I only work three days next week then im off until the January 2nd. Gonna sit on my ass and do nothing for most of the time which will be way awesome.Other then sitting on my ass ill be going to Brooklyn with some friends on a whim to check out the Brooklyn brewery and imbibe in some lagers and brown ales. nom nom. Cant wait

Hello internets just thought id stop by and check in how goes it? Been a while it seems, might post more when wordpress 2.7 comes out well see.Update so yea im on 2.7 now and decided to change teh theme as well do you like? I like it seems to load alot faster as its all CSS and no images. Simple fast and clean.

Been getting some sweet deals lately. Amazon had 100$ off of linksys v2 extenders and I jumped right on it as Ive always wanted to bring the media center experience and all of my media to the bedroom tv. I decided to go with the DMA2100 as I didnt need a dvd drive. Its a small device and for the most part silent which is needed for the bedroom. I have it hooked up via ethernet and streaming live and recorded tv both HD and SD is almost perfect except at some times I notice some mpeg noise from time to time on the HD streams. Watching my movie collection is also nice most of my collection is encoded with xvid which is supported but the few that are divx do not work which I heard linksys was working on. Now most of my movies have external subtitle files so the media center is not able to read them which is a bummer. Be a nice feature to have but I didnt expect it as I had to install 3rd party apps to get it to work on the main MCE machine. Audio is great as well I can stream my mp3 collection into the room so when im cleaning or need to queue up some chill music to nap to I can do so. On top of that my harmony 550 remote controls everything in the apartment now including the extender and TV in the room. One remote to rule them all and in the darkness bind them. Anyhow im starting to feel as if my one bedroom apartment is getting a lil too connected….

Ira and I recently moved right smack in the middle of the short north. We can now step out of the front door right onto high st. Food, bars, shops and gallery hop funs are right at my fingertips. There is an art gallery and a wine cellar directly below me which is pretty sweet. We have a private parking spot that we have to divy up but thus far parking hasnt been a problem. Alot of other bots have recently moved into the vicinity and eventually will change combine into a giant robot. People call me up to go snag some jenis every other day and I cant complain one bit. I cant wait for the warmer weather to come life will be so awesome! Look out columbus Bots are on the rise.

Jeebus H chwist on a skewer there are too many games either out already or coming out soon that I need! Been playing Halo 3 and assassins creed quite often and want to get Mario Galaxy asap and potentially Mass effect, COD4 and UT2007 for PC.I also need the new katamari game along with metroid. Not to mention that I own eternal sonata and have an R4 card chock full of the latest DS games that are gathering dust.I need to quit my job and just play games all day to keep up. For now I have stopped cleaning the apt and socializing with bots to gain more game time. Atleast ive come to the realization that I dont much like playing rythm based games so much as I like watching other people play them. Saves me money as I wont have to buy rockband or guitar hero III woot.

Recently purchased a new Samsung LNT4065F which replaces my old school Samsung RPTV and brings me into the 1080p world. I have a vista media center hooked up to it via HDMI and have been downloading and watching alot of HD content and it looks hella swank, quality is not exactly lossless 1080p (bluray,HDDVD) content but the quality difference is barely noticeable to the human eye. I have not yet succombed to the next generation DVD wars simply because to me its a moot point as downloadable content is the wildcard winner in this format war.Download speed and Storage space will continue to grow and with the help of some compression codecs and the advent of bittorrent, HD content is starting to become a more viable option for us intertube nerds. Its already at a point where you can download near DVD quality movies within an hours time the thought of being able to do so with HD content makes me giddy like a school girl. Most of the HD stuffs out there are in 720p format but still manage to fit on a standard DVD which takes advantage of an affordable pre existing infrastructure that is near and dear to everyone. So for those of you that have already started to pump money into upgrading your DVD collection your wasting  your money! I <3 my new TV

Giant robots of death have been assimilating my apartment over the past couple of years. Ive been collecting mecha/robot figures on and off and it has recently came to my attention that very soon they will destroy the universe and enslave humanity. Gundams (kits or figures), Giant robo, Gigantor and Black Ox, Mazinkaiser, Getter Robo, Robotech, Gunbusters, Evangelion, Raxhephon, Patlabor, Macross etc etc. Alot of people are hardcore kit builders whereas I prefer figures to kits. I like to take them out of the box ASAP and display them instead of having to assemble a bagillion small plastic parts where the end product never looks as sweet as whats on the box. It also enables them to wreck havoc quicker. I just recently grabbed the revoltech Mazinkaiser, GR-2 and Patlabor Ingram 02 from amazon the other day and damn these revoltech figures are pimp grain quality. Ive also been snatching up some of the Gundam Fix figuration figures which are hella swank as well just not as poseable as the revoltechs but build quality is nice. There needs to be or I need to start a dedicated action figure store here in town. Something with mecha, super hero, designer vinyl and anime/manga figures. Not sure if it would be marketable really but sure would be a choice career change.Wonder what would go into starting such an endevour well let that idea marinate for a bit. I need to get a digi cam so I can start posting pics of the collection as these mecha are vein and will laser your mom if they dont have pics on teh webz.Giant Robots will pwn your soul!

Its been getting really cold lately winter is finally setting in and there is nothing like a hot cup of chai to warm up with. We normally go to Zencha tea salon to get chai as its some of the best in town but being late on a sunday they where already closed. So out of the need for some sort of hot beverage we strayed over to one of the neighborhood cafes called apropos. Standard coffee house at first until you realize they sale/serve wine and beer both on tap and bottled! Not just any beer they have a good selection of tastey imports and a whole partitioned room for the wine buffs. So along with my very tastey cup of chai I treated myself to a bottle of Chimay which made it a bit easier to get comfortable despite the metal chairs. Ira, Matt, Thomas and I sat around and chilled out for a couple of hours and had a surprisingly good time on a sunday night. Speaking of hours they are open until 11pm on Sundays and its only a couple minutes from the apartment total score! Also the wifi is free and the coffee and food is quite yum if your ever in the area check it out.

Families are complicated the further you branch out even more so. Trying to figure out what uncle this 2nd cousin comes from or where great grand mothers 1st husband sits on the tree can be a bit daunting. Geni is a new web app that is here to make those connections a bit easier. Its basicly a web based family tree application powered by that fancy “web 2.0″ magic you have come to love or hate. I spent some time setting up my tree today and was able to scope out my immediate family in about 10 minutes. You start off with yourself and then branch out from there. You are represented by a square with navigation arrows around it. When you select up it wants you to select your parents when you go left or right it wants you to select your siblings and or spouse and down your children etc. The divorced check box makes things interesting for my tree atleast, it pieces together the connections that until now have just been a jumbled mess in my head and makes it all into a neat interactive web tree graph. The nifty part is that it just doesnt stop at your family if there is another connection down the line with a tree another user created it will jump into that tree. The idea is to get a ton of people on geni and have a massive geneology map and give you the ability to query your connections with others. Who knows it could link back up to the og alien humanoids somehow. This stuff is interesting to me and ill probably follow it and see how things develop. Right now its getting smashed by digg so the site is currently down.But def check it out we could be related somehow.

Being so close to paying my car off and not having a car payment you would think that I would have no interest whatsoever in getting a new vehicle. Wrong! As of late ive been obsessing over getting a mini cooper ’s’ and cruising around being all sechsie little and fast. Ive been surfing autotrader for a couple hours today being tempted by the evil gods of consumerism and damn it I want one bad oh so bad. This thing takes turns like no other and would atleast be as quick if not quicker then my current GSR. I dare not take a test drive, for fear that I would buy one on the spot so im gonna try and stay my ass away from dealer rooms. Everything is a bit more future modern with this car both interior and exterior, the dual moon roof heated leather seats and sexy looking dash makes my Acura look as if it is from the early 80s. Not to mention being able to park pretty much anywhere I damn well please due to its “mini” size. BMW being behind the engineering doesnt hurt either damn them germans and their maths. I am definitly weighing my options and in reality its not the best one to take so ill probably pay off the teg and drive it to death while saving buckets of money instead. Eventually I will have one damnit!