Bad Astronomy

A formidable smell

Wanna know what burning ants smell like?

They smell like a toaster oven that hasn’t been cleaned for a while and is set to “high”.

I know this, because my office smells like burning toast, and it’s coming from our new printer, and climbing up our new printer’s power cable is a line of ants, and they are marching lockstep into the printer, and the printer is hot, and I need not, I think, finish this thought for you.

The printer is brand new, but I suspect we’ll have to get it replaced, or at least cleaned. Many ants were carrying eggs with them, so they probably thought that this would make a nice new home for their colony.

Obviously, there are still a few bugs in the system.

OK, so which one of you science nerds gets the title of this, eh?