Last week I was on Yahoo and saw an article about a player that streams 10,000+ movies and tv shows straight to your tv. I thought it sounded pretty cool but the more I thought about it I started to get myself really hyped up about it, so just a few hours after reading the article I jumped on their website and bought one and had it shipped 2-day.

It came on Friday and I had taken the afternoon off so I rushed home and hooked it up. It was amazingly easy to set up and works with your wireless network. It’s pretty much plug it in and go. It recieves movies and tv shows from Netflix, so I had to get a $8.99 month account but still if you think about it - just renting two movies from Blockbuster a month and you’ve already covered your costs.

It retrieves the movies from your instant cue nearly instantly and it usually doesn’t take more than 30 seconds for a show to start playing. The quality is between VHS and DVD and better than I even expected. The best part of the whole thing. The box only costs $100.

It’s already been put to good use, last night Kenny and I were at a festival and somehow the conversation about mannequins came up and all of a sudden I remembered that really cheesy 80’s movie called “Mannequin” and how much I used to love it. So first thing we did when we got back was jump on Netflix and sent it to the Roku player. Within a minute we were watching Mannequin in all it’s cheesy goodness.

Just wanted to pass this along to you guys - one of the best inventions ever in my opinion!!

I made this for Jdub’s housewarming gift. He moved from his brothers house in the middle of nowhere to downtown this week. I live downtown but he lives so much closer to the real downtown than I do that I’m a bit jealous. Really makes me want to move closer now!

Anyways - I grabbed this frame at Target and then printed the photos myself and framed them. He’s not particularly happy to be Indianapolis but I thought a set of photos of downtown things would make it feel more like home.

The first photo is a building down the street from here. Not sure what is there, probably just a bunch of offices. The second photo is or the Murat which is a concert hall a few blocks from me. The third is one of my favorites - a piece of graffiti across the street from my apartment that always makes me smile.

The third is just a random shot of some signage. The fourth is a skyward shot of our only high rise housing in the city Riley Towers. The last is a photo of the Stutz buildings on the west side of downtown that house various business and art galleries.

I loved it so much that if it matched my decor I probably would have kept it for myself!

Meh, not much to post about right now. It’s all the usual stuff, gym, work, sleep, gym, work, sleep. Launched my new site, but already posted about that. Work has been keeping me busy as always. Completed a semi-complicated project yesterday which i’m glad to have out of my hair. Boss and one co-worker were out of town part of the week so it’s been pretty easy going, and time to catch up on things.

Considering getting a new iPhone next week. I have a big bonus coming on my next paycheck, but I’ve already earmarked it for paying for a few other things, so we’ll just have to see. Also found out that my rate plan would be going up $10 a month. Not sure how I feel about that either.

Not sure if I mentioned but we got our new laptops at work, I’m all set up with the wireless at home so I pretty much never have to get up off the couch other than to make myself a drink. Perhaps I need a butler.

Realized this morning that my keyboard has a “Calculator” button it so I don’t have to go to it in my programs. Best idea ever.

Oh and Sheer Genius is back on! I think I’m going with Charlie. No one has really struck me yet, but I think he’s pretty witty and also good at cutting hair, which helps in a hair compeition.

This week I launched my new group music blog Jiingo.com. I’ve had this domain for several years and just never knew what to really do with it, I wanted to start my own social networking site with it, but I could never create anything that would even begin to rival Facebook, and MySpace is finally starting to get their shit together so I couldn’t even do anything better than them at this point.

I really love the idea of a group blog, and this week I decided that it would be cool to do a music one with a few contributers. And that’s how it became so.

I have four contributers at the moment, Ryan May, Jordan Murphy, Ricky Shidler, and Duane Moody. All of whom I either know in real life or have known online for years. Happy to have them all on board and they are all going to bring something unique I think. Still looking for one more person at the moment, so if you’re interested and you think you’re music tastes fall somewhere in line with ours then hit me up!

Check out the site, bookmark it and all that good stuff!

(Thanks to Joe for this write up!)

I finally got a Wii this week. I’ve been wanting one for oh… 18 months now?

Technically if I really wanted one I could have gotten one much earlier, but I was so fair weather about looking for one that I didn’t really make it a point to hunt for them. The fact of the matter is that I didn’t want to be one of those people who goes crazy looking for them. Not my thing.

Actually I didn’t even find it. Jdub did. I went on a lunch hour goose chase for one that was 45 minutes away. Half a tank of gas later, I was still without a Wii.

Jdub had the day off, so I suggested that he look for one. I meant check one or two places, he ended up spending half an afternoon hitting like a dozen places and finally scored me one at an off the beaten path GameStop.

Later Wedneday evening I came to the quick conclusion that the extras for this thing are what gets you. I bought Wii Play (with controller) and Okami and spent $75, and that was with the $20 discount I got for turning in my GameCube.

But it was all well worth it! WIIIIIIIIII!

Pauly cut and colored my hair tonight, we sort of reversed the colors so now my hair is dark with bright highlights and we did an emo style. I’m excited about it! This photo doesn’t quite do it justice, and it will look better once I get the bangs grown out a bit more. Loves it!

Got a new tattoo this week, number nineteen.

(Photo from inside the beer tent)

Another pride has come and gone in Indianapolis. The weather yesterday was nothing short of perfect, 80 degrees and just a few puffy white clouds.

I got really drunk Friday night so it was a slow start to the Saturday, but by about 1PM I got down to the festival. I started drinking before I went and by the end of the day was wasted. I passed out once at the fountain, classy moment. In another classy move I also wore my jeans with the ass ripped out, so I was quite popular. Ha!

Overall the day was awesome and it was good to hang out with all my friends. After the festival Don and I hopped over and did the Italian Festival where I met three awesome older ladies who took a liking to me. I don’t remember much of the Italian festival cause I was still wasted.

Came home and passed out and awoke to my phone being blown up by my friends to get up and come to Talbott, so in one last hoorah I ended up the night dancing with friends.

I’m so ready to do it again next year!

I didn’t know this - but the Indianapolis Pride Committee does an annual gay skate at a local roller rink to sort of kick off Pride week.

Friday I overdid it at the gym and my legs and especially ankles were killing me, but I decided to go anyways.

Don decided we should be drunk for such an event as this and there was no liquor at the rink. I was more or less out of alcohol at home and it being Sunday we couldn’t buy any. We ended up running to the local pub before hand and throwing back a few shots (I had 2 of Bacardi 151 - it was like college all over again!) and made our way to the rink.

After getting a bit lots we had tons of fun! Saw some people we knew and worked up a sweat skating to some really gay songs. I heard Abba at least twice. They said that 150 people came which was far more than in the past. I’m really glad I went and totally plan on doing it again next year!

Classic video, if you haven’t seen this, take 3 minutes and watch it. I can watch this over and over again and bust up laughing every single time.

Here is one of the photos from Pauly’s birthday party last weekend. Pauly is the only one wearing a wig in this photo. Kenny and I were still having too much fun with the pirate gear to bother with wigs at this point in the evening.