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My workplace has decided to do "summer hours" on Fridays. This basically means every other Friday, I get to leave work at 3pm. Half the company takes one week off, the other half takes the other week off - so the company can stay fully functioning and open until 6. After some pressure from the finance department, I decided to take this Friday off. Wasn't getting a thing accomplished and it had been an annoying week, the type of week that at the end of - you just want to kick people.
So, to give myself a little treat for surviving the work week - I saw the 4:20 show of Harry Potter and The Order of The Phonenix - at that showing the theater was mostly filled with adolescent girls, women and a few boys. Interesting audience mix, actually. Loved it.
One note: If you have a cell phone, please do not turn it on during the movie to text message people, check your email, or use as a flashlight - the light in the cell blinds the person behind you and disrupts their viewing of the film. Respect the people in the audience with you. If you want to check your cell - do it outside the theater or don't go to the theater at all.
I'm starting to think I should bring a sling-shot with spit balls to aim at people who flip their cell phones open at movies. Really miss the days in which we did not have cell phones. Going to the movies was a far more pleasurable experience - heck walking, going to restaurants and to the theater was more pleasurable.
That said, the new iphone is wickedly cool - someone at work had one and I got to play with it. It's like having a PDA, Blackberry, cellphone, ipod, camera, internet, and photo album all in one. It's only $800 bucks upfront and $59 a month thereafter for internet. You get up to 500 minutes phone coverage with that and unlimited internet access - according to the guy who was showing it to me.
( First Impressions of Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix...cut for spoilers )
So, to give myself a little treat for surviving the work week - I saw the 4:20 show of Harry Potter and The Order of The Phonenix - at that showing the theater was mostly filled with adolescent girls, women and a few boys. Interesting audience mix, actually. Loved it.
One note: If you have a cell phone, please do not turn it on during the movie to text message people, check your email, or use as a flashlight - the light in the cell blinds the person behind you and disrupts their viewing of the film. Respect the people in the audience with you. If you want to check your cell - do it outside the theater or don't go to the theater at all.
I'm starting to think I should bring a sling-shot with spit balls to aim at people who flip their cell phones open at movies. Really miss the days in which we did not have cell phones. Going to the movies was a far more pleasurable experience - heck walking, going to restaurants and to the theater was more pleasurable.
That said, the new iphone is wickedly cool - someone at work had one and I got to play with it. It's like having a PDA, Blackberry, cellphone, ipod, camera, internet, and photo album all in one. It's only $800 bucks upfront and $59 a month thereafter for internet. You get up to 500 minutes phone coverage with that and unlimited internet access - according to the guy who was showing it to me.
( First Impressions of Harry Potter Order of the Phoenix...cut for spoilers )