There's this fly again.... OT

14 years ago

....I mentioned a fly a couple of weeks ago, which zooms into my touch screen monitor computer. I know THAT one is out in the great beyond, but for the last two nights, and now today, I've had a couple of them again at my computer screen.

They were watching the images of hosta up on the screen. Specifically, the Blue Angels.

Ok, I think I have a handle on it. My DH says the fly is not by weight opening my icons, he is blocking light in the sensors and that does it. At night when all the lights are off, except for the desk light and the monitor, is when I have the nerdy Fly being a pest. I've taken to shutting down my computer every night instead of leaving it on to run the antivirus in the wee hours. And that is because in the mornings I'd find several programs opened, which have their icon shortcuts on my desktop. Matrix for flies?

I finally found my flyswatter, and just now zapped one of the big flies which was sitting on the bottom frame of the monitor, looking at the screen. I got him. And I distinctly heard him say "Heeeeelllllppppp."

Unless it happens to be a teeny little drone, it is not a computer problem. It is a FLY problem. Even the FLIES think it is too hot outdoors.

Strange goings on. Now back to the regularly scheduled programs of HOSTA.

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leafwatcher
14 years ago
too funny,

I am glad I DON"T have a touch sensitive screen, otherwise all the slugs crawling on my monitor would be bothersome ...
Babka NorCal 9b
14 years ago
Mystery solved! I had no idea how touch screens work, but that makes so much sense. It is not the pressure of touching the screen but simply blocking of a light pixel.

Geez I should know that...I have a cooktop that has no dials or buttons, just a touch screen. Guess I can stop pushing so hard on the glass (haha).

-Babka
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hostaLes
14 years ago
What's the world coming to------a computer literate fly!

Moc, I bet you'll be glad when my knee heals well enough and I can back out into my garden again!

Les
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14 years ago
Babka, so glad you don't have a cooktop activated by voice commands. Or maybe I am glad WE do not have one, because my DH cusses at the burners, no telling what would be cooked.

Les, I bet you'll be glad to get out in the fresh air away from strange tales of nerdy flies. While you are recovering, why don't you read the Steven King book, MISERY? Or watch the movie? Hmmm?

Didn't Kathy Bates take a sledge hammer and whop the man on his broken leg? You'd feel all kinds of empathy with him, ---take your mind off of strange topics. Might get you up and out of therapy in no time.
in ny zone5
14 years ago
Perhaps those flies are aliens from another planet, intelligent beings, traveling through the internet while you are asleep?
leafwatcher
14 years ago
by the way Moccasin, i DID get the movie joke in your first post ;)

Are you still trying to cross Hosta in your TRANSPORTER?