I am. Right now. She/He has been on my large LCD monitor for well over an hour. No clue why. But, I started moving my cursor around it. Appears that about an inch away, it registers in line of sight, and the spider moves in fast, strking at…nothingness.
So, being a human, and both amused and curious, I started leading the spider all over the monitor, allowing it to strike now and then.
I cannot figure out what this says about me, but it sure is fun- and harmless to the insect.
Clearly today is a slow day around the ole home office…
I’ve done that with my cats. One of ours, when she was a kitten in particular, would go absolutely batshit over the mouse cursor. She still does from time to time, but now that I have an LCD monitor I try not to encourage it, since there’s no good sturdy glass there anymore. I’ve never seen a spider do that, though. It sounds like fun!
It is on the one hand. OTOH, it does make me wonder if I am as humane as I like to think I am. Oh, the helpless creature, striking at nothingness.
The cataclysmic collision of basic animal instinct and high technology. Heh. It is now walking along AS I write this sentence, as the words appear, it crawls behind a few words.
Great way to write free verse- I could compose an Ode To Insects.
I think spidey deserves a treat for all his (her?) work. I have no idea what one would treat a spider with, however. Perhaps some arachnid pals might suggest something.
I’m gonna apply for SDSAB status here. I have proven that G.H. ( I was gonna go for Jearl, after Jearl Walker, ace outside physics/science ringer for Cecil Adams back in the day ) doesn’t see my Evil Cursor Monster with a dark image behind them on the screen.
Google’s home page is good because it’s almost all white. Imagine the ad campaign?
It does not look fuzzy at all. From front of leg to back of back legs it is about…hmm… god dammit, hold STILL so I can get calipers around you !!!.. 3/8 of an inch.
This is really interesting. ( Which should tell you something about my work day )
When I move the cursor very slowly, it barely notices me. When I jerk it back and forth rapidly, it tracks my quick movements and strikes over and over again.
This is like Flatland, isn’t it?? Two-dimensional way of living. Fascinating. I wonder how far Jearl can see.
Well, my work day has been pretty boring too, but I still think this is incredibly cool. I do know that if I had a spider chasing my cursor, I would have called every one of my colleagues over to look at it.
You realizing you’re just honing it’s tracking and hunting skills. Just bringing us one step closer to the arachno-uprising that we all know is eminent.
