Role Playing?

This was pretty funny, and mostly a case of someone eavesdropping and misunderstanding the conversation. Optimus was talking to someone about secondary billing, and while he and I handle the automated version of this, we have no control over someone manually bringing in secondaries with none of the necessary data. He was sent an issue where the client's primary complaint was, "why is this so hard?" On our end, we're thinking, "are you kidding me?" 

So as we were talking after he got off the phone with them, he compared their problem to trying to bake chocolate chip cookies without having any chocolate chips. You can do what you need to do as long as you have what you need to do it with. It isn't hard, but you do have to work to get it. So at one point, I utter "Why does it have to be so hard?" in a whiny voice and an individual who, bless her heart, tends to speak first and think...eventually...piped out over the top of the cubes, "Do you like to role play?"

Optimus and I looked at each other, and he piped back, "Sometimes, but I'm married. Sorry." We hear her on the other side going, "What?" But then Optimus looked at me and said, "Man, start talking about cookies, and all of a sudden she wants to play chef with the dough boy."

We laughed for about five minutes over that one. She, of course, blubbered and sputtered over the whole thing, saying "That's not what I meant" and such, but there was no escaping it, and she eventually gave up.

Ah, good times...

The Machine has Chosen

I've mentioned before that my iPod has a mind of its own and tends to lean towards songs that it likes and literally avoids others. With this in mind, I did an experiment this week to see which Bond songs my iPod likes and which ones it doesn't. Know it or not, I have a playlist of 32 songs encompassing all of the Bond movie title songs as well as some other tunes within the movies themselves (Where has Everybody Gone? from Living Daylights being a notable mention of one in that category).

Normally, I play the playlist in a restricted fashion having a smart playlist automatically select the least recently played, but this week, I just played wide open to see where the preferences would migrate to. Here are the results:

Top three are:

Nobody Does It Better from The Spy Who Loved Me - This one was the highest played song on my iPod before I reset the play counts of the Bond songs, so likely one of my iPod's favorites. I believe it even came up on day one when I created an "Unplayed in 2009" playlist to play through every song on my iPod.

Live and Let Die 

Goldfinger

Bottom three are:

The Living Daylights - This one came up twice during the drives, but only at the end to where it couldn't finish.

Never Say Never Again - Yeah, it would figure the Thunderball imposter would bomb.

These two tied for third lowest:

All Time High from Octopussy

Casino Royale Trailer Music

So there you have it. From Russia With Love wasn't in the bottom rung, but none of these surprise me, since the lower end always tended to have lower play counts and the higher end always tended to have higher ones before I made the smart playlist. I think it's interesting, anyway.