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The most annoying bug you could possibly have in an LCD monitor...

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  • SixDsSixDs Posts: 2,384
    edited December 1969

    I haven’t seen him since

    Well, it's tiny. It probably will take it a while to make it's way to your bedroom and climb up onto the bed, then onto your pillow. Later, it will crawl into your ear to make a nest while you're asleep. You'll soon be looking back fondly on the time when it was merely a nuisance inside your monitor.

  • JimmyC_2009JimmyC_2009 Posts: 8,891
    edited December 1969

    This thread has had a wonderfully calming effect on me.

    I wonder if I should tell my doctor? Feels like a breakthrough to me!

  • icprncssicprncss Posts: 3,694
    edited December 1969

    fixmypcmike said:
    Sean Riesch said:
    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.

    What would a bug buy?

  • SimonJMSimonJM Posts: 5,980
    edited December 1969

    icprncss said:
    fixmypcmike said:
    Sean Riesch said:
    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.

    What would a bug buy?
    A ladybug? ;)

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,505
    edited November 2014

    Sean Riesch said:

    ...
    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.

    That was back when virus writers were relatively harmless geeks. Before the dark side took over.

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • SlimerJSpudSlimerJSpud Posts: 1,453
    edited December 1969

    It's THEM! It's THEM! :ahhh:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v4URRp39XOo
    Of course, we know this was the inspiration for A N Terra and Frida's Ant Fernando...

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,050
    edited November 2014

    It's Terror! Horror! Excitement! Mystery! It's THEM! .... Just smaller... And really no need to use a flame thrower... Aaah, but where would the fun be in that?

    So the little guy never came back... That's a good thing, but also a shame because now we will have nothing to make outrageous postings about...

    BUT...

    He's gone... Do you know where he went?

    For all you know, he could have crawled into your ear while you were sleeping... I'm not saying that little tingling you've been feeling in your inner ear is him crawling around at the base of your eardrum...
    Doing god knows what...
    Probably not laying eggs...
    Unless he is a she and she needed to lay eggs somewhere moist and warm and with easy access to a human brain.

    That is probably a little unlikely....

    The odds of something like that being the case are fairly low...
    Like 86.008% or something low like that...

    But don't worry, carry on, it'll all work out.

    Post edited by McGyver on
  • SlimerJSpudSlimerJSpud Posts: 1,453
    edited December 1969

    The first time I saw "Them" as a kid, I had a nightmare about it. In my nightmare, the solution to giant ants wasn't the tried and true recipe of flamethrowers and machine guns, no, no NOOO. The solution to giant ants was to spray them with a solution of watered down strawberry preserves. This would send them into sugar shock, and they would die. Strawberry preserves, that's the ticket. Maybe that's why Frida's Ant Fernando is red. He survived!

    Maybe the OP could have lured the LCD bug out with a dab of strawberry preserves on one corner of the monitor. Of course, it would have invited 50,000 of its closest friends to join in...

  • Richard HaseltineRichard Haseltine Posts: 100,804
    edited December 1969

    Not that I wish to worry you: http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1997-05-12/news/9705120058_1_ants-computer-circuit-boards-duarte

  • MusicplayerMusicplayer Posts: 515
    edited December 1969

    Sean Riesch said:
    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...

    Looks like he/she is eating and leaving a trail of dead pixels :ohh:

    Hope not....Just sayin' :red:

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