Send As SMS

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Q: A hymn to celebrate Robot Day

Sometimes I feel like I'm in the middle of a Dilbert strip. The other day the HR person comes around with a notepad, and asks everybody for ideas how we could have more FUN IN THE OFFICE $%@^%#*!!. Ideas ranged from putting little bouncy feathery things on the top of our pencils to having remote control car races in the hallway during lunch hour. Anyway, far and above my favourite was the notion of having a designated Robot Day, where everyone had to speak like a robot (oh, the humanity ...), which is harder than anyone would think. Apart from the concept of answering the phone and talking to clients this way, it takes zen-like-focus to stay in character for more than a few minutes (after which you will have used up all the common robot clichees like, you know, 'Error error', 'Insufficient Data' and 'Does not compute' etc).
Anyway, I love Robot Day, and so should everyone, and here's a song to celebrate: a sufficiently robotic hymn from the infectious soundtrack to Namco's Katamari Damacy.

A: Akitaka Tohyama - You are smart (from Katamari Fortissimo Damashii, 2004) [buy]

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

<< Home