The original mouse was carved from wood hollowed out to take a two-inch magnet bar of aluminium, nickel, and cobalt. It has two beady, button eyes, three small brass wheels for legs, and an pipe cleaner for a tail. Two copper whickers guide it through the maze to the "cheese" which is an electrical terminal that rings a bell when toughed by the whickers.
This started as somewhere for me to keep notes about my research/scholarship interest in the nature of information in my capacity as an academic at the Open University. Now that I'm retired, I just use it for anything I want to get off my chest. (Though there are still sometimes things I want to flag about the nature of information.)
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The original mouse was carved from wood hollowed out to take a two-inch magnet bar of aluminium, nickel, and cobalt. It has two beady, button eyes, three small brass wheels for legs, and an pipe cleaner for a tail. Two copper whickers guide it through the maze to the "cheese" which is an electrical terminal that rings a bell when toughed by the whickers.
That sounds nice! There's something very satisfying about old brass-and-wood electrical equipment.
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