To All You Mac Haters... Er, My Roommates.

From PC World Magazine: "The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year is a Mac. Try that again: The fastest Windows Vista notebook we've tested this year--or for that matter, ever--is a Mac. Not a Dell, not a Toshiba, not even an Alienware.

The $2419 (plus the price of a copy of Windows Vista, of course) MacBook Pro's PC WorldBench 6 Beta 2 score of 88 beats Gateway's E-265M by a single point, but the MacBook's score is far more impressive simply because Apple couldn't care less whether you run Windows."


Oh snap! And it comes with the "iLife suite of software"... and instant hipster street cred!

Meanwhile, in Middle America....

Know Your Pocomoke: Answers Revealed

First of all, sorry for the delay in posting the correct answers to last week's "Know Your Pocomoke." All four of us happened to be out of town this weekend, and it was the hock that suffered. On to the answers:

1. An honest mistake was made on this question. I wrote that we all lettered in "completely non-academic disciplines," but it turns out that Matt lettered in Diving, which takes at least some rudimentary athleticism. On the other hand, Matt also lettered in Marching Band...which fulfills the "somewhat embarrassing pursuit" criterion. As for the rest of us: Tom lettered in Forensics, James lettered in It's Academic, and Richard recieved a letter for his excellent work on the Math Team.

2. Average age of Pocomoke residents = 25
Fishtanks = 3
Tiki torches = 18 (yes, I actually went outside and counted them)
Car accidents Tom's been in this year = 1

25 x 3 + 18 - 1 = 92

3. Next time you're at Pocomoke (particularly if you're here sometime around 10 AM - 1 PM on a weekend) ask for a Pocomimosa. You'll get a delicious concoction of white grape juice, creme de cassis, and Miller Lite. Don't worry - it's much, much better than it sounds.

McHammer

Girls's Costume Warehouse

For any of our female readers who are still looking for a costume:



Old, but funny.

The Sellout Quotient

Here at Pocomoke we don't read newspapers and in general avoid media because of its liberal agenda. This article from the Washington Post happened to slip through however and is worth passing on. The author has come up with an equation for quantifying how much a band has sold out. And the name for this index of selling out? The Moby Quotient.

I'm not really sure what pi has to do with selling out or why it is involved with the equation. (no "vicious circle" jokes please)

Who's Going to be An Inventor?!?!?!?!?!..... James!

200-What is Pittsburgh

400-What is the Internet

600-What is Ruff

800-What is the 8th of December

1000-Who is James

Congratulations to all our contestants. And by the way Lydia, this was the jeopardy round, the values doubled in 2001 so in double jeopardy the max is now 2000.