Didn't Heddey Lamarr (no, not Hedley!) help to invent sonar or some such WWII submarine thingy?

Frequency hopping guidance system for torpedoes, according to this site:

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OK, people, it's time to start complaining.

Few Protests Over Theater Ads, Say Movie Chains

Despite numerous published commentaries of late about how movie theater ads are driving away patrons, exhibitors maintain that they have received few complaints from the public about them and that many moviegoers actually like them. Pam Blase, a spokeswoman for AMC Entertainment, which operates the country's second-largest movie chain, told the Houston Chronicle that the chain receives one complaint for every 600,000 guests. Terrell Falk of Cinemark USA, the nation's third-largest chain, added that recent research concluded that filmgoers regard ads as "just part of the experience." His remarks were echoed by Jim Kozak, editor-in-chief of In Focus, the magazine of the National Association of Theater Owners. "When [patrons] get there early to get a really good seat, they like to have something to keep them busy, something to do besides talk to the person they came with."

something to do besides talk to the person they came with.

Yeah. Anything but that.

Proving fuinctions are continuous isn't a terribly advanced concept, but it can be difficult depending on the function. And it's kind of neat that she likes doing it.

What's impressive is the Chayes-McKellar-Winn theorem. At least to me. I find proving previously unproven things daunting.

Few Protests Over Theater Ads, Say Movie Chains

Meanwhile, their audience is slowly dribbling away...

I like the ads. The production values are generally very high, and they're either funny or very mock-worthy.

edit: though that doesn't apply to the slide show of Coca-Cola bits and movie trivia and local ads that play in my theatres between all the movies.

Meanwhile, their audience is slowly dribbling away...

Yeah, I was thinking that whole not going to movies as much thing could be considered a silent protest. Although whether folks are protesting ads or the new Herbie movie is harder to determine.

I like the ads. The production values are generally very high, and they're either funny or very mock-worthy.

But I can see the same man-vs-ram Mountain Dew commercial on TV at home....

Friday's isn't so cheap that $50 would last long. Unless that's just the Special Manhattan Pricing. I went in one a couple of years ago, and was SHOCKED. We left and went to a pub.

It is the SMP. When I went there not only was it overpriced, our waiter smelled, the place was dirty and dingy, and there was a belligerent drunk at the bar who was arrested as we ate. All the chain restaurants in Manhattan seem to be dirtier than their counterparts elsewhere and dirtier than Manhattan restaurants in general. Why not try to blend in, eh?

I was walking the the Olive Garden the other day and noticed their entrance has "Bienvenuto!" on the door. Who do they think they're fooling?!

something to do besides talk to the person they came with.

Soooo. If I go to a movie by myself, can I get into the special, I-don't-need-to-avoid-intimacy, showing?