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May 02, 2004 -- 11:42 PM
posted by P
- I am back.
It's time to play the game. Care to try?
May 02, 2004 -- 7:07 PM
posted by Pam
- 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?
May 02, 2004 -- 5:30 PM
posted by alison again
- 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.
May 02, 2004 -- 5:07 PM
posted by alison
- 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?
May 02, 2004 -- 4:26 PM
posted by alison
- well, I'd rather be Drew Barrymore than Arnold Schwartzenegger any day
| You are 25% geek | OK, so maybe you ain't a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you're probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you. |
May 02, 2004 -- 3:17 PM
posted by Jere
- Well, uhhhh... I got nothin.
| You are 21% geek | OK, so maybe you ain't a geek. You do, at least, show a bit of interest in the world around you. Either that, or you have enough of a sense of humor to pick some of the sillier answers on the test. Regardless, you're probably a pretty nifty, well-rounded person who gets along fine with people and can chat with just about anyone without fear of looking stupid or foolish or overly concerned with minutiae. God, I hate you. |
Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com
May 02, 2004 -- 3:10 PM
posted by Beck
- Hey Par,
I got SuSE to load finally, but I'm having a problem with some things...
The screen resolution can only be small or smaller for some reason (800x600 or 640x480)
And the damn thing doesn't recognize my sound card.
Goddammit!!!
May 02, 2004 -- 3:04 PM
posted by Beck
| You are 29% 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.
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May 02, 2004 -- 1:15 PM
posted by Par
- The ever popular (?) Geek Quiz.
| You are 34% 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.
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Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com
Hey, is there any way we can do something anti-Friends on Thursday? I'm not sure what it would be, I'm just sick to death about hearing about the life altering experience that is the 3-hour (if you include the one-hour special) sobbing, tear-jerking, life-altering, world-hunger-solving, peace-on-earth-bringing finale.
May 02, 2004 -- 10:19 AM
posted by Beck
- How the hell can they read me like this?
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