{"id":4493,"date":"2018-10-01T13:02:56","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T11:02:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/?p=4493"},"modified":"2018-10-01T13:02:56","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T11:02:56","slug":"mouse-mats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2018\/10\/01\/mouse-mats\/","title":{"rendered":"Mouse mats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2018\/mouse-mats.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2018\/mouse-mats.jpg\" alt=\"my two mouse mats\" width=\"1000\" height=\"750\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On the left, the Wallace and Gromit mouse mat that, based on photographic evidence, I have had since at least December 2002. I <em>think<\/em> it was a Christmas or birthday present from &#8220;Alex&#8221; (via Abi). It is literally crumbling at the edges, and I regularly stab my wrist with the sharp edges of broken plastic.<\/p>\n<p>On the right, a <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.fnatic.com\/products\/boost-pro-gaming-mouse-pad\">Fnatic Boost Pro Gamer mouse pad<\/a> that I&#8217;m moving to. I&#8217;m not a pro gamer and never will be. But Alex was getting a new keyboard from them, and the mouse pads were on sale, so we threw one of them in for me as well. Will it last 16 years as well?<\/p>\n<p>For reference, here is Alex sitting at my desk back in December 2002. Custom-built PC in a heavy steel tower case from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.quietpc.com\">QuietPC.com<\/a> in the background, with a Microsoft mouse resting on the mouse mat. (That was a good mouse. I&#8217;ve always liked MS hardware.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2018\/alex-mousemat-2002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/images\/2018\/alex-mousemat-2002.jpg\" alt=\"Alex at my desk in 2002\" width=\"800\" height=\"1067\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4497\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the left, the Wallace and Gromit mouse mat that, based on photographic evidence, I have had since at least December 2002. I think it was a Christmas or birthday present from &#8220;Alex&#8221; (via Abi). It is literally crumbling at the edges, and I regularly stab my wrist with the sharp edges of broken plastic. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/2018\/10\/01\/mouse-mats\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Mouse mats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4493"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4498,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4493\/revisions\/4498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sunpig.com\/martin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}