so, people get together, they have relationships, and sometimes they break up.
and it’s sad when pals or family, people you care about, end a relationship that seemed to you, as an outsider, just great or sweet for them.
so it’s funny and predictable to me that part of me is so invested in Cherry and Matt staying together. it’s really odd, on some level i don’t really care all that much if a dear old friend gets back together with her ex, but i have some sort of fundamental need for Cherry and Matt to work out.
Cherry and Matt’s story, to me, is pretty much one of the sweetest i’ve ever seen, certainly on the net. so i find myself periodically checking in to see if these strangers are still together. there’s a certain purity and hopefulness about how they got together and stayed together, something undefinable that makes me smile.
I hope they aren’t skeeved out about people all over the world knowing their story and wondering about them. A and i, when we got together, were the first people to have met on nerve.com and get married. nerve put an ad about us with our picture in their print mag. since then nerve’s gotten kind of yuk for my taste, but at the time we enjoyed it and thought it was cute.
so here’s to you C&M. i hope you two stay together, but not for my sake, of course, for yours. [grin]
mostly unrelated: i love this best of craigslist post about the pdx dating scene.
like many quicksilver enthusiasts, i hardly ever touch spotlight. others have posted elsewhere about how spotlight is needed to index certain things on your drive, but it didn’t sink in until i recently realized that nothing was coming up when i searched for terms i knew were in mails in a particular folder. then i realized, i had turned spotlight indexing of mail off, forgetting that you need it even to search from within mail. but as it happens, it’s not enough to check off “mail messages” in the spotlight prefs (see pic at left). that will allow you to see results from an actual spotlight search, but not from within mail. if, like me, you’ve told spotlight to exclude everything from it’s index (turning spotlight “off”), you’ll need to go back and exclude just the things you don’t want indexed, excepting your Mail folder in ~Library. you can do that from the “Privacy” tab in spotlight prefs, like this:
it’ll take a few minutes, but well worth it. spotlight doing just what you need it to and nothing else. happy hunting.
i’m too swamped to blog original content at the moment, but have a look at this amazing art (via the wooster collective).
