How geeky am I?

[luckykaa]

You are 45% 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

Seriously - 45%? Come on, I work with computers, and have spent free time pondering quaternion rotation interpsersed with understanding some camera jargon from raygungothic. Then I tinkered with the HTML of the cut and paste because I don't like tables in my LJ.

Comments

[juanitadark.livejournal.com]

You're gonna take it again, right?

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

Yes, of course, and I can get 68%, but that involves exagerating my geekiness a bit too much.

I did miss the multiple options with the pull down though. I clicked boy, when I would usually go for male. Ah what the hell. I award myself an extra 10 points.

[hollowfyre.livejournal.com]

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.


That was great *steals it and sends it to all of my friends*...erm...I mean all of those geeks who follow me around...ya...thats what I meant.

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

It is great. Not mine though. Part of the description from the test.

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[hollowfyre.livejournal.com]

stole it anyway :þ I would take that test, but I'm afraid of what answer I may get.

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

Fair enough.

But there's nothing wrong with being a geek. Or if there is, at least the pays good.

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[hollowfyre.livejournal.com]

good point.that answers it..I must not be a geek, I'm always broke!

Test not terribly accurate, I feel

[raygungothic.livejournal.com]

And I'm supposedly only 38% geek. Even though I specified "male" rather than "boy". If I push for maximum geekness I can get 44%. I think the test is flawed.

[ghostpaw.livejournal.com]

I got 31%, another 'geek liason'. Which sounds a bit low, but then it doesn't ask anything about role-playing, nor a great deal about obscure scifi, which probably skewed your answers too.

Or, gentlemen, it could just be that you're not as geeky as you thought. I mean, you do have lives and interests away from the 'puter, and heaven forbid occasionally talk to members of the opposite sex on your own volition (I don't count, btw :)

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

Or, gentlemen, it could just be that you're not as geeky as you thought.

Could be. I do occasionally manage to communicate with other people. I think actually this is the whole geek/nerd thing again. A nerd obsesses about his topic to the exclusion of all else. Geeks have other interests, but are into a subset of them extremely deeply. More than 50% is for nerds.

occasionally talk to members of the opposite sex on your own volition (I don't count, btw :)

Well, why not!? You're a girl aren't you?

Or do you mean that microbiologists don't need to count as much since it's a less numerical science than physics or mathematics?

[ghostpaw.livejournal.com]

Well, why not!? You're a girl aren't you?
True, but to many people I'm also mum :) I'm working of previous conversations with other friends on the Me - 'You can talk to girls, you're talking to me aren't you' Them - 'That doesn't count, you're you'. Admittedly I'm still not sure what this means, but it's a reoccuring theme.

[luckykaa.livejournal.com]

Ah.....

I'd put that down to you applying logic to them when they're not expecting it. I think they mean "I can't talk to girls I don't already know". You challenge their statement, and they're forced to either retract what they said, or come up with some logic to continue to justify their position.

On the other hand, applying excessive logic is usually a male trait, so that could be the sort of thing they mean:)

Oi I ain't flipping normal!!!!!

[(Anonymous)]

22% - not a geek!!!

I cannot get a proper answer these days: sane, normal....

What's next... conformist?

Time to go stoat on someone

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