Because I spend most of my commute wedged into an over-capacity F train with no hands to spare, I like to keep the number of times I need to fish anything out of my purse to an absolute minimum. To aid in this goal, I’ve been experimenting with various iTunes Smart Playlist methods of combining everything I will want to hear on my way to work into one playlist - this generally consists of any new podcasts followed by whatever music I’m in the mood for. Normally it works fine, but this morning I accidentally tapped Shuffle without realizing it.

Since I had only one new podcast this morning, the result was an episode of The Talk Show mixed into classic Nine Inch Nails album Pretty Hate Machine. This was extremely disorienting until I remembered that John Gruber is the one who talks about iPhones and Trent Reznor is the one who thinks I have a head like a hole.