Thursday, March 01, 2007
Geekness?
I've just taken the "Are you a geek" test on MSN and thankfully I came out with:
Well balanced individual: So what if you answered hell yes to some of the questions!?
You are in touch with your inner geek and you aren’t ashamed to admit it - but there are limits…
Pretty random bunch of questions and I feel I need to justify my answers.
You can recite an entire scene from a Monty Python film | My wife sadly remembers how she thought I was so clever and erudite with the stuff I used to come out with, little knowing at the time that all of it was either from Monty Python or HHGttG. | ||
You've blasted a few monsters in your time | Millions of them have met pixel death | ||
You know more than 20 Windows shortcuts off by heart | Alt-Space... Alt-F4... Alt-Tab and its friend Shift-Alt-Tab... oh dear. I blame my MS-DOS inheritance. | ||
Your friends list in instant messenger is longer than your address book | It's a close-run thing. | ||
You get slightly anxious if you haven't checked your email in an hour | Reading email is a distraction activity which I undertake at quarter-hour intervals. | ||
You think lightsabers are cool | Lightsabres are cool - being filmed playing with one is not. | ||
You set up a wireless network in your house | Used to be the only wireless network in the area for a few years | ||
Your mousemat cost more than £20 | I do indeed have a leather mouse mat made by Aquascutum, stamped with the Microsoft logo which can't have been cheap. | ||
You often carry more than £300 of equipment in your pockets | Yes, and no. There's a Smartphone (the original SPV running the 2002 operating system), a digital camera (Sony Cyber-shot) and a Cream Selector MP3 player. New, they may have totalled over £300 but I bought them all second hand from various people at Microsoft for about £20 each. | ||
You are more comfortable using a keyboard than using a pen | I can no longer fill in a cheque without getting cramp in my hand from holding the pen. | ||
You met one of your best friends online | No | ||
You can rebuild your own PC / Mac | Of course! | ||
You can spell your name in Elvish | Not really a Tolkien geek | ||
You often lie about how much time you spend playing computer games | No, I don't need to. When I say I was playing "Baldur's Gate" until 3am, people just need to look at my haggard, sleep-deprived face to know this must be true. I do lie on surveys to join software betas, though, to try and boost my chances. | ||
Starbuck is a girl |
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You can explain why 1080p is better than 1080i | Now if I had an HD-TV then, yes, I would care about my progressive versus my interlaced but I don't so I don't. | ||
You can do more than 10 emoticons in messenger with just the keyboard | Hmmm.... :-) :-( ;-) nope, that's me done. | ||
You still have an action figure in its original packaging | Yes, I have a couple of 2000AD characters (Durham Red, Judge Death) bought cheap off eBay and both still unopened. | ||
You read graphic novels | There are other types of novels? | ||
You can speak Klingon | Definitely not a Star Trek geek! Babylon 5 is the true religion. |
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