{"id":13,"date":"2008-09-06T20:43:14","date_gmt":"2008-09-07T00:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/?p=13"},"modified":"2011-02-20T23:08:10","modified_gmt":"2011-02-21T03:08:10","slug":"pizza-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/2008\/09\/06\/pizza-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Pizza Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='http:\/\/www.supplychainer.com\/50226711\/images\/domino-pizza.jpg' alt='Domino\\&#039;s Pizza' class='alignnone' \/><br \/>\nDomino&#8217;s Pizza allows you to <a title=\"Domino's Pizza\" href=\"http:\/\/dominospizza.com\">order pizza over the Internet<\/a>.  For Unix geeks like Cory Arcangel, the natural extension to that is <a title=\"Pizza Party\" href=\"http:\/\/www.beigerecords.com\/cory\/pizza_party\/\">ordering pizza from the command line<\/a>.  Why bother bother dealing with a web browser and all those messy flash applications when you can just type<\/p>\n<p><tt>pizza_party -pmx 2 medium regular<\/tt><\/p>\n<p>to get two medium regular-crust pizzas with (p)epperoni, (m)ushroom, and e(x)tra cheese?  <tt>pizza_party<\/tt> is a Perl script which parses the various options and login info and generates a few HTTP requests to the right places, complete with a man page.  I&#8217;m particularly amused by the line from the README:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>if you don&#8217;t know how to install Perl modules, you&#8217;re clearly not hard enough to be ordering pizza at the command line.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t tried it out yet, mostly because I don&#8217;t have a Domino&#8217;s account and I&#8217;m not a huge fan of theirs, but I&#8217;ll give it a shot next time I&#8217;m in the mood.  <tt>pizza_party<\/tt> requires your username and password, either on the command line or from the <tt>.pizza_partyrc<\/tt> file (stored in plaintext), so if you use it, don&#8217;t use a password you use for anything else.  No credit card information is involved at all, you pay on delivery as usual.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Domino&#8217;s Pizza allows you to order pizza over the Internet. For Unix geeks like Cory Arcangel, the natural extension to that is ordering pizza from the command line. Why bother bother dealing with a web browser and all those messy flash applications when you can just type pizza_party -pmx 2 medium regular to get two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/adamrosenfield.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}