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Brilliant political move or not – this is why Obama should be president.

Well – I haven’t posted much since school started on the second. Things are good two weeks in, you know, considering classes last week were canceled Wednesday through Friday. . .

Someone hates Iowa. We’ve had a record tornado season already, followed by record flooding. Down town Waterloo and Cedar Falls are WRECKED. Cedar Rapids is going through it now – things are just not good in that department. You can check out some pictures here.

My preorder of Metal Gear Solid 4 royally screwed me over. It should have been here Friday, but I think between flooded roads and the detour on I-380 I’ll be lucky if it gets here Monday. So much for over-night shipping.

My weekend was going to consist of dominating the game by today, writing a review tonight, doing something socially entertaining later tonight, and rechecking my homework tomorrow. So much for that. At least the homework part is getting done.

One highlight to this weekend? Ace Enders (of former The Early November fame) released a free album online via Fuse. Checking it out now, half way in – and I like it. You can get the album (streamed or song by song) here.

I just finished reading this article on NYtimes.com about the Phoenix lander and the team using twitter to answer questions for the public and keep kind of a public relations mini-blog. Pretty freakin’ cool.

I’ve been using Twitter since around June of 2007 I think, and while it’d be more useful in a bigger town for the mobile services, it’s pretty neat in general. You can check my updates here.

How cool would this be in the class room? Imagine you’re in an elementary or junior high science class and your science teacher is pretty knowledgeable of the web. He creates a MrSmithsClass twitter account for use in the class room where students can ask him questions about homework or he can post assignments or extra credit work.

Now imagine he tells you that you can ask him questions about the Phoenix lander. He makes a list of the top 10/20/whatever questions his students asked and asks @MarsPhoenix, who proceeds to answer questions. It may be through the internet but that’s an opportunity for young minds in the middle of no where to ask real questions and communicate with an actual NASA team.

Maybe I’m just a geek, but I think that sounds amazing.