The most annoying bug you could possibly have in an LCD monitor...
sriesch
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I have just found the most annoying bug you can possibly have in an LCD monitor, and felt the need to share.
What is it, you ask? Well, I wonder the same thing. It is, in fact, a real bug. It is very tiny, and I cannot identify it, partly because it's a bit blurry and partly because it I'm not an etymologist. It has somehow managed to craw in between the backlighting and the LCD panel, putting him maybe 1 or 2 mm behind all my letters and graphics on the screen, so he runs underneath them all. He's a little smaller than the letter 'i' on my monitor, and about the same shape, except I can just barely make out itty bitty legs too.
I have learned that the color white on my monitor is in fact clear, my Windows mouse arrow cursor is actually just a see-through black outline and not actually a white arrow, and the color black, while I often complain about it not being dark enough, is still dark enough one cannot see a bug through it.
Out of morbid curiosity, I tried herding him out of the way with the mouse and by dragging a window near him, but he doesn't seem to care.
I wonder if I can take my panel apart? I wonder if I should just wait? Will he crawl back out when the monitor is off? Will he stay inside my screen until he expires, blocking a few pixels with a tiny bug corpse?
I have an idea for a new product, it would be freekin' awesome. If you can find tiny clear grains of plastic instead of dirt... an LCD ant farm! You could take pictures, and you could then display a time-lapse progression of the colony formation, ending with the real thing!
I hope I don't have to take any tests while he's in there. This is very distracting.
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hehe could be a she, depositing eggs
Eew. I can think of nothing more to say. Just... eew. My guess is he (she?) will die in there! Maybe leave a glass of apple juice out next to the monitor? Perhaps the enticement of some yummy sugar will attract the little beastie before it dies? I don't think I'd take it apart yet. Maybe it will politely die in a distant corner of the screen...
Again -- eew.
Well, the only way to tell for sure is to post a screenshot, but it sounds like you have a case of Monitor Termites... You only have one at the moment, but don't worry soon the eggs will hatch and you'll have more.
Q: "I wonder if I can take my panel apart?"
A: Sure, anything can be taken apart.
Q: "I wonder if I should just wait?"
A: Naa, there is no comic value in waiting.
Q: "Will he crawl back out when the monitor is off?"
A: Never, it's not part of his plan.
Q: "Will he stay inside my screen until he expires, blocking a few pixels with a tiny bug corpse?
A: Probably.
I hope this was helpful, but most likely it was not... I'm not a real entomologist, but I like dress up like one on Thursdays and try and convince people that giant ants are trying to take over the world, so I suppose that qualifies me to give advice on this subject.
I wouldn't try taking the monitor apart unless you are experienced and have the right tools.
If the monitor is new enough you might be covered under warrantee. Just say you have a bug and leave it at that.
The final option is to ignore him, he won't eat much and will eventually die.
Or if you are curious, you could plot his movements to see if he's trying to give you a message like "Help, I'm trapped in a fortune cookie factory!"
What right tools? Taking stuff apart only requires a hammer or crowbar, maybe a large rock... Unless of course you are implying it might need to be put back together again at some point in the future... Then of course you'll need glue or duct tape... Unless you are further implying it might need to actually work or do non-insect infested monitor stuff at some point in the near future... In that case you'll probably need non-destructive, proper tools.
Great, all I need is for it to be laying eggs in my monitor.
I tracked it for a little while by following it with the mouse until it ran off the edge of the canvas. I think it's lost. But of course this isn't the full path, just a random piece in the middle. Secret message is yet to be revealed...
That is fascinating really. You know those pictures done by elephants and penguins and stuff? Market this as the first ever bug art and you'll make millions.
Look at it this way, you've just acquired a new partner in the art world! :lol: If you faithfully trace the path of your new best friend, and then add colors he (or she) might not be able to see, these "paintings" could be worth a million dollars. I say they could be worth a million dollars, but only to your grandchildren who will consider LCDs as quaint as we consider daguerreotype photographs. Don't question the art when it marches across your monitor and says, "Hey! I'm walking here!" :cheese:
ROTF! This made my day!
It looks from that track that he came in from Russia; across the Bearing Strait into Alaska; down the Rockies; had a wander about the USA and Canada and ended up in Florida :)
Unless I'm mistaken, and I never am (completely daft, absolutely wrong and quite insane, but never mistaken)...
That appears to be a layout of most of the military border patrol routes of Uzbekistan (or as it's more formally known, Uzbekistanley).
The lines that crisscross the interior correspond to primary munitions supply routes and peak at several former Soviet mobile missile deployment zones... The area where the monitor termite has chosen to "take a 5 second break",is quite telling indeed...
This overlays with an area just outside of the airport near Tashkent, which was once home to one of the many secret experimental genetics labs that were once all the rage during the Soviet era.
That long squiggly line on the left lines right up with the rail line heading northwest from Zhaslyk into Kazakhstan (formerly known as Kazakhlarry during Soviet times)... It is rumored, that just before the fall of the Soviet Onion (as it was properly known), a group of mad scientists employed by the Soviets, smuggled a picnic basket full of mutant insect specimens out along that very rail line, they were supposed to meet up with a group of mad East German scientists for lunch at a darling little tea room in Shevchenko, but the mad Russians never showed up.
At the time it was believed that the Russians were either really badly lost or were attacked and eaten by the specimens they were carrying.
Wild theories abounded in the western intelligence communities...
One of the most popular involved the soviets experimenting with a type of communal wood louse that exhibited a form of rudimentary telekinesis, their DNA was combined with that of African Termites, Mexican Killer Bees, Giant Sumatran Praying Mantis, Humbolt Squid, Peruvian Mimic Beetles and for some unknown reason, Mick Jagger... It was rumored the resulting organism, while quite tiny and powerless on its own which was pretty much relegated to lurking around the the EM fields of electronic equipment, could at will summon and join with a swarm of millions of its brethren to form a deadly unstoppable biological killing machine hellbent on destroying humanity all while doing a neat compilation of Rolling Stones hits.
That rumor was widely scoffed at and quickly replaced with a rumor that, that rumor was actual a rumor itself, based on a rumor about a rumor of another rumor, which actually was based on a fib created to deflect suspicion about another rumor, which in fact was partly true but had nothing to do with any of that and more with one of the mad scientists having a crush on his lab partner.
This was all forgotten in the turmoil and celebration of the fall of the Iron Drapery.
Until recently... when the wife of one of the mad Russian scientists claimed to have seen a doppelgänger of her former spouse while attended a one-man Rolling Stones impersonator concert in a community center at Lahasa in Central Tebet.
She claimed he could morph into all of the Rolling Stones, the mad science team her husband worked with, as well as Joseph Stalin, Alfred Hitchcock, Ronald Reagan and Margret Thatcher...
She also claimed to be remarried to Fred Flintstone and that she was the living reincarnation of Yogi Bear... Since he is alive and well and living in a retirement home in Jellystone Park, it was decided her claims were probably the delusions of a poor mad Hanna and Barbera cartoon fan.
But mysteriously when intelligence sources went to check, they found out the Tibetan community center had in fact booked the one man Rolling Stones impersonator and that he mysteriously packed up and left the night the mad Russian's wife claimed to have seen him...
And... That the show was supposed to have been QUITE good...
You may be wondering why I chose to share this with you, and quite frankly so am I... But I believe there may be some reason this creature has chosen to seek you out...
Are you former MI6 or CIA?
Do you now or have you ever worked at a Chucky Cheese franchise?
Have you ever visited a SilCorDyne testing facility?
Do you own a Sentient Ant Farm?
Have you visited another planet or parallel universe in the last six months?
Are you or someone you know looking for low cost term life insurance and are under the age of 65?
Do own ANY Apple products or have you purchased any for a friend or secret lover?
And lastly...
Was your monitor purchased from MadScienceLabs.com?
Please do not answer those questions here, it is very important that we meet at an abandoned testing facility in Scotland tonight...
I'll PM the coordinates to you by this evening unless I'm killed or I forget.
A private jet will meet you outside your home within the next few hours... Unless I forget to book or steal one and or your driveway or street is too short... in which case I'll steal a bus or ice cream truck and pick you up in that... I'll have to find one that can make a transatlantic journey, so that may take some time...
Especially if I forget all this as soon as I leave the house, which I most likely will...
I made a Post-It note for myself about all this, so unless it falls off the bathroom mirror and my kids throw it out... I'll probably be by your place within a few weeks or so...
Do you like Sushi? I figured we should probably get something to eat before we go... I could pack a bag lunch, but I haven't had good Sushi in a while...
You know what... why don't we just pack our own lunches, you might be allergic to shellfish for all I know, and besides I'm in the mood for steak now...
Why are we going to Scotland?
Megh, look... Don't wait around, but if I do show up I'll honk the horn THREE times then TWO, pause and THREE honks again.
I'm gonna go look for a seaworthy ice cream truck (I decided)... See you soon.
Maybe.
Probably not, but I hope you like ice cream and are not lactose intolerant.
See ya.
Looks like a map. I'd head over to Google and see if it lines up with any known geographical features. Perhaps he is trying to tell you where the secret treasure of the Great Big Lord is buried.
You realize now of course, that this thread has been flagged in some computer deep in an NSA or CIA bunker and there are 100 trained nerds with bad skin and paranoid power fetishes pouring over every word of this, convinced that some coded secret has been revealed! If you see or hear black helicopters overhead just give up, it will be less messy.
I worked in the NSA building at Ft. Meade for two days 20 years ago. The marines with machine guns at the base of all escalators made an impression. Decided to give up all career opportunities involving secrets right then and there. Haven't looked back, and I sleep at night in blissful ignorance.
hahaha @lordvicore, that must be it, there's no other reasonable explanation!
Well, I don't see it yet this morning, but it's only been a few minutes since I turned on the monitor, we'll see...
Well, that's just great... Now I went and borrowed a bullet riddled, transoceanic ice cream truck for nothing... Oh well, there is still the ice cream, so at least there is that...
@ Leather Gryphon ... Confirmed... The bear is baking muffins and the fox is riding the unicycle. I repeat the fox is baking a unicycle and the bear is riding a muffin.
Or something like that...
Something about bears and foxes and baking stuff... I'm terrible at remembering secret codes...
Did you feel the need to dig up a hidden briefcase?
A bear and a fox rode a unicycle to the muffin store...
Anything?
Ah, forget it...
I may spend the night in Blissful Ignorance (a small town in upstate NY), but I spend the days in Utter Despair (same town, but the locals are awake and it's hard to avoid them). It's why I don't like zombie movies. Too much like my situation. 8-(
We don't want him.
(Cathie in Pensacola)
We don't want him.
(Cathie in Pensacola)
Don't worry, a bug that small will get eaten by Florida-sized bugs.
Don't worry, a bug that small will get eaten by Florida-sized bugs.
Wow! Florida sized bugs could eat their way up through Georgia and have South Carolina for dessert! 8-O
looks like Rupert Murdoch has been to your place!
:coolcheese: :coolcheese: :coolcheese: :coolcheese:
haha this thread made my day! Maybe it's not a bug, but two display elements loved each other very much and made a little pixel baby?
In my experience, the hardest part in disassembling displays is the outer case, depends on the model. My main panel has a whole bunch of Tab-A > Slot A along the edges, and the plastic is strangely soft/brittle, so there's a few dings where I started to pry with a screwdriver (should have used a wider head methinks). You can always check youtube, searching "[make/model of LCD] repair" is likely to find someone working on your exact hardware- This can be helpful for locating any "secret" screws hidden behind labels.
Some years ago, I went to a model show. No, not THAT kind of model show, the kind where people show physical models assembled from kits, or scratch-built, dioramas, etc. There was one entry that was fabulous. It was a model, of a black helicopter, about 18" long. It was positioned above a diorama. There were two figures seated at the controls, wearing black suits. I said, "OK, I get that these two are the MIBs, but who is the female figure sitting behind them in the middle?" The answer was, "Janet Reno." :lol:
Did you make a screen capture ? :)
Sounds like the screen has already captured it!
This was a meatware bug rather than a software bug, and as such, would not be show up in the screen capture, so I refrained from doing so. :-)
Although this does remind me of a fantastic, if totally useless, piece of software from long, long ago. I think it was called Xroach, or something like that. It generated a handful of cockroaches that were drawn on the screen, which then immediately started running around and ran and hid under all your windows where you couldn't see them. However if you moved a window that had some underneath, they were visible, and would then again run around now that their cover was blown until they ended up under different windows. If you sat idle for a very long time, occasionally one would peek it's head out from under the window and/or run from one window to another.
Sounds like the screen has already captured it!
Good one :)
And yes Sean Riesch, I was joking :) .
I'll save you the trouble of doing the screen capture. :lol: Here's what you need, the Bug Tracking System. Come to think of it, Daz could use it!
The screen has been captured by aliens...
Giant space ants?! Gah!
...I for one welcome our new insect overlords.
wait, I'm just sitting too close to the monitor. False alarm.
Incidentally, I think he found his way out after I turned it off the first day, I haven't seen him since.
Keep an eye on your credit card statements for mysterious bug-related purchases.