Perfectly annoying desktop drum beats

Copy and paste this into your browser for some afternoon fun:

http://www.spacesuitgroup.com/exp/anomie/anomieGreen.swf

This was a good Monday. Got the buggers fixed on my slow computer, had a good brainstorming session with an author, did some photo editing, got this fun picture of my son's team, the 13U St. Paul Midway Bombers, ranked #1 in the state. They are a very likeable bunch, the perfect hardscrabble, have-a-blast-playing team (click on pic to enlarge; son T. is second from right).



But some days are nearly torture--sitting at a desk editing and marking and keying in hundreds of complex text corrections in an office without a window or any music.

When we all started getting computers at our desks in the eighties some of our designers played around with their sound alerts to break up a long day. One guy recorded an ennui-laden "bleah" for his Mac tone so that everytime he asked the computer to do something it couldn't do, the machine blurbed out this human response, in a voice sounding very much like Nicolas Cage: "Bleah." Then I recorded my daughter, who at the time was about three, saying, "Uh oh Mommy I don't think so," and that was pretty funny for awhile. About a day actually and then I had to take it off. It was creepy.

So here's a new time waster. Check it out. Try to do the beat to "We Will Rock You" and see if that doesn't drive your office mate batty.