{"id":4207,"date":"2008-05-16T08:21:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-16T15:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/05\/16\/my-desk-with-my-new-toy\/"},"modified":"2019-12-23T09:30:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-23T17:30:48","slug":"my-desk-with-my-new-toy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2008\/05\/16\/my-desk-with-my-new-toy\/","title":{"rendered":"My Desk with my New Toy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:5541,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/2496468253&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/photos\\\/djwudi\\\/2496468253&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:3853,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/people\\\/djwudi&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20250816092227\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.flickr.com\\\/people\\\/djwudi\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-06 22:46:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-15 04:35:50&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 19:54:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-24 06:42:09&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-29 15:38:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-01 17:35:28&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-04 19:41:34&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 20:19:23&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-12 04:35:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:31:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:31:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5542,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/xkcd.com\\\/243&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260308110746\\\/https:\\\/\\\/xkcd.com\\\/243\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/xkcd.com\\\/243&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 19:54:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:31:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:31:10&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5543,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/images.google.com\\\/images?um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;q=trackpad&amp;btnG=Search+Images&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/images.google.com\\\/imghp?um=1&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:5544,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.wacom.com\\\/intuos\\\/6x11.cfm&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20081204052219\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.wacom.com:80\\\/intuos\\\/6x11.cfm&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-08 10:59:21&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-20 19:54:18&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:31:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:true,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-15 11:31:11&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; }\n.flickr-yourcomment { }\n.flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; }\n.flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; }\n<\/style>\n<div class=\"flickr-frame\">\n  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/2496468253\/\" title=\"My Desk with my New Toy\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2198\/2496468253_01be02de34.jpg\" class=\"flickr-photo\" alt=\"My Desk with my New Toy\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n  <br \/>\n  <span class=\"flickr-caption\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/djwudi\/2496468253\/\" title=\"Flickr | djwudi | My Desk with my New Toy\">My Desk with my New Toy<\/a>, originally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/djwudi\/\" title=\"Flickr | djwudi\">djwudi<\/a>.<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>When Prairie asked me what I wanted for my birthday this year, I just couldn&#8217;t come up with an answer. There really wasn&#8217;t anything that was jumping to mind &#8212; I&#8217;ve got tons of music, tons of books, a good selection of work and school clothing&#8230;. We batted ideas around for a while, until I mentioned that I&#8217;d occasionally dreamed about updating my little Wacom Graphire2 (actually, I think it was an Artz, the progenitor to the Graphire line) 3.5&#215;5 tablet.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve never been a big fan of mice. In rough order from least preferred to most preferred, my choice of input device is somewhere along the lines of<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/243\/\" title=\"XKCD: Appropriate Term\">TrackPoint<\/a> &lt; <a href=\"http:\/\/images.google.com\/images?um=1&amp;hl=en&amp;safe=off&amp;client=safari&amp;rls=en-us&amp;q=trackpad&amp;btnG=Search+Images\" title=\"Google Image Search: trackpad\">trackpad<\/a> &lt; mouse &lt; trackball &lt; tablet<\/p>\n<p>Upgrading from the smaller 4&#215;5 tablet to the larger <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wacom.com\/intuos\/6x11.cfm\" title=\"Wacom Intuos3 6x11 Tablet\">6&#215;11 widescreen tablet<\/a> is <em>so<\/em> nice! There&#8217;s more space to work with, so fine details are easier and more precise, and since the tablet matches the widescreen format of the screen, there&#8217;s no horizontal compression further affecting the pointer mapping. Plus, it&#8217;s <em>quiet<\/em> &#8212; which may sound odd, but between using a different material for the higher end tablets and including a better quality pen (the old pen rattles a bit), it&#8217;s gone from really quiet to near silent.<\/p>\n<p>Definitely a worthwhile upgrade (and I can&#8217;t even draw, this is entirely a input device\/Photoshop photo editing tool&#8230;a &#8220;real&#8221; artist would love these even more)!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Prairie asked me what I wanted for my birthday this year, I just couldn&#8217;t come up with an answer. There really wasn&#8217;t anything that was jumping to mind &#8212; I&#8217;ve got tons of music, tons of books, a good selection of work and school clothing&#8230;. 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