Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Newyana2" Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android Subject: Re: Codes sent by text message Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 13:49:34 -0400 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <1xkfdi6umcwrp.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <1p9miiflsgdlw$.dlg@v.nguard.lh> <0rhbckxb8a.ln2@Telcontar.valinor> Injection-Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 17:49:42 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="1b52535f33dad5d3adae847540510065"; logging-data="1860030"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19UNmkHpc9ZDwqw7gsNMr/vPCxVYM/iRUc=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:AWlW/2Ou8GUYuJCgDNed5f1CxJw= X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Priority: 3 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.5512 X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5512 Bytes: 2678 "Carlos E.R." wrote | 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 line | she had to find in my phone that said: | | Entradas: 1 x -Miércoles al cine VIP (6,70 € - 710) | | Well, the seat is "710", ie, row 7, 10th chair. Someone goofed the email | 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 had | a laugh. | So much trouble. I go to my local theater, hand them a $10 bill (because I'm a senior) and sit where I like. :) 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.