--Vasugi V. Ganeshananthan
You Dirty...Mouse?
Not the furry type, mind you. We're talking about computer mice. The white, plastic type who reside in labs like Maxwell Dworkin and the Science Center. Each day, they bolt across their pads, from one corner to the other, dragging, dropping, zooming, clicking, clicking, never resting.
All is well and good until they start to get dirty. Rather, until their balls start to get dirty. You see, in the midst of all that scampering and clicking, all sorts of rubbish gets sucked up into the ball area. This is a bad thing. Many mice rely on their balls for agility, speed and overall vitality. As rubbish and grime builds up in the ball area, our little friends suffer from symptoms ranging from sluggishness, jumpiness, paralysis and even chronic depression. Millions of mice each year are killed or severely crippled by Dirty Mouseball Syndrome (DMS). Here at Harvard, almost every mouse in every public-use computer lab has been afflicted by DMS in some way.
But, there is hope.
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