The monkey chased the weasel

About a year ago I applied for work at Leapfrog, a maker of children’s electronic toys. I and about 400 other overqualified candidates were shoehorned into a tiny conference room for a group interview. At that time I was interviewing for a composer position, so they told me to arrange “Pop Goes the Weasel” into four voices for a general MIDI instrument. I ended up working elsewhere but I ended up writing the best arrangement you’ve ever heard of Pop Goes the Weasel. Twelve kilobytes, baby!

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  1. That was great! I occasionally pull out the ol’ harmonica and Pop Goes the Weasel is one of the tunes I like to practice on, so I can appreciate a good Pop…

    Now, if I can just find a good *.jpg of a monkey chasing a weasel around the …

  2. I just recently watched a rerun of NYPD Blue and the question came up of the weasel "Popping"…

    What DOES it mean..Pop goes the weasel"

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