this silly New York Times article on people anthropomorphizing their iPods' shuffle function.
I never anthropomorphize computers - they hate it when you do that.
I experimented with making winamp play stuff correlated with time-of-day and day-of-week. Angry techno in the morning to wake up, soothing music in the late evening... But on the iPod, generally I just come back to shuffle-album. Even if I get an album I'm not in the mood for, it's not very distracting to have to hit a few times times per hour..
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Date: 2004-08-26 07:16 pm (UTC)I never anthropomorphize computers - they hate it when you do that.
I experimented with making winamp play stuff correlated with time-of-day and day-of-week. Angry techno in the morning to wake up, soothing music in the late evening... But on the iPod, generally I just come back to shuffle-album. Even if I get an album I'm not in the mood for, it's not very distracting to have to hit a few times times per hour..