Taking Cuts
You know those guys that stand menacingly by the doors of hip nightspots? The ones with necks thicker than their shaved heads and arms bigger than most men’s thighs? The ones that hold back pale and pasty software development types with one heavily tattooed forearm, and with the other, usher in threesomes of spaghetti-strapped coeds from the back of the line? That’s pretty much the concept behind NETFLIX Bouncer.
We’re on the one-at-a-time plan at NETFLIX. When Jon tires of his spouse’s endless stream of romantic comedies, he simply clicks a picklist on the intranet home page to switch queues and cut to the front of the line.
Karen would like to interject here that this is nothing more than Jon’s lame attempt to get a laugh at her expense and that she is NOT, in fact, any particular fan of romantic comedies. She has seen neither Pretty Woman nor Say Anything…, nor does she wish to. She has seen Bridget Jones’s Diary but only because she has the hots for Colin Firth.
Of course, you can do as NETFLIX intended: login with your username and password and then click through five or six screens. But why spend 15 or 20 seconds doing something when you can spend two weeks hammering out a convoluted script to the accomplish the same task?
There’s no point in rehashing the trauma of figuring out NETFLIX’s highly obscure login process since it’s covered in detail
here. Suffice it to say that the script works, and now Jon changes queues all the time for no other reason than because
he can!A related project listing our queues with thumbnail images and descriptions can be viewed
here.
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