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How geeky are you?
« on: July 29, 2013, 01:38:46 PM »
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Your final geek rating is:

88%

Smartypants! Why are you mucking about with stupid personality quizzes instead of solving the world’s energy problems and genetically engineering flies that can find their way around windows?

How can this be?  I am the cave-painting boy for Ludditism.

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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2013, 02:22:14 PM »
I only rated 83%.  You out-geeked me.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2013, 02:37:50 PM »
A "3" floppy" is obviously incorrect.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #3 on: July 29, 2013, 02:38:44 PM »
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"But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist."
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Re: Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #4 on: July 29, 2013, 02:42:20 PM »
Well obviously I'm a different sort of geeky because when I saw "Ajax", I immediately thought of the Iliad.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #5 on: July 29, 2013, 02:45:46 PM »
83 as well
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #6 on: July 29, 2013, 02:47:15 PM »
Hmm, I am only 83%, too.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #7 on: July 29, 2013, 02:49:10 PM »
86%
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Re: Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #8 on: July 29, 2013, 03:04:52 PM »
Quote from: makattak on July 29, 2013, 02:42:20 PM
Well obviously I'm a different sort of geeky because when I saw "Ajax", I immediately thought of the Iliad.

That too.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #9 on: July 29, 2013, 03:07:07 PM »

97%.

I think I got the floppy question half wrong. Amstrad CPC was before my time.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #10 on: July 29, 2013, 03:08:19 PM »
I'm not a geek. Duh...

43%. Weird thing is the discripter implied I was good with phone apps but couldn't manage Windows Word help section.

I can do Windows Word and I know how to ax the damn paperclip pop up help thingy, but I almost never put new apps on my phone.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #11 on: July 29, 2013, 03:22:24 PM »
46%

Gotta say this quiz was slanted towards computer geeks more than other types (SciFi, Comics, etc.).  Computers are a tool for me, not my thing.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #12 on: July 29, 2013, 03:39:57 PM »
I write software for a living, but I would rather be out riding my horse than taking quizzes on the computer  :P
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #13 on: July 29, 2013, 03:40:07 PM »
Quote from: AZRedhawk44 on July 29, 2013, 02:38:44 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floppy_disk#Other_sizes

I see 2 extremely obscure 3" disks, that I have never heard of before this day.

Ever seen the 2.5" that Zenith put in their early '90s micro laptop?
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #14 on: July 29, 2013, 03:44:50 PM »
73%

Been in tech for decades, but not as a programmer.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #15 on: July 29, 2013, 05:37:17 PM »
Quote from: Chris on July 29, 2013, 03:22:24 PM
46%

Gotta say this quiz was slanted towards computer geeks more than other types (SciFi, Comics, etc.).  Computers are a tool for me, not my thing.

Yup - this was a computer-geek quiz. I only got 87%.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #16 on: July 29, 2013, 05:42:10 PM »
34%

Now I will go do some more "not geek" (you know.....manly)  stuff.   ;)   =D    [popcorn]
 
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #17 on: July 29, 2013, 07:13:24 PM »
94%
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #18 on: July 29, 2013, 07:44:05 PM »
Well, at least BobR beat my 36% as worst (or best?) on the forum so far.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #19 on: July 29, 2013, 07:45:46 PM »
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 Surprised it was that high.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #20 on: July 29, 2013, 07:47:46 PM »
48%

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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #21 on: July 29, 2013, 07:50:29 PM »
93%
I owe a good bit of that to APS influence =D

This from the guy that has to wear gloves to keep his knuckles from getting scraped up when I walk around.
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #22 on: July 29, 2013, 08:00:40 PM »
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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #23 on: July 29, 2013, 08:01:38 PM »
79%

Just geek enough to get myself in trouble.

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Re: How geeky are you?
« Reply #24 on: July 29, 2013, 08:31:21 PM »
Sweet, I'm still in the lead with the lowest!!!!   =D


Probably because I took less than a second to answer each one, just the first thing that popped into my mind.


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