Bug as in INSECT inside my lcd
 

I thought i had a dead pixel until it started moving. I can even see its legs. what more amusing is that a google search showed someone else videoing the same thing. now i just have to hope it dies in a corner... anyway now i can say theres a bug in my lcd.

Kill it. Kill it with fire.

Edit: Bugs are killed instantly by giant electromagnets. Put one up next to your computer and turn it on for a few hours.

Mikey is only joking. Don't put a magnet near your computer. Mikey, that was a mean, potentially destructive thing to advise someone to do, even if you were sure Cholst would realize it was a joke, dude! Plenty of people would not realize you're kidding.

Bug spray also kills bugs. Spray the screen with some pesticide until you can see it behind the screen, too.

Edit: Lots of it.

Edit 2: No, more than that.

Edit 3: Keep going, I can still read the menu bar.

There's a Unix command to kill bugs: rm -rf /*










Ok, ok, don't do that either.

LOL @ you guys. You are going to get someone in trouble, you nuts!

You can get rid of it easily by smacking the screen very sharply with a heavy object right over the bug.

That'll never work.

Use a fork.

Honestly, you people know the only way to get it out is to pick the monitor up and shake it vigourously. And if that doesn't work, wack the thing on it's side a few times until the bug falls out. The harder the better!

I use a handgun.

This gets the bug but then the liquid crystals leak out the hole. So I use a cork to seal it up, and refill the screen with fresh liquid crystals bought from a pharmacy.

nothing beats the old classic can of hairspray and a lighter for stimulating pest control.

(i shudder when i think of what my neighbours opposite me think when they see me running about my house in a frenzy in nothing but underwear and a makeshift flame thrower) (making war noises) (with stripes on my face)

boy, you guys are LUCKY this is the coatroom!
 

otherwise, your witty but harmful advice would be sent directly to a PC forum, to destroy THEIR computers.

I'm kidding. Seriously. knock it off. Haha, I kid.
Stop giving bad and dangerous advice. UNLESS its to people I don't like. No, I don't have a list of people I don't like. How about people that just annoy me? I KNOW! do it to waiters who come up on with your mouth full and ask if everything is ok. Oh, yeah, baby, THOSE guys deserve it.

To those waiters I would recommend putting your mouth to the heat vent and sucking with all your might. That should take the bug out ;).

There is an old Windows program that unfortunately was never ported to Mac OS that I miss. It would let you put bugs and such on the screen, then smash them with hammers, shoot them with machine guns and flamethrowers, and other fun like that. It was great, with realistic sound and visual effects such as a bug exploding when you burn it. Great way to break up a long day.

i was looking for that earlier on, i couldnt remember if it was mac or pc, needless to say i couldn't find it, but damn, that would be a fine way to tolerate the little bugger.

There used to be quite a disturbing init for OS [7-9] that would, once activated by a key-combo, shoot rather realistic looking holes in the screen, with sound.

But I'm not aware of an OS X equivalent.

In all seriousness, if you can open the display up and get the bug out it would be a good idea. Perhaps it could short something out or be a potential problem if it dropped dead in the wrong place.

what kind of bug is it?

come on...we need pictures! :)

I recall reading some thread somewhere that linked to a video of an ant crawling inside an LCD, turned out to be a clever little hoax I think.

LOL this reminds me of times when I have gotten mad at older retired equipment and pulled an 'office space' on it.

There is an old thread called "worst repair ever" which I created where I posted the time I saw someone that brought in a flat bed scanner that had an ant colony living in it. It was kind of cool because you could see right througth the glass and see all the ants, and it was also gross at the same time.

You mean like what happened to my old Netgear router?

My gal and I like to say to each other, at moments like those, "OK, I'm putting a stack of dollar bills on the table..." Can't remember where we got that from, a movie or a tv show or a standup comic's routine. I figure if the waitron* comes up and asks me questions when my mouth is full, one dollar comes off the stack. If I ask to substitute a veggie for the fries, and they say "no", that costs 'em more than a buck. I let you slide if you say stuff like, WelcometoFerny'sFernBarMynameisjennaandi'mheretoserveyoutodaywouldyouliketotryourfabulousdeepfriedfatdrippingswithyouror der?", since they make you say that. My answer will be, "I'm sorry, could you repeat that?" :)

*there, I said it

What really chaps my @__ is buying a flatbed scanner and finding that the glass is dirty ... on the INSIDE.

we had these really crappy micro towers that we called pizza boxes at work, we were so glad to get rid of them. When we finally phased them out we wanted to take one to the park and play baseball with it, but since it was company property we just decided to dream about it.

nice pic btw