Just the road and its majesty

I’m in Steamboat Springs for the weekend, at a legal education conference thingy. The drive up here was, as you’d expect, gorgeous. I captured a bit of it by putting my digital camera on the dashboard and just letting it sit there, and shoot video, while I drove. The result turned out pretty well, I think.

The “soundtrack” is provided by my iPod, hooked into my car stereo and playing songs in shuffle mode. Here’s a clip of an extremely curvy stretch of Route 40, with Shooter Jennings’s “4th of July” playing in the background:

And here’s one from a bit later, on less curvy (but still very beautiful) terrain, with Makem & Clancy’s “The Ballad of St. Anne’s Reel” playing:

The iPod selected strikingly appropriate songs several times during the course of my drive. The very first song it picked was the “Indiana Jones” theme, which has been my “adventure” theme since I was a little kid. Later, during a particularly difficult stretch of mountain driving, it picked the theme from “Rudy,” as if to encourage me in my endeavours. And it started playing “Folsom Prison Blues” just as I rounded a bend and saw a train chugging past. Johnny Cash was literally singing the words “I hear the train a comin’, it’s rollin’ down the bend” when I first spotted the train.

So basically, my iPod is beginning to show signs of artificial intelligence… 🙂