totally relevant
Susan A. Nour
http://www.innergeek.us/
at 28.79684% I am a Total Geek.
I think I get extra points for being disappointed with my score.
fieldhdj
> the geek test, i'm sure some of us have taken it before:
Not only that, but I saved my score. 43.3925% - Major Geek.
How's that for geekness?
Shilajit T Gangulee
: Susan A. Nour:
: > the geek test, i'm sure some of us have taken it before:
: Not only that, but I saved my score. 43.3925% - Major Geek.
: How's that for geekness?
38.2643%. And i'm a cool stud. This test is flawed.
David Bowie
: Susan A. Nour:
:: the geek test, i'm sure some of us have taken it before:
: Not only that, but I saved my score. 43.3925% - Major Geek.
: How's that for geekness?
Pretty good--you should get bonus points for saving your score, i'd say.
I broke the Super Geek barrier: 46.54832%
I'm a little disappointed, though, that even though results were reported
to the 5th decimal place, it's not entirely clear how they arrived at the
result.
<pause>
No, wait a minute, that's not a criticism of the Geek Test, that's a
criticism of variationist sociolinguistics. My bad.
--
David Bowie http://pmpkn.net/lx
Jeanne's Two Laws of Chocolate: If there is no chocolate in the
house, there is too little; some must be purchased. If there is
chocolate in the house, there is too much; it must be consumed.
fieldhdj
> 38.2643%. And i'm a cool stud. This test is flawed.
Ahem. Thats pretty high. I think some remedial fightin', drinkin', and
fuckin' is in order.
James Andrews
18.93491% - Geek
i'm ok with that.
Anne E. McDonald
: 18.93491% - Geek
i got 5.9% - Poser
yes, i WISH i were a geek, and not just a catlady nerd.
Jennifer Erica Sweda
hey!! one of the questions is: i want to be a ... librarian
!!
that's total bs.
(and luckily for me, I basically didn't even understand the rest of the
questions).
Anne E. McDonald
: (and luckily for me, I basically didn't even understand the rest of the
: questions).
haha. i didn't either.
but really, is there anyone who doesn't know more than ten symbols for
chemical elements?
David Bowie
I'll have to check if Jeanne does. She's an engineer, and her undergrad
degree was in physics, but she never took a chemistry course in college.
She also scored low (in the low 20s) on the geek test, proving the test is
flawed.
Jennifer Erica Sweda
, David Bowie <db....@pmpkn.net> wrote:
>And lo, Anne E. McDonald did write:
>: Jennifer Erica Sweda (jes...@pobox.upenn.edu) wrote:
>
>:: (and luckily for me, I basically didn't even understand the rest of
>:: the questions).
>
>: haha. i didn't either.
>
>: but really, is there anyone who doesn't know more than ten symbols for
>: chemical elements?
>
>I'll have to check if Jeanne does. She's an engineer, and her undergrad
>degree was in physics, but she never took a chemistry course in college.
>
>She also scored low (in the low 20s) on the geek test, proving the test is
>flawed.
>
i honestly didn't understand most of it. thank god.
Anne E. McDonald
: I'll have to check if Jeanne does. She's an engineer, and her undergrad
believe me, i didn't take chem in college either.
Calamity Jane
not quite a total geek
I think my score's gone up since LEAVING STWing...
Jim Kriebel
17.15976 % - Geek.
Good thing there's nothing about quoting the Simpsons.
milhousely,
Jim
Anne E. McDonald
you've never been to a LAN gaming party? hosted a con?
uh, what?
Crazed Campaign Worker
wait, you guys haven't?
58.77712%
did I type that out loud?
--
"Now lock onto the strongest power source. It should be the pants." --Lando
Jennifer Erica Sweda
Crazed Campaign Worker <i...@force.stwing.upenn.edu> wrote:
>Anne E. McDonald (aemc...@mail2.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:
>> Jennifer Erica Sweda (jes...@pobox.upenn.edu) wrote:
>>: i honestly didn't understand most of it. thank god.
>>
>>
>> you've never been to a LAN gaming party? hosted a con?
>
>wait, you guys haven't?
>
>58.77712%
>
>did I type that out loud?
man. talk about incompatible.>
Anne E. McDonald
: >
: >did I type that out loud?
: man. talk about incompatible.>
according to experts*, opposites attract.
*paula abdul
Miss Kimberly
: the geek test, i'm sure some of us have taken it before:
: http://www.innergeek.us/
: at 28.79684% I am a Total Geek.
12.82051 - Geekish tendencies.
Mainly because of my association with gamers, I think. I mean, I never
watch Star Trek, but I can name characters, just because we can't play a
game of celebrities without someone submitting Captain Kirk or some other
nonsense. And one of my ex-boyfriends dragged me to two Star Trek movies
that I otherwise wouldn't have seen. They're trying to convert me to geekdom!
Kimberly
--
"I don't care about fat white people." -Karen Byrd
Jennifer Erica Sweda
eventually the repel. sometimes in just a few months.
i thought today was milli vanilli, btw. no?>
>
>
>*paula abdul
Anne E. McDonald
: i thought today was milli vanilli, btw. no?>
oh. blame it on the rain?
Kieran Snyder
I wish I could get Milli Vanilli to perform at my party tomorrow. That
would be even better than Hall and Oates.
Jennifer Erica Sweda
I decided that I'm going to flirt with people via email using only Milli
Vanilli lyrics from now on.
Susan A. Nour
: : >58.77712%
: : >
: : >did I type that out loud?
: : man. talk about incompatible.>
: according to experts*, opposites attract.
: *paula abdul
damn you! now that song is in my head.
David Bowie
<snip>
: 58.77712%
: did I type that out loud?
<deep bow of respect and admiration>
Kieran Snyder
Kieran Snyder
Now THAT'S geeky. In a sad, sad kind of way.
fieldhdj
> I decided that I'm going to flirt with people via email using only Milli
> Vanilli lyrics from now on.
Your SCA application is on its way.
Jennifer Erica Sweda
TC), Kieran Snyder <kmsn...@babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>Jennifer Erica Sweda <jes...@pobox.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>On Fri, 22 Oct 2004 18:35:21 +0000 (UTC
>>), Kieran Snyder <kmsn...@babel.ling.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>>Anne E. McDonald <aemc...@mail2.sas.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>>>Jennifer Erica Sweda (jes...@pobox.upenn.edu) wrote:
>>>>: eventually the repel. sometimes in just a few months.
>>>>
>>>>: i thought today was milli vanilli, btw. no?>
>>>>
>>>>oh. blame it on the rain?
>>>
>>>I wish I could get Milli Vanilli to perform at my party tomorrow. That
>>>would be even better than Hall and Oates.
>>
>>I decided that I'm going to flirt with people via email using only Milli
>>Vanilli lyrics from now on.
>
>Now THAT'S geeky. In a sad, sad kind of way.
Girl, you know it's true.
Jim Alexander
50.4931 - Super Geek
I think I should get extra points for having first taken one of these tests
circa 1992, long before the web was more than an internal tool at CERN,
scoring it by hand.
--
________ Jim Alexander __________________ ja...@cis.upenn.edu ________________
I have yet to see a problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it
in the right way, did not become still more complicated. -- Poul Anderson
Crazed Campaign Worker
>
> 50.4931 - Super Geek
>
> I think I should get extra points for having first taken one of these tests
> circa 1992, long before the web was more than an internal tool at CERN,
> scoring it by hand.
That's a very good point. Do I get half points for downloading one via
gopher around 1994?
--
"Judge me by my pants, do you?" --Yoda
Miss Kimberly
: Susan A. Nour (sn...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu) wrote:
: : the geek test, i'm sure some of us have taken it before:
: : http://www.innergeek.us/
: : at 28.79684% I am a Total Geek.
: 12.82051 - Geekish tendencies.
Actually, while watching a friend take the test, I realize that I did it
wrong - that movie part, I was only supposed to check off if I had seen
the movies 2+ times. Which didn't count for any of them, I think, except
the Star Wars movies. So I'm even less a geek than I thought!
:)
Jennifer Erica Sweda
>>
>> 50.4931 - Super Geek
>>
>> I think I should get extra points for having first taken one of these tests
>> circa 1992, long before the web was more than an internal tool at CERN,
>> scoring it by hand.
>
>That's a very good point. Do I get half points for downloading one via
>gopher around 1994?
>
i'm unclear as to how one would compute loser points. I mean, would one
add or would one subtract?
Crazed Campaign Worker
Oh, Jennifer. My geekiness and my loserness, though both considerable, are
orthogonal. The scores don't relate.
--
"Guns don't kill people, physics kills people." --Dick Solomon (John
Lithgow), "Third Rock From The Sun"
Jennifer Erica Sweda
0 +0000 (UTC), Crazed Campaign Worker <i...@force.stwing.upenn.edu> wrote:
>Jennifer Erica Sweda (jes...@pobox.upenn.edu) wrote:
>> On Sat, 23 Oct 2004 01:14:58
>> +0000 (UTC), Crazed Campaign Worker <i...@force.stwing.upenn.edu> wrote:
>>>Jim Alexander (ja...@cis.upenn.edu) wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 50.4931 - Super Geek
>>>>
>>>> I think I should get extra points for having first taken one of these tests
>>>> circa 1992, long before the web was more than an internal tool at CERN,
>>>> scoring it by hand.
>>>
>>>That's a very good point. Do I get half points for downloading one via
>>>gopher around 1994?
>>>
>>
>> i'm unclear as to how one would compute loser points. I mean, would one
>> add or would one subtract?
>
>Oh, Jennifer. My geekiness and my loserness, though both considerable, are
>orthogonal. The scores don't relate.
>
I'm a loser, not a geek. Being a historian/librarian doesn't, to my mind,
really constitute geekiness. But don't get me into a. a cemetery or b.
anyplace with historic brickbonds, because I will geek it up to an
unflattering degree. Also? Swedish design, as James can attest, gets me
goin' pretty good, too.
The Land of Ambiguity
> I'm a loser, not a geek. Being a historian/librarian doesn't, to my mind,
> really constitute geekiness. But don't get me into a. a cemetery or b.
> anyplace with historic brickbonds, because I will geek it up to an
> unflattering degree. Also? Swedish design, as James can attest, gets me
> goin' pretty good, too.
IKEA headstones, hmmm....
Jennifer Erica Sweda
sorry. too shocked and depressed (you'd think they wouldn't go together,
and yet they do. they do) to be in the mood for geek, now.
if i could only know where to shake my fist, i would.
David Bowie
: 50.4931 - Super Geek
: I think I should get extra points for having first taken one of these
: tests circa 1992, long before the web was more than an internal tool
: at CERN, scoring it by hand.
Except that you scored it by hand, rather than setting up punch cards to
run as an overnight batch job.
ION, Jeanne explains her low score by pointing out that she, as an
engineer and physicist by career and training, is more of a nerd than a
geek.
Anne E. McDonald
: ION, Jeanne explains her low score by pointing out that she, as an
: geek.
this is my feeling about meself, too.
Jim Alexander
David Bowie <db....@pmpkn.net> wrote:
]And lo, Jim Alexander did write:
]
]: 50.4931 - Super Geek
]
]: I think I should get extra points for having first taken one of these
]: tests circa 1992, long before the web was more than an internal tool
]: at CERN, scoring it by hand.
]
]Except that you scored it by hand, rather than setting up punch cards to
]run as an overnight batch job.
1992 was not near that long ago. A more era-appropriate method might
have been to write a recursive program to tally it and run it on a
LISP machine. I probably actually used a simulated RPN calculator on
a Sun workstation, though. I wouldn't have scored it by paper and
pencil voluntarily.
]ION, Jeanne explains her low score by pointing out that she, as an
]engineer and physicist by career and training, is more of a nerd than a
]geek.
Personally, I don't identify as a nerd, though I am also an engineer,
(astro)physicist and computer scientist by training. As an undergrad,
I was much happier in liberal arts classes (lit classes, russian,
linguistics, etc.) than those in my own major, so maybe that's the
nerd-mitigating factor for me. Since I'm still working on my PhD, the
career thing is still up in the air. Does being on the math/science
side automatically make you a nerd?
A Venn diagram of the geek and nerd populations probably has a huge
overlap, though. Any opinions on what qualities definitely qualify
someone as a nerd, but perhaps not for geekdom?
Anne E. McDonald
: A Venn diagram of the geek and nerd populations probably has a huge
: overlap, though. Any opinions on what qualities definitely qualify
: someone as a nerd, but perhaps not for geekdom?
knowing latin: nerd
making up latin names for your D&D characters: geek
staying home reading on sat night: nerd
staying home reading the hobbit for the 80th time: geek
this is how i see it, anyway.
James Andrews
> A Venn diagram of the geek and nerd populations probably has a huge
> overlap, though. Any opinions on what qualities definitely qualify
> someone as a nerd, but perhaps not for geekdom?
i like to think of it this way:
anne writes little code-y things in some computery language for her job, and
spends her days on usenet. verdict: nerd
ian has a constantly rotating sig that takes star wars quotes and
replaces a word with 'pants.' verdict: geek
Shilajit T Gangulee
: anne writes little code-y things in some computery language for her job, and
: spends her days on usenet. verdict: nerd
: ian has a constantly rotating sig that takes star wars quotes and
: replaces a word with 'pants.' verdict: geek
jas enjoys sex with men. verdict: homo
Kieran Snyder
>Personally, I don't identify as a nerd, though I am also an engineer,
>(astro)physicist and computer scientist by training. As an undergrad,
>I was much happier in liberal arts classes (lit classes, russian,
>linguistics, etc.) than those in my own major, so maybe that's the
>nerd-mitigating factor for me. Since I'm still working on my PhD, the
>career thing is still up in the air. Does being on the math/science
>side automatically make you a nerd?
>
>A Venn diagram of the geek and nerd populations probably has a huge
>overlap, though. Any opinions on what qualities definitely qualify
>someone as a nerd, but perhaps not for geekdom?
Any opinions? Oh god, you've gotten me started.
I am a nerd. I am a consummate nerd. I am not much of a geek. As I
spend time working here I am becoming more geeky in the eyes of the
general population, and yet I've never felt less geeky, bc everyone I
work with and hang out with so clearly outclasses me in this way.
I agree with Anne's characterizations. Geeks are about electronics,
computers, sci-fi, being technical. Nerds are about books.
Dorkiness is a somewhat orthogonal consideration.
(Nerdiness is also about describing dorkiness as a somewhat orthogonal
consideration.)
Edoardo
"Susan A. Nour" <sn...@mail1.sas.upenn.edu> wrote in message
news:clapj8$cmhl$1...@netnews.upenn.edu...
> the geek test, i'm sure some of us have taken it before:
> http://www.innergeek.us/
>
> at 28.79684% I am a Total Geek.
>
Bitches, bow to the Super Geek, at 46.9428%. Without even stretching the
truth.
John Hogan
When you're tired of this test, go pick up your SpamName.
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Crazed Campaign Worker
>
> Any opinions? Oh god, you've gotten me started.
>
> I am a nerd. I am a consummate nerd. I am not much of a geek. As I
> spend time working here I am becoming more geeky in the eyes of the
> general population, and yet I've never felt less geeky, bc everyone I
> work with and hang out with so clearly outclasses me in this way.
>
> I agree with Anne's characterizations. Geeks are about electronics,
> computers, sci-fi, being technical. Nerds are about books.
>
> Dorkiness is a somewhat orthogonal consideration.
>
> (Nerdiness is also about describing dorkiness as a somewhat orthogonal
> consideration.)
no, that last was definitely geeky, not nerdy.
I think you guys are looking too hard for external, quantifiable measures
of nerd versus geek. It's about the spirit. Kieran sort of had it when she
said nerds were about books, but not exactly.
The nerd is a proponent of knowledge for its own sake. The nerd studies
hard. The field of knowledge is essentially irrelevant, although it's
certainly more nerdy if it has as little real-world application as
possible.
The geek, on the other hand, needs to bring his obscure knowledge more
into touch with the rest of the world, to socialize it. He seeks points of
contact. Computer scientist: nerd. Hacker: geek. Astrophysicist: nerd.
Science fiction fan: geek. Et cetera. They are not, obviously, mutually
exclusive.
--
"Don't seem to remember ever owning pants." --Obi Wan
Jennifer Erica Sweda
i'm a librarian who is totally not about books. bcause I RAWK.
also? can someone answer me this one? what is WRONG with engineers? and
calendars? do they not understand how time works? like simple ... clocks
and shit? Really?
David Bowie
: When you're tired of this test, go pick up your SpamName.
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Philosophize H. Sugared.
It would have been cooler if the last name had begun with D, what with my
degree and the first name.