There’s been an outcry and an uproar about the decision… but this isn’t about whether or not Pluto is a planet. Pluto was redefined in a new category, called “ dwarf planet”. But in 2006, astronomers decided to officially define for the first time what it meant to be a “planet”… and in defining “planet”, they excluded Pluto. You see, you and I grew up with nine planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto. (It’s just if you continue to explore that you might find some of the more colorful material).Īt his concerts, Coulton introduces “ I’m Your Moon” with some backstory.
But the song I want to talk about today is completely clean, so you can follow all of my links without a shred of guilt. I will warn you, not all of his songs are “SFW”, or what the geeks call “Safe For Work”… there’s some, how did Star Trek put it, “colorful” language in there (though always in good fun, and I’ve never heard anything vicious). But this man isn’t all fluff and nonsense, and if you dismiss him as such, you do him (and yourself) a disservice. Sure, lots of his stuff is just silly fun (I’m not sure I can write anything of much depth based on Re: Your Brains, for instance, and if I ever do, I may just open the door and let the zombies in). What is surprising is how deeply that chord is resonating. It should be no surprise that this man struck a chord with my geeky little heart.
He left a career in software programming to write music and now sings lots of songs on lots of topics, many of them near and dear to the hearts of geeks everywhere. I like to call him a geek troubadour I hope he’d approve of the moniker.