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Sunday, May 20
Enjoy the show
The nearby megaplex (a mere 25 theatres) has machines you can use to buy movie tickets. Us wired folk can even buy tickets, in advance, at no extra charge. Then you get to mosey in, walk up to one of these machines, where there's no line, swipe your credit card, and out come the tickets. Technology is pretty nifty sometimes. Sometimes, I think, these machines resent their service. This was apparent yesterday, when I was buying tickets for "A Night At McCools". Why else would the "Proceed" button be red, and the "Go Back" button be green? After tripping me up on that little bit of interface trickery, I managed to complete my purchase. The machine printed my tickets, and proceeded in a very Mickey Rourke a la 91/2 Weeks way to eject the printed tickets, slowly and one at a time, on to the floor. I had to bend over three times, twice for the tickets, and once for the receipt. The guy next to me had to deal with the same automated humiliation too. Now if the thing could just slap my ass a few times afterwards, the experience would be complete. '; } else { if(stristr($filename,"archive")) { $dir=$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']; $template='_01_archive.html'; $tail=strlen($template); $thisArchive=$filename; //$files=scandir($dir); $dh = opendir($dir); while (false !== ($filename = readdir($dh))) { $files[] = $filename; } sort($files); $earlyarch=""; $laterarch=""; $prevarch=""; $next=0; foreach($files as $file) { if (substr($file,-$tail)==$template) { if ($next==1) { $laterarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; $next=0; } if ($file==$thisArchive) { $next=1; } else { $prevarch=$file; $earlyarch=$prevarch; } } } $link=''; $divider=''; if(file_exists($earlyarch)) { $link='< Earlier Archive'; $divider=" | "; } if(file_exists($laterarch)) { $link=$link.$divider.'Later Archive >'; } $link=$link.' '; } } echo($link); ?> |