Netflix friends

[innerSpaceman]

First of all, no, I don't want my queue visible, sorry.

Secondly, the only urge I have to rate movies is for the movie musings thread right here on the LoT. What silly irony it would be for me to now start rating movies on the netflix site just so that my LoT buddies could see them!

[BarTopDancer]

It appears you can have seperate queues for different purposes. That would be a PITA though. I just signed up again.

[Alex]

The separate queues can be pretty useful.

It was originally set up so different people in the house could have their own queue (I know several married couples that split their alotment). When a disc is returned from Queue A the next movie in Queue A is sent.

I used it for a while when I was watching a lot of TV DVDs. I would always either move the entire series up to the top of the queue and then I was stuck either with only that TV show to watch or constantly having to manipulate my queue. Instead, I put all the TV shows in one queue, assigned it one of my 4 DVD slots and so I always had one TV DVD and 3 movie DVDs going without having to keep a constant eye on my queue.

iSm: The rating is a simple click, you don't have to actually say anything if you don't want to. I was using it before the Friends thing was available because their engine actually does a fairly decent job of making recommendations based on what how you rated movies.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

iSm: The rating is a simple click, you don't have to actually say anything if you don't want to. I was using it before the Friends thing was available because their engine actually does a fairly decent job of making recommendations based on what how you rated movies.

Same story here. We've used the recommendations to lead us to new movies before. And we've never written anything, just clicked once to show how many stars we rate it. It's very satisfying when you return a really crappy movie and want to pan it with one click.

I like the idea of seeing what friends recommend. As for seeing my queue - what the hell can you be hiding on Netflix, Steve? I already recommended "Secretary" here.

I never knew about seperate queues. We've been rationing our TV shows manually (ok, we returned one, let's bump on up) which is a bit annoying. Thanks for the tip!

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I'm enjoying this already. I type in "Metropolis" in order to suggest it (the movie came up in conversation at work today) and see this:

Originally Posted by Netflix

Alexander Stroup didn't like it.

It's feeling like home already.

[Alex]

Egad. I changed my profile to get rid of the ander. Can you confirm for me that it is changed in your view?

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

Egad. I changed my profile to get rid of the ander. Can you confirm for me that it is changed in your view?

Bwahahaha. We laughed pretty hard when we saw "Alexander Stroup". I don't know why it's funny, but it is.

Anyway, have to break it to you that no, it still says Alexander. Looks like the server needs time to catch up. Heehee. Egad!

[Alex]

If you could check for me tomorrow that would be great.

I don't actually have a problem with Alexander. I just consider Alex my compromise position so that I can ignore people who try to call me Al (and no, for anybody seeking controversy this is a lifelong thing). If they ask why I can tell them I already met them halfway.

There are four people who get to call me Al. Lani isn't even one of them. Anybody who wants to can call me Alexander (or Sasha) and I won't care. It just seems weird to have it on an informal display like Netflix.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Alexander, meet Jennifer and Gregory. Yeah, that's weird.

To totally derail - just today I finally finished up my passport change form so I can get my married name on it. I've been putting it off in order to switch to Jennie, but I've given up on that. Jennifer I was born and Jennifer I shall remain.

[Gemini Cricket]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

GC - your PM box is full.

Yikes. Stupid sent items folder.








Alexander?