{"id":143,"date":"2005-06-09T00:14:06","date_gmt":"2005-06-09T04:14:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/06\/09\/atmosphere-disruption-and-movie-th"},"modified":"2005-06-09T00:14:06","modified_gmt":"2005-06-09T04:14:06","slug":"atmosphere-disruption-and-movie-theatres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/2005\/06\/09\/atmosphere-disruption-and-movie-theatres\/","title":{"rendered":"Atmosphere, Disruption, and Movie theatres"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a909'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The biggest lapse in the recent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/h2g2\">Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galazy<\/a> film wasn&#8217;t its disconnection, unbelievable romance, or score.  It was Marvin, who the director, like trillions of others before him, didn&#8217;t understand.  Marvin didn&#8217;t annoy merely with his voice and his sarcasm; he was a master of timing, annoying by waiting exactly the right number of milliseconds before responding or doing anything.  <\/p>\n<p>It is remarkable, how much meaning one can put into a pause, or a well timed step, look, twitch, or breath.  Life can be lost or thrown out of joint by less.  I&#8217;m not sure that hell is full of pain and suffering and lack of freedom.  Worse would be the constant promise of freedom, curtailed by a stream of mishaps or reality shifts outside one&#8217;s control; I imagine Sisyphus&#8217; unlife as complicated to the point that he can never be sure that success is <b>truly<\/b> outside his control.<\/p>\n<p>For instance, for the last two weeks, &#8216;net access has been flaky.  Not bad enough that Verizon techs can catch it when I call, but bad enough to cut me off a few times a day and interrupt a half-dozen important conversations.  (We need to develop the network equivalent of a UPS for stateless services&#8230;)  So I have to decide each night whether to go down to the campus lab to work, or stay home.  Or to go to the theater across the street with superb wireless.<\/p>\n<p>So that&#8217;s where I went yesterday night.  There were too many people everywhere; I needed to get away.  What a great atmosphere a movie theatre has for doing work.  I could have camped out there all night, but I don&#8217;t think they would have approved.  Maybe they should consider opening a side business after hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest lapse in the recent Hitchhiker&#8217;s Guide to the Galazy film wasn&#8217;t its disconnection, unbelievable romance, or score. It was Marvin, who the director, like trillions of others before him, didn&#8217;t understand. Marvin didn&#8217;t annoy merely with his voice and his sarcasm; he was a master of timing, annoying by waiting exactly the right [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[216],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fly-by-wire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/longestnow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}