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"Code Monkey" is a song written by Jonathan Coulton and is described as such:
Yay, monkeys. This is not autobiographical, but I did indeed used to have a job writing software. VB! MS SQL! I affectionately referred to myself and my co-developers as code monkeys, especially when a client asked me a question that I didn't want to answer ("What do I know? I'm just a code monkey.").
Jonathan Coulton is a hero to all nerds - and his songs are Creative Commons licensed for mugs like me to cover.
You really, really, really should visit his site now and bask in his geekish glory.
(after you've watched my cover, that is)
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With a couple small gigs coming up this and next month, I needed to get a new guitar as my Yamaha has been crapping out on me and is beyond repair. I only went into Hands Music in Kingston (great store, btw) to get some strings and ended up walking out with a 12 string Crafter D8-12/N. While it wasn't expensive compared to some other 12-strings Ive priced up, this one wasn't cheap either, and will serve as a XMas present to myself for a couple of years, I think...
So, just for the boys who wanted to hear what it sounds like instead of seeing pictures, here's a rough-cut video of me singing Stevie Ray Vaughan.
Boy, I need to practice some more. Hadn't heard this song before yesterday - went YouTubeing for some 12-string inspiration and found this Unplugged performance.
He's definitely using a different (perhaps open?) tuning. I'm nervous to try alternate tunings at the moment as I've only one set of backup strings.
In case you missed yesterday's meme gone crazy, here's the crappiest version you could ever stand:
Click above or here to go to YouTube | MP4
Nothing's new about this, right? Yesterday, the meme was officially done to death. It's like Umbrella covers being last year's Crazy.
No more! Let's leave rickrolling to the FBI.
Just messing around with uStream.tv today - it's a pretty cool web application. I also like how it allows you to record while you're doing live broadcasting.
Embedded below is a test of such. Obviously I need to adjust settings for the video to be synced up as well as the audio, but I think the service has potential. The backend also allows for converting to MP4 files, which could be useful if I wanted to podcast these out in the future, but the conversion I did didn't take so well.
This is a cover of a Mike Doughty song, "Unsingable Name". There's a girl who does a fantastic cover of this on YouTube, so I encourage any of you who like this track to search for cover artists out there online - unless of course you get the chance to see the man himself.
I haven't been singing on the blog in quite a while, but now seems the perfect time to start up again, as I say goodbye to the teaching part of my job and hello to a new role in August. I thought I'd record this for all the students I've taught in the past four years - you've certainly made it all worth my while.
Thank you all so much. Put this video on your iPod!
