We did the expected bit of holiday travel yesterday, visiting some family friends we haven't seen in a while. It was delightful, and we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves.
On the hour-long drive to their house, we actually got up to highway speed on the LA freeway system, it was great! The Things were cheerfully playing "Rush Hour" in the back seat, so it was gridlock somewhere. While driving, Sysguy and I were commenting to each other how the different pavements makes various pitches of sound against our tires, a phenomenon I'm sure most people have noticed. Sysguy tells me that in his internet travels he came across an anecdote that somewhere in the world (Japan?) they were adjusting the road grooves to play music when you drove over them. I'm pretty gullible, but this seems highly unlikely, even to me. How would you agree on what music? Plus, no matter how they did it, the "music" would sound like crap, especially mixed with whatever one desperately tried to blast inside the vehicle to drown it out. I couldn't find a link to anything so ridiculous, anyway.
We decided that it would be good if someone tried it, just on general principal, but better if we didn't try it here in the good old USA. We all know what would happen then: If it says Libby's Libby's Libby's on the label label label you will like it like it like it on your table table table. Uh huh. For hours. No escape. (I'd be willing to visit a "Rites of Spring" test track, for the novelty of it, though.)
I should add that this conversation happened right after we were talking about how the billboard situation was starting to resemble the dystopian vision in the movie Brazil. Now that's a tune I'd listen to on the road.... Ba ta ta Ba ta ta ta ta, Ba ta ta Ba ta ta ta ta....
On the hour-long drive to their house, we actually got up to highway speed on the LA freeway system, it was great! The Things were cheerfully playing "Rush Hour" in the back seat, so it was gridlock somewhere. While driving, Sysguy and I were commenting to each other how the different pavements makes various pitches of sound against our tires, a phenomenon I'm sure most people have noticed. Sysguy tells me that in his internet travels he came across an anecdote that somewhere in the world (Japan?) they were adjusting the road grooves to play music when you drove over them. I'm pretty gullible, but this seems highly unlikely, even to me. How would you agree on what music? Plus, no matter how they did it, the "music" would sound like crap, especially mixed with whatever one desperately tried to blast inside the vehicle to drown it out. I couldn't find a link to anything so ridiculous, anyway.
We decided that it would be good if someone tried it, just on general principal, but better if we didn't try it here in the good old USA. We all know what would happen then: If it says Libby's Libby's Libby's on the label label label you will like it like it like it on your table table table. Uh huh. For hours. No escape. (I'd be willing to visit a "Rites of Spring" test track, for the novelty of it, though.)
I should add that this conversation happened right after we were talking about how the billboard situation was starting to resemble the dystopian vision in the movie Brazil. Now that's a tune I'd listen to on the road.... Ba ta ta Ba ta ta ta ta, Ba ta ta Ba ta ta ta ta....
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