Octopus Overlords

Theres a little ant in my damn monitor. He is right in my view and I cant budge him. He is in front of the pixels but behind the top layer. Its going to drive me nuts until I take it apart and break it.

Oh great now he is crawling.

Stop putting crack in your LCD. Stuff is a bug magnet.

If you're dealing with crazy ants, known for their penchant for destroying electronics, you'd best prepare for some serious chemical warfare.

Holy crap never heard of those!

No this is just a little lost sugar ant I think. My hope now is for his demise and me to shake or blow him out of there. I dont want to squish him thats for sure

I feel your pain, got one of those little things in my work screen. The number of times I tried to delete that underline...

Made me laugh. Mine seems to have wondered off...or died and dropped out. I think. Now Im afraid to look afraid Ill see him again.

The first computer bug was named so due to an actual bug creating problems inside...

Whatever you do, don't squish it....

Rumpy wrote:The first computer bug was named so due to an actual bug creating problems inside...

That was Admiral Grace Hopper and she came to speak at my college! It was very cool, they spent time tracking down a mechanical switch that had stopped working because an insect had gotten stuck in it. When they logged the time, they taped the insect on the page and said they were "debugging" the problem. And the rest is history. She also said she had a hard time conceptualizing a millisecond and to help, but a friend of hers had built one for her and it was in her purse. She pulled out a length of wire, don't recall how long it was, saying that was how far electricity travelled in a millisecond.

A light-nanosecond is almost a foot. A light-millisecond would be about 1/5th of a mile.

Adm. Hopper and her wire.

Okay, fine... nanosecond. It was a long-ass time ago.

Having lived in that world with some small intuition for those time scales, I had to verify things for myself. Cool vid, Isgrim.

Thanks.

Isgrimnur wrote:Adm. Hopper and her wire.

That was pretty awesome.

Douse it with water!