Just another day

12:17 AM (of Saturday, September 14th 2024)

Today is Friday, March 13th 2024. Friday the 13th. Interesting. I didn't even know today was Friday the 13th until just now.

I am typing this text up from a distance so I can't even see the screen. Any typos or whatever wil just have to remain there. I purchased this new keyboard, well, it's an old one, called the Das Keyboard Model S. This keyboard was formerly the top of the line mechanical keyboard back in 2010 or so. I have purchased and used a lot of different mechanical keyboards over the years, and this one was the best at the tim, back when there were very few mechanical keyboards at all.

I think even in 2015, mechanical keyboards weren't really a thing. They were still prey niche, only a few people really knew what they were, and you had to go out of the way to purchase them. Nowadays, mechanical keyboards are the norm, every keyboard is mechanical now. You would have to go out to the way to get a regular, non-mechanical keyboard now., for desktops at least. For laptops, every keyboard i still not mechanical.

I do like this Das Keyboard a lot. Even though it's pretty old, from 2010, it's still pretty good. This was the top of the line and the finest keyboard craftsmanship at the time and nothing came close. Nowadays it's a plain keyboard with no lights, and a super old cherry mx blue switch, and even the old USB 1 cables. Having had all sorts of mechanical keyboards over the years, I would say this one holds up the best. I mean I am using this right now, and it still feels as luxurious as ever.

Actually, I probably have a bias. I think we fall in love and have a nostalgia for the first of a kind that we're introduced to. I've seen it with some guy making a video about Ducky keyboards. He sold his first Ducky and then and he went through all of these different keyboards, only to finally buy his first keyboard again and settle on that. I am still using the Zowie Mico that I first used and fell in love with back in 2010 too. This same exact keyboard and mouse combination.

They no longer make the Zowie Mico, but I would say that is the best computer mouse of all time, and I've also used plenty of others. There was a time in 2014, I got lucky with a game mouse lot someone was selling. They sold like 15-20 different gaming computer mice for $150. I purchased it, and I got a bunch of different computer mice from different companies. SteelSeries, Roccat, Razer, Microsoft, even a few other Zowie mice too. I don't remember all the gaming mice companies, but I received a lot. A few of them on their own was $100+ new, but he sold his whole gaming mouse lot for $150.

I tested and used all of them, and still, none compared to the Zowie Mico I had purchased years ago. The Zowie Mico really is the best computer mouse I've ever used. I've used some modern ones too, some from this year or last year, or the past couple of years, and no computer mouse compares. The mouse is so rare and valuable and wanted, that it sells for $300+ on eBay used, if you can find one being listed for sale at all. They stopped making it, so there is no way to get it again except from other people selling it.

The Zowie Mico was the mouse that a lot of Starcraft players used due to its accuracy, size, weight, simplicity. It really is such a good mouse.

The Das Keyboard on the otherhand, sells for really cheap. I bought mine for $15 on eBay, and there are some for sale for $10. I think it's a quality keyboard though, way worth more than $10. So when it arrived today, it arrived in this big box, and my dad commented that the box itself is probably $30 at the store.

But anyway, I used this Das Keyboard and Zowie Mico mouse combination back in the day, in 2010 through 2012 or so, and I loved it. Now I'm back to using it again, and this is a lot of fun. Well, back in the day typing on a keyboard liek this was a rarity, so that was its novelty factor. Now that every keyboard is a mechanical keyboard these days, typing on a mechanical keyboard doesn't feel as rewarding. This used to be such a rarity that it used to be cool and rare and novel to type on one.

But anyway, yeah, I'm still enjoying typing on this thing right now. It is rather noisy and loud though, but my fingers aren't hurting at all.

I'm just living through some nostalgia. I actually enjoy typing on the laptop's keyboard just fine, and I also enjoy using the laptop's trackpad just fine. Typing is fun, and it's an activity that I enjoy, and that I'm good at. That's why I write so much. I was able tot ype with my eyes closed pretty much shortly after I learned to type at all. I think I was maybe 10 years old, that I was able to type with my eyes closed, and I didn't really even practice for it. There's people throughout my life that tried "showing off" by typing without looking or typing with their eyes closed, but that's just something I have always been able to do.

Back in the AOL Instant Messenger days, AIM, I was 10 years old and I chatted with a 16 year old guy on webcam. I don't know why we were doing webcam, he just suggested it. I still still remember his username, Sword500, and we played some Runescape together. I also remember _Raven177, the guy who introduced me to Runescape back in 2003 or 2004, from CokeMusic. I transitioned to CokeMusic from Habbo Hotel, back in 2001 or 2002. This was the really old days. I still remember _Raven177's real life name too, his first name is Lance, and I also remember his last name, Schumann. Lance Schumann. I was 11 years old when he was 17, so he would be 36 or 37 years old today (I'm turning 31 in a few days). We probably met when I was 9 or 10, but I just remember him being 17 when I was 11.

I just looked up his name, and in 2018 there was an obituary for a Lance Schumann who passed away at 32. He would be basically around the same age as the Lance Schumann I knew. Maybe they're the same person? I don't really know much or anything about him other than his username _Raven177 and his first and last name, and the adventures we had together. He was an early RuneScape player, so he had all of the Halloween Masks and Party Hats, and so on. I'm technically a super early RuneScape player too, I played when Old School Runescape was the main Runescape.

The people at Jagex who made it are geniuses. RuneScape was probably the first mmorpg that I ever played. I would say that even Old School RuneScape would be quite the game to play in 2024. It still holds up, just like all good creations. Anything truly good, like the Das Keyboard Model S, the Zowie Mico, all the good songs, all the classic artworks, all the classic literature, the philosophies (like not eating animals), anything good will stand the test of time.

Once something is created, that's pretty how it will always be. We still have swords and weapons from 2000 years ago. They are worn and corroded, but still largely the same. We all get caught up in the newer is better planned obsolescence world, but not everything newer is better. In my personal opinion, nothing has still surpassed the Zowie Mico. Nothing has surpassed the Das Keyboard Model S (actually the other keyboards I have could actually be better, but I just have nostalgia for this). For the mouse though, nothing beats it.

Anyway, so I was 10 years old and I webcam chatted with Sword500, a 16 year old. This was probably in 2003 or 2004. We webcam chatted and he showed off typing with his eyes closed to me. This was an ability I never even considered an ability. I just thought everyone could do it, so it didn't impress me at all that he could do it. I feigned not being able to do it and complimented him and said something like "that's so cool", of course I was freaking 10 at the time, so I had no grammar or punctuation. I looked at my writing from when I was 16, and my grammar, writing, punctuation, all of it was abhorrent. My 10 year old self was even worse.

But yeah, typing with my eyes closed was pretty much an ability I always had. Now I can type in 2 different typing layouts, Qwerty, and Dvorak, both with my eyes closed. I learned Dvorak in 2017 and it's the default typing layout that I've used since. In 2014 I typed at over 190 words per minute. I was one of the top typers on TypeRacer, in the entire world. I was in the top 100 overall, out of every single player worldwide. This meant that anytime I logged on, I would basically be first place. Pretty much no one ever beat me. I'd beat people in the top 10 too. It was fun, but I'm no longer at that skill level now due to being out of practice.

Anyway, today I did a lot of work. I also walked outside. And I tracked my calorie intake for the first time in forever, and I am taking it seriously this time. I reached my 2000 calorie limit today, and I stopped eating. I reached it back at like 2 PM, and I haven't eaten since. Well, I did actually eat like a few chips, not even a handful, like just a few of them a few hours ago, but no other foods.

I would have gone to the gym tonight, but I promised myself to remake the Habitica challenges first, so that's what I did. Then it was too late to go to the gym. Then I just watched Heavy Rain gameplay movie with my dad. It was really slow paced and not like how I remembered it. Maybe the person playing it just socked.

Anyway, I'm very sleepy.