Updated: 11/19/05; 12:28:14 PM

 Thursday, February 3, 2005
A picture named 500-blk.jpgOn the never ending quest for the perfect mouse / keyboard combo, I came across this and was considering getting one but wanted to find out where I could see it first. I've used MS's ergonomic keyboards since 1995 until switching to the Apple Pro keyboard in 2002 but really would like to get back to something more condusive to the health of my wrists.
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Advice to a Young Wife from an Old Mistress

Imagine if people ran their friendships like they run their relationships: "Sign on the dotted line to be my lifelong best bud, or I'll never grab a beer with you again!" Luckily, there's still no such thing as "friendlock"; only the aptly named "wedlock." Come on, if marriage was the bliss-bomb it's cracked up to be, why would we need to lock couples in? In Advice to a Young Wife from an Old Mistress, a book from 1965 I found at a garage sale, authoress Michael Drury calls marriage an attempt to guarantee "what no one can: to go on feeling a certain way. Swearing to love forever is like promising to feel perpetually any other emotion, fear or sorrow, admiration or joy." For Drury, what makes sense is swearing "to go on being worth loving," not pretending you can freeze happiness like a bug in Lucite.

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