I just got this in an email advertising face to face training available at the apple store.  Apparently she could really use it because it’s going to be hard to use that MacBook Air with it facing the wrong direction…

Here’s a comment from the digg story about Obama winning the election. thoughts?

and just for good measure here’s another one.  I thought this was humorous.

I had this thought a couple months ago but never got around to sharing it, let me know what you think.

iPhone home screen feature request from Joshua J. Campoverde on Vimeo.

I was playing around, changing the music to this iPod commercial and I came up with this.  Feel free to share your thoughts.  I think it kind of channels “iPod nanos of doom”

Nanochromatic [Justice Remix] from Joshua J. Campoverde on Vimeo.

Reading through various articles reporting on last night’s vice presidential debate I came across Who Won The VP Debate? on The Huffington Post. One statement (speaking about Palin) in the article briefly reminded me of a short conversation I had while watching the debate.

Many respondents, meanwhile, said she came off as a “regular American.”

I agree with my roommate’s statement about the vice presidential (and presidential) candidates. I want them to be smarter than me. The presidential and vice-presidential elects will quickly become the two most powerful people in the nation. I think it follows that we as citizens would hope that they would also be two of the most intelligent or otherwise skilled people in the country. This is just something to think about as you follow the election. I don’t want a regular American to be president, I want an extraordinary American to lead this country.

I saw this yesterday and thought it was an interesting way to convey the pro-Obama message. I also thought it was cool that a political campaign created something entirely based on “mashup culture”

Personally I’ve been following this presidential election more closely than any past election in my lifetime. Here are a couple good/cool links I’ve found for tracking election information.

RealClearPolitics is a great source of links to articles and blogs from large media outlets. They also have a good overview of recent polling information.

FiveThirtyEight is all about polling information and statistical analysis. If you like politics and you like numbers you’ll probably find something up your alley on this site. There is a LOT of information here to help you visualize the race.

TheLivingRoomCandidate is an archive of past/present campaign videos and advertisements. You can learn a lot and see how ad strategies have been used in the past and continue to be used today.

Hopefully you’ll find some good reading on any or all of these sites, and if you have any others I didn’t mention, feel free to share the link.

Jack and I went to the Sox game last night, and we were both really stoked because it was our first Sox-Yankees game. Unfortunately it didn’t work out too well.

First, the start was delayed about an hour and a half. That was ok, Jack and I expected this and just chilled at the apartment until NESN said the game was gonna start, so we didn’t have to sit out in the cold.

So here’s the view from the seats we had

Then just into the fifth inning, some serious rain started and we went into rain delay. When you’re down 12-5 at this point, you kinda cheering for the rain hoping they’ll call the game. That’s what we did.

Because the game had a delayed start there were a good number of people who just didn’t show up, during the rain delay even more people left and fenway got pretty empty.

Once the game restarted we upgraded. These seats were about ten rows back from the field, right next to the red sox on deck circle.

Then the iPhone camera glitched. I’m pretty disappointed Apple hasn’t fixed this yet. It also still takes about 6 seconds for the iPhone camera to start up to a point where you can take a picture. That makes it really tough to get a quick picture, which hinders the benefits of having a super mobile camera built into your phone.

Eventually we re-upgraded and this time our seats were in the third row. It was pretty awesome, we didn’t manage to get a ball though. We got to see Jacoby a couple times, he’s pretty awesome.

The end of the game was a bit rough, but at least we scored a few runs. We’re pretty sure they scored those runs because Jack and I put on our rally caps for the bottom of the ninth.

Then after the game we met up with more friends

here’s the before and after

There are two things I have a tendency to do quite often.  Stay up really late, and IM friends/family/whoever.  Every once in a while these two events reach and extreme and combine to a perfect storm.  When that happens I wake up in the living room or with my face on the keyboard to IM windows that look like this.