Cover-a-Week #17: "Code Monkey" by Jonathan Coulton

Now with a new external microphone -- thanks, Lucas, Brett, Kat, and Julie!


http://youtu.be/rE7GX7m7nrk

Jonathan Coulton, in my books, is the new Tom Lehrer for the nerdy set. (Is that redundant? The original Tom Lehrer was a mathematician...)

I played this song about a year ago with the band at Stanford's Big Dance, as the tempo works for swing. (I can hardly believe it's been a year since I left California!) The social dance community had a tremendous overlap with the engineering (especially computer science) community, so it was quite well-received. :-)

Queen Victoria on Tom Lehrer

Among the great accomplishments of Tom Lehrer, mathematician and musician:
http://www.gocomics.com/thenewadventuresofqueenvictoria/2012/04/09

(Wikipedia says that the above is actually untrue. Yes, I did look up "Jell-o Shot" on Wikipedia.)

The Elements Song

It's unfortunately not YouTube, and therefore not embedded, but Tom Lehrer is brilliant and funny and worth clicking through to hear.

http://www.privatehand.com/flash/elements.html

It's "The Elements Song" (sung to the tune of "The Modern Major-General" from Pirates of Penzance)!