roles takes some time. Initially, when I was moving the mouse with the left hand fingers, my idle right hand fingers imitate and try to do the same in air. I can see them.
With a week behind me now….little practice and patience, lefties learn.
Two hands. What a wonderful built-in redundancy.
Hey try this. I connected two mouses ( mice?) to my PC. You can, because there are multiple USBs and discover that only one works any time. Try Try.
4 Responses to “Left is right”
By Anonymous on Aug 20, 2007 | Reply
thats cool … u getting mouse-ambi-dextrous now?
try writing with ur left hand too ! 
By ATM on Aug 20, 2007 | Reply
Left hand writing ?! When writing itself is so rare these days, it’ll be decades before I get bored with my right. Moreover, why should I infringe on nikhila styles
By Sachin on Aug 21, 2007 | Reply
how bout writing simultaneously with both your hands?
By ATM on Aug 21, 2007 | Reply
Hehe…Only Jude Law could do that in “The Wisdom of Crocodiles”