mahiwaga

I'm not really all that mysterious

nerdy tasks for today

For the last three years now, I’ve been trying to build GNOME on Mac OS X using Fink, but I always end up bailing out long before I get through the myriad of dependencies. Now I realize the easier thing would be just to bail on Fink and go with MacPorts, but I had already taken the trouble to learn Fink’s packaging format. Moreover, while MacPorts has a *BSD heritage (as does Mac OS X itself), Fink has more of a Linux heritage, which I’m far more familiar with.

Fink’s version of GNOME is now six stable releases behind. (Fink has GNOME 2.8. GNOME 2.10, 2.12, 2.14, 2.16, 2.18, and 2.20 have all been released.) So I started mucking around with the package files and got about a quarter of the way through the build order before I realized that the maintainers of the Fink Project had already gotten started with updating to GNOME 2.20.

So it’s back to the beginning, to make sure I’m using FreeType 2.3.5 in all the packages.

Mac OS X 10.5 “Leopard” has been out for several months now. I’ve upgraded my iBook G4 933 MHz and everything seems relatively solid, so now I’m ready to upgrade my Mac Mini G4 1.2 GHz. This, naturally, entails backing up my hard drive, which is taking forever.

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time marches on

This week’s I-5 playlist, featuring cheesy love songs and songs to commit suicide to:

  1. Lionel Richie “The Only One” (flashback to sometime in the 1980s, but also evocative of August 2001)

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  1. Eden’s Crush “Love This Way” (flashback to August 2001. Yes! Nicole Scherzinger!)

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  1. [Elliott Smith “I Didn’t Understand”][1] (flashback to September 2007)

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  1. [Ben Folds Five “Evaporated”][2] (flashback to January 2001)

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  1. Hiroko Kasahara “Moichido Love You” (flashback to January 1996)

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  1. Peabo Bryson and Regina Belle “A Whole New World” (flashback to December 1992), this version has Lea Salonga singing the woman’s part instead)

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  1. Toad the Wet Sprocket “Little Heaven” (flashback to August 1992)

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  1. Tiffany “All This Time” (flashback to June 1988, but more illustrative of June 1998)

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Elliott Smith’s “I Didn’t Understand”, Ben Folds Five’s “Evaporated”, and Tiffany’s “All This Time” are not exactly the most uplifting set of songs, but it didn’t spin me down the usual downward spiral of depression. What it did evoke was this sense of completely misunderstanding the past 15 years of my life. In some ways, I feel like destiny passed me by, and I’m living some sort of shadow life. In other ways, I feel like I completely misunderstood my destiny, and I’ve been wishing for things that were never meant to be, and now here I am, reluctantly awake from my fantastic dreams.

Dum spiro, spero, right?

posted by Author's profile picture mahiwaga