Hi. I’m Smiley the Puppet. It’s my job to welcome you, on behalf of my master Professor DEDEK, to Talking Slides. If you scan the screen, you’ll see a set of animated PowerPoint slideshows. Forgive my master a pinch of conceited pride for acquiring the skills to incorporate motion and voice in still slides. After all, how much joy can one have in this vale of tears? I warned my master that those of you with less powerful computers will be dissuaded by the megabytes of the animated files and the resulting download time. But I’ve been rebuked that I am an antiquated, stupid, grumpy, saucy puppet without an original thought. What an outrageous injustice!