Month: June 2005

Now that I’ve upgraded to Tiger, I want an alert that pops up and says “mds, the metadata service in OS X 10.4, has decided to pop its head up and thrash for a few minutes. Don’t bother working or anything, you won’t be able to do so effectively till it’s done. Go get a soda.” Cause as it is, I just have to figure that out from the thrashing. I eventually manage to get Activity Monitor fired up in spite of the thrashing, and yes, there is mds, not taking up too much CPU but spanking the disk drive. Soda time!

UPDATE: What do you know, a few hours later, I feel the thrash, and open up Activity Monitor, and there’s mds! PPC linux looking better all the time…

“To demand that others should provide you with textbook answers is like asking a strange woman to give birth to your baby. There are insights that can be born only of your own pain, and they are the most precious.”

– Janusz Korczak, quoted by Jim Wallis of Sojourners.

Have you read it? Why not? Read it. It’s more important than Michael Jackson but has gotten a lot less air time.

It only takes a couple minutes. You might as well familiarize yourself with what Bush & Co. was saying behind closed doors when they were saying publically that war was a last resort they were forced into by an imminent WMD threat.

I just went to the dentist for the first time in my adult life (I’m 35). I didn’t have insurance through most of my 20s, and I just never thought about going, cause I had never had a cavity as a child. I had really poor oral hygiene for much of my slacker college/grad school/whatever life too. So it’s been like 20 years since I have been to a dentist, till yesterday.

Not a single cavity, still, 20 years later.

Apparently this is my super power.