Jay McGavren's Journal

Diana and Lenny have both been playing Viva Pinata nonstop, and I’ve got the nocturnal theme (accented by squeaky animal sounds) stuck in my head. Aaaagghh!Judy only stops by once a week or so, and has already expressed her personal hatred for the game.

Ouch...

$160 for the Chuck E Cheese party Saturday, plus $20 for a cake (which I didn’t really get to see before it was cut to pieces). Only 5 kids showed, but there were a ton of grown-ups. It was loud and chaotic and I had no idea where Lenny was half the time.

Fortunately Holly, Amanda, Bryan and Katrina all helped with watching the baby (who slept through most of it), writing down givers of gifts, making sure people had pizza, keeping tabs on kids, etc. so that Diana and I didn’t have to do much of anything. So except for the amount of cash we spent, it was a pretty positive experience.

Heck, the pizza even tasted decent. .

Movie ratings...

This was supposed to be a quick procedure, but stuff like this inexplicably didn’t work:

#DOESN'T WORK; retrieves the same page repeatedly.
25.times do |i|
	command = <<-EOF
		curl --cookie "my/cookies.txt" "http://www.netflix.com/MoviesYouveSeen?so=1&sc=0&lnkctr=ListSort_0&pageNum=#{i}" > #{i}.htm
	EOF
	puts command
	system(command)
end

At least parsing the pages did:

movies = {}
while line = gets
	title = $1 if line =~ %r|<div class="list-title">.*>(.*)</a>|
	movies[title] = $1 if line =~ %r|class=star alt="(d).d+ Stars">|
<p class="list-title">end
movies.keys.sort.each do |title|
	puts [title, movies[title]].join("t")
end

Once I looked everything over, there were a couple in there that simply didn’t make sense (but that reflected the ratings on the Netflix site). Either my mouse slipped, or Diana rated a couple. Anyway, here’s where my Netflix ratings stand as of now:

Diana tolerates the following things on a daily basis that only my immediate family and closest friends can (and then only occasionally), and I love her for it:

my squeaky-voiced impressions my digital photography (which consists of snapping 50 jillion shots, often unposed, in hopes of getting a few good ones) my bizarre sense of humor my long-limbed klutziness

….there’s more, but that’s what comes to mind for now. .

Diana likes the following things that only a male japanophile nerd would normally like, and I love her for it:

sushi Tivo Mahou Tsukai Tai! HD television Soul Calibur Dead or Alive Halo Tetris Attack Tenchi Muyo! Howl’s Moving Castle digital photography

….there’s more, but that’s what comes to mind for now. .