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13 September 2004
Filed under:Humour & Entertainment,Personal at8:21 am

I am 30% geek according to “this online quiz”:http://www.thudfactor.com/geekquiz.php. ‘You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.’

Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.
You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You’ll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!
Geek [to You]: I’m givin’ her all she’s got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!
You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

Thanks to Lois for the link

I haven’t really found ways to earn a lot of money being a geek liason – I think I would earn more if I knew enough programming to be a ‘pure geek’ but I just don’t swing that way 😉

2 Comments

  1. Ahhhh *deep meaningful sigh* Programming would be nice wouldn’t it, rather then being a polyglot speaking normal English and geek.

    Comment by Lois — 13 September 2004 @ 1:59 pm

  2. My friend, Kaitlin took that quiz, she’s 36% geek, I’m 6% geek, yeah, I’m only smart internet wise. Hey, put me and you togeather and we equal a kaitlin =)

    Comment by rain — 14 September 2004 @ 5:44 am

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