Geek humor

[Tyler Aviss]

Code-monkey was pretty good, and the mad scientist a mixture of
amusing and creepy (which seems to be the intent, of course).
It's interesting how much "emotion" people seem to get out of the
scripted WOW responses, and how WOW has replaced anime/cartoons
(AMV's) for overdubbed musical numbers.
Maybe one day 3d rendering apps will be easy enough to use (and/or
free meshes prolific) that people can make their own videos from
scratch.



On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 1:49 AM, Tim Middleton<tim-Ww2BJfnxIYteoWH0uzbU5w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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