I spent all of yesterday working on some html documents and I have many more days to go. Imagine a couple reams of word documents sitting in my IN box. I need to code all that using very convoluted web forms that make the task of creating HTML ten times harder than it should be. But I have to use them, even though they are unfinished and very buggy – I work for a gov’t contractor and the customer is always right.

No wonder Jonathan Coulton‘s Code Monkey is going through my head…

Code Monkey have every reason
To get out this place
Code Monkey just keep on working
See your soft pretty face
Much rather wake up, eat a coffee cake
Take bath, take nap
This job “fulfilling in creative way”
Such a load of crap

I learned about Jonathan Coulton from Anna and Jason who do a weekly podcast I like. They mentioned him in passing – saying they missed his last concert, but had seen him recently, so I checked him out. I’m glad I did.

Last year he wrote a song a week. He called it Thing a Week and uploaded it to his website for free download. My favorite is Creepy Doll, although RE Your Brains is a lot of fun too.

Check out his You page for links for videos and other multimedia that people have made using his music. Some are are a hoot.

Here is a YouTube video of him performing Creepy Doll.