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Sorry, ancient Greek not good enough to know what danerdos should mean (and hence I've missed the joke). Figures: my geek rating was only 23.66846%.
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A) It's Latin.
2) It's a pun. Eewww! A pun?
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23.66846%
Is higher than my score by a number very close to the square root of 2.
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I figured, too late to edit, that it was Latin, not Greek (Virgil?). I also figured that it's a pun - but what? Is it about bewaring the givers of operating systems?
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even though I exaggerated on this test to score better, I ranked only 20.11834%.
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Higher than mine, shanks. I only rated a 21.5%. And that was with 5 extra points for being a GRRL!  PS That surprises me, tsuwm. I would've put you much higher on the scale. that's a compliment, you know
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Did it actually give you .5% with no more decimals? I thought they might be taking the percentages over a ratio of answers to a prime number so that you would have to get a number of decimal places. It looks as though I was wrong. Bother.
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No, you're probably right, shanks. I just wasn't geeky enough to transcribe the entire 6-digit extension, so I rounded it.
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that's 5 points out of ~500, or as the pop-up notes, 1%.
(I should get a point for noticing that!)
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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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it's not fair they give point for having a web page before 1996, but not for having a computer before 1985!
That would be unfairly age-ist don't you think? I was born in 1982, I pretty much owned nothing in '85. There are geeks out there who didn't even exist in 1985. There are geeks out there who think I am an old lady.
[difficulty breathing] I took the test again, it was really late last night and I wasn't paying attention. 53.0572% - Super Geek [falls over dead with shock]
PS. How geeky is this? I didn't lie on the test, cos I initially thought that there might be a test afterwards.
**edit** even worse, on discovering i did not know what they were on about ( counting to 31 on one hand) i lay in bed devising a system.
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counting to 31 on one hand
And that's starting at zero. Be careful with four or six(in Britain), you might get taken wrong.
I can get to 48 on one hand
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to beef up your score all about Jeanine Salla http://bangaloreworldu-in.co.cloudmakers.org/salla/default.html5 comic book writers Neil Gaiman, Robert Crumb, Kevin Smith, Sarah Dyer, Stan Lee how to count to 1999 in roman numerals http://www.novaroma.org/via_romana/numbers.htmlwhat GURPS is : generic universal role-playing system your jedi name, there is an app. for this but this will do http://www.xach.com/misc/jedi.htmlhow to build a lightsaber, the best on the net imho http://members.aol.com/ctlaw74/galactic.htm3.1415926535 , or check this out http://www.geocities.com/thesciencefiles/pi/pi.htmlAny sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Clarks Third Law E=mc^2 -from the man himself http://www.aip.org/history/einstein/voice1.htmthe three laws, with discussion http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/SOS/Asimov.htmlwhat http:// stands for http://www.tawawa.org/mt/archives/000006.htmlthe star trek movie rule: even good, odd bad counting to 31 on one hand, i had to find this one out http://www.unm.edu/~keithw/mindWanderings.htmlsheesh, i am a geek
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A humble 23.4714% Geek. And my aspirations were so high!
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re:counting to 31 on one hand, i had to find this one out
this one gave me pause, i usually stop at 15, since it make much more sense, each hand as 4 bits, both work together as as a byte
(i always use pinky as 1, and 8(dec)(0100) is the rude number for me)
and i could have gotten more points... i have owned a microscope since age 12 or so.. but last year, when i was moving, i let my son take it to his house, (and he collected up all his odd die--the didecohydron ones,and other other sizes, as well as the loaded ones, and 'normal 6 sided ones) did i own them ever? no but i did live 'give them homes, and they were technically in my possesion...
The test was definately skewed in favor of younger geeks/nerds, (as wolfa points out, no points at all for owning or knowing how to use slide rules, and no points at all for having designed/etched your own circut boards, or other 'old technology'
They gave points for making changes to registry files, but not for writting your own autoexe.bat files.. (yeah, autoexe.bat files are easier.. but.)
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Neil Gaiman, Robert Crumb, Kevin Smith, Sarah Dyer, Stan Lee
my daughter in law 'knows' my (new) neighborhood from the comics--Mouz starts out in the authors 'hometown' of rego park--i was reading crumb a decade before you were born!
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A mere 7.2something here. And I was trying.
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Anna, you gave yourself 5 points for being a female geek? Although I am female, I didn't give myself any points for it since I don't consider myself a geek. To me, geek was the operative word there.
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The test was definately skewed in favor of younger geeks/nerds,
[assuming that geekdom is desirable]
not really skewed, cos older geeks have access to modern technology whereas i have never even seen a slide rule, just read about them in old sci-fi books (though this has possibly more to do with my lack of education rather than my age, who knows?). if it was skewed i would say it was skewed in favour of american geeks. for example, there was no such thing as band camp or math camp in my childhood experience. i was going to say that geek is a modern american term so thats cool with me, but merriam webster has this to say:
Main Entry: geek
Pronunciation: 'gEk
Function: noun
Etymology: probably from English dialect geek, geck fool, from Low German geck, from Middle Low German
Date: 1914
1 : a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken or snake
2 : a person often of an intellectual bent who is disapproved of
- geeky /'gE-kE/ adjective
**edit** just realised the above quote proves nothing, sorry
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yes, you're right, it does have an american (US) bias, and an middle class one too, since math camp --like all summer camps, is a middle class endevor.
my son went computer camp for 4 years-- the first year of camp, we sent him to a real camp,--a boy scout camp--hiking, outdoor activities, etc, but his alergey/asthma was a problem. computer camp was less likely to end with him in the emergency room, cyninotic! and he liked it just as much.
as a friend remarked last night, (while we were watching the show the moon was putting on)- PhD. are a middle class pursuit. --the rich (i.e., dubbleya) don't need them, and the poor can't afford to spend 8 years after HS going to school. geekishnes is also somewhat middle class, too.
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I don't remember everything on the test, but I do remember there was a lot of RPG stuff that just wouldn't interest your older geek. Many, in fact would, by their very geekhood, disdain such.
My major problem with it was its inability to handle such things as helen's knitting of a klein bottle with Fibonacci stripes. There's really no way I can see for handling such things. You can't just allow geek wannabes to claim points for things not covered by the test; while knitting klein bottles should certainly count, I can easily imagine someone claiming his collection of vintage Bud cans. Grading suchlike would require human overseeing and a panel of judges, an endeavor that would that would be impossible given the constraints of the medium.
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>You can't just allow geek wannabes to claim points for things not covered by the test..
actually®, I think it did just that -- down at the bottom where you could claim 5 points for being a grrl, hi ASp, there was another series of boxes you could check for (and I paraphrase from memory) I can think of more questions which should be on the test; I took that to mean 1 point for each question, up to five. [I only checked two or three, not wanting to overtax myself.]
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To celebrate my first post here on A.W.A.D. i thought i would tell i scored 49.something percent which makes me a super geek. not sure why i'm telling you or how i feel about it but there we are
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Welcome to ivy doodle.
And Dody Your post does prove that the test is missing something - I wonder how many points one should get for biting off chicken and snake heads? And would the snake be worth more than the chicken?
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