Evan Agee: Live from Richmond Indiana

I’m very excited that I’m going to have another chance to go back to Arizona to visit family for Thanksgiving! I’ll be going alone since Kristen can’t get the time off of school but I’m still very excited. I’m planning to squeeze as much as possible into the 5 days while I’m there.

I’ll be leaving Monday November 23rd and getting back the following Friday. As far as I know we’re going to see the Grand Canyon straight from the airport when I arrive. I fully expect to fill up my 4gb memory card with photos multiple times. I’ve never seen the grand canyon and have been looking forward to this for years. Expect a Flickr overload.

Other than that I’m sure there will be at least 1 day spent watching one movie after another at the the theater (a tradition we try to uphold each time I visit) and some great food. The visit will be wonderful and I’m looking forward to the time off of work. Been putting in many, many hours for the last couple of months, though getting some wonderful stuff done.

It’s something I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time, and today I’m happy to announce The Lost Mystery Podcast with Anton and Evan! My cousin Anton and I have created this podcast to serve those who are just getting onto the LOST bandwagon. Those who have been LOST-a-holics have had many podcasts to help feed their addiction to LOST-related content, but until now there hasn’t been much out there for those who are just now starting to watch the show.

We’re going back to the very beginning of season 1 of LOST and making our way through to the very end of the series. While I myself have been addicted to LOST since the beginning, Anton has just started watching the show and is getting more hooked by the day. So far it’s his unspoiled views that have made the podcast so entertaining to recent and long-time LOST viewers alike.

So, check out our website, subscribe to the show and let us know what you think!

My wife recently purchased an Apple TV for me as a birthday present. I was very excited as I’ve wanted one since they released the 2.0 update which no longer required that you have a computer connected to it in order to watch/buy/rent movies from iTunes.

Since then I’ve converted my entire DVD collection to my computer for instant access on the Apple TV, purchased more than a few movies and TV shows from the iTunes Store and have spent far more time than I expected browsing YouTube videos. But there’s something missing…

I’ve been a Netflix user for several years now. A year or so ago they announced the ability to watch many of their library videos directly on their website instantly, which was huge. The cost of the membership seemed instantly more worthwhile. The only downside is it’s windows only (due to DRM issues) and while I don’t mind setting up a Windows partition on my Mac Pro I’d prefer to not have to reboot my computer to take advantage of this great feature. So this got me thinking, will we ever see the ability to watch Netflix movies directly from the Apple TV?

The Roku set-top box (and soon the XBox 360, if you have an XBox LIVE Gold membership) offers this ability right now, but that’s the ONLY ability it has. No online store for buying movies, no access to movies on your computer, nothing. I would love to have the ability to browse and play the titles Netflix has available for online streaming directly from my Apple TV. This would not only bring incredible value to my Netflix membership but (I think) would also dramatically increase the appeal of the Apple TV.

Netflix has announced that their online streaming service will be available to Mac users before the end of the year; could this mean the ability to watch Netflix movies on the Apple TV isn’t far behind? Oh please let it be so!

After about seven years of living in Richmond Kristen and I are finally back to living in our hometown of Centerville! Sure, it’s right next door to Richmond so we’ve never been very far away, but I can tell you that there’s a big difference living here.

This town holds a lot of meaning for both of us, we met in high school and spent most of our first years together doing things around this town. Some of my greatest memories in life happened in this town. It’s really wonderful to be living here again. Kristen is also enjoying being only a couple of minutes from the school.

The new house is coming along very well. We’re in the middle of a large kitchen remodel and that should come to an end within the next week or so. We’ve been ripping up carpet, cleaning floors, tidying up the yard and all sorts of fun projects.

Things are a bit crazy with work right now as I’m trying to get caught up after being off for over a week. Shouldn’t be too long before things are back in full swing though!