I recently told some friends that hell would freeze over before I used twitter.
Well, el Diablo has on his thermals because I spent most of this morning reading a twitter feed from a former co-worker whose nom de blog is Fake Steve Jobs.
It was the funniest stream I’ve ever seen. I could easily imagine myself back in the old days sitting in a meeting with fellow PCWeek staffer Dan Lyons quipping wise beside me. And making me aspirate coffee and then having it come out all brimstone-like from my nose.
At one point today I was laughing so hard at FakeSteve’s twitter feed I almost had an incontinent moment.
Over the years, I’ve covered a lot of Apple announcements and sat in absolute amazement as the fanboys and girls cheered every scripted moment of Apple’s Dear Leader remarks.
Looking back over a lifetime covering technology I really wish the over the top satire of Fake Steve Jobs had appeared much sooner. But, through the fog of more than two decades I distinctly remember sitting in a cubicle in PCWeek’s home office on Boylston St. in Boston on my monthly trips in from the West Coast Bureau and laughing very hard at the high satire of two fellow staffers, Dan Lyons and Dave Churbuck.
For a good laugh, go here.
What makes Fake Steve Job’s blog even funnier is this: until today its author had never been to an Apple press conference.—Jim Forbes 01/15/2003.
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