Notice this site that allows the user to create an animated gif that scrolls a favorite phrase. Decide to troll (quickly) through our folder of amusing quote text files for possible candidate phrases. Become frustrated with the need to actually load each one into an editor to see it. Wish for OS X version of a tool we used 15 years ago. Remember that a commercial tool existed that was very similar, and then that an open source version exists in the Linux world. Surf around to find a ported version for OS X. Locate instructions for a source build that nevertheless still requires — or at least encourages — fink. Attempt first step of install, which is glib, which fails. Discover local copy of fink is outdated. Attempt upgrade, which fails, as the versions of gcc & etc. on the new Powerbook are way outdated, because gcc_select has no 4.0 option. Search Apple’s Developer site for new disk image to upgrade dev tools. Download new dev tools (833MB). Wait. Install. Wait. Retry fink upgrade. Discover that fink wants 4.0.0 of gcc, and no amount of poking will make it happy with 4.0.1. Go to dinner. Come home. Google some more. Discover, at long last, that there’s a known problem between Xcode 2.2 and fink, and that the easy option is to drop back to 2.1 (which is still newer than what we installed above). Delete 2.2, and download 750MB of 2.1. Wait some more. When it’s finally here, do a fink selfupdate. More waiting, but less failing. Do fink install glib. It works. Finish instructions. Decide you’re too tired now to do justice to the whole “find a clever quote” thing. Go to bed. Realize you may never actually use the thing you just installed. Sigh.