Yahoo! Spiders, More than just search
Like eight-legged swallows to Capistrano, the Yahoo! Spiders have returned (shudder). Every year since I’ve been here, the end of July brings back massive numbers of really big spiders. Sitting on their many webs they are about the size of a quarter, maybe a bit bigger. By the time the population really explodes though, they are going to be big suckers.
Already there are two or three of them on every window I’ve passed on the first floor. They hang from the trees over the sidewalk, and make the in-building courtyards look like something from a bad, made for sci-fi channel movie. “They arrogantly invoked the name the great and powerful king spider ghost when they created the new web spidering system. Now they will PAY!”
For now I’m just going to be grateful that I haven’t seen them inside. Once I get past some revulsion and get close enough to one I’ll add the photo. 
Digg this!
July 25th, 2005 at 5:14 pm
I will take a picture for you Justin.
July 27th, 2005 at 3:26 pm
When I lived in the hills in San Jose with my step-dad, he always warned us of the Great Tarantula Stampede that happened every year. I imagined hundreds of migrating tarantulas pouring over the house bent on destruction. Fortuneately for me, something with the weather patterns prevented me from actually witnessing the event. We saw one scrawny tarantula on the front doorstep and that’s it.
I don’t know if my step-dad was exaggerating, but we always tease him about the Great Tarantual Stampede in the same way we tease him about saying that his very stubborn golden retriever was so well-trained he could be a seeing eye dog and about the way he won’t eat mushrooms because of all the dead mushroom pickers on the side of the road (??).