Computer Bug - looks pretty bad.
 

Well, I was experiencing some weird buzzing sounds, like a fan wire being caught. I popped off the side, lo and behold:

http://www.darklink2135.com/gallery/...1/DSCN1217.JPG
http://www.darklink2135.com/gallery/...1/DSCN1218.JPG

I poked at it and it seems dead, so I'm leaving it there :).

Double Post:
Update: It was alive. I heard a VERY large buzzing sound and when I popped the case side back off, it was sitting on top of my sound card. I went to shut the computer down, and when I came back around a bit later, it was starting to crawl between my sound card and modem. A very tight fit, even for a bug. I poked at it with a pencil and knocked it around until it was on the floor.

A PERFECT target for the bottoms of my black New Balance tennis shoes.

I now know what those freaking chirping sounds were from that I've been hearing all week. What puzzles me is how the frick it got in there.

This might have made a better journal entry.

I wonder what the bug is. I hate bugs, and that one looks fat and nasty; kind of like a giant fly. I almost want to say it's a cicada.

It is a cicada. We have tons of them around here =/. It wasn't very loud though, which is odd, because cicadas normally are pretty deafening. At any rate, it explains the bird/insect sounds I've been hearing all week.

I thought a cicada's perceived sound had something to do with accoustics? ie it sounds louder outside than it would inside a bedroom/computer case? I could be wrong.

Well thats probably because it IS a cicada (god forbid it be a locust...).

Cicadas are probably one of the most annoying bugs in the late summer/fall. They live in all over the trees here and make that incessant pulsating chirp. Still, quite odd that it would be IN your computer...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicada

Wiki makes it sound like all the acoustics are done via their bodies. IDK =/.

But yeah, thanks for the suggestion that it should have been a journal entry, I've never actually used mine before =/. It's setup now, lol.

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/jo...ew&userid=5122

And still no idea how it got in there. There are screens on my dorm window, and I would have noticed a bug that gargantuan flying in my computer in the short time I would have ever had it taken off.

Nehmi - is your sig/avatar done by that illustrator Stephen Gammell, who drew for those "Scary Stories" compilations (I think there were 3 of them).

If you did them, you have any photoshop tuts or anything like that, those look INCREDIBLE.

This is definitely a better Journal entry than thread.

Darklink has posted a link already, so I'll go ahead and close this.