[surjones]

Okay, so I am sitting in the kitchen, and I have my MBP 17" seductively sitting on the granite. I was typing a craigslist ad when I saw this small baby spider about 2mm in size. I did not want to blow at him and have his defense shields kick in and ball up because he was walking in the hinge of the screen and top case. I figured that if I just allow him to walk to other side of that hinge he'll walk up the lip and to the top of the speaker holes, and he'll meeting his death. I stop what I am doing and watch his every 8 legged move. Then suddenly, he digs himself down into the hinge. I tip the the MBP and look at the bottom, so I could end his existence and he's not there!!!!! I gently set the MBP down and stood up and glanced over at the hinge thinking maybe he is just wedged in between the hinge, but then all John Goodman rage kicks when I notice there is a nice small gap that leads to the logic board, and now the spider is sitting in my laptop, doing God knows what. Perhaps breading an army to one day take over the world or maybe he is seeking revenge against me for killing a family member? Or maybe he is just waiting for the time to come out and bite me as sit and type away.

Now I know and will just take the top case off and hope he is there and then go all Samuel Jackson on him and thankfully easier to do than the old powerbooks. But this whole thing just made it feel like I was in some horror movie for a split second.

[Mugge]

"2 cm"? are you sure you didn't mean 2 mm?

Anyways, please keep us updated on your spiderhunt.

[surjones]

LOL yea, fixed!

[Schnauzer]

NOOOO HE IS GOING TO EAT UR DATASZZZZ!!!!!!

Haha

[Capella]

That's really freaky. I'd be so scared if I saw a spider go in my laptop, especially as I do usually use it on my lap.

[709]

I say you take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.

[Banana]

High time that you invested in a good wooden decoy and a whistle...

[ghoti]

It's way too late. Ever heard of a web spider? This is how they get onto the web, by crawling into a computer and getting picked up by an A/D converter on the logic board. There's a pretty interesting movie that shows how these things happen to entire people. Today, of course, all that stuff is much smaller and more efficient, and it happens across the web (guess where that name comes from!) rather than in a single computer.

[709]

Originally Posted by ghoti Today, of course, all that stuff is much smaller and more efficient

Not always...

[turtle]

You could just fire up Folding@Home and fry him out.