For a good laugh. This morning I looked at my monitor and saw what I thought was a sticky window that said New Balance on it. It was obscuring a portion of the screen I wanted to use and it refused to disappear. I tried clicking on it, minimizing and restoring various windows, no luck. Hmm... I said, this is quite a bug in the video driver, or maybe even in the video firmware itself. Maybe if I make something drastic happen, like run a screen saver or play with screen resolution it would go away. No luck. I did not want to reboot. The window was relatively small, and did not bother me that much, so I just let it sit. But like all of us on this list, in the back of my mind I was still curious as to the cause of this and how to fix it. So I finally came up with a fresh idea - turn the monitor off and then back on. Something completely unexpected happened when I turned the monitor off - it was dark with the exception of the mystery New Balance window. I double-checked to make sure that the monitor was really off - it was. It dawned on me at that point that the obstruction was of physical nature. A New Balance gift card somehow got stuck to my monitor. April Fools Day is coming up, so maybe this could give someone an idea.
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