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[Jun. 18th, 2008|07:43 pm] |
netflix is getting rid of the profiles feature which allows kurt to have his own queue and rate movies separately from me. i'm so upset! now i don't know whether i'd like to consolidate our queues or just downgrade to a one-a-month deal and sign each of us up separately. would almost be worth it because consolidating and trying to keep track of whose movies are whose so that we still get one each at a time... what a mess.
boooooooo netflix!!!
this is the first time they've ever upset me in the five and a half years i've been with them. |
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[Apr. 23rd, 2007|01:29 pm] |
one more reason netflix is awesome: they have a feature now where you can watch movies online in addition to the ones you get through the mail. it goes on a dollar/hour basis. like, i have the three movies at a time deal which is $18 a month so i can watch up to 18 hours of free movies on their site per month. the only downside is that there aren't that many movies available yet but i'm sure that will change.
i wish i would have known about the feature this weekend when i was hanging out at home alone wanting to just lay around and watch movies... i ended up watching eternal sunshine and the first disc of the office again.
the weekend felt looooong without kurt around and without piles of homework. i fixed the screen door on the back door (new pneumatic dealie and new inside latch and handle), raked a tiny bit, and went shopping with susie and daisy most of the day on saturday. then yesterday i hung out with my dad when i went to get kurt and we checked out all the baby chickens and ducks and turkeys. they're pretty darn cute but they're not surviving really well this year. there were four chickens and one barely alive chicken when i was there yesterday and now there are only two. it didn't help that the heat lamp fell and burned a hole in the floor, i'm sure.
all of my CDs are now on my zune. all except the burned ones. for some reason a lot of them would lock up the whole freaking computer when i tried to rip them so i just quit. not sure how i'm going to deal with that yet. i have more burned CDs than i thought i did and that i'd care to admit.
i feel crappy today but i think it's just because i slept and lounged around in bed too much this weekend. so tired.
oh, and i got a haircut this weekend. layers and she took like an inch off my bangs. not really happy with the feathery thing she did with my bangs but they'll be perfect in about two weeks. picture maybe forthcoming someday when i'm not completely lazy. |
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[Dec. 18th, 2006|04:14 pm] |
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history of netflix that i found while searching for a "netflix for books". yes, there is such a thing. the history of netflix was awesome. i've been a member and rabid supporter since 2001 so it was great to read how they started out.
as for the obvious rebuttel: yes, i have a local library and i frequent it often. as i sit here with a waaaay overdue book on my front seat from the university and face a $20 fee pretty quick-like if i don't get it back soon, the netflix model seems like a better deal. the city library only charges $.50 for overdue books but they also have a pretty slim selection of the books i like to read. they'll order in books from surrounding libraries but if you know where i live you know that the other library's selections are worse than mine.
but is it worth $10 a month to always have books around that i rarely even have time to read? or is it that i don't have time to go to the library, search for the book i want, find out they don't have it so i have to find one on my list they DO have, and blah blah blah. (my god i sound lazy! truth is, i'm just a busy person who doesn't have time for fiddly shit like libraries that don't have the books i want!
it's the little things that make me think ten bucks a month IS worth it:
1) the constant list waiting to be shipped as soon as i send one back. much more convenient than the scraps of paper, receipts, envelopes, checkbook, and pages in my planner that hold my "to read" list at the moment.
2) the recommendations based on my rating's of books i've read. yes, i realize i can go to the amazon website and put all of my favorite authors in a wish list and have it tell me who else it thinks i would like. i've seriously considered doing so. but then i still have my "to read" list all over the place and yes i could sign up under a different name and have one of those on amazon so it doesn't mess with my "what i like" list but holy shit what a pain in the ass.
3) they ship them to my door and i don't have to feel bad when it becomes overdue and i forget to renew it until a week later and someone might be out there wanting the book i want and i'm keeping them from having it. i've been that person and i hate people like me who do this.
4) i love netflix! it's a good model and i've never regretted my choice to join even though i've gone for a month or more at a time sometimes without renting anything but kid's movies for kurt.
the main downside is that i'll be neglecting my poor local library. i suck. but so do they so it evens out, right?
my god i'm a lazy ass today. i really have gotten a lot of work done! |
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