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J. Dunlap wrote: Inside the things that creep me out are the wolf spiders whose legspan exceeds 1 1/2 inches One place I lived had those with 6 inch legspan and fangs like pencil points, plus they could jump about 3 feet when properly motivated. The creepy part was hearing them land. There weren't a whole lot of mice though. :~
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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J. Dunlap wrote: Inside the things that creep me out are the wolf spiders whose legspan exceeds 1 1/2 inches One place I lived had those with 6 inch legspan and fangs like pencil points, plus they could jump about 3 feet when properly motivated. The creepy part was hearing them land. There weren't a whole lot of mice though. :~
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
thinking about those will make me feel much better next time I swear at our canadian winters :~
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This is the time of year when the local ant population lets me know that its time to shake the crumbs out of my keyboard. I hate typing with ants crawling over my fingers... "Capitalism is the source of all true freedom."
When i was in San Diego i used to have bad ant problems. Any food left anywhere and i'd come home to a 1" wdide trail of ants along the carpet or walls. Used to also have these tiny little round hard shelled bugs that would get into everything. After a while i gave up and just started eating them. It was a little weird having a bowl of cereal with little things swiming around, but if you don't look you don't notice. ...cmk Save the whales - collect the whole set
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When i was in San Diego i used to have bad ant problems. Any food left anywhere and i'd come home to a 1" wdide trail of ants along the carpet or walls. Used to also have these tiny little round hard shelled bugs that would get into everything. After a while i gave up and just started eating them. It was a little weird having a bowl of cereal with little things swiming around, but if you don't look you don't notice. ...cmk Save the whales - collect the whole set
cmk wrote: It was a little weird having a bowl of cereal with little things swiming around, but if you don't look you don't notice. I've fumigated the food cupboards for those things a few times but they always come back. I heard that the eggs are present in most cerials you buy and other dry food (lentils, flour, etc) and that if you keep stuff long enough you wil always eventually have them. (I tend to buy bulk and I guess I keep it too long) But as you've discovered they don't taste of anything and eating them is no big deal once you get over the psychological aspect. Steve T
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So i was programming last night (early this morning) when i noticed a movement out of the corner of my eye. I looked over and saw a big earwig crawling around on my shoulder. My instinctive reaction was to flick it off ... it was about 3am, shrieking like a girl wasn't an option. Genius. I spent the next 3 hours glancing at my shoulder, desk, ... everywhere but the screen, every few seconds in paranoia. Upon reflection i'm thinking it may be a fitting pet, after all pirates had parrots on their shoulders, may programmers should have bugs on theirs. :) ...cmk Save the whales - collect the whole set
Once I had a huntsman on the Wall. A huntsman is a big spider which is 20cm wide (including the legs). That was a shock. I killed it, but maybe I shouldn't Hunstamn are innocuous, unlike the tiny and deadly redback :doh:
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J. Dunlap wrote: Inside the things that creep me out are the wolf spiders whose legspan exceeds 1 1/2 inches One place I lived had those with 6 inch legspan and fangs like pencil points, plus they could jump about 3 feet when properly motivated. The creepy part was hearing them land. There weren't a whole lot of mice though. :~
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Once I had a huntsman on the Wall. A huntsman is a big spider which is 20cm wide (including the legs). That was a shock. I killed it, but maybe I shouldn't Hunstamn are innocuous, unlike the tiny and deadly redback :doh:
20cm wide spider!!!???!!! i had a baboon spider crawl across the patio in front of me once in cape town and that scared the crap out of me ... last week here in tracy where my gf lives i found 3 black widow spiders and that wasnt nice ... but none of them were 20cm across :omg:
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So i was programming last night (early this morning) when i noticed a movement out of the corner of my eye. I looked over and saw a big earwig crawling around on my shoulder. My instinctive reaction was to flick it off ... it was about 3am, shrieking like a girl wasn't an option. Genius. I spent the next 3 hours glancing at my shoulder, desk, ... everywhere but the screen, every few seconds in paranoia. Upon reflection i'm thinking it may be a fitting pet, after all pirates had parrots on their shoulders, may programmers should have bugs on theirs. :) ...cmk Save the whales - collect the whole set
cmk wrote: I looked over and saw a big earwig crawling around on my shoulder. Did you wonder if it was actually trying to crawl into your ears? :laugh: Weiye Chen Life is hard, yet we are made of flesh...
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J. Dunlap wrote: Inside the things that creep me out are the wolf spiders whose legspan exceeds 1 1/2 inches One place I lived had those with 6 inch legspan and fangs like pencil points, plus they could jump about 3 feet when properly motivated. The creepy part was hearing them land. There weren't a whole lot of mice though. :~
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
andy brummer wrote: One place I lived had those with 6 inch legspan and fangs like pencil points, plus they could jump about 3 feet when properly motivated. The creepy part was hearing them land. I can handle waking up to the 6 inch Tarantulas, but what really creeps me out is the 8"+ Centipedes.... :~ http://www.goldenphoenixexotica.com/dopede.JPG[^] or 7" millipedes.... :~ http://www.goldenphoenixexotica.com/millie3.jpg[^] _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
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20cm wide spider!!!???!!! i had a baboon spider crawl across the patio in front of me once in cape town and that scared the crap out of me ... last week here in tracy where my gf lives i found 3 black widow spiders and that wasnt nice ... but none of them were 20cm across :omg:
Somehow I knew that South Africa was worse the Australia! Here Black Widow are quite uncommon :laugh:
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20cm wide spider!!!???!!! i had a baboon spider crawl across the patio in front of me once in cape town and that scared the crap out of me ... last week here in tracy where my gf lives i found 3 black widow spiders and that wasnt nice ... but none of them were 20cm across :omg:
BTW, I like these: 1. "things don't end well or they wouldn't end" 2. "traffic lights are for people who can't make their own decisions" 3. "everybody tells me its going to be ok but they never tell me just how its going to be ok" :-D Although, I could says quite the opposite for number one! I live in pain from a strange health condition, I finally understood it, and it's going to end... well!!! Hopefully not to late (i.e. soon) ;P
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andy brummer wrote: One place I lived had those with 6 inch legspan and fangs like pencil points, plus they could jump about 3 feet when properly motivated. The creepy part was hearing them land. I can handle waking up to the 6 inch Tarantulas, but what really creeps me out is the 8"+ Centipedes.... :~ http://www.goldenphoenixexotica.com/dopede.JPG[^] or 7" millipedes.... :~ http://www.goldenphoenixexotica.com/millie3.jpg[^] _________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)
I don't think I'd ever pick up a centipede, AFIK they all have nasty bites, but I used to play with millipedes all the time. They just curl up into a little disk. All the poisonous critters in Texas are mostly non-lethal so I don't worry about them too much. A word of caution, putting a stick through the head of a rattlesnake isn't a definite kill. You need to make sure you cut their head off. Trust me on that one. I don't know how they survive all the snakes, spiders and jellyfish in Australia, that stuff creeps me out.
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
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Once I had a huntsman on the Wall. A huntsman is a big spider which is 20cm wide (including the legs). That was a shock. I killed it, but maybe I shouldn't Hunstamn are innocuous, unlike the tiny and deadly redback :doh:
If I saw something like that, I'd kill it with a bazooka!! :wtf: -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
The amount of sleep the average person needs is five more minutes. -- Vikram A Punathambekar, Aug. 11, 2005
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20cm wide spider!!!???!!! i had a baboon spider crawl across the patio in front of me once in cape town and that scared the crap out of me ... last week here in tracy where my gf lives i found 3 black widow spiders and that wasnt nice ... but none of them were 20cm across :omg:
l a u r e n wrote: i found 3 black widow spiders and that wasnt nice ... but none of them were 20cm across See, now if they were, you'd been able to hear them walking - no worries about the ones you haven't found yet...
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If I saw something like that, I'd kill it with a bazooka!! :wtf: -- LuisR
Luis Alonso Ramos Intelectix - Chihuahua, Mexico Not much here: My CP Blog!
The amount of sleep the average person needs is five more minutes. -- Vikram A Punathambekar, Aug. 11, 2005
Wait, there is more! When I saw it I get paralysed for a few seconds, then slowly take a book on my desk and throw it at the huntsman. But the huntsman crawled on the wall and dodged my book! Finally I walk in a big circle far away from it, take a broom and ... smash it! (it even pretend to be dead, so I smashed a bit more)
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Weird. I've noticed a lot of earwigs in the garden recently and I had crawling about near my laptop earlier in the week.
Robert Edward Caldecott wrote: crawling about near my laptop earlier in the week Hmmm... Wonder if that's how bugs get in software? Just crawl in and make themselves at home.:omg:
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Once I had a huntsman on the Wall. A huntsman is a big spider which is 20cm wide (including the legs). That was a shock. I killed it, but maybe I shouldn't Hunstamn are innocuous, unlike the tiny and deadly redback :doh:
Dang! There's not much I'm afraid of but spiders are near the top (at least spiders as big as that)... A Quick Google Images Returned This, Looked Like Steve Ballmer for a second...[^]
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Dang! There's not much I'm afraid of but spiders are near the top (at least spiders as big as that)... A Quick Google Images Returned This, Looked Like Steve Ballmer for a second...[^]
Some assembly required. Code-frog System Architects, Inc.
In the text "Dozens of the social huntsman species, Delena cancerides, can be seen sitting together under bark on dead trees and stumps (notably wattles .... They are also notorious for entering cars, and being found hiding behind sun visors or running across the dashboard. .... the male and female Huntsman spiders have a lengthy courtship, which involves mutual caresses .... The male is rarely attacked, unlike some other species, and in fact many huntsman spiders live peacefully together in large colonies .... Huntsman spider bites usually result only in transient local pain and swelling" Looks like they are cute little uh, big spider :-) Maybe next time I give it some insect to eat and make it my pet :laugh:
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In the text "Dozens of the social huntsman species, Delena cancerides, can be seen sitting together under bark on dead trees and stumps (notably wattles .... They are also notorious for entering cars, and being found hiding behind sun visors or running across the dashboard. .... the male and female Huntsman spiders have a lengthy courtship, which involves mutual caresses .... The male is rarely attacked, unlike some other species, and in fact many huntsman spiders live peacefully together in large colonies .... Huntsman spider bites usually result only in transient local pain and swelling" Looks like they are cute little uh, big spider :-) Maybe next time I give it some insect to eat and make it my pet :laugh:
You know... I think it's important to keep the broom well fed. A spider that big just isn't going to share my home. One of us will be leaving rather quickly. Although, I will say that there are a lot of spiders in my area that are known to be safe and not dangerous to people and that eat a lot of nastier bugs. When I cross paths with one of them I go out of my way to remove them from my home without harming them. This usually involves the cup and paper trick. Put the the paper in their path. The crawl onto it, cover with cup and escort outside. Then RUN FORREST RUN!!!:omg: Because spiders just freak my shorts and I don't want to be near them. I just finished reading about the Funnel Web. Maunder they are all yours. You and Christian both can keep em...;P
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J. Dunlap wrote: Inside the things that creep me out are the wolf spiders whose legspan exceeds 1 1/2 inches One place I lived had those with 6 inch legspan and fangs like pencil points, plus they could jump about 3 feet when properly motivated. The creepy part was hearing them land. There weren't a whole lot of mice though. :~
I can imagine the sinking feeling one would have after ordering my book, only to find a laughably ridiculous theory with demented logic once the book arrives - Mark McCutcheon
