David Risley, owner of PCMech, does use a trackball mouse on his Mac Pro. When I say trackball I'm not referring to the old-school mice (mouses?) that were around before optical. Rather I'm talking about the above-surface blood red colored plastic balls that look like the HAL 9000's camera eye.

Every time I use Dave's computer box I have to deal with that stupid thing.

If you ever wanted a way to keep people from using your computer, use a trackball mouse. It's a sure-fire way to say that if you're not willing to "thumb it", you sir (or ma'am), won't be able to use my computer.

It's not like trackball mice are plentiful. NewEgg doesn't have too many to choose from. But this probably makes users of this awful input device very smug, like it's a secret society of annoying-mouse users or something.

Folks who use trackball mice are nice enough people. It's just that I strongly disagree with their choice of mouse. It's big; it's ugly; it should be banned like asbestos.

One of these days I'm going to bring a scissors to Dave's place, cut the wire, chuck the mouse in the garbage then blame it on the cat.

The only thing worse than a trackball mouse is a keyboard with blank keys.

Trackball people, I respect you as computer users, but your mouse sucks.