Anyone looked at how LAME this message board was a year ago? 2003/05/30 , its birthday is soon.

so exhausted. and not in a positive physical way like my field job last year.
this is a morally and mentally exhausted sort of way.
oh, and monetarily. Apparently the cannot deduct my key deposit from my pay for the first month. argh!
Plus, two people didn't pick up their clothing, probably $100, that has to be paid (by me! with no money) to Subtitles very soon.
I am so exhausted. Four more days until the weekend!

But, on a happier note, I have keys to my office now! Woo hoo!
not that I can use my computer though, I have no identity on it, and I have no password, this is great.
and of course the volunteer computer doesn't have the documents or access I need to get to the important stuff like the web message board I am in charge of for moderation. This is great!

Geek liason mode activated:

OMGWTFBBQ = Oh My God What The Fuck Bring Beck Quiznos

NOW DO IT!!!

On top of that, there's this brilliant quote from the paper:


The NPB suite consists of five kernels (EP, MG, FT, CG, IS) and three pseudo-applications (LU, SP, BY) programs.



By the way, Acronym Finder won't save me now.

Ah, acronyms. The paper I'm reading right now is UPC Performance and Potential: A NPB Experimental Study. UPC = Unified Parallel C. That acronym is simple enough. NPB? Well, finally on page 11, they let me know that NPB stands for NAS Parallel Benchmarks.

...

(NAS, for those of you, like me, who are painfully ignorant of this obvious acronym, is Numerical Aerodynamic Simulation. Who developed this simulation? Why, NASA, of course. OMGWTFBBQ!)

You are 30% geek

You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator. Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend. You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You'll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines! Geek [to You]: I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals! You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

I am back.


It's time to play the game. Care to try?

INSERT COIN

23% Geek - no geekfest for me :(

So little Bits was fun today - I had two people ask me if a 12 year old was pregnant
-we had a motorcyclist fall into a pasture (he had to be taken away)
and I kid crying for 45 mins of the lesson(and i did nothing).
along with the daily crap that goes on which is enough to drive someone up the wall

Oh the joys

Why do i teach?

okay, so even when I tried to answer all the questions (save the music ones) with the utmost geek-ness in mind, I still only got 54% what am I missing? But I did go an check out all the possible answers, and their choices for geek, at least female geek are mind boggling. Kirsten Dunst? totally not a geek. And Jeneane Garofalo? nerd? how about political activist, commedian and empowered woman? or I suppose not acceptable in a quiz that tries to slot your personality into little compartments...

And then I found this quotation that really insults us "nerds" and makes me feel better for not sharing all my exciting plant knowledge with you all:
"Geeks rule. Where geek are socially-inept, nerds are socially incompetent. Not even geeks can take nerds. ... It's OK to be a geek, but go much further and you'll be a genuine bore." ouch.
Am I a bore? I just thought I was someone who couldn't make money off of what they know to the same extent that geeks can. And I like that definition much better than this one.

I have a complaint to register with that quiz.
(and my incredibly slow computer... different topic, sorry)

It said it was a "polygeek quiz", and the questions were still all about computers.
where's the representation of the "many types of geek" they said would be in it?
Yes, I realize, I'm a nerd, not a geek.
But there are legitimate geek groups that were not included, given the tagline of the quiz.
Plus, many of those questions did not have answers for me.
I suppose my pseudo-anti-technologist stance puts me at a slight disadvantage in this quiz though. CDs & MP3s; apparently the assumption was that if you didn't listen to MP3s you were obviously ignorant to different types of music, bastards. I knew most of the groups listed, I just don't have the money to go out and purchase them; nor, perhaps, the desire to. so there. Nor the time or interest to download. Plus, I don't mind supporting less than mainstream artists by purchasing their cds as opposed to downloading their music for free. What does that make me? totally different from the rest of society, apparently, and therefore not included in the quiz, bastards!


Okay, and considering the polygeek-ness of the quiz, what exactly are the other types of geek?