LOL. This reminds me of a developer friend of mine here in Vancouver. He's bought, remodeled and sold about 75 houses. I've known him for the last five or six, and he always says, "Finally, I've bought a house that's perfect—I don't have to do a thing to it!" Then he changes one little thing, then another, and pretty soon he's calling in the contractors.
Let's face it: I type "let's face it" a lot. Also, I don't think we're the type of people who want to find "the best" of anything and stick with it forever. It's the variety of good experiences that make life worth living. And it's the variety of MK technology that keeps us typing—the rich, 40-odd history of switch innovation from which we 21st-century geeks are so lucky to benefit, while millions of poor saps around us mush away on $5 membrane boards, oblivious to the ecstasy they're missing. No wonder they consider typing a chore—for them, it is!
Okay, in the interest of full disclosure: If all I had was a 1st-generation Model M, or an ANSI-ified Model F, I could be indefinitely happy. But it's the fact that I can use other, inferior switches now and then that keeps me appreciating how buckling springs are the ultimate form of typing fabulousness, and that anyone who thinks otherwise simply lacks the experience and maturity to realize where the evolution of the computer keyboard reached its pinnacle, and it's okay to be gracious about it with them because they just don't know yet.
I was actually trying to reach a point of some kind here, but I've had a beer. And it's so damn delightful hanging out here with all you swell KB guys, all I can think about is how great you all are... I'd better stop now or I'm going to cry, and I don't know how to spell that.
