So I was in Bust Buy today, ostensibly to buy a $45 DirecTV
receiver for the bedroom (can you believe these things are that
cheap now? With retailer markup and distribution costs, DirecTV
must be subsidizing that thing heavily) but mainly to give
Nishal and Shyama the consummate US retail experience.  So I was
wondering around while they were drooling over the video cameras
and went back to the bits'n'pieces section. You know, that part
of the store with the weird cables and the odd peripherals, and
found the Microsoft Wireless Notebook Optical Mouse that I have
been jonesing over for ages. The Microsoft company store never
has these in stock. I'm assuming that they sell out as fast as
they arrive - a coworker has to order from the website and incur
the shipping costs for his, but I had been holding out hope that
it would be there time and time again when I visit.  Now I have
one.  This thing is great. It has a little USB dongle and the
diminutive mouse itself. I'd never actually held the mouse and
was pleasa