Make Your Own Kind of Music? Baah!
There's currently a cute ad for Adobe Acrobat making the rounds. I like it even when it makes me wait to start my solitaire game. It's a riff on the movie Office Space , where a positive-thinking young man strides into an office and one by one, sets the workers free from scrounging for sticky notes, getting paper cuts from licking envelopes, and wasting reams of paper for legal signatures. Everything can be solved with Adobe Acrobat, apparently. The legal-signature guy is e-signing for the first time in his life (um, this must be one regressive office. I was e-signing real estate docs back in 2006, but whatever). He tells the Adobe savior that he doesn't "know how to feel about this," and the guru says "Sure you do." This is somewhat alarming, because the next thing you know, the e-signer has a chainsaw and is demolishing his desk, to the tune of Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil's 1960s anthem "Make Your Own Kind of Music." The central theme, fo