has Growl inexplicably found its way onto anyone else's Mac

[snorkel]

I've always hated Growl, it's fucking annoying. I'll be using Spotlight's calculator when a Growl bubble appears, obscuring my view of Spotlight, to tell me what iTunes track started just started playing (I ALREADY HAVE OTHER POINTLESS APPS FOR THAT). I'll be perfecting the levels on a mix, listening deep into the Grados for faint tones, when Growl starts popping and pinging and making 'new shit!' noises when nothing is happening (maybe it's informing me of Mail's action to mark an email unread after I read it via Gmail instead???? or it updates every time a small block of memory turns over so I can be on top of my system??? I wish it would have 3-4 columns for the bubbles, so they can cover the entire screen and I could enjoy a good few minutes clicking all of them away, because sometimes 10-15 stacked vertically on the whole eastern quadrant of my screen doesn't help my workflow enough)

but where is Growl? where did it come from? I basically never click "update now" and always click "skip this version" (until I upgrade my osx86 base), so Adium or Transmission or Transmit or some other i'm-a-fucking-mac-app-how-could-you-not-like-growl-i'll-just-install-it-for-you probably didn't sneak it in. I kill the 'growlhelper' process when it starts fucking around too much, but it comes back eventually, it kind of has a Windows Explorer type profile.

[Zack777]

I like Growl 
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[burzumfan420]

this is the first time i even heard of growl