OT: Geek Test

Ben, Add about 4 points for your avitar! Scott

38  Major Geek. But I'm too damn old to be a geek, must be a creek!! Woody

8.8% History channel, trivial pursuit, and DEVO put me on the board. I does bother me I didn't even recognize 2/3 of the things they asked about. I have a lot to learn. DD

Where is it safe to like DEVO any more these days, I've wondered.  History Channel is sad, me thinks (ex: "Modern Marvels" read Three Gorges Dam), compared to History International Channel (ex: at least some coverage to stuff taking place before 1980).

"38.46154% Major Geek"  I guess doing software support for a living and having 3 computers at home (me & my wife) sorta says it all

Confessions of an "Extreme Geek" (It's a sickness) I have; 3 computers and 5 monitors in my home office alone. 3 laptops, a Blackberry and a Treo. More Cell phones than you would believe. No less than three different mapping systems on my computers, because none of them are just right alone. 3 different GPS units, two with remote antennas and data cables to hook them to the laptops a HAM radio license KC5EEW wired my whole house with CAT 5 cable two separate wireless routers / networks running at home. (One for the wife and kids, one for me) 3 different printers in the home. Laser, color inkjet, and a multifunction scanner, fax, copier, toaster oven thing. (for which I actually read the entire manual) 6 different email addresses I use regularly an Apple IIe in the garage that still works. Three different books on how to play Bridge. memorized all the legal 2 letter words that can be used in Scrabble. I'm just getting started here, but you all probably already think I am crazy enough. JP  

no Sun gear? no SGI stuff? I have 2 computers in the living room,  and a printer. 5x sun workstations in the machine room/den 3x SGI workstations in the machine room write a technically oriented blog at  http://uadmin.blogspot.com do computer consulting work from home for clients up to 8500 miles away been using computers for over 20 years have cellphones and the house is wired for cat5,  have 3 routers/switches in active use plus a wireless one. have played computer games for longer than 12 hours at once. have a dozen or so computer/techno related shirts waiting till i get down to  1x and a couple that are 3x. program about a dozen different programming and scripting languages, and know about 6 operating systems.

Well, I don't even work in "computers". That is the sad part. I also achievd my score without any "gaming" credits. I have never played a "computer game" since they developed graphics. Now the old text games were cool, made you think. I have played bridge online for 12 hours straight, or longer, when I am suffering from insomnia. Fortunately, I have not had that problem for a while. (Knock on wood) I have a HeathKit "tube type" ham radio that can bounce signls off the moon or skip all the way around the planet, and actually built it myself. I have participated in "Meter Hunts", where one guy goes and hides anywhere in a three county range with a new radio and transmits a signal for three minutes every ten minutes. First guy to find him wins the radio. (Now that is GEEK) No techno/computer clothing, but I have been seen in public with shorts and tennis shoes while wearing black socks. LOL JP

18.54043% -

Geek and also knew the carnival reference... as well as- "Chicken-Head" as term from the book that Blade-Rrunner is based on- "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep." On the book side- I'm serious geek.... I fall way behind on the StarWars, role-play and Computer stuff.... 0 Best Wishes- Dx

Dx, I thought you would have broker 25% easy!???! Neat movie, Great book. Have you seen the director's cut where the internal dialogue by Harrison Ford is omitted completely. Makes for a much different, and better, movie. JP