{"id":189,"date":"2006-03-21T21:24:35","date_gmt":"2006-03-22T02:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/63.247.138.3\/~drweevil\/?p=189"},"modified":"2007-09-03T18:16:15","modified_gmt":"2007-09-03T22:16:15","slug":"netflix-does-not-suck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/?p=189","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Does Not Suck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I bought myself a Netflix subscription for my birthday (last Wednesday, the Ides). So far, I&#8217;m very pleased, and waiting for my second batch of three. Too bad I wasted one of my first three on something (Pasolini&#8217;s <em>Oedipus Rex<\/em>) I&#8217;d mixed up with what I really wanted (Stravinsky&#8217;s). I&#8217;ll watch the former some day, but I&#8217;m in no hurry, particularly since the disk didn&#8217;t have any next-track function and even the 20x fast forward was too slow for some scenes. I&#8217;m much more careful now in making sure I select the right disc to move to the top of the queue.<\/p>\n<p>A few random thoughts, or rather questions:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Does liking <em>Witness for the Prosecution<\/em> better than <em>8 1\/2<\/em> make me a bad person? Or (what some would think even worse) a Philistine?<\/li>\n<li>Does the &#8216;drag &#038; drop&#8217; function in the queue actually work? It doesn&#8217;t for me in either Firefox or Explorer. Is there some special secret to making it work?<\/li>\n<li>In rating movies, it&#8217;s obvious that I should give five stars to those I love and no stars to those I hate, but what about those that I love so much I already own them? I&#8217;m already sick of seeing them popping up in recommendations all the time, but if I give them no stars, will Netflix stop recommending them, while still recommending other movies that resemble them?<\/li>\n<li>Is there some way to turn off the Roger Ebert recommendations? They&#8217;re of no use to me even as suggestions for what not to watch: if only he were always wrong.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I bought myself a Netflix subscription for my birthday (last Wednesday, the Ides). So far, I&#8217;m very pleased, and waiting for my second batch of three. Too bad I wasted one of my first three on something (Pasolini&#8217;s Oedipus Rex) I&#8217;d mixed up with what I really wanted (Stravinsky&#8217;s). I&#8217;ll watch the former some day, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-what-ive-been-watching"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.drweevil.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}