Previously: CellJet, CakeJet.

And now I want pancakes. Why is searching for restaurants in Google Maps so mind-blowingly useless? Someone fax me a pancake.

It's a rotary phone that dials pulse, and has a 12-hole rotor that includes * and #. I haven't had a land line in years and I'm still fighting hard to resist the acquisitive impulse here.

Of course there's the older SparkFun rotary cellphone, which wins due to wirelessness, but the fact that this one has the custom rotor really... turns my crank, if you know what I mean.

I used to have the ThinkGeek retro handset (wired version) but it was teh fail because of Treo wiring vagueries (speaker worked, microphone didn't). I also tried the bluetooth version, but that was teh fail because fail is that of which bluetooth is entirely composed.

Also.

Ow.

Way back when, it was typing that did me in. I never had trouble with mice. But now my mouse is messing me up. My fancypants chair-arm-mounted split keyboard has dual trackpads on it, but I hate trackpads. I've been trying to use them all day and they just drive me crazy.

I have a table-like mouse-pad clipped to the edge of my desk so that the mouse is lower than the desk surface, down near the keyboard, but I think I've been leaning on my elbow when using it. Which is, you know, bad.

I had one of those horizontally-gripped mice for a while (in the picture at that link), which sounded like a good idea, but after a couple of months, I found it even less comfortable than a flat mouse.

I wish this keyboard had a trackpoint. But even then, I'd really miss having a tilting scroll wheel.

Bah. And ow.

"The Society for the Presentation of Inefficient Mechanical Devices Presents The Totally Unnecessary Overly Redundant & Mechanically Superfluous Light Switch Complicator

"Obsolete Construction Methods, Substandard Materials, Inefficient Wooden Mechanism, Difficult to Install Properly, May Not Fit Your Lifestyle Or Match Your Drapes

"In Box: This is exactly the same device Leonardo DaVinci might have used had electric lighting been invented in his time.

"Hand Made in the USA by Ernie Fosselius. One Of A Kind Sculpture, Numbered, Dated, and Signed By The Artist."

Chronotron is an obscenely addictive and frustrating game.

"We had two bags of 1-up mushrooms, seventy-five pellets of fire flower, five sheets of high-powered stars, a saltshaker half-full of raccoon tail, a whole galaxy of multi-colored turtle shells, hammers, POW blocks, laughers... Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious power-up collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.

"The only thing that really worried me was the Lakitu cloud. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an misting binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon."