Random

Whenever I use my Winamp, I use the shuffle button. I've got all my (too much) 12 gigs of music on there, and I expect a true shuffle.

Why is it that I never get one? I think Winamp has songs it wants me to hear, as if I'm supposed to learn a lesson. I don't want a lesson. Actually, I want Winamp to intuit what I want to hear, but that will never happen.

Years ago, when I worked at geeks-r-us (I really did enjoy that job, but still) one of the engineers spent too much time trying to explain that there may not really be a true concept of random. (I say "too much" not because I was bored and wanted him to stop, but because I only understood maybe 1/5 of what he was saying.)

But maybe he was right. Maybe random is only a theory/hypothesis. I don't know. But I do know that if some of the same damn songs keep popping up, I'm going to cry. Of course, it might help if I didn't have so much BAD music on this thing. But as I've said before, I don't throw away music. You never know when you're going to need to hear that song "We Are Not Alone" from The Breakfast Club.

In today's All About Me section, Rex made a comment on his page about the ads on Facebook. I've been ranting about them for a while now. (Yes, R., that one's for you. It really is all about me. PS - this is my damn online diary! What else did you think I'd write about?)