Comments on: The Gathering Swarm http://rreynoso.com/blog/home/the-gathering-swarm/ ...writing about work, life, and what-not Sat, 12 Nov 2011 05:57:24 +0000 hourly 1 By: The Bible Archive » Blog Archive » Are Bugs' Bugginess a Result of the Fall? http://rreynoso.com/blog/home/the-gathering-swarm/comment-page-1/#comment-11063 The Bible Archive » Blog Archive » Are Bugs' Bugginess a Result of the Fall? Sun, 24 Jun 2007 18:43:30 +0000 http://www.rreynoso.com/blog/archives/46#comment-11063 [...] don’t have a clue. But I’m starting to think they are headed by some nefarious mastermind. (Links to my personal [...] [...] don’t have a clue. But I’m starting to think they are headed by some nefarious mastermind. (Links to my personal [...]

]]> By: Marla http://rreynoso.com/blog/home/the-gathering-swarm/comment-page-1/#comment-111 Marla Sat, 10 Jun 2006 04:26:56 +0000 http://www.rreynoso.com/blog/archives/46#comment-111 You just had to trigger my bird phobia, didn't you. I won't tell you about "the incident" but let's just say I will never ever watch The Birds, and I'm a total Hitchcock fan. I feel for you, Rey. It's all I can do to squash spiders and swat the occasional fly (dd #1 is insect-phobic, won't even touch a ladybug), though we have battled rats and mice which I'm surprised didn't give me a panic disorder. I'd never survive the country...or the city, for that matter. I'm forever stuck in the burbs and that's okay by me, but it's nice to know I have friends I can visit in the country :) You just had to trigger my bird phobia, didn’t you. I won’t tell you about “the incident” but let’s just say I will never ever watch The Birds, and I’m a total Hitchcock fan. I feel for you, Rey. It’s all I can do to squash spiders and swat the occasional fly (dd #1 is insect-phobic, won’t even touch a ladybug), though we have battled rats and mice which I’m surprised didn’t give me a panic disorder. I’d never survive the country…or the city, for that matter. I’m forever stuck in the burbs and that’s okay by me, but it’s nice to know I have friends I can visit in the country :)

]]> By: Rey http://rreynoso.com/blog/home/the-gathering-swarm/comment-page-1/#comment-103 Rey Sat, 03 Jun 2006 18:33:29 +0000 http://www.rreynoso.com/blog/archives/46#comment-103 That is nasty. We used to get 8" rats in my church in Brooklyn. I would stamp my foot at them to get them to skat and they'd look at me with disdain. Disheartening, true, but to know that such beasts can (and do) grow over a foot (I remember seeing one running off on some errand in the subways) and is so very close to you means its definitely time to openly embrace fear. heh heh. That is nasty. We used to get 8″ rats in my church in Brooklyn. I would stamp my foot at them to get them to skat and they’d look at me with disdain. Disheartening, true, but to know that such beasts can (and do) grow over a foot (I remember seeing one running off on some errand in the subways) and is so very close to you means its definitely time to openly embrace fear. heh heh.

]]> By: scott http://rreynoso.com/blog/home/the-gathering-swarm/comment-page-1/#comment-102 scott Fri, 02 Jun 2006 20:05:34 +0000 http://www.rreynoso.com/blog/archives/46#comment-102 ok you're the first and only person i'm, telling this to (which means definitely not my kids and DEFINITELY not my girlfriend), but last night, taking the garbage down to the basement in my building on 103rd and broadway, the building where i've lived now for three and a half years, there scurrying amidst the garbage cans, was a rat. a monster rat. one of the biggest i've ever seen, anywhere--well over a foot long, it seemed--and it was IN MY BUILDING. not in my home, true, or really even close to my actual living space ... but three floors away is still WAAAAAAY too close for comfort. this sucker was huge. and greasy. i told the super (who lives down there!) and he's "looking into it." freaking me out. faith, not fear, i tell myself. ok you’re the first and only person i’m, telling this to (which means definitely not my kids and DEFINITELY not my girlfriend), but last night, taking the garbage down to the basement in my building on 103rd and broadway, the building where i’ve lived now for three and a half years, there scurrying amidst the garbage cans, was a rat.

a monster rat.

one of the biggest i’ve ever seen, anywhere–well over a foot long, it seemed–and it was IN MY BUILDING. not in my home, true, or really even close to my actual living space … but three floors away is still WAAAAAAY too close for comfort.

this sucker was huge. and greasy.

i told the super (who lives down there!) and he’s “looking into it.”

freaking me out.

faith, not fear, i tell myself.

]]> By: MCF http://rreynoso.com/blog/home/the-gathering-swarm/comment-page-1/#comment-101 MCF Fri, 02 Jun 2006 18:17:49 +0000 http://www.rreynoso.com/blog/archives/46#comment-101 <em>It was a dark, moonlit night. Rey sat in his office, his face illuminated only by the glow of his computer monitor. He scrutinized a message from Curt, and realized the answer to the questions which plagued his very soul.</em> <em>"Insects are a cowardly and superstitious lot. I need something that will strike fear into their hearts. Of course! A bat! I shall procure a bat!"</em> <em>The night was calm save for a breeze scraping branches against his window panes. His entomological nemeses shivered, from more than the wind. THAT night, everything had changed...</em> It was a dark, moonlit night. Rey sat in his office, his face illuminated only by the glow of his computer monitor. He scrutinized a message from Curt, and realized the answer to the questions which plagued his very soul.

“Insects are a cowardly and superstitious lot. I need something that will strike fear into their hearts. Of course! A bat! I shall procure a bat!”

The night was calm save for a breeze scraping branches against his window panes. His entomological nemeses shivered, from more than the wind. THAT night, everything had changed…

]]> By: Rey http://rreynoso.com/blog/home/the-gathering-swarm/comment-page-1/#comment-100 Rey Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:08:02 +0000 http://www.rreynoso.com/blog/archives/46#comment-100 I'm going to try offering that as a solution to my wife. "A real flying bat. Do you ever want to sleep in the same bed again?" I’m going to try offering that as a solution to my wife.

“A real flying bat. Do you ever want to sleep in the same bed again?”

]]> By: Curt http://rreynoso.com/blog/home/the-gathering-swarm/comment-page-1/#comment-96 Curt Fri, 02 Jun 2006 13:26:50 +0000 http://www.rreynoso.com/blog/archives/46#comment-96 Pesticides are a temporary fix, and they don't kill all the bugs. A more permanent solution is to bring in natural predators such as spiders and bats, each of which eat their weight in bugs every day. It's important to seal up your house to prevent insect penetration, and also to seal up your food to prevent temptation. Remember, every exit is an entrance to somewhere else. Pesticides are a temporary fix, and they don’t kill all the bugs. A more permanent solution is to bring in natural predators such as spiders and bats, each of which eat their weight in bugs every day.

It’s important to seal up your house to prevent insect penetration, and also to seal up your food to prevent temptation. Remember, every exit is an entrance to somewhere else.

]]> By: Rey http://rreynoso.com/blog/home/the-gathering-swarm/comment-page-1/#comment-95 Rey Fri, 02 Jun 2006 02:09:50 +0000 http://www.rreynoso.com/blog/archives/46#comment-95 I don't have a clue. They're huge. Some of them, I've witnessed, pushing their chitinous body through the mesh of the screen but others it's nigh impossible. They have to have...other entrances... I don’t have a clue. They’re huge. Some of them, I’ve witnessed, pushing their chitinous body through the mesh of the screen but others it’s nigh impossible. They have to have…other entrances…

]]> By: Janet http://rreynoso.com/blog/home/the-gathering-swarm/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Janet Fri, 02 Jun 2006 00:04:46 +0000 http://www.rreynoso.com/blog/archives/46#comment-94 Ok, here's the thing. I know bugs are small and everything, but sometimes I still gotta ask, where do they come from? How do they get in!? It's creepy...and crawly. Ok, here’s the thing. I know bugs are small and everything, but sometimes I still gotta ask, where do they come from? How do they get in!? It’s creepy…and crawly.

]]> By: MCF http://rreynoso.com/blog/home/the-gathering-swarm/comment-page-1/#comment-81 MCF Wed, 31 May 2006 14:30:34 +0000 http://www.rreynoso.com/blog/archives/46#comment-81 Don't you get it? Don't you understand? The birds are the advance fleet for the Insect Armada, like how the bugs in Starship Troopers(and possibly Ender's Game if I remember correctly) would chuck asteroids at Earth. It's only going to get worse.... O_O Don’t you get it? Don’t you understand? The birds are the advance fleet for the Insect Armada, like how the bugs in Starship Troopers(and possibly Ender’s Game if I remember correctly) would chuck asteroids at Earth.

It’s only going to get worse….
O_O

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