{"id":238,"date":"2010-08-16T10:23:38","date_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eg.bucknell.edu\/~perrone\/?p=238"},"modified":"2010-08-16T10:23:38","modified_gmt":"2010-08-16T14:23:38","slug":"geeky-soundtrack-for-coding-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eg.bucknell.edu\/~perrone\/2010\/08\/16\/geeky-soundtrack-for-coding-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Geeky Soundtrack for Coding Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you don’t know this yet, geek<\/em> and nerd<\/em> mean very different things. I’ll let you do a web search and talk to your friends about it, but here are a few thoughts.<\/p>\n

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  1. By definition a nerd can’t be cool, but there’s no one to say that geeks can’t be cool. Actually, geeks are the coolest<\/em>.<\/li>\n
  2. Geeks don’t have to be anti-social, dress funny, or be the prey of bullies. They just are better at science, math, and technology than the average person.<\/li>\n
  3. People are jealous of the geek’s skills and self-confidence. They try to hide it by saying “you are such a geek!”, particularly when the geek shows knowledge that trumps that of the first person.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    But… enough about the nerd versus geek debate; let’s get this playlist started. I invite you to add to it!<\/p>\n

    Math<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

      \n
    • Love and Mathematics, Broken Social Scene<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • <\/strong>Mathematics of Chaos, Killing Joke<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • <\/strong>My Mathematical Mind, Spoon<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • <\/strong>Music is Math, Boards of Canada<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • <\/strong>Black Math, The White Stripes<\/strong><\/li>\n
    • <\/strong>Any song by Math and Physics Club<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

      Science and Technology<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

        \n
      • She Blinded Me with Science, Thomas Dolby<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Anything from The Sounds of Science<\/em>, The Beastie Boys<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Natural Science, Rush<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Weird Science, Oingo Boingo<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Atom Dream, William Orbit<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Anything from Better Living Through Chemistry<\/em>, Fatboy Slim<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Life is a Gas, from Electric Warrior<\/em>, T.Rex<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Life on Mars, David Bowie<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Space Oddity, David Bowie<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • I Took a Trip on a Gemini Spaceship, David Bowie<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Here on Earth, Love and Rockets<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Holiday on the Moon, Love and Rockets<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Time, Pink Floyd<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Astronomy Domine, Pink Floyd<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Chemistry Class, Elvis Costello & The Attractions<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Rest My Chemistry, Interpol<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Surrealchemist, Stereolab<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • President Gas, The Psychedelic Furs<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • I’ve Got a Miniature Secret Camera, Peter Murphy<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • <\/strong>Computerworld, Kraftwerk<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • <\/strong>It’s More Fun to Compute, Kraftwerk <\/strong>again<\/li>\n
      • Computer Love, Kraftwerk<\/strong> one more time… (maybe they’re simply the geekiest band ever)<\/li>\n
      • Future in Computer Hell, Junkie XL<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Computer Blue, Prince<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Paranoid Android, \u00a0or anything from OK Computer<\/em>, Radiohead<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Technologic, Daft Punk<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Any song by Electronic<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • The Electric Co., U2<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Ultraviolet, U2<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Atmosphere, Joy Division<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Invisible Sun, The Police<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Body Electric, The Sisters of Mercy<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Anything from Electric<\/em>, The Cult<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Electricityscape, The Strokes<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Electrified, and anything else by Electric Boys<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Electricity, Suede<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Electricity, Spiritualized<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Electric Alice, Grinderman<\/strong> (You know Alice the programming language, don’t you? This one scores double.)<\/li>\n
      • Are Friends Electric?, Gary Numan<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Electric Requiem, Queensr\u00ffche<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Electric Feel, MGMT<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Electric Funeral, Black Sabbath<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • She’s Electric, Oasis<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • Radar Love, Golden Earring<\/strong> (although the Ministry version sounds better)<\/li>\n
      • Shooting Star, Lou Reed<\/strong><\/li>\n
      • <\/strong> Atari Baby, Sigue Sigue Sputnik<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

        If you don’t know this yet, geek and nerd mean very different things. I’ll let you do a web search and talk to your friends about it, but here are a few thoughts. By definition a nerd can’t be cool, but there’s no one to say that geeks can’t be cool. Actually, geeks are the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[11,7],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-geek","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eg.bucknell.edu\/~perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eg.bucknell.edu\/~perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eg.bucknell.edu\/~perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg.bucknell.edu\/~perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg.bucknell.edu\/~perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg.bucknell.edu\/~perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":247,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg.bucknell.edu\/~perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions\/247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eg.bucknell.edu\/~perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg.bucknell.edu\/~perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eg.bucknell.edu\/~perrone\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}