Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: The Real Bev Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Codes sent by text message Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 14:10:04 -0700 Organization: None, as usual Lines: 54 Message-ID: References: <1xkfdi6umcwrp.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <1p9miiflsgdlw$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <0rhbckxb8a.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Injection-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 21:10:05 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9e79779726c1d42cbb0a95d2fbb3eb29"; logging-data="1953532"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18DnffaIR+gDRp+Z4NK1s3TATL01FuFzYM=" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0 Thunderbird/68.12.1 Cancel-Lock: sha1:XT7MxP3yM3O7lT+nMoUhr19cHiw= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3782 On 3/14/24 10:49 AM, Newyana2 wrote: > "Carlos E.R." wrote >=20 > | For instance, yesterday I went to see Dune 2. I showed the ticket on = my > | phone at the entrance for scanning (the dot code was equivalent to a = 7 > | character word), went to one of the nearly twenty "rooms", and then I= > | realized I could not see what row and seat I was on. I had to double > | back to ask the lady at the entrance. She smiled. The email had a lin= e > | she had to find in my phone that said: > | > | Entradas: 1 x -Mi=C3=A9rcoles al cine VIP (6,70 =E2=82=AC - 710) > | > | Well, the seat is "710", ie, row 7, 10th chair. Someone goofed the em= ail > | design, and the staff knows. The lady moved the email with her finger= to > | find the line, then pointed it at me and decoded it for me. We both h= ad > | a laugh. > | >=20 > So much trouble. I go to my local theater, hand them a $10 bill > (because I'm a senior) and sit where I like. :) I'm trying to remember the last movie I saw that was worth $10. Maybe=20 Terminator 2, but we have a blu-ray which cost less than that. It's=20 been a long time since I actually wanted to see a movie in a theater. > Though I'm waiting > on Dune2. I'm not sure I want to spend almost 3 hours to watch > a mediocre movie. I saw the first one. As a former Frank Herbert > fan I was disappointed that a book full of complicated psychological > details was reduced to a flashy shoot-'em-up. Sometimes it seems > like every movie now is just fight scenes. I read the books. Too many words :-) I was especially annoyed by his=20 introduction of a foreign word which was never used again. Sorry, a LOT = of snippage would have improved things immensely. More and more movies are becoming interesting only because of the=20 special effects etc. D1 was one of them. Sometimes (latest John Wick)=20 they get carried way too far :-( --=20 Cheers, Bev "The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to be insane in such a useful way that they can't commit you." -- Mark Edwards