I found this great link on the fake steve jobs blog.  It is interactive, so be sure to click around and explore everything.  I especially liked the solitaire and word applications.  It has apparently been around for awhile, but still good nonetheless.

This is one of the most entertaining blogs I have read. It doesn’t hurt that it is mostly about apple products, but nonetheless, it is very humorous. It was in the news this week because a journalist from the NYT finally figured out who was writing the blog, apparently another journalist from Forbes. The entire blog is supposedly written by Steve Jobs, the CEO of Apple, and it is absolutely hilarious.

What is even more funny is that now everyone is up in arms at the NYT reporter who uncovered the real writer of the blog. The original article from the Times is here. Interestingly, the Times has removed the comments from the article. I first ran across the article a few days ago and the reporter, Brad Stone, was getting flamed by readers who were upset that he “ruined all the fun.” Here is a quote from one of the comments on nytimes.com.

Thanks, Brad! Couldn’t leave well enough alone, could you? I feel like a kid whose older brother just couldn’t keep his yap shut, spilling his ‘insider knowledge’ about Santa Claus. What a frigtard.

The good news is that the blog will still be written as usual, just sponsored by forbes.com.

I had a profitable visit to East St. Louis today, perhaps making up for last Friday’s nightmare. I delivered some school supplies to the Christian Activities Center from my local church and started walking around the neighborhood a little bit. It was unbelievable hot today, and I was about to fry after walking for 20 minutes. I ran into some nice fellas that lived in the Samuel L. Gompers Housing Complex, and talked to them for a couple of hours. They were very gracious and welcoming, although they beat me several times in checkers. I swear I’ve never heard of any of the rules they were playing with. I will be posting photos as soon as I get them back from the lab and get a chance to scan them.

I also managed to run across this great audio program from NPR’s All Things Considered from July 20, 2005. All Things Considered did a story on East St. Louis and interviewed people from the housing project that I am documenting. I encourage you to listen, it is only about 10 minutes long and sheds some light into many of the problems that are plaguing East St. Louis.

I have changed the look of the site again. I know constantly changing the site is getting old, but I am looking for a theme that I really like so I can keep it and stop changing it. I am going to modify this current theme to match my color palette a little better, and I would also like to design a logo for myself that will appear on this site and on my photography site.

Last Friday I went to East St. Louis and had one of the worst days of shooting in my life. I talked to 4 or 5 different groups of people and everyone declined to have their picture taken. I was in East St. Louis for about 5 hours and didn’t take a single picture! I drove home and was extremely disappointed and discouraged. I wondered what I was doing up there, and why I should continue working on a project that seemed to be so difficult to accomplish. The discouragement of last Friday has worn off, and I am looking forward to delving back into the documentary and pressing on. I spoke with my professors this week, and I think I have decided to narrow my project down to a single large housing project within East St. Louis. A documentary on the entire city would not give me the depth and intimacy that I am looking for, and would not allow me to create close relationships with people. I am more interested in showing the lives of a few people, rather than the entire city, and I need to be able to have sustainable relationships that will help lead me to other people. I have already picked out which housing project I am going to be working on, and I will continue working there when I return tomorrow. My choice of shooting a single housing is reminiscent of Bruce Davidson’s East 100th Street documentary.

In other news, Emily has finally left town to go to school at Boyce Bible College in Louisville, KY. I can’t believe the summer is finally over and she is starting school on Monday! I knew the day would finally come when she would leave, but like everything else, it just crept up on me, and now the reality of not being able to spend time with her has hit me. So now I will be spending the majority of my Friday and Saturday nights at home for the time being. It’s hard to believe that I have lived in Illinois for two years now. That is really crazy for me to wrap my head around. It seems like only yesterday that my parents were moving me into this house and leaving me to start a new life on my own in graduate school.  I’m going to miss you Emily.