This is not an april fools joke, I am serious, there are ants coming out of my keyboard.
not en masse, but I've got about 6 so far, and there seems to be more every time I leave the Pbook unattended for a few hours.
Could this be fatal for the computer in anyway? what if I squish one while typing? what could they possibly be after? and why was I foolish enough to let it get there in the first place? and how can I clean under the keyboard?
~1.25ghz Aluminum Powerbook
any intelligant fool would know to open teh "little numlock light" thing so you can lift up your keyboard and see the insides and spray raid all over the place its the most obvioust thing to do!!!!1!!!!!11111
am i teh only one here with any sense here.... trust me on this i had the same problem but b careful puting the keyboard back my computer wont work and i think the keyboard is effeting it
Smelled a lot of roasted ants have we? (don't tell me I can guess - they smell a bit like roast chicken right?)
More like battery acid \
Ant blood is highly acidic, it's a defense mechanism of sorts. Anteaters have developed ways to cope with the acidity, but generally, it wards off animals from eating ants.
Oh cool, I can tell of a story that has become lore around the ITS office at the School Board here:
In the process of doing Office 2000 installs, we send out an "Onsite Tech" team consisting of about five people to perform the installs. It's a nice divide and conquer system. Well one teacher mentions to a tech that her computer makes a funny noise, even when it's not plugged in. The Tech, obviously though she was mistaken (come on, how can a computer make noise when not plugged in?) so he went to check it out during her class, and low and behold, she was right. So the Tech figures that "This isn't right" and opens the case. Upon opening the case, a huge hoard of cockroaches streamed out of the computer, engulfing the surface of the desk. The Tech said something along the lines of "Oh f*^k" and ran out tearing his clothes off once the 'roaches climbed into his pants. So the Principle sees this half-naked man sprinting down the hall as if his life depended on it and hears crying and screaming from a classroom. When he gets to the hall, most of the class is outside puking, the teacher was on the edge of a nervous breakdown, and the roaches were nowhere to be seen.
Apparently, the women had eaten at her desk, and food crumbs got sucked into the case. The computer was warm, and had food inside it (along with the stuff on the desk outside) so it provided a nice habitat for all those nasty cockroaches.
Oh cool, I can tell of a story that has become lore around the ITS office at the School Board here:
In the process of doing Office 2000 installs, we send out an "Onsite Tech" team consisting of about five people to perform the installs. It's a nice divide and conquer system. Well one teacher mentions to a tech that her computer makes a funny noise, even when it's not plugged in. The Tech, obviously though she was mistaken (come on, how can a computer make noise when not plugged in?) so he went to check it out during her class, and low and behold, she was right. So the Tech figures that "This isn't right" and opens the case. Upon opening the case, a huge hoard of cockroaches streamed out of the computer, engulfing the surface of the desk. The Tech said something along the lines of "Oh f*^k" and ran out tearing his clothes off once the 'roaches climbed into his pants. So the Principle sees this half-naked man sprinting down the hall as if his life depended on it and hears crying and screaming from a classroom. When he gets to the hall, most of the class is outside puking, the teacher was on the edge of a nervous breakdown, and the roaches were nowhere to be seen.
Apparently, the women had eaten at her desk, and food crumbs got sucked into the case. The computer was warm, and had food inside it (along with the stuff on the desk outside) so it provided a nice habitat for all those nasty cockroaches.
ugh i hate roahed and that is one thing i would fear the most...over death... being covered by roaches... AAAAHHHH
Last year sucked, I had ants, spiders and moths in my room. It was like the frigging Amityville Horror.
The spiders were of course there because of the ants and the moths. The moths were there because I had used an incandescent bulb in a 3rd lamp (Japanese paper ball thing, which they thought was Sol, the Sun apparently) by the window and over my desk, rather than my usual compact fluorescent bulbs in my usual 2 lamps.
Got rid of that, so no moths.
Good floor scrubbing with Murphy's Oil Soap made it less attractive to the ants, by then it was Fall and they all died/left.
Next year I'll be in Bangkok fighting mosquitos and scorpions... Ah well...they will win in the end.
Ah! You've just reminded me (sorry to derail your thread wobot, truly I am) I had this moth get into the house just after I moved in that had the wing span of a sparrow and a body the size of a tiger prawn (ie. shrimp). I do not exaggerate.
Now ants, spiders other creepy crawlies I don't mind but friggin' fluttery moths bug (!) me. It's like they were given the ability to fly but with absolutely no ability to steer. Eventually had to kill it. Just couldn't handle it. Will probably come back in my next life as a millipede because it was a such magnificent creature. Oh well.
Ant blood is highly acidic, it's a defense mechanism of sorts. Anteaters have developed ways to cope with the acidity, but generally, it wards off animals from eating ants.
Oh I see you're doing a fine job of derailing your thread all on your own.
well i promise you that if i ever get an ant in this machine(G4 ti 550MHz) then i will both spray the computer down with it and i'll also spray it in my eyes and mouth because if an insect ever were touch a Mac it would be very sinful VERY!!!!!11!!
This has to be the most unintentionally comical thread I have ever read!
One of my ex-girlfriends has ants in her PC... it was odd. One day I lifted the top handle and a mini army of them raced out. I was always hoping that they would one day short something but her box (no pun intended) is still running smoothly.
You know, in Arab countries, it is illegal for them to kill roaches.
Roach-sized suicide vests have yet to be perfected, apparently. For surely, if it's ok to send your son out to die and blow up Jews, it would be ok to send suicidal roaches. Maybe it's just my skewed American perspective.
Ant blood is highly acidic, it's a defense mechanism of sorts. Anteaters have developed ways to cope with the acidity, but generally, it wards off animals from eating ants.
I hear that ants taste kind of like lemonade, maybe that's why. Apparently some of the larger varieties can actually be used for nutrition if you're desperate (or just live somewhere where people like to eat bugs).
The anteater, aardvark, spiny anteater (echidna), and scaly anteater (pangolin) are completely unrelated - infact, the closest relatives to anteaters are sloths and armadillos, the closest relative to the spiny anteater is the platypus, and the aardvark is in an order all by itself.
I hear that ants taste kind of like lemonade, maybe that's why. Apparently some of the larger varieties can actually be used for nutrition if you're desperate (or just live somewhere where people like to eat bugs).
Well, I've tasted ants before(as gross as that sounds) And they are very acidic, it burns your tongue, I guess it is sort of like lemonade, lemonade with no sugar, that was made from sour lemons.
There is a type of ant, I forget it's name, but they store vast(for them) amounts of honey and sugars in a special sac behind their abdomen. They are supposedly delicious, well, the sac part, you wouldn't eat the head.
Well, I've tasted ants before(as gross as that sounds) And they are very acidic, it burns your tongue, I guess it is sort of like lemonade, lemonade with no sugar, that was made from sour lemons.
There is a type of ant, I forget it's name, but they store vast(for them) amounts of honey and sugars in a special sac behind their abdomen. They are supposedly delicious, well, the sac part, you wouldn't eat the head.
Store honeydew in their swollen abdomens. Women in Central Australia dig deeply to uncover them in their underground nests. They are particularly plentiful around Papunya, which means "Honey Ant Dreaming".
And yes, the echidna and platypus are both monotremes - egg-laying mammals.
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Originally posted by Wrong Robot
This is not an april fools joke, I am serious, there are ants coming out of my keyboard.
not en masse, but I've got about 6 so far, and there seems to be more every time I leave the Pbook unattended for a few hours.
Could this be fatal for the computer in anyway? what if I squish one while typing? what could they possibly be after? and why was I foolish enough to let it get there in the first place? and how can I clean under the keyboard?
~1.25ghz Aluminum Powerbook
any intelligant fool would know to open teh "little numlock light" thing so you can lift up your keyboard and see the insides and spray raid all over the place its the most obvioust thing to do!!!!1!!!!!11111
am i teh only one here with any sense here.... trust me on this i had the same problem but b careful puting the keyboard back my computer wont work and i think the keyboard is effeting it
Originally posted by crazychester
Smelled a lot of roasted ants have we? (don't tell me I can guess - they smell a bit like roast chicken right?)
More like battery acid
Ant blood is highly acidic, it's a defense mechanism of sorts. Anteaters have developed ways to cope with the acidity, but generally, it wards off animals from eating ants.
In the process of doing Office 2000 installs, we send out an "Onsite Tech" team consisting of about five people to perform the installs. It's a nice divide and conquer system. Well one teacher mentions to a tech that her computer makes a funny noise, even when it's not plugged in. The Tech, obviously though she was mistaken (come on, how can a computer make noise when not plugged in?) so he went to check it out during her class, and low and behold, she was right. So the Tech figures that "This isn't right" and opens the case. Upon opening the case, a huge hoard of cockroaches streamed out of the computer, engulfing the surface of the desk. The Tech said something along the lines of "Oh f*^k" and ran out tearing his clothes off once the 'roaches climbed into his pants. So the Principle sees this half-naked man sprinting down the hall as if his life depended on it and hears crying and screaming from a classroom. When he gets to the hall, most of the class is outside puking, the teacher was on the edge of a nervous breakdown, and the roaches were nowhere to be seen.
Apparently, the women had eaten at her desk, and food crumbs got sucked into the case. The computer was warm, and had food inside it (along with the stuff on the desk outside) so it provided a nice habitat for all those nasty cockroaches.
Originally posted by Crusader
Oh cool, I can tell of a story that has become lore around the ITS office at the School Board here:
In the process of doing Office 2000 installs, we send out an "Onsite Tech" team consisting of about five people to perform the installs. It's a nice divide and conquer system. Well one teacher mentions to a tech that her computer makes a funny noise, even when it's not plugged in. The Tech, obviously though she was mistaken (come on, how can a computer make noise when not plugged in?) so he went to check it out during her class, and low and behold, she was right. So the Tech figures that "This isn't right" and opens the case. Upon opening the case, a huge hoard of cockroaches streamed out of the computer, engulfing the surface of the desk. The Tech said something along the lines of "Oh f*^k" and ran out tearing his clothes off once the 'roaches climbed into his pants. So the Principle sees this half-naked man sprinting down the hall as if his life depended on it and hears crying and screaming from a classroom. When he gets to the hall, most of the class is outside puking, the teacher was on the edge of a nervous breakdown, and the roaches were nowhere to be seen.
Apparently, the women had eaten at her desk, and food crumbs got sucked into the case. The computer was warm, and had food inside it (along with the stuff on the desk outside) so it provided a nice habitat for all those nasty cockroaches.
ugh i hate roahed and that is one thing i would fear the most...over death... being covered by roaches... AAAAHHHH
just commenting
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Originally posted by johnq
Yuck, I hate that smell.
Last year sucked, I had ants, spiders and moths in my room. It was like the frigging Amityville Horror.
The spiders were of course there because of the ants and the moths. The moths were there because I had used an incandescent bulb in a 3rd lamp (Japanese paper ball thing, which they thought was Sol, the Sun apparently) by the window and over my desk, rather than my usual compact fluorescent bulbs in my usual 2 lamps.
Got rid of that, so no moths.
Good floor scrubbing with Murphy's Oil Soap made it less attractive to the ants, by then it was Fall and they all died/left.
Next year I'll be in Bangkok fighting mosquitos and scorpions...
Ah! You've just reminded me (sorry to derail your thread wobot, truly I am) I had this moth get into the house just after I moved in that had the wing span of a sparrow and a body the size of a tiger prawn (ie. shrimp). I do not exaggerate.
Now ants, spiders other creepy crawlies I don't mind but friggin' fluttery moths bug (!) me. It's like they were given the ability to fly but with absolutely no ability to steer. Eventually had to kill it. Just couldn't handle it. Will probably come back in my next life as a millipede because it was a such magnificent creature. Oh well.
(hey sounds like great advice PS5533
Originally posted by Wrong Robot
More like battery acid
Ant blood is highly acidic, it's a defense mechanism of sorts. Anteaters have developed ways to cope with the acidity, but generally, it wards off animals from eating ants.
Oh I see you're doing a fine job of derailing your thread all on your own.
Originally posted by crazychester
(hey sounds like great advice PS5533
well i promise you that if i ever get an ant in this machine(G4 ti 550MHz) then i will both spray the computer down with it and i'll also spray it in my eyes and mouth because if an insect ever were touch a Mac it would be very sinful VERY!!!!!11!!
Originally posted by crazychester
Oh I see you're doing a fine job of derailing your thread all on your own.
I have no problems derailing my own thread, especially after relevant information has been posted...
One of my ex-girlfriends has ants in her PC... it was odd. One day I lifted the top handle and a mini army of them raced out. I was always hoping that they would one day short something but her box (no pun intended) is still running smoothly.
Originally posted by LoCash
You know, in Arab countries, it is illegal for them to kill roaches.
Roach-sized suicide vests have yet to be perfected, apparently. For surely, if it's ok to send your son out to die and blow up Jews, it would be ok to send suicidal roaches. Maybe it's just my skewed American perspective.
Originally posted by LoCash
Maybe roaches just aren't enticed by a heaven filled with virgin roaches...
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Originally posted by Wrong Robot
[B]This is not an april fools joke, I am serious, there are ants coming out of my keyboard.
Could this be fatal for the computer in anyway?
Keyboard.. hmmm... might cause some difficulties to type with that keyboard... Probably not because of ants but the food you have dropped in...
But, CD/DVD drive will probably act weirdly if ants "flesh'n'bones" are spinnig around (inside) your drive....
Originally posted by Wrong Robot
Ant blood is highly acidic, it's a defense mechanism of sorts. Anteaters have developed ways to cope with the acidity, but generally, it wards off animals from eating ants.
I hear that ants taste kind of like lemonade, maybe that's why. Apparently some of the larger varieties can actually be used for nutrition if you're desperate (or just live somewhere where people like to eat bugs).
Originally posted by SledgeHammer
I hear that ants taste kind of like lemonade, maybe that's why. Apparently some of the larger varieties can actually be used for nutrition if you're desperate (or just live somewhere where people like to eat bugs).
Well, I've tasted ants before(as gross as that sounds) And they are very acidic, it burns your tongue, I guess it is sort of like lemonade, lemonade with no sugar, that was made from sour lemons.
There is a type of ant, I forget it's name, but they store vast(for them) amounts of honey and sugars in a special sac behind their abdomen. They are supposedly delicious, well, the sac part, you wouldn't eat the head.
Originally posted by Wrong Robot
Well, I've tasted ants before(as gross as that sounds) And they are very acidic, it burns your tongue, I guess it is sort of like lemonade, lemonade with no sugar, that was made from sour lemons.
There is a type of ant, I forget it's name, but they store vast(for them) amounts of honey and sugars in a special sac behind their abdomen. They are supposedly delicious, well, the sac part, you wouldn't eat the head.
I think this might be what you're referring to http://www.frogandtoad.com.au/aborig...ushtucker.html
The Honey Ant
Store honeydew in their swollen abdomens. Women in Central Australia dig deeply to uncover them in their underground nests. They are particularly plentiful around Papunya, which means "Honey Ant Dreaming".
And yes, the echidna and platypus are both monotremes - egg-laying mammals.