It's so nice to know how thoughtful OS/X is. Often when I am doing something trivial like scrolling down to read the rest of a document or opening a folder in Finder that it stops to think deep thoughts for a moment or two. I know that when the mouse pointer transforms into a spinning psychedelic mandala that the computer has been struck by a wave of nirvana which a mere unenlightened novice like myself cannot ever hope to understand. I only wish that I had the patience not to try to do anything else with the computer, but surrender to the void and stare at the pretty swirly little disk while OS/X contemplates the deeper things in life....
you should see how thoughtful mine gets when i try to install printer drivers on it. it took me 45 minutes just to find the thing to download it last night, then it took about another two hours to get to the point where i could print things without complaints about cartridge changes or alignment of cartridges... ...and the little printer helper background app thingy gets so deeply embroiled in a mental debate with itself that it starts out with 6% of my cpu and gradually increases over time until it's got 60% or more. i think it'd be easier in the long run to actually buy a new printer, one that didn't have such existential angst.
