I sprayed one with hair spray last night (but it wasn’t super hold, so it didn’t harden enough to kill the little fuck face). It dropped off the ceiling and my little Quicksilver! Happy Birthday! ate it.
Traitors, traitors, spider traitors …
Great song, that. And this is a fun thread, too - everything’s just right for a Friday afternoon.
Bats aren’t bugs!
I think you have this wrong, the spider has already eaten Cartooniverse. It is just trying to lull us into a false sense of security by posing as [Cartoonivers**. Soon it will start inviting Dopers over one at a time. Thus insuring its food source.
Dear Dopers,
We are holding Cartooniverse captive. Offer payment of five million virgin flies, and we will consider releasing him. You have until your “Day of Patrick” to proffer payment.
Sincerely,
TSA (The Spider Alliance)
That’s quite a spider you have there. I think I know what kind he is, but the poor lighting in your photo necessitates your having to describe the marking on the dorsal aspect of the arachnid’s abdomen. If you have normal vision you will need to get to within 4 inches of the spider to properly identify the mark: a yellow banjo with one broken string. Get closer. Closer. Does he have the mark? If he has 2 or more broken strings, he is a perfectly harmless jumping spider. If, as I strongly suspect, he has the banjo with 1 broken string, he is a Springing Pirouette Spider, known for making spinning leaps up to 6 inches onto the proboscises of large mammals, then administering a painful and deadly bite.
Cartooniverse, you still there??
Yeah, but look at how the post is nicely laminated.
Speaking of Quicksilver, where be he? Hain’t been on the board since about 12/20.
He came back !!! Incredible. She/he was still here at 4:00 am when I came back and fired up the machine. She played a bit, then walked off the monitor. I figured, okay, that was odd and fun.
It’s 9:45pm. As I sit here surfing the Dope, I see movement. She’s walking UP the side of my monitor( Apple Cinema Display and fell off. Then she tried AGAIN and is now sitting on the white areas around the gray box I’m typing into right now.
How cool. He/She played, struck, chased a bit and is now chilling.
I have a spider pet. Hmmmm. Jearl. I’ve missed, you my little friend. Nobody really understands me like you do…
You took a photo of the spider. So I believe the spider is present.
What I’m dubious of is your survival from the encounter. I’d sooner believe that the spiders have organized and learned to type. So now I need a photo of you Cartooniverse, preferably holding a copy of a recent healine.
Okay here’s what I’m thinking.
A game needs to be developed in which the players both control a small cursor-like graphic on the screen. The game begins when the players place a spider on their side of the screen. Then the object is to use your cursor to lead your spider to attack the other spider. Maybe you could stick blu tac barriers on the screen or something to provide for strategy.
Spider Wars!
Note: I am not condoning this somewhat spider-unfriendly pastime. That said, if someone attempts this, I want to know about it!
Hi…the spider in question is a Jumping Spider. It hunts with vision, unlike most spiders, which sense their prey via vibrations transmitted through the web.
Admittedly, I’ve played a few games with them…but I usually rewarded them with a dead fly as a reward for entertaining me. They seem to almost be intelligent, and are quite cute (for spiders)…I suggest you google Jumping Spiders for some nice pictures.
Cartooniverse doesn’t notice that the half-eaten turkey sammich that he left next to the keyboard was gone the next morning. The spider is growing, and now has a taste for meat, but its arachnid genes now crave living meat.
Cartooniverse doesn’t hear the single tap on the keyboard that brings the computer out of its sleep, or the scrabbling of eight hairy legs crawling around the monitor. He doesn’t notice the bluish glow that seeps from under the door from his computer room late at night, when the house is still The spider practices in front of the monitor, and its speed, its deadly strikes, its typing skills improve night by night.
From behind the monitor, the spider’s strange eyes stare balefully at the world
It grows and it waits.
This would explain why I was up at 4am yesterday and 3:30 am today, wouldn’t it?
My spider senses told me something was amiss.
I’m all for feeding my new friend, but it’s March and there is about 15 inches of snow outside. Where the HELL am I going to get a fly, and convince it to die for the cause? Huh???
Heeeeeeeeeeeeee. Man, I adore cats and kittens. I’m a true cat person. I bow before your love of cats, which clearly exceeds your love of your LCD monitor ! :eek:
Any claw marks or damage done? I love how the cat can completely fit behind the monitor, then comes out to “discover” the power jack. Priceless !!
You have been warned.
Soon, it will no longer want a mere fly…
My first thought was WOLF SPIDER!!! They will jump at any damn thing that bugs them and it is scary if its you being jumped at. I’m now wondering if it might not be a Black Widow; it kinda, sorta, maybe looks a little like one.