I became a JoCo fan the moment someone sent me the link to the World of Warcraft video of Code Monkey. I ended up looking him up, finding the Thing A Week posts, and basically have been a semi-rabid fangirl ever since. I say semi-rabid because while I have pretty much every song he’s put [...]
Vintage Tech: Useless Nostalgia or Respect for Dreams Past?
14 May By 5 Comments
For all my love of The Future, I am a bit of an old-fashioned girl. I’ve already mentioned my love of college radio, and looking around my home I’ve noticed several pieces of vintage technology. I’m not quite sure why I like older technology. Maybe it’s that it seems to have more personality to me [...]
Composing a Klingon Opera
12 May By 6 Comments
The other day e. showed me an article that said that some people are putting together a Klingon opera. As in, an opera about Klingon lore, sung in Klingon. After my brain was through exploding, I began to really think about it from a musician’s perspective. Ignoring, for a moment, the origin of the whole [...]
Radio Ga-Ga: Geeks on the Airwaves
11 Mar By 11 Comments
Every morning I sit down and check out what’s happening in the world. Aside from the news, I check about thirteen blogs that I read daily. I have a facebook, a myspace, a livejournal, and twitter. Back in the day, I used to have a blog, and an orkut account. At any given time, I [...]
A Musician’s Guide to Alternative Uses for Polyhedral Dice
5 May By 13 Comments
Wondering how polyhedral dice can make you a better musician? Think I’m crazy for suggesting that thought? I might be crazy… but I might be right. This is a post for all the music geeks out there, or parents of budding music geeks! Your dice can come in handy for practicing! Here’s how!
Geek Girl Jukebox: Shop Vac by Jonathan Coulton
3 May By Leave a Comment
Now, before you say, “But e, JoCo is all about the CODE MONKEY and that’s why it’s geek music!”… hear me out. I am a word whore. I love words. Big words, little words, hyphenated words, words borrowed from other languages. I’m one of the few lunatics who loved the analogies section of the SAT. [...]
Blog Carnival Wednesday – 3/26
26 Mar By Leave a Comment
Welcome to the March 26, 2008 edition of the Geek is Sexy carnival. Random Geekery old-wizard presents Top 5 Girls From the Wonder Years posted at Old-Wizard.com. Media Natalie presents Celemony Melodyne to revolutionise how musicians work posted at I love technology saying, “An article about the new audio software technology developed by Celemony, and [...]
