{"id":786,"date":"2005-10-15T15:21:43","date_gmt":"2005-10-15T18:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=786"},"modified":"2005-10-15T19:05:35","modified_gmt":"2005-10-15T22:05:35","slug":"to-gel-or-not-to-gel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=786","title":{"rendered":"To Gel Or Not To Gel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">E<\/span>arlier, we dropped in at the local computer grocery chain to look for that (fairly priced) LCD monitor I wanted to buy for the Wife. We were looking at an Acer 17 inch one, to discover that the display showed a lot of &#8216;ghosting&#8217;: pixels that appeared at spots where they were not supposed to be. The deal was off: if it was a demo model it shows that the screen will not stand the test of time. If it wasn&#8217;t a demo model, the question remains why would someone buy an LCD monitor of this low quality. Any experts?\n<\/p>\n<p>I decided to buy a wireless mouse and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.allsop.com\/viewcategory.asp?page=2&#038;stid=&#038;cid=18&#038;scid=\">&#8216;memory-gel enhanced&#8217; mousepad (Allsop)<super>1<\/super><\/a>. I&#8217;ve been using a &#8216;gel&#8217; mousepad for years and I swear by them: the one from Fellows (plain gel\/rubber\/plastic) I considered to be <em>superb<\/em>.  Upon entering the house and trying the new mousepad, I discovered it hurt my wrist within minutes. Buying a &#8216;memory-gel enhanced&#8217; mousepad is a <em>grave<\/em> mistake. I can imagine <a href=\"http:\/\/www.healthyfoundations.com\/memoryfoam.html\">memory foam<\/a> being good for the sleep, but for the wrist <em>you need the gel to support it<\/em>, not to give in to the shape of your arm. After all the idea of the gel is to keep that <em>wrist<\/em> as straight as possible and (secondly) the cushion is there to support the wrist when you grab and move the mouse. Only a &#8216;gelly&#8217; cushion does that right. Memory &#8216;enhanced&#8217; gel does not.<\/p>\n<p>Stay clear from that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier, we dropped in at the local computer grocery chain to look for that (fairly priced) LCD monitor I wanted to buy for the Wife. We were looking at an Acer 17 inch one, to discover that the display showed &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/?p=786\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/786\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hoogervorst.ca\/arthur\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}