Wednesday, April 11, 2007

The Shuffle Setting Chaos Theory

Last night i was working late and had my iPod blasting through the office. The Who - Won't Get Fooled Again comes on and i'm not really paying attention but when the song ends i seem to think that it repeated because the songs starts over at the beginning.

Then it hits me that the thing is on shuffle by songs and that i have 2 versions of Won't Get Fooled Again on my iPod. For that song to play twice in a row, the shuffle had to go through it's algorithm and happened to choose the exact same song by the exact same band. And sure enough, that's what happened.

Nothing can be completely random. Not even an iPod. Everything is interconnected. (i'm probably reading too much into this, aren't i?)

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