{"id":3150,"date":"2013-08-12T21:55:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T04:55:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2013-12-01T21:16:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T05:16:07","slug":"my-mouse-traveled-140-miles-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/my-mouse-traveled-140-miles-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"My mouse traveled 140 miles this year."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, I started tracking the mileage on my computer mouse with a handy software called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacksunsoftware.com\/mousotron.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mousotron<\/a>. It was very handy to use; just tell it your screen size and it cumulatively tracks how far your mouse pointer moves.<\/p>\n<p>Now, exactly a year later, the total is out: my mouse pointer traveled 140 miles and then some:<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mousotron.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"3151\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/my-mouse-traveled-140-miles-this-year\/mousotron\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mousotron.png\" data-orig-size=\"398,43\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"mousotron\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mousotron-300x32.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mousotron.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3151\" alt=\"mousotron\" src=\"http:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mousotron.png\" width=\"398\" height=\"43\" srcset=\"https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mousotron.png 398w, https:\/\/g-liu.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/mousotron-300x32.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 398px) 100vw, 398px\" \/><\/a>To put that in perspective:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It takes about 2 hours and 10 minutes to drive that distance on the highway<\/li>\n<li>140 miles is about 41% the distance from L.A. to San Francisco, by a straight line<\/li>\n<li>It&#8217;ll take you 97% of the way to Portland, from Seattle (or the other way around)<\/li>\n<li>2\/3 the distance from New York to Washington DC<\/li>\n<li>5.35 marathon runs<\/li>\n<li>349 trips up and down the Eiffel tower<\/li>\n<li>665 trips up and down the Space Needle<\/li>\n<li>273 Burj Khalifas stacked end to end<\/li>\n<li>1.4 times the length of the longest bridge in the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.ask.com\/qotd\/how_far_does_a_pc_mouse_travel\/20111202\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"broken_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Ask.com<\/a>, the average computer mouse lasts about 422 miles. That means this mouse probably has a little over 2 more years to go.<\/p>\n<p>Are you curious about your mouse mileage? You can download <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacksunsoftware.com\/mousotron.html\" target=\"_blank\">Mousotron<\/a>, the same program that I used!<\/p>\n<p><em>Note: The keystrokes and left button clicks are far from accurate, since this program doesn&#8217;t really do a good job of tracking those.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A year ago, I started tracking the mileage on my computer mouse with a handy software called Mousotron. It was very handy to use; just tell it your screen size and it cumulatively tracks how far your mouse pointer moves. 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