Whew, it's long! I got 37.86982% Lyle On Tuesday 04 November 2003 11:20, David Woyciesjes wrote: -- Lyle Bickley Bickley Consulting West Inc. Mountain View, CA 94040 "Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"

My results (bored at work today) : 54.63511% - Super Geek - someone please shoot me :\ ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Woyciesjes" <dwoyciesjes(a)comcast.net> To: "ClassicCMP" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 1:20 PM Subject: The Geek Test... --- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus]

21.2% Geek Must be because I am an engineer ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Woyciesjes" <dwoyciesjes(a)comcast.net> To: "ClassicCMP" <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> Sent: Tuesday, November 04, 2003 2:20 PM Subject: The Geek Test...

Egad, I scored 41.22288% - Major Geek. That's embarrassing. It's a good thing I don't like Tolkein, or I'd really have gone nose down into the dirt. My suggestions for additions: * I have a goatee * I have a Van Dyke * I know the difference * I have a full beard * My beard is longer than the hair on my head * My beard reaches my belly (standing) * My belly reaches my beard (sitting) * The hair on my head reaches my shoulders (men only) * ...and I wash it weekly whether it needs it or not * The hair on my head is less than 1" long (women only) * I use Kool-Aid as a hair-care product (women only) * I've seen every Bruce Campbell movie, twice (or more) * When watching original Star Trek reruns, I mumble the script * I'd stop traffic in a 45 zone to grab a computer from the curb * ...and I've been involved in a traffic accident because of it * I've been to the hospital because of a computer-moving-related accident * I have a Pentium (I)-based computer running Linux running only sendmail (or nothing) * ...'uptime' reports more than 300 days, and I don't remember the root password * I prefer FreeBSD to Linux * The spare parts for my everyday PC don't fit into a single standard moving box * My coffee table routinely has at least one schematic diagram on it * My coffee table routinely has a piece of electronic equipment on it * ...in pieces * My house has a PBX * My house is wired for Ethernet * ...even in the bathrooms * My house is wired for fiber * ...even in the bathrooms * I share internet access with a neighbor via wireless * I have a wireless access point for the entire neighborhood * When the phone company/cable company/electrician leaves, I redo their work * I'd pay $1,000 to have dinner with Heidi Klum * ...I'd pay twice that for dinner with Woz * I'm wasting far too many cycles thinking up things like this Patrick

On Tuesday, November 4, 2003, at 02:20 PM, David Woyciesjes wrote: Heh, I got 47.92899% - Super Geek. I've also got a few more things that should be on the list... - You have at least one computer that is more than 10 years old. ...on the internet. ...that you use daily. - You have more than ten different types of magnetic media. ...not including audio or video media. - You have some 8" floppies. ...and a computer that uses them. - The lights dim when you turn on one of your computers. ...or send something to your printer. - The keyboard on your most powerful computer is more than ten years old, and the computer is new. - You know the exact formatted capacity for more than three types of media. ...and unformatted. - You have an Atari 2600. ...and you have rolled the score on Asteroids ...twice or more. - You have repaired things that others have deemed unfixable. ...on many occasions. - The people at Radio Shack know you by name. - You know what a 7404 does. - There are at least four empty cans from a caffeinated beverage on your desk. - You have a computer that won't fit through the door. - You have ever recorded Star Trek on Umatic tape for better picture quality. - Your car has at least four extra computer parts in it. - You moved to another state, and one large moving van was filled entirely with computers. - You know _exactly_ what causes a vertical line down the center of the screen on a compact mac. - During a power outage, you rigged an Atari to run off batteries and used it with a battery powered TV. The sad thing is that all of those apply to me... Ian Primus ian_primus(a)yahoo.com

I scored a 25.x Total Geek. Questions that should have been on the test: I never top post. I prefer PHP to ASP. I know who Linus Torvalds is. I know who David Rohl is. - and I agree with him I have read The Nine Princes in Amber - the entire Amber series. I have read Ender's Game. I would rather have a Mini Cooper than a Camaro. - especially if it's an Austin "S" model. I have detoured to search for a plant in it's native environment. I have bought a Venus flytrap - and kept it alive I own a professional weather station. - and it's hooked into my computer. - and the results are displayed on my web page. I called my friends when I compiled my first Kernel. I run more than one flavor on Linux on my home computer. I have a "registered Linux user" number. - and I display it in my signature. I subscribe to OS newsgroups. - 3+ OS newsgroups. - and I know what the "Hitler Rule" is. I have argued about which is better, the Apple II or the Atari 800. I like blinkenlights. I have over clocked my CPU. I have a water cooled CPU. I use a computer rack at home. I don't buy software. I run a firewall on a 486 computer. I think Deana Troy is cute. - but I prefer 7 of 9. I have gone for more than 2 years without sex. - without realizing it. I see things and think, "I could fix that." I have posted an ad on an online dating service. I refuse to do desktop support. I would never admit to having worked in telephone IT support. I would never admit that I worked for Microsoft. - as a blue badge. I know the difference between IT and IS.