I love these moments of iPod serendipity, one of which happened just now: I had decided to open a small can of pineapple chunks for a light evening snack, my iPod was playing in shuffle mode for the third consecutive hour, and as I scooped those chunks, I heard nice, mellow tinkles from the speakers. I didn’t recognize it immediately, but when I heard the vocoded vocal phrase “Ananas Symphonie”, you can imagine my smile… Yes, it was the closing track from Kraftwerk’s third album “Ralf und Florian”. I mean, what are the odds of that happening with 13,000 tracks on the iPod? Lovely!

Of course, you may argue about my definition of serendipity, and there’s no Florian in Kraftwerk anymore, but who can resist the call of the pineapple?