![]() ![]() I'm thinking that a good way to promote my new thing would be to improve on the opportunity that Autodesk wasted. ![]() Think of it as being like when Ron Howard left Happy Days, but Richie was still in the show in the form of telephone calls from Greenland. ![]() I'm still there as a contributor, though, and this column will keep coming. This is why the Editor-at-large title no longer appears to my right in the blue column. I'm embarking on a new project to expand my horizons, gentle readers. This is a shame, since the thing is so annoying and so compulsive that it would be the ideal vehicle for such marketing schemes. Likewise, it's not going to boost sales of Hooked on a Feeling, since the artist is not identified anywhere. But of course, the company logo doesn't appear in the clip. It occurs to me that it might be part of some hideous evil demonic Bond-style plot by Autodesk, the company that conceived the baby, to make me think about its products constantly. Isn't it odd the way the songs that get stuck in your head are the most irritating and annoying ones with the least musical merit? Like Rick Astley's Never Gonna Give You Up or J.S. So now I've got the thing stuck in my head like jungle drums. I have contemplated violent actions to cease this assault, but I'm a pacifist, which limits my options. I didn't realise until then just how eerily unnatural the baby's dance really is. Or worse: I'd find her flailing about convulsively trying to imitate the motion of the virtual infant whilst chanting "ugachaka" repeatedly. Then, much to my chagrin, I realised that it still had novelty value for my friend. Some fame, right? Anyway I dug deep through backups of my hard drive and found a copy of it. My friend didn't understand what "the famous dancing baby" mentioned in the ads referred to. I played it for a friend of mine a few weeks ago, because it was going to feature on Ally McBeal, a TV show the appeal of which escapes me. ![]()
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