{"id":214,"date":"2009-08-31T16:32:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-31T16:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/08\/31\/theres-app-for-tha\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:16","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:16","slug":"theres-app-for-tha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2009\/08\/31\/theres-app-for-tha\/","title":{"rendered":"There’s an app for that"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apple’s iPhone commercials include the line “There’s an app for that,” which is a great slogan. But I figured it was just a bit of hype until I saw this post<\/a> by Andy Ihnatko on his Celestial Waste of Bandwidth<\/a> blog:<\/p>\n

Okay. So you\u2019re in a theater watching \u201cTransformers 2\u2033 and you desperately need to go to the bathroom. Yes, launching an iPhone app in the middle of a movie is not socially acceptable but neither is whizzing involuntarily right in your seat, so you go ahead and launch RunPee. <\/p>\n

The app connects to a central site and sends you a list of all currently-playing movies. Tap \u201cDistrict 9\u2033 and it displays a list of scene and line cues from that movie designating the start of a good moment to leave for the bathroom without missing anything important. A timer tells you how much time you have left before the movie starts getting interesting again and there\u2019s a synopsis of any details you might have missed, to read on your walk back to the theater. <\/p>\n

If this is an ongoing problem for you, and the phrase \u201cDon\u2019t buy the 72 ounce Dr. Pepper at the concession stand\u201d never occurs to you, you can launch the app and tap a Start button when the movie begins. The app will tell you at a glance how many more minutes you\u2019ll need to hold it until the next gap in the action. <\/p>\n

This just might be the most brilliant thing ever. <\/p>\n

I bet it won\u2019t make it into one of Apple\u2019s iPhone commercials, though. <\/p>\n

(\u201dSay you have a bladder-control problem that affects your ability to see a movie without wetting the seat. There\u2019s an app for that.\u201d)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

See the full post here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Apple’s iPhone commercials include the line “There’s an app for that,” which is a great slogan. But I figured it was just a bit of hype until I saw this post by Andy Ihnatko on his Celestial Waste of Bandwidth blog: Okay. So you\u2019re in a theater watching \u201cTransformers 2\u2033 and you desperately need to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p88Hib-3s","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":986,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214\/revisions\/986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}