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Happiness is a new wireless mouse

Happiness is a new wireless mouse I bought from Staples earlier today November 18th, 2024 cuz the the older one malfunctioned. Said older generation mouse sported a rather extensive "mouse cable," one end of which ended in a standard connector namely a USB (Universal Serial Bus), which plugged into the Macbook Pro computer. Though the aforenamed laptop equipped with a small square panel containing different touch-sensitive areas linkedin with cursor movement. I much prefer to manipulate that amazing hand-held device detecting two-dimensional motion, and translates "planar motion" into cursor movement, and yours truly (me) particularly elated after quickly jimmying electronic palm size pièce de résistance to function without a hitch. As part of an ARPA-funded experiment to find better ways for computer users to interact with computers, Douglas Engelbart of SRI— who would later work on the DARPA-sponsored ARPANET project, the Internet's precursor— invented the computer mouse. Perhaps growing up and attending public school within Lower Providence, Pennsylvania where quaint accoutrements like blackboard and chalk (and a daily volunteer - ofttimes a teacher's pet - NOT ME (hashtagged as a pestilence) satisfactorily wiped the slate clean for another day). Matter of fact, I barely completed twelve years of education, where cribbed writing of mine wrote illegible scratch marks (mostly drawing blanks), when examinations got handed out. In retrospect, the much younger me, (whether as a little boy, prepubescent, older teen, and even as an emerging adult) lived a quite sheltered life totally oblivious to any danger field), and allowed, enabled and provided himself to be mollycoddled much against the objection of a father and mother, and even myself, whose pledge of allegiance to passive aggressive behavior wore patience thin toward their singular male offspring, whose unnatural control of his (mine) spontaneity in tandem with suppressed healthy predilections essentially stunted emotional, mental and physical growth and maturation. Ofttimes, especially when trying to coax extemporaneous good humor constituting mine introspective mien synonymous with mean during little boy (think quintessential generative artificial intelligence realm where chatbot accidentally waxes philosophical randomly and unthinkingly displaying creative binary agility ) surfaces to level of consciousness a mindset awakens (particularly when attempting to evince a playfulness crafting literary endeavors) analogous to the impetuousness of a child, whose innovative spirited "joie de vivre."

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