The Life and Times of the Watters Family

Long Time No Update

Ack! It’s been a while since I last posted. Anyway, not much to tell. Watched a couple of movies — Friday Night Lights and Superman III. The football movie was good, though it seems to have turned Betsy off to the idea of our boys playing youth football even more. The Superman movie I could’ve done without. I’d seen it before, years ago, but didn’t remember just how lame it actually was. Sean & Caleb liked it, so I guess that’s good.

Watched Karate Kid II on Saturday. I absolutely loved the first two of the series when I was kid. I never bothered to see #3 or the “Next” one with Bellingham’s own Hillary Swank. Next up for me is Hero, which I imagine has it’s share of martial arts.

Betsy and I finally finished Troy. It could’ve been a lot better, but it wasn’t terrible.

Worked much of the weekend.

We leave for Mexico in six days. Woohoo!

Apparently, I’m not the only one that still thinks Karate Kid is a great movie.

Post-By-Mail Wrapping Test

This is simply a test message to test the hack I added wp-mail.php to address the unnecessary hard text-wrapping that it does to things posted by e-mail. It’s pretty lame that I’ve got to do this, but oh well.

It should, however, maintain paragraphs correctly, so I’ve protected that function.

Here goes nothing!

UPDATE:

Woohoo! Got it working now. I should now be able to post from my e-mail without any stupid wrapping issues.

Yet Another Test Message

This is yet another test of the mail functionality. I’m trying to implement category functionality. Hopefully this works. I’m sick of all of my posts ending up in “Uncategorized”.

UPDATE:

So I’ve got categories working now. The problem is, when I post via e-mail it’s hard-wrapping lines un-necessarily, which makes the posts look funny on the website. Now I’ve got to go in and fix that.

Netflix In Sidebar

I’ve added the next ten entries in my Netflix queue just below the archives in the sidebar on the left. Now you can all see what I’m about to be watching. I may eventually add a section for what I’ve just finished watching, as well but right now I’ve got to get home.

Yet Another Test

Testing a new cron job…should update posts by mail every 5 mintues now…

Weekend Update

Watched Ray on Friday night. What a great movie. Jamie Foxx should win the Oscar.

Began the reliving of my youth by watching Karate Kid (or most of it anyway). Where are all the good, semi-original underdog stories for kids these days? The Eighties definitely had it’s (their?) moments.

Superman II was adequate, but slow. A little campy, but worth watching.

The football game was pretty good. I wasn’t really rooting for anyone this year. The Eagles had a chance, and T.O. played a great game. A sluggish Philly offense cost them the game — learn to manage the clock better. We were literally yelling at the T.V. for the last 6 minutes of the game. Favorite commercials were “You’re Being Robbed” and the “Cat Sacrifice” followed by the frozen Mustang guy and the P. Diddy pimped-out Pepsi truck fad. Half-time show was a sleeper.

A Little Too Much Love

So far this month, the most popular page on this site is this paper that I wrote in high school. That’s boring, but what is interesting is that in the last two months, this post is quickly rising to the top of the list. In fact, due to said post, the search term via which most people reach this site is some variant of “humping camels”.

I can’t imagine this site is what those searching for such things had in mind.

UPDATE:

The camels have now taken a commanding lead (nearly double the next most popular post). I wonder how many other people looking for porn I can get to come (no pun intended) to my site erroneously…

The first of the Netflix movies that I requested should be here tomorrow or Saturday. My selections may seem a little odd, but here they are:

• Ray
• Superman II
• Karate Kid

I’ve been rating movies at about 50 a day, so hopefully the recommendations will come up with some good ones that I haven’t already seen. Again, suggestions (I know, I know — nobody reads this.) are always welcome.

My mail carrier is an IDIOT! I know, I know. I should be more forgiving, but this is getting ridiculous. For the third time now, they’ve delivered unsolicited pornographic junk mail to my house. Now, it’s not enough that the guy this crap is addressed to hasn’t lived in the house for OVER 4 YEARS! No. I’ve even got labels in the mailbox instructing that only mail addressed to persons with my same last name be left. I mean, you’d think mail carriers would be required to be literate. Then again, as ludicrous as it sounds, it may be some form of illegal discrimination to require them to be able to read.

I can’t even let my kids check the mail anymore lest they mistakenly think it’s one of their magazines and open it up to find three, spread-eagle, naked lesbians going at it on the cover.

And to think that some people actually think the government should take over MORE of the services people depend on. Go figure.

I signed up for a 14-day trial of Netflix today. They’ve lowered their price for 3-at-a-time to $17.99 per month, so it seemed like it was time to give it a whirl.

I didn’t tell the wife, so we’ll see what she says in a day or so when we start getting DVDs in the mail.

BTW, movie suggestions are welcome.

Speaking of the WordPress post-by-email support (see yesterday’s post), this is apparently an area of WordPress that is fertile ground for enhancement. Currently (I’m using WP 1.5 beta nightly builds), there doesn’t appear to be any support for multiple or per-post categories. All items submitted via e-mail are assigned the administrator as an author. Author could be determined by looking at the e-mail address in the from box. If the e-mail matches a current user, publish it. If not, put it in “draft” mode. Author could also be set in the body/subject of the message.

Also, the submission is completely un-authenticated. It would seem like it should be possible to incorporate some sort of public/private key encryption (optionally) to allow people to add some security to the process.

Maybe if I just implemented these things and submitted a patch, they’d accept it. Or maybe not. It’s worth a shot.

Check. Check 1.

Sibilance. Sibilance. Check. Check 2. Sibilance. Sibilance.

(Just checking the e-mail posting support…nothing to see here.)