Monitor slime with embossed Dell logo

A Gizmodo's reader sent in a set of photos of the gross, slimy muck that was discovered under a slovenly cow-orker's monitor. It's a dust-furred coffee-spill with a DELL logo embossed in the middle of it from where the slime-critters were forced to grow around the monitor's molded plastic. Link

[#1 posted by pepsi_max2k , March 6, 2008 7:06 AM]

ohh... god... unicorn chaser! NOW!

[#2 posted by ZioStefano , March 6, 2008 7:10 AM]

Hw t prprly dsps f Dll Cmptr

[#3 posted by Anonymous , March 6, 2008 7:15 AM]

I'm confused about the Dell logo. If it were embossed from the logo itself, wouldn't the logo be reversed on the slime pool?

[#4 posted by eclectro , March 6, 2008 7:25 AM]

First appeared in Star Trek TOS Operation Annihilate;
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation:_Annihilate

Or otherwise known as the flying omelletes. Quite scary actually.

[#5 posted by Chris Brewer , March 6, 2008 8:00 AM]

#3 It IS reversed...

[#6 posted by Caroline , March 6, 2008 8:01 AM]

Anonymous @3, it is reversed. Look at it. The E should be pointing up, not down -- that will tell you it's backwards. (Tilt your head to the right.)

Do Dell monitors have the logo embossed on the bottom? I'm having trouble visualizing where the spill was originally.

[#7 posted by mrfitz , March 6, 2008 8:40 AM]

finger bung still wins

[#8 posted by Boba Fett Diop , March 6, 2008 9:00 AM]

I thought it was the re-design for the Zune.

[#9 posted by Isaac Cates , March 6, 2008 9:02 AM]

I imagine that it's hard to keep tidy when you're orking cows.

[#10 posted by Clifton , March 6, 2008 9:33 AM]

Unicorn chaser, stat!

[#11 posted by wanderer , March 6, 2008 10:20 AM]

What that is:

Look at one of the dell desktops, like something out of the GX260 or 270 line. They've got the word DELL embossed in their sides. This was under a tube monitor on top of a desktop. The DE logo is from the side of a computer.

Notice how it's vaguely round-esque.. Just like older Dell tube monitor bases..

[#12 posted by ill lich , March 6, 2008 10:57 AM]

So. . . you gonna plug that 1/8-inch balanced plug into the mess and see what it sounds like through the desktop speakers?

[#13 posted by schmod , March 6, 2008 11:03 AM]

1/8" plugs are rarely, if ever balanced. You'd need XLR, or a balanced 1/4" jack connector for that.

[#14 posted by ill lich , March 6, 2008 11:53 AM]

(sorry, I used "balanced" because of the two rings, I guess thinking about an insert cable. duh-- I confused it all in my head, should have said "stereo" I guess).

[#15 posted by badc0ffee , March 6, 2008 11:58 AM]

Wow, that was confusing at first...
That's not slime. Coffee+milk spilled under some Dell equipment (the base of a CRT monitor or maybe a tower?) got mouldy, then slowly dried up. It's basically crusty dried coffee now.

[#16 posted by f sharp a sharp infinity , March 6, 2008 8:05 PM]

I am glad that at least one person noted the cow-orker typo.

[#17 posted by Haldor , March 6, 2008 8:47 PM]

I don't think it was coffee slime. I think MS Windows leaked.

[#18 posted by strathmeyer , March 6, 2008 8:57 PM]

"I am glad that at least one person noted the cow-orker typo."

I'm glad at least one person thinks it was a typo.