Now on ScienceBlogs: Oldest Human-Made Object in Space

ScienceBlogs Book Club: Inside the Outbreaks

Greg Laden's Blog

Evolution, Life Sciences, Science Education, Human Evolution, and Stuff

Darwing_Face.jpg Learn more about Charles Darwin and his work.

Hornbill170.jpg Looking for stuff about birds?

Lion_mane170.jpg Lean more about lions

Congo_sidebar.jpg An archaeological expedition to the Congo


The Skeptical Search Engine


Nature Blog Network
Climate Defense Fund


The contents of Greg Laden's Blog are copyrighted by Greg Laden.

Recent Comments

Search

Profile


Click on "About" for the big picture, and "Archives" for the details.


Recent Posts

Blogroll

If you don't see yourself on my blogroll, just drop me a line and let me know. I'll add you.*
*Assuming that I'm on your blogroll, of course!

Archives

« 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

90% Geek

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.

[hat tip Grrrrl]

Share on Facebook
Share on StumbleUpon
Share on Facebook

TrackBacks

TrackBack URL for this entry: http://scienceblogs.com/mt/pings/77001

Comments

1

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

2

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

3

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

4

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

5

I got an 82%, but I blame their limited definition of geek.

Posted by: Stephanie Z | July 23, 2008 4:05 PM

6

82%, looking only one thing up on Wikipedia.

Posted by: Elizabeth | July 23, 2008 6:49 PM

7

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

8

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

9

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

10

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

Post a Comment

(Email is required for authentication purposes only. On some blogs, comments are moderated for spam, so your comment may not appear immediately.)





ScienceBlogs

Search ScienceBlogs:

Go to:

Advertisement
Follow ScienceBlogs on Twitter

© 2006-2011 ScienceBlogs LLC. ScienceBlogs is a registered trademark of ScienceBlogs LLC. All rights reserved.