i’m pretty geeky

[jason]

Ex-Lemmingworks. ##.

Buridan’s says “i’m pretty geeky”, so I had to check to see if I was.

Your Geek Profile:

Internet Geekiness: High Academic Geekiness: Moderate Fashion Geekiness: Moderate Geekiness in Love: Low Movie Geekiness: Low Gamer Geekiness: None General Geekiness: None Music Geekiness: None SciFi Geekiness: None

How Geeky Are You?

I’d be low on internet too, except my first modem was 300 baud, and they give points for anything earlier than 14.4k. Geeze. If you had 14.4 you’re still a newbie.

Comments

[ashenseraph.livejournal.com]

I find it hard to believe you're not geekier than that. How did you score "moderate" and no higher on academic geekiness?

[complicittheory.livejournal.com]

it is because the questions are pseduo-geeky; designed to make non-geeks feel part of the scene.

Academic Geekiness:
You've gone to academic lectures just for fun
- what, am I a freak? I have too much work to do to just hang out at lectures

You have seriously studied at least three fields not related to each other
- medieval studies, children and learning, critical thinking (on and one)

You attend (or have attended) to grad school
- duh

You get almost every Jepordy / Trivial Pursuit question right
- what academic has the time for games?


Same with internet:

Internet Geekiness:
You've been online so long, you're first modem was 14.4 kbps or slower - yep
You used Gopher before the days of the World Wide Web - yep
You regularly get up in the middle of sleeping to check your email - not after trying to fix OJS for 12 hours straight!!!
You're still addicted to IRC after all these years - NO, it was stupid in 1990 and still is.


Now for academic geek:
- do you get a thrill meeting the dissertation supervisors of your dissertation supervisor?
- do you turn down publication options because they're not cool enough

And Internet Geek:
- have you ever communicated with an individual who invented part of the internet
- have you ever pissed off two programmers who hate each other by glomming their code together and getting it to compile?


Those would be geeky!