{"id":21193,"date":"2008-08-18T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-08-18T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/08\/18\/as-a-courtesy-to-performers-and-other-audience-members-please-turn-off-blinking-head-mounted-devices\/"},"modified":"2008-08-18T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-08-18T10:00:01","slug":"as-a-courtesy-to-performers-and-other-audience-members-please-turn-off-blinking-head-mounted-devices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080818-01\/?p=21193","title":{"rendered":"As a courtesy to performers and other audience members, please turn off blinking head-mounted devices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When a theater or concert performance begins, there is often an announcement asking audience members to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2005\/09\/20\/471750.aspx\"> silence their cell phones and similar devices<\/a>. Some time ago, a light blinked near the ear of a gentleman a few rows in front of me throughout the entire performance. I couldn&#8217;t tell what it was for sure, but it appeared to be the indicator light of a Bluetooth headset.<\/p>\n<p> Blink. <\/p>\n<p> Five seconds later: <\/p>\n<p> Blink. <\/p>\n<p> Five seconds later: <\/p>\n<p> Blink. <\/p>\n<p> Repeat for two hours. <\/p>\n<p> What I want to know is, was this guy expecting a call <i>during the show<\/i>? If his phone rang, would he answer it from his seat? <\/p>\n<p> (Added: This was before Bluetooth headsets were in common use. It wasn&#8217;t until after the show that I was able to guess what it was.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a theater or concert performance begins, there is often an announcement asking audience members to silence their cell phones and similar devices. Some time ago, a light blinked near the ear of a gentleman a few rows in front of me throughout the entire performance. I couldn&#8217;t tell what it was for sure, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-21193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-non-computer"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>When a theater or concert performance begins, there is often an announcement asking audience members to silence their cell phones and similar devices. Some time ago, a light blinked near the ear of a gentleman a few rows in front of me throughout the entire performance. I couldn&#8217;t tell what it was for sure, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}