Thank you for your music and your interruption in all our lives".
Alternately gnawing his gavel and banging it, he swaggers around the stage spouting ludicrous commands ("I object to your interruption and my objection is sustained!") and lewd innuendos ("They don't call me the 'Hangin' Judge' just because I'm well built!").
Get to the office a little early and bang out some e-mails, or get that presentation in order at Peet's before setting foot in your interruption-ridden cube.
Ideally, though, if you have the groundwork for insulting THEM already set up, you can combine your interruption into a retort.
"What I'd like to do," Mr. Guidorizzi said, "is move to a world where you sit down at a console, you identify yourself, and you just start working, and the authentication happens in the background, invisible to you, while you continue to do your work without interruptions".
The former are those myriad little activities that can really eat into your day: social interruptions, responding to e-mail, administrative work, etc.
Decide ahead of time and state in your introduction if you will allow interruptions during your talk, or if you would rather questions be held for the end of your seminar.
Of course, even with a top-of-the-line home-theater system and a library of new movies available cheaply at any time, you're ultimately still just watching TV in your living room, subject to a thousand possible interruptions amid your routine, everyday household existence.
Meanwhile, WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum wrote a blog post titled "Why we don't sell ads" in 2012, which set out his views in no uncertain terms: advertising as a distraction for engineers, as well as "the disruption of aesthetics, the insults to your intelligence and the interruption of your train of thought".
