Created by OnePlusYou
I lost four percent because I do not read comic books and have not since the magic age of 14.
The other six percent, I'm not so sure about. But I did answer all the questions honestly. I guess 90% isn't bad.
Greg Laden's Blog
Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and Stuff
Search this blog
Profile
My name is Greg Laden. You can find out about me here, contact me here, and for all the gory details, have a look at this...
Recent Posts
- Would you like a free trip to New York City?
- Nellie McKay: "The Dog Song"
- Swedish Sexual Health Policy, Money, Growth and Development
- Carnivals
- Ike -> Cuba
- Do the Saint Paul Police Need to Get a Lawyer? (And Grow some Testicles?)
- Ian Dunbar: Dog-friendly dog training
- Ike is trying to make up his mind
- Jonathan Drori: Why we don't understand as much as we think we do
- Hurricane Reading
Recent Comments
- Stephanie Z on Would you like a free trip to New York City?
- Mike Haubrich, FCD on Would you like a free trip to New York City?
- Homie Bear on Would you like a free trip to New York City?
- Virgil Samms on Would you like a free trip to New York City?
- Julian on Do the Saint Paul Police Need to Get a Lawyer? (And Grow some Testicles?)
- lylebot on Would you like a free trip to New York City?
- Rob on Nellie McKay: "The Dog Song"
- Patricia on Hell hath no fury like Joe Biden. Or so we hope.
- Emmet Caulfield on Do the Saint Paul Police Need to Get a Lawyer? (And Grow some Testicles?)
- Sigmund on Swedish Sexual Health Policy, Money, Growth and Development
Archives
- September 2008
- August 2008
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
Blogroll
« McAllen Pepper Remains Under Suspicion. | Main | The Evolution of Imprinting »
I can explain this, really. I can.
Category: Technology
Posted on: July 23, 2008 10:05 AM, by Greg Laden
Comments
I got 89%, and I still feel robbed: we don't even *have* "spelling bee" competitions in the UK!
Posted by: Armchair Dissident | July 23, 2008 2:56 PM
I got 89%, and I still feel robbed: we don't even *have* "spelling bee" competitions in the UK!
Posted by: Armchair Dissident | July 23, 2008 3:00 PM
I only got 77% . .but I majored in Drama, so I have an excuse. I sort of think of myself more as geek groupy than an actual geek.
Posted by: Gwenny | July 23, 2008 3:02 PM
Dang. -50% for the double-post; sorry Greg! My router died when I clicked Post. I can only assume that the POST request was received by the server, but my router died receiving the response (50% for diagnosing the reason :-)
Posted by: Armchair Dissident | July 23, 2008 3:05 PM
I got an 82%, but I blame their limited definition of geek.
Posted by: Stephanie Z | July 23, 2008 4:05 PM
82%, looking only one thing up on Wikipedia.
Posted by: Elizabeth | July 23, 2008 6:49 PM
My bet is that you failed on question 8.
That said I cannot ever get a 100% on that questionaire :/
No spelling/math bee competitions over here and I do not get nervous when I'm not in keyboard distance of an e-mail client.
Posted by: Who Cares | July 23, 2008 7:12 PM
Are you saying that I failed on Question 8? HA!
For those just tuning in, question eight is:
/(bb|[^b]{2})/
... one of the answers is Larry Ellison, who has major computer connections and his name is Larry (I know his brother) so I think you are supposed to, in your head, 's/Ellison/Wall/g' Answer_4 > fail. Because of perl. (get it? larry wall? perl?)
(But you could never foresee that, could you ... get it? Larry Ellison? Foresee?)
O'Reilly and the others are all computer guys as well, with various connections. They really should have included Jeffrey Freidl. That would have been funny. Or "The owls" or "The Owls vs The Camel"
The reason it is William Shakespeare is because /(bb|[^b]{2})/ roughly means "to be or not to be..."
Posted by: Greg Laden | July 23, 2008 7:33 PM
For me it reminded me of LaTeX. And yes I know LaTeX would get out a club and hit me if I tried to enter that as valid code :)
Posted by: Who Cares | July 24, 2008 4:21 AM
I'm either not geeky enough or too geeky to want to sign up for an online dating site in order to take this quiz. I prefer this one: http://www.innergeek.us/geek-test.html (my score: 56.01578%, which makes me an Extreme Geek - the 3rd level, below 1) Geek God and 2) Dysfunctional Geek).
Posted by: Theo Bromine | July 24, 2008 9:10 AM