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2004-04-30 - 6:28 p.m.
spiders
ok, so yesterday i was minding my own business, sitting in the dark, watching snooker right in front of the tv when a tiny little spider lowered itself down on a filament of web in front of my face. unlike most people who are terrified of spiders i think that they are pretty good. they have twice as many limbs as two humans but only half the number of heads AND they eat flies. it is a perfectly balanced mathematical equation.
anyway, i decided to do some quick experiments with the tiny spider so i grabbed the torch that is next to my tv and fired some light straight at the spider. woompth, the spider stopped lowering itself down and refused to move until i turned off the torch. then it instantly started lowering itself again. as a former scientist, i know that you must perform repeat experiments to increase the accuracy of your data so i tried this again a couple of times and each time the spider stopped. for my next experiment i took the torch and held it underneath the spider as it continued to lower itself towards the floor and the spider immediately started to pull itself back up its web. it was going pretty fast and even when i switched off the light it kept on going until it reached the ceiling and then it disappeared into the night.
ok, in conclusion, either spiders are scared of beams of light or this little spider was seriously hacked off with me for messing around with it. if it is the former then it is a result to bring hope to millions of arachnophobes - just carry a torch with you at night and then if you see a spider you can scare it away and it will not be able to maul you or anything. if the latter is true and if the spider is reading this then i am sorry little spider. you are welcome to live here and eat flies and you can live in the old pringles tube that already has two dead spiders in it.
be nice to a spider today.
next update: sunday.
paul.
(from www.pixelbee.co.uk)
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