5.19.2009

So Shuffle

So just about everyone else is posting about their jobs (makes sense, that is what we're all doing right now...), so I figured I'd join in a little bit.

My job, on good days, keeps me busy enough to not start watching my watch hands move while not bringing me to the point of a full body shut-down. However, a lot of it is still far from mentally stimulating, so I often find my mind wandering to whatever it used to wander to in my old ADD posts.

That being said, I can only remember on thought I've had recently at work right now.

If there is ever a zombie apocalypse, or we all need to get out and fight guerrilla-style against some sort of common enemy other than zombies, i call being the guy that gets to wield the shotgun. Most awesome-est weapon ever.

My job also allows for a fair bit of iPod listening, making shuffle songs one of my new favourite options. However, I think there's a little too much coincidence in Apple's shuffle option as opposed to another devices random. To prove my point, i have nearly 2764 songs right now...

1) Within one hour of one day 3 of the songs played were by The Hush Sound, of which I only have 19 songs...
2) That same day also played two songs by k-os one after the other (I only have 26 songs): Neutroniks and Papercutz. They were both from "Joyful Rebellion" as well...
3) Another day the shuffle option played Apollo I: The Writing Writer and Apollo II: The Telling Truth, both songs by Coheed and Cambria, within twenty minutes of eachother. Although I think that those two songs being played at all in the same day is pretty strange...
4) I have three versions of Kidnap The Sandy Claws on my computer: the movie version, Danny Elfman's original demo version, and a cover version by She Wants Revenge. One day two of those three songs were played...
5) There have been a bunch of other Hush Sound-style coincidences where a bunch of songs played in one day are by one artist who I don't have a lot of (Coldplay: 17 songs, 3 played; The Hush Sound: 19 songs, 4 played; Incubus: 15 songs, 2 played; The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time: 13 songs, 3 played, and two were of my six ocarina songs...)

And yeah, that's my job and how bored I am with it. Enjoy the links (I added links!)

3 comments:

Darryl said...

random doesn't mean evenly distributed. if you really want to test it out, i can run a statistical analysis...

dried said...

let's not talk about the possibility of true randomness.

Maddy said...

randomness is a good and relevant summer topic.