I get up one morning to run an errand from my girlfriend's parents house - it's in a gated community and all the roads are mapped but not all named. Down at the lower left of the screen, near the area where the street name would normally appear, there were two words - a name? - that appeared very faintly on the screen. They took on the appearance of text that gets "burned in" on monitors that display the same words/pictures for extended period. The words did not scroll around when the map moved, etc. I looked awhile later and the words were gone, and have never returned.

 

The words: Todd Mission

 

Any ideas? I did a search on these words but came up with nothing. Interesting, eh?

Todd Mission is a city in Texas, if thats where you were.

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Mission,_Texas

 

If not, maybe the name of a developer at Pioneer?

Whoa! Great detective work! Todd Mission is indeed about 20 miles away from the location in question. I want to swear that I was zoomed in way too close for it to show up, but I've been wrong before...

 

I know the bar at the bottom is semi-transparent, but on the way home today I paid careful attention to how text appears underneath, and the way that text was displayed was unlike anything I've seen before or since. So again, great call on figuring out that Todd Mission was a nearby place name, but whatever was happening was still abnormal, I'm pretty sure.

 

One of life's great mysteries. Okay, one of life's *little* mysteries...