Gruber of Daring Fireball is twittering a couple images, here, of McCain from the final debate with messages like “Not Photoshopped” and “Seriously, whats wrong with this man?”. Now, I’m as big of an Obama supporter as I can be and truly feel McCain is more of a character then a candidate, but I think this is just pointless. After the debate ended, McCain shook hands with Obama, and then went to go around the table to shake Bob Schieffer’s hand. Schieffer had already shaken Obama’s hand to the left of the table, McCain tried moving to that side of the table to do the same. Schiefer didn’t see McCain move that way, went to go to the right side of the table to shake McCain’s hand. They both then realized it, and each changed directions twice, each attempting to go to the other’s side of the table, in what quickly became a game of keeping 180º apart. McCain made the expression on his face then.

I think McCain has done enough wrong in this campaign that we don’t need to take the pointless shot. Like it or not, he can still become President. And while I can no longer bring myself to do it for Bush, the next man that wins the office will not be “Obama” or “McCain”. It will be “The President” or “President Obama/McCain”. I truly hope either of these man can bring respect back to the office. But until then, lets do our best not to destroy them and make them look as pathetic as possible. Their records speak enough for themselves.

"You can't swim!? It's the fall thats gunna kill ya!"

Today we lost a legend.

An article about some of the history of the soon to be former New York Mets home. An interesting read.

I was at a coffee shop the other day and there was a man there using his laptop. Not an unusual occurrence of course, thats at every coffee shop these days I think. What set this guy apart was that he had never taken the protective film that ships on the computer off. Now, this is a pet peeve of mine, and it's one of the first things I do when I get something new. But it made me wonder why he would choose to do this. It could be that he didn't want to scratch the surface of the computer's case, thus keeping it looking good. However, to me, keeping the film on makes it look bad, so, it seems like it's contradicting. I guess he could have just not known, but I doubt that. The edges were showing pretty clearly, so I would think he had to know. Sometimes I just don't get it. Hopefully the thing falls off sooner rather then later.

Apple recently updated iTunes to version 7.7 to coincide with the release of the iPhone Application Store *This link will open the application store in iTunes*. Since the release of this update, I've noticed that I can no longer use CoverSutra to do music searching. At first I thought it was just my MacBook Pro being a little flaky. But after a few restarts and some other playing around, I went to Google and found my answer. In a blog post by Sophie Teutschler at Sophiestication Software, it is explained that the new iTunes update breaks the latest build of CoverSutra. In the post a link to an older version which is compatible with iTunes 7.7 is given to hold you over until CoverSutra 2.5 is ready. Sophie goes on to say that 2.5 is already in development and expected, at the very least, to be a public beta in the coming weeks.

Check out some of the amazing photos taken by Nick Brandt of African wildlife. Some of them are simply stunning.

It is stuff like this that has forced me to stop watching Baseball Tonight. If they can get Eric Young to stop saying "souvenir city" every 10 seconds, they might have a chance of getting me back. Yes, congratulations Eric, you found a catch phrase, now shut the hell up.

I'm not much of a poetry guy, but I heard this one a few years ago and it's always stuck with me. I hope you enjoy it.

"The Country" by Billy Collins

I wondered about you
when you told me never to leave
a box of wooden, strike-anywhere matches
lying around the house because the mice

might get into them and start a fire.
But your face was absolutely straight
when you twisted the lid down on the round tin
where the matches, you said, are always stowed.

Who could sleep that night?
Who could whisk away the thought
of the one unlikely mouse
padding along a cold water pipe

behind the floral wallpaper
gripping a single wooden match
between the needles of his teeth?
Who could not see him rounding a corner,

the blue tip scratching against a rough-hewn beam,
the sudden flare, and the creature
for one bright, shining moment
suddenly thrust ahead of his time -

now a fire-starter, now a torchbearer
in a forgotten ritual, little brown druid
illuminating some ancient night.
Who could fail to notice,

lit up in the blazing insulation,
the tiny looks of wonderment on the faces
of his fellow mice, onetime inhabitants
of what once was your house in the country?

There is a great photo blog done by The Boston Globe called The Big Picture. I've been following it for a few weeks now and it really is great. Every few days a new topic is chosen and roughly 10 to 15 images are given with small subtext to explain their content. The subjects of their posts has been very diverse and off the top of my head I can think of pictures from the recent Chinese earthquake, Mars and other space photos, the celebration parade in Boston for the NBA champion Boston Celtics and the Olympic diving trials. It really is worth your time to check it out, and it's a quick and easy stop on your daily blog check.

Sounds insanely similar to me.