Unutterably Silly Test your geekiness

[TGS]

Originally Posted by Poppa1956

-=Sigh=- 16. I would have scored higher if I used past tense I have, in my adult life, owned and worn a cowboy hat, I did live with my parents after the age of 22, etc


Further demonstrating my geekiness, I googled (using "Google" as a verb should count on the test, IMHO) and found it is an actual word in French. How is it pronounced around here? Does it rhyme with tissue?

If you search google pics with liseuse you will find lots of paintings of pretty ladies reading - and they are often called "la liseuse", which is then translated as "the reader" - hence liseuse = reader. Stuff about bed-jackets and reading lights are red herrings.

[zelda_pinwheel]

Originally Posted by TGS

If you search google pics with liseuse you will find lots of paintings of pretty ladies reading - and they are often called "la liseuse", which is then translated as "the reader" - hence liseuse = reader. Stuff about bed-jackets and reading lights are red herrings.

yes, what i like most about that particular use of the word is that is spefically implies "a woman who takes pleasure in reading" rather than simply "a female person engaged in the act of reading" which would be "lectrice". it's that added dimension which makes it all the nicer.

[Delta Tango]

giggles

[pdurrant]

Originally Posted by Delta Tango

Take the test.
For each statement that applies to you, you get one point.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5142331/gsat-th...-aptitude-test

Share your results.

10 01000101 00000000 00000000 00001000 00000000 00000000

Hmm... 0x2450000080000 isn't in their list of points, I must be doing something wrong. And why isn't the number of test questions a nice round number like 0x40?

Do I get bonus points for trying to interpret my list of answers as binary? Or pointing out that 50 is a silly number for a geek questionnaire?

It seems I score 5:
* I own and wear t-shirts featuring the logos of computer/operating system manufacturers.
* On an average day more of my human interaction happens on message boards or in blog comments than with actual other people. (I work from home. And I think you're all actual other people too — aren't you?)
* I hold an engineering or IT degree.
* I play with my phone at restaurants. (Well, sometimes. Mostly reading a book on it.)
* I have corrected someone's spelling or grammar on a message board or in blog comments. (But only on request, I think/hope.)

[omk3]

Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel

yes, what i like most about that particular use of the word is that is spefically implies "a woman who takes pleasure in reading" rather than simply "a female person engaged in the act of reading" which would be "lectrice". it's that added dimension which makes it all the nicer.

I wasn't aware of this added dimension! I'm liking the word more and more!



My score was disappointingly low, 1, or maybe 3 if I count one or two that are neither here nor there. I'll never be the geek I aspire to be!

[Javed]

I scored 5 points on the test.

You're like James Dean, if James Dean were less attractive, less famous, less rich, alive and interested in gadgets. You're a relatively "cool" person, but that's only relative to people who are seriously awkward, so don't go patting yourself on the back just yet. You still read a gadget site in your free time.

Here is an interesting diagram to consider. The Geek is intelligent and obsessive. The Nerd, however, seems "all that and a bag of social ineptitude."

[Freeshadow]

13 kinda lower than i tought
would be about 17 if i would not have changed some habits during the last 10 years

[Javed]

Congrats Freeshadow. That's higher than my results at least. Best part is you get to wear a "Can't sleep, clowns will eat me" shirt! I just get a pair of glasses a rebel look.

[Bilbo1967]

Just 3 for me. I don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed!

[Moejoe]

I scored over 9,000 (and if you know that reference, you're beyond geek)

[Javed]

@ Moejoe

HAL 9000?

[dsvick]

I scored a 6, I'm apparently not as geeky as I thought. Or, all of their questions are wrong

[rebarnmom]

Originally Posted by Javed

I scored 5 points on the test.

Here is an interesting diagram to consider. The Geek is intelligent and obsessive. The Nerd, however, seems "all that and a bag of social ineptitude."

This Venn diagram is really enlightening! It gave me a much better understanding of the subtle differences.

Originally Posted by Bilbo1967

Just 3 for me. I don't know whether to be relieved or disappointed!

I scored low and I felt the same way.

BTW, is there a women's version of this test?

[Delta Tango]

Originally Posted by Javed

@ Moejoe

HAL 9000?

nah...
it's Goku

*goes to a corner and cries in shame

[alecE]

I got a 1, by thinking back a looooong time ago when I did become spasmodically nocturnal (well crepuscular really).