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Forget Built-In Spellcheck (6/1/01)
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Finally, an upbeat quickie to send you merrily on your weekend way: the annual Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee finished up yesterday, as 13-year-old walking dictionary Sean Conley snagged the trophy by correctly spelling the word "succedaneum" while spinning six plates on sticks and drinking a glass of water. (Actually, we're just assuming that last part; it's possible that the contest sponsors may have eliminated the talent portion of the competition in recent years. We wonder if two-piece swimsuits are allowed these days?)
What does this have to do with Apple, you ask? Well, faithful viewer Russell Maggio noticed that in the photograph of the winner and his parents, his father is very clearly wearing a black Mac OS X t-shirt. Yeah, tell us it's a coincidence. We dare you. As faithful viewer FatMacMan puts it, "Smart Kid... Smart Dad!" And really, if the father is enough of a Mac enthusiast to don the Aqua "X," what are the odds that his kid doesn't have a Mac, too? Do we sense an imminent product endorsement? We can see the commercials now: "'Preemptive multitasking.' P, R, E, E..."
Incidentally, none of the AtAT staff has ever even made it to the state level in the National Spelling Bee; Jack came close, once, but even at the tender age of twelve, his sense of paranoia was sufficiently well-developed to lead him to believe that "quern" couldn't possibly be spelled as it sounds, and thus was he smacked down at regionals. Perhaps if he had owned an Apple computer at that time things would have been different-- or better yet, a Mac OS X shirt could have fallen through a wormhole in the space-time continuum and found its way into his father's wardrobe. It's all about the big blue "X," people...
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Other scenes from that episode: 3088: Mac Retail: If It's Broke, Fix It (6/1/01) Okay, so Apple has its own retail stores, now, and by all accounts they kick major booty-- so why should any of us care whether or not Apple's other retailers are performing below par? Well, the short answer is that while, for instance, CompUSA has over 200 locations across the country, Apple so far has, um, two... 3089: Invasion Even On Home Turf (6/1/01) Geez, maybe it's time we cut the retailers a little slack; after all, can we really fault, say, CompUSA with carrying a less-than-compelling selection of Mac-compatible software if even Apple can't keep Windows-only software from infesting its shelves?...
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