Geek humor

[Tim Middleton]

I discovered Jonathan Coulton on "the sixtyone" some weeks ago. If anyone's 
interested in supporting his geekiness you can do it there either by giving 
him "hearts" (which makes his songs rise in the ranks to get more exposure) or 
with tips (ie. actual money).

I particularly like the song "Re: your brains". I like "Code Monkey" too, 
though it's shamelessly packed with horrendous techie/programmer cliches. I 
think the most interesting thing about it was his decision to write the lyrics 
in a sort of "cave man"/primitive/tarzan-like dialect... i think that subtle 
element says more than the actual song does... and it works... (i think)... 
conveys the feeling I think a lot of us techies have of not being able to 
communicate properly to "normal" people... or should I say rather that 
"normal" people can't seem to understand understand our sensible explanations 
for things and think we're barely speaking english half the time when we do 
talk to them... so they view us as sort of primitive proto-humans who mostly 
just talk to/like machines. Or perhaps that's just me. <-: 

He has quite a few songs posted there. Most of them are downloadable with a 
creative commons license.... which is pretty cool (you must admit).

http://www.thesixtyone.com/new/#/jonathancoulton/

It's a pretty interesting site in general. They've tried to create a site 
where independent musicians can post/share/sell their music, and engage users 
in various ways.

The most interesting part (to me) is how they've made a (optional) quasi-
adventure game for users to encourage exploring new music... if you explore 
the interface. If you start to explore, it quickly gets addictive... it's 
quite clever how they've done that.

Shameless plug: If you check it out and feel like signing up for an account 
(so you can give Jonathan some love) feel free to use my referral URL below... 
(-: I don't get anything from it except a few "reputation points" ... which 
are worthless, but fun to collect (as part of the game-like system the site 
incorporates). You'd be helping me complete the "Evangelist" quest! Wheee.

http://www.thesixtyone.com/?referred_by_username=timtoo



On Thursday 23 July 2009, Lennart Sorensen wrote to tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org:
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 01:42:58PM -0400, Phillip Mills wrote:
> > Most of my geek humour infusions come from music.  If you're not already
> > familiar with it, I'd suggest going to YouTube and looking for: jonathan
> > coulton code monkey
>
> Or "Still alive" or "skullcrusher mountain" or "mandelbrot set", or for
> less geeky and just plain weird try "Mr. fancy pants".


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