Comments on: When Steampunk Goes Horribly, Horribly Wrong

By: Alex Carnegie

Alex Carnegie — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 17:27:08 +0000

The spine and tailbones are overkill, the bones are in general sort of incongruous – more the kind of mouse a necromancer would use for playing Team Fortress or chatting to liches on MSN. I think it’s a joke taken a bit too far. I do like the way the skull lights up though.

Would love to see what a remote for Nintendo & Sons’ Singularly Astounding Wii Entertainment Device would look like though, or a Steampunk version of Mario Galaxy… “Chapter 1, In which our Hero encounters some Problems with Falling Blocks and Aggressive Tortoises”

By: Kelly Barnhnhill

Kelly Barnhnhill — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 02:22:25 +0000

First response: hurl, shudder, quick navigate away. Second response: Wait, you mean the daily pile of licked-clean that my neighbor’s cat leaves on my back stoop could actually be used in some useful (albeit creepy) enterprise? Who knew? And here I was berating myself for giving that long-memoried beastie some tuna in the first place last year – and I’m not sure if the mouse bones are a prolonged thank-you gift or an obtuse threat demonstrating her bone-licking capabilities. In any case, since they arrive with regularity and in appreciable quantities, perhaps I need to put on my steam-punkish engineering hat and come up with useful schemes.

Or, I could continue to use ye olde mulch pile.

By: John Coulthart

John Coulthart — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:16:57 +0000

As William Morris possibly didn’t say, “Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, believe to be beautiful or which may give you the rodent equivalent of anthrax.”

By: Bill Ectric

Bill Ectric — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 18:10:50 +0000

I don’t even want to think about the steampunk joystick.