Reply To: JoCoDay 2011 Brainstorming
A couple of things I thought of today, rough second and third stanzas, for your dissection:
And he tells you that while code made ample money,
it was just a stepping stone across the stream
and he tells of things he did to send a message to his kid
to not let comfy sleep destroy your dream.
First of all [somehow condensing Little Gray Books, CDBaby, Pop!Tech, Popular Science magazine, Creative Commons, podcasting and Hodgman’s book tours into one line. See, my original idea was to actually fit all this stuff in the song, but damn, it’s a short song! There’s only one other stanza with this rhythm and that’d probably be too late for the all-important dayjob-quitting part!]
Don’t waste time writing login page*.
Tell your boss you’re outta here and then escape
the maximum security of wage.
* if we wanted it to be purely factual rather than song references, since he didn’t actually write web software, we could put something about making his own web page here.
Hehe. I was just looking at the original lyrics, and misread ‘at the very least throw parties all all the time’ as ‘at the very least throw panties all the time’, and remembered that wasn’t the first time that had happened.