{"id":188,"date":"2013-05-31T11:50:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/2013\/05\/31\/im-not-bad-im-just-drawn-that-way\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T11:15:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T11:15:42","slug":"im-not-bad-im-just-drawn-that-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/im-not-bad-im-just-drawn-that-way\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m not bad; I&#8217;m just drawn that way!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Jessica_Rabbit-1.jpg\" style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/ffolliet.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/Jessica_Rabbit-1.jpg\" width=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">Jessica Rabbit, wife of the famous actor Roger, film star and blues singer in her own right, famously tells Eddie Valiant, the gumshoe that, &#8220;I&#8217;m not bad; I&#8217;m just drawn that way.&#8221; The same is true of PowerPoint and other presentation softwares. &nbsp;They aren&#8217;t bad. In themselves they are exceptionally powerful and&nbsp;valuable resources that many wonderful presentations have been delivered using. The problem is not the software, but how it is used.&nbsp;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\"><br \/><\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\"><span style=\"font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: large;\">As Jessica sings, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yy5THitqPBw\">Why don&#8217;t you do right?<\/a>&#8220;<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jessica Rabbit, wife of the famous actor Roger, film star and blues singer in her own right, famously tells Eddie Valiant, the gumshoe that, &#8220;I&#8217;m not bad; I&#8217;m just drawn that way.&#8221; The same is true of PowerPoint and other presentation softwares. &nbsp;They aren&#8217;t bad. 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