If I was to leave here, I'd go to a place where there was a cable mode. The company has found a niche in making parody screen savers for Microsoft Windows-based computers. The inspiration for its products comes from current events. The Gates screensaver is based on the real attack on Gates by a pie-wielding nut at a meeting the Microsoft chief executive attended in Belgium in February. The screensaver shows Gates wearing a clown suit and a mocking smile, riding a small bicycle across the screen.
Carnival music plays in the background.
You can throw a pie at the richest man in the world by hitting the spacebar on your computer. A direct hit doesn't seem to bother Gates, who happily licks his face clean. He accomplishes that feat with an elongated tongue that any frog would be pleased to call its own. It's irreverent and funny, and best of all, it's free. Timothy C. Barmann is a Journal-Bulletin staff writer.