Code Monkey Like Fritos

Greyjack writes "Jonathan Coulton's latest song in his thing-a-week series, Code Monkey, is an anthem for under-appreciated developers everywhere. From the song: 'Code Monkey get up get coffee / Code Monkey go to job / Code monkey have boring meeting, with boring manager Rob / Rob say Code Monkey very diligent / But his output stink / His code not functional or elegant / What do Code Monkey think?' Like virtually everything he does, he's released it under a Creative Commons license -- go forth, download, and share the goodness!" Update: 04/23 19:23 GMT by SM: Several users have also provided a torrent.

Comments

Someone will find a way to complain about this

[Infonaut]

Guy creates song and distributes it for free. Slashdot picks it up. People post their reactions. Many will be happy, but some will invariably complain about some aspect of the song or about the Creative Commons license or about singing in general.

I think how you react to a work of art that someone has made available for free is a good litmus test of your outlook on life.

Re:Someone will find a way to complain about this

[kfg]

I think how you react to a work of art that someone has made available for free is a good litmus test of your outlook on life.

Either that or it really does just plain suck.

I have no idea where people get the idea that displaying a work of art for free is supposed to give it immunity to criticism.

I suspect that most of the people who believe this are themselves the tortured artiste type who cannot seperate criticism of their work from criticism of their soul.

For these type of people I can only say this:

Dude, get a grip and think about this to brighten your day - Maybe your soul really does just plain suck.

KFG

Re:Someone will find a way to complain about this

[Anonymous Coward]

Guy creates reaction to free song and distributes it on slashdot for free. Slashdot readers read it. People post their counter-reactions. Many will be happy, but some will invariably complain about some aspect of the reaction or about the poster's sig or about the slashdot community in general.

I think how you react to people posting their opinions on slashdot is a good litmust test of your outlook on life.

Re:Someone will find a way to complain about this

[Infonaut]

I suspect that most of the people who believe this are themselves the tortured artiste type who cannot seperate criticism of their work from criticism of their soul.

Well, you are spot-on about me being a tortured artiste type. I'm glad you were able to quickly identify my classification and get to the heart of the matter.

Actually I wasn't referring to criticism of the music itself. I should have more specifically stated that there will almost always be people ready to complain because the server is Slashdotted, or because the editors even posted the story in the first place, or because of something else. Something in the nature of threaded discussion like Slashdot brings out adversarial comments. That's a good thing, because it leads to thoughtful analysis. But it can also lead to criticism for its own sake, imho.

Dude, get a grip and think about this to brighten your day - Maybe your soul really does just plain suck.

Always a possibility, though I'm not sure how it'll brighten my day. Then again, something tells me you didn't really mean for it to brighten my day anyway.

For the love of god

[I Like Pudding]

PUT UP A TORRENT! Linking to an mp3 off slashdot is a surefire way to kill a man's hosting.

Re:Moderated by monkeys...

[Schraegstrichpunkt]

Some mods are deaf, you insensitive clod!

Allen Ginsberg

[dsfox]

Since Allen Ginsberg wrote "Birdbrain"

Rhyming is overrated.

[hackwrench]

When I listen to songs, rhyming is not one of the things I look for.

Re:Rhyming is overrated.

[linvir]

How nice of you to share this information about your personal tastes. But if this is the only output of SELECT * FROM music WHERE subject = 'rhyming', you might consider tacking some other information onto it before adding it to the discussion.

Re:What with the piss-poor grammar on here?

[realityfighter]

I'm not referring to people who speak English as a second language, either.

How do you know? Do you go through their post histories, meticulously reconstructing the details of their sordid past? Because that's just...creepy.