Clicknesia. n. Inability to remember where one has clicked.
Mouspasm. n. Uncontrollable spasm of the mouse hand that sends the cursor careening over large swaths of screen, usually accompanied by desperate clicks hoping to trigger something.
Example: Randomly click about the control panels of your XP machine. Land on Accessibility Options, then the Display tab. Click the High Contrast checkbox. Notice or do not notice. It matters not. Wonder why nothing is happening. Click the handy Settings button right next to the checkbox. Stare at wondrous list of colors and possibilities. Scroll down until you find Windows Classic or Standard or something that looks familiar to you. Click OK OK etc. Sigh because nothing happened and forget you ever touched that control panel. After all, if you never truly intended to do something, could you have done it?
The next day notice that web pages look funny and call your IT person. Profess ignorance of causes. See how long it takes your IT person to figure out why all the background properties of the CSS on web pages in any browser on your machine appear to be disabled.
December 21, 2007 at 8:27 am |
“Mousterbation” the act of repeatedly tossing your mouse about when trying to make a “mouse gesture” in an OS or application that is not aware of how to handle them. Example: throwing your mouse cursor into a corner of your Windows screen trying to activate Mac OS X Expose.
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December 21, 2007 at 11:25 am |
Should of thought of that. Thanks for the term!