{"id":18,"date":"2011-08-12T14:39:01","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T14:39:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/?p=18"},"modified":"2011-09-13T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2011-09-13T20:58:08","slug":"code-monkey-very-diligent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/?p=18","title":{"rendered":"Code Monkey Very Diligent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So my coworker sent around a YouTube video that is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/NerdcoreForLife#p\/u\/2\/3MRWluVZaww\">rap song done by some Stanford guys<\/a>.  It is related to computing, uses phrases only a computer person would understand, etc.  It&#8217;s pretty neat, but primarily it reminded of the Jonathon Coulton <i>Code Monkey<\/i> song that a friend introduced me to a few years ago when he got us to go to a Jonathon Coulton concert.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"425\" height=\"349\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v4Wy7gRGgeA\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/p>\n<p>\nI really like the tune he sings it to, but it perpetuates so many stereotypes!  Like, the fact that the code monkey is some awkward guy with a crush on the receptionist.  Or, that a job in software cannot be fulfilling (it&#8217;s true that it can be un-fulfilling, but that&#8217;s not a requirement).  I find it amusing because of the stereotypes, but in the back of my mind I wonder if it is just one more of those things that perpetuates stereotypes in a way that harms the field?  But of course if you already listen to Jonathon Coulton you may fall into the stereotype of who might consider a computing field anyway.  So this may be a null problem.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So my coworker sent around a YouTube video that is a rap song done by some Stanford guys. It is related to computing, uses phrases only a computer person would understand, etc. It&#8217;s pretty neat, but primarily it reminded of the Jonathon Coulton Code Monkey song that a friend introduced me to a few years [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-women-in-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37,"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18\/revisions\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.northernbelle.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}