Beginning To Bug Me!

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Ron

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I live in the northwest and I'm wondering if any one else has had this
same problem: I get lazy and sometimes leave audio and videotapes
lying around for a while-- when I go to pick them up, sometimes they
have little bugs living in them. Or sometimes dead little bugs in
them.

I didn't think plastic and metal coatings would be attractive to
*anything* but these parasitic little suckers seem to come out of
nowhere and take up residence in the tape cassettes.

I know I probably should put tapes back in their cases and things, but
I'm curious; does anyone know if these insects are something of a
typical problem?

Ron
 
Ron wrote:
I live in the northwest and I'm wondering if any one else has had this
same problem: I get lazy and sometimes leave audio and videotapes
lying around for a while-- when I go to pick them up, sometimes they
have little bugs living in them. Or sometimes dead little bugs in
them.

I didn't think plastic and metal coatings would be attractive to
*anything* but these parasitic little suckers seem to come out of
nowhere and take up residence in the tape cassettes.
Click to expand...
Perhaps they are drawn to moisture that condenses on the
nonabsorbent surface of the media?

I know I probably should put tapes back in their cases and things, but
I'm curious; does anyone know if these insects are something of a
typical problem?
Click to expand...
 
Ron wrote:
I live in the northwest and I'm wondering if any one else has had this
same problem: I get lazy and sometimes leave audio and videotapes
lying around for a while-- when I go to pick them up, sometimes they
have little bugs living in them. Or sometimes dead little bugs in
them.

I didn't think plastic and metal coatings would be attractive to
*anything* but these parasitic little suckers seem to come out of
nowhere and take up residence in the tape cassettes.

I know I probably should put tapes back in their cases and things, but
I'm curious; does anyone know if these insects are something of a
typical problem?

Ron
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Mail some to your state entomologist and find out what they are and how
to eliminate them. Maybe there is a new plastic bug.
 
Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> wrote in message
news:373ee642-f16c-42bf-a217-8c58d95dc221@22g2000yqr.googlegroups.com...
I live in the northwest and I'm wondering if any one else has had this
same problem: I get lazy and sometimes leave audio and videotapes
lying around for a while-- when I go to pick them up, sometimes they
have little bugs living in them. Or sometimes dead little bugs in
them.

I didn't think plastic and metal coatings would be attractive to
*anything* but these parasitic little suckers seem to come out of
nowhere and take up residence in the tape cassettes.

I know I probably should put tapes back in their cases and things, but
I'm curious; does anyone know if these insects are something of a
typical problem?

Ron
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http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/103/206/2
24

Grace Hopper is responsible for the term 'bug' for a computer fault. The
original 'bug' was a moth, which caused a hardware fault in the Mark I.
Hopper was the first person to 'debug' a computer.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa052198.htm
 
Van Chocstraw wrote:
Ron wrote:
I live in the northwest and I'm wondering if any one else has had this
same problem: I get lazy and sometimes leave audio and videotapes
lying around for a while-- when I go to pick them up, sometimes they
have little bugs living in them. Or sometimes dead little bugs in
them.

I didn't think plastic and metal coatings would be attractive to
*anything* but these parasitic little suckers seem to come out of
nowhere and take up residence in the tape cassettes.

I know I probably should put tapes back in their cases and things, but
I'm curious; does anyone know if these insects are something of a
typical problem?

Ron


Mail some to your state entomologist and find out what they are and how
to eliminate them. Maybe there is a new plastic bug.
Click to expand...
Hmmm... I think if I'm too lazy to put the tapes up properly, I'm
probably too lazy to walk to the mail box. :)

Still, maybe these little buggers give new meaning to the name "tape
worm?" <g>

Ron
 
In article <hirunn$tff$1@news.eternal-september.org>,
"N_Cook" <diverse@tcp.co.uk> wrote:

Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> wrote in message
news:373ee642-f16c-42bf-a217-8c58d95dc221@22g2000yqr.googlegroups.com...
I live in the northwest and I'm wondering if any one else has had this
same problem: I get lazy and sometimes leave audio and videotapes
lying around for a while-- when I go to pick them up, sometimes they
have little bugs living in them. Or sometimes dead little bugs in
them.

I didn't think plastic and metal coatings would be attractive to
*anything* but these parasitic little suckers seem to come out of
nowhere and take up residence in the tape cassettes.

I know I probably should put tapes back in their cases and things, but
I'm curious; does anyone know if these insects are something of a
typical problem?

Ron



http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/viewFile/103/206/2
24

Grace Hopper is responsible for the term 'bug' for a computer fault. The
original 'bug' was a moth, which caused a hardware fault in the Mark I.
Hopper was the first person to 'debug' a computer.
http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa052198.htm
Click to expand...
The term bug predates Admiral Hopper's use, although she probably helped
to make it more mainstream. Even the semi-famous log entry for the day
hints that the term was in use, although the cause wasn't usually
insects.

One reference, from the Jargon File, including an image of the moth in
question preserved for posterity:
http://catb.org/jargon/html/B/bug.html

--
Andrew Erickson

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot
lose." -- Jim Elliot
 
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:29:19 -0800 (PST), Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net>
wrote:

Hmmm... I think if I'm too lazy to put the tapes up properly, I'm
probably too lazy to walk to the mail box. :)

Still, maybe these little buggers give new meaning to the name "tape
worm?" <g
Click to expand...
Or zoom all the way to 2010..

Tapes?!

I thought CDroms were already obsolete for MP3's and such -

(please don't tell me it's 8 track)

Unless you are a museum curator :)

OK I admit - last year I handled a few ye olde VCR tapes with
homevideos of my children - to transfer them to DVD. I had to dig up
the VCR recorder from the attic - and use it before it seizes.

Come to think of it - the oldest VCR tape is over 25 years now, and
still playable. Wonder if the DVD will last that long..
 
"Ron" <ryon@dslnorthwest.net> wrote in message
news:373ee642-f16c-42bf-a217-8c58d95dc221@22g2000yqr.googlegroups.com...
I live in the northwest and I'm wondering if any one else has had this
same problem: I get lazy and sometimes leave audio and videotapes
lying around for a while-- when I go to pick them up, sometimes they
have little bugs living in them. Or sometimes dead little bugs in
them.

I didn't think plastic and metal coatings would be attractive to
*anything* but these parasitic little suckers seem to come out of
nowhere and take up residence in the tape cassettes.

I know I probably should put tapes back in their cases and things, but
I'm curious; does anyone know if these insects are something of a
typical problem?

Ron
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Cockroaches will eat/live anything/anywhere. Time to fumigate, and clean
house.
 
"Blarp" <dont@bother.com> wrote in message
news:9e64l552p8eanvlhvf9menr477qgka2hp2@4ax.com...
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:29:19 -0800 (PST), Ron <ryon@dslnorthwest.net
wrote:
Click to expand...

Come to think of it - the oldest VCR tape is over 25 years now, and
still playable. Wonder if the DVD will last that long..
Click to expand...
Last that long? Jeesh, about 5 % of the damned things won't play when they
are brand new (or only play long enough to get one absorbed, and then crap
out). Rental DVD movies ... now they are a real trip. A scratch is all it
takes to kill them. Peanut butter can be removed.
 
On Jan 16, 12:03 pm, Blarp <d...@bother.com> wrote:
On Sat, 16 Jan 2010 00:29:19 -0800 (PST), Ron <r...@dslnorthwest.net
wrote:

Hmmm... I think if I'm too lazy to put the tapes up properly, I'm
probably too lazy to walk to the mail box. :)

Still, maybe these little buggers give new meaning to the name "tape
worm?" <g

Or zoom all the way to 2010..

Tapes?!

I thought CDroms were already obsolete for MP3's and such -

(please don't tell me it's 8 track)

Unless you are a museum curator :)

OK I admit - last year I handled a few ye olde VCR tapes with
homevideos of my children - to transfer them to DVD. I had to dig up
the VCR recorder from the attic - and use it before it seizes.

Come to think of it - the oldest VCR tape is over 25 years now, and
still playable. Wonder if the DVD will last that long..
Click to expand...
Not certain of the DVDs but I have some CDs from April '83 that still
play fine. At work I've worked with 2" quad videotape (trademark Ampex
Corp) from 1969.

G˛
 
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