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I *know it wasn't percentage points, tsuwm. I'm just so mad I'm not geekier than that, even having my sex work in my favor, that I'm gonna go out, round up a bunch of pocket protectors, and break my eyeglasses.
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I refuse to believe that I am current uber-geek here. Where are all the high scorers when you need them? Surely AWAD can do better than a lousy 23.xxxx%?
Or has Faldage scored really high and is just too ashamed to admit it?
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Or has Faldage scored really high and is just too ashamed to admit it?
Moi? Old "approximately 27.81065%, Captain" moi? Ashamed?
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23%(followed by some more numbers starting with a .1, so i didn't bother -and rounded down.)
it's not fair they give point for having a web page before 1996, but not for having a computer before 1985! and you get points for a telescope, but not for an osiliscope!-- or for a three beam ballance scale, .. my geekyness is too far off range.. and definately, i should have gotten points for 1) knowing what a klien bottle is,
2) knitting a klein bottle hat..(with stripes, using a fibinocci sequence..)
the 5 five extra points awarded for being female just weren't enough.. (and i think that my son should get points for having a parent who scored 23%!)but ...
i actually am not displeased, i always say, i am not really weird, i am just 2 standard deviations from norm, i am not a real out-lier!
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knitting a klein bottle hat..(with stripes, using a fibinocci sequence..)
I am humbled.
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my son liked it...he got it for his birthday this week!
you can buy (better, actually) them on the web, just the hats, or hats with matching moibus strip scarves.. (about $70)just google klien bottles.
i made mine/his after looking at the ones for sale, and mine came out pretty good, but i think i could do better if i was inclined to make another..
(they are very warm, since you end up getting a double layer of knitting over most of your head.)
oh, don't do this! if you get me started posted about knitting here, you find i post more about knitting than id do food!(my knitting boards are so much nicer that here--they have a catagory for food post, but AWAD doesn't have a catagory for knitting or food!
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My score was 18.14596% - Geek but I think I should have some sort of compensatory element for living outside the US and so not having some of these things available although I would like them.
PS. If Latin scores, why not Ancient Greek?
PPS. The original line was Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes (I fear the Greeks even when they are bringing gifts)
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I got 23.something, hardly enough to comment on. I did notice that the world-class geeks were in the fifties and even higher!
I don't have enough points in the RPG, computer-games, or current movies/DVDs department to aspire any higher. Did pretty well in the other aspects, though. Why do they give no points for owning three slide rules?
Maybe I'll take it again for greater precision in reporting. That should get me a few more points, too.
Anybody looked up Timeo danerdos et dona ferentes? yet?
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OK, just took it again and this time I came out an even 26.82446.
The guest book is still full, so there's no access to the distribution of scores. I suspect there should be twenty points awarded simply for being geeky enough to take the test at all...let alone twice
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