it comes in pints?

Thanks for joining in... Good call on tagging CalTechGirl. I would have, but I was curious to see how the guys would do.

Interestingly enough, a woman just bested(?) me by scoring over 49%. Go figure. ;)

Well, I got 36.88363% - Major Geek.

Did you put "yes" for playing with hazardous chemicals?

And, from my days as a Chem E major (I got better) I know the absolute scale equivalent to Kelvin for the English System - that alone should have netted me 5 more points.

You're right, this was too heavy on the computer geek / Trekkie stuff. I do hard SF. I do not do Trek.

There should have been more engineering stuff like: "have you ever made a cage for an egg out of popsicle sticks and dropped it off the top of a building to test your civil engineering skills?", and "have you ever made your own explosives? and gone fishing with them?"

Oh, I absolutely put yes for hazchems. And I know four temp scales with corresponding water FPs.

However, I have not made my own explosives.

23.27% Geek - and I even got lots of bonus points for being a female geek. I daresay I'm up there far enough to be closing in on a "Total Geek."

I feel proud!

I only got 14.00394%. I think I would've scored more if I'd stayed married to you-know-who.

Explosives! Why weren't those on the test?! I damn near took out my friend's dad (and his classic Mustang) when he drove out to find his son. He deliberately swerved toward the bucket we were running from with a big smile on his face - like he was going to run it over, but 'missed it just in time'. Heh. He about shit himself when the bucket (filled with water) launched about ten feet into the air right beside his door (and open window). He hit the gas out of reflex and nearly plowed through the fence at the end of the lot. While my friend was running toward his dad to see if he was okay, I - sick bastard that I am - was doubled over laughing. ;)

Ken,
Your link highlighted under "geek test" is a link to us...

Thanks for catching that, I didn't copy in the url.

Just got a message back from Daughter Number Two, to whom I sent the test: "I'm a geek god, with just over 70%. Worship me."

20.9073% Mainly I think because I'm not into sci-fi or fantasy and I'm not very knowledgable about computers.

And I wrote about it on my blog.

I love that one of the questions is have you "studied an artificial language (such as Klingon)"

Hahahaha.

And the first author they asked about was Douglas Adams. Yah! I scored pretty low, considering I'd seen every movie they asked about. Twice. At least.

I got 27.416...ugh that is pretty bad.

I scored 30.76923% - Total Geek

I am comforted by the fact that John's score was significantly higher...

"23.27416% - Geek" for me.....alas! And I even own a vintage computer, a Tandy 100 laptop, with a 3 line x 40 column LCD, all caps QWERTY keyboard, and 2KB of RAM, woo hoo! I use it for packet radio demonstrations....works great!

Guess I should have lied, huh?

39.44773% - Major Geek. Scary that I would score higher than Ken, given my lack of science background. But the comic books, RPG's, scifi, random trivia and fact that, yes, I was a theater techie in high school, might explain some of it.

"have you ever made a cage for an egg out of popsicle sticks and dropped it off the top of a building to test your civil engineering skills?"

I did that in seventh grade, but it was for class so I wouldn't count it even if they asked. Oh, and while my interest and appreciation for Trek has fallen off dramatically, I admittedly did used to be a serious geek about it. I definitely do more hard SF now, but I'm still the sort of person who'll give a million reasons why Babylon 5 was such a better show, and be semi-serious about the argument.

"I love that one of the questions is have you "studied an artificial language (such as Klingon)""

I totally think they need to have individual checkboxes for at least few fictitious languages. I mean, I've probably paid closer attention to Tolkien's languages than to the real ones I've attempted to study.

I used to write letters to friends using tengwar and cirth characters.

Oh, Bingley. That's just sad.

Did they ever write back? :-P

It was a long time ago (1979 or so). My only excuse is I was very young. And Carter was president; I needed an escape from the national mayonnaise that he said was gripping America.

And yes, they did write back.

I scored 40.03945% -- Major Geek.

I protest. A damn physics PhD ought to net you more geek points that playing a zillion silly games.

And they didn't even ask about Zork. Plugh!

I used to write letters to friends using tengwar and cirth characters.

When I was a teenager I started inventing an alphabet. The idea was that there would be one letter for each sound and vice versa, because I believe in phonetic spelling, dammit. Also, the letters were going to be rationally formed, consisting of only lines and circles (or arcs).

The consonants went swimmingly, but I hit a hard wall when it came to the vowels. I found I didn't actually know how many sounds there were. (Are ah and aw the same sound? Are those different from short o?) Apparently linguists have this all nailed down now, but I didn't know that then.

And that's before I started learning Russian, and encountered the dreaded Ы.

I never told anybody about this, because they would've had me put away.

Actually, I do sort of collect coins but not in any systematic way.

And this, Grasshopper, is why you will never achieve Total Geekitude.

4.73373% - Poser

Holy shit. I wouldn't have looked twice at you guys in high school OR college! Well, if I needed you to write me a program in Cobol, I might've shown you my boobs, but that was just once. :)

But tengwar? Cirth letters? KLINGON? Did you also play with 17-sided dice in your mom's basement on Friday nights? I just want to cry.

(I keed! I keed! Well, except for that Cobol thing. I totally did that.)

hahahahahahahahahaha!

and the dice come in 4, 6, 10, 12 and 20 side versions...

oops, and 8-sided, too.

Somehow that doesn't make me feel any better.

And my bride and I did listen to "Teach yourself Klingon" tapes in the car while driving down to Norf Cackalacky to visit THS 10 or 11 years ago.

Bingley, I would expect you of all people to know that they have actually made 100-sided dice as well.

There are "Teach Yourself Klingon" tapes?!?!!?!?

Oh, god.

No.

Not in my day, Dave. You would roll 2 d10 to get your percentages.

I'll see if I can find the tapes and scan the box tonight, but it was something like this.

Oh, I did that, too, Mr. B. I'm not saying I ever actually OWNED a d100. They're more a novelty item than something that would ever get used.

100 sided dice? Isn't that, basically, a golf ball?

Darn near, Ken.

what a weird die.

Sort of yes, Ken.

You realize, I hope, that it cannot be a fair die since it is not a regular polyhedron. I don't know the configuration but at best, half of the numbers are more likely than the other half (and depending on the configuration, it may break down in more categories of different probabilities).

I never said it could or was a fair die, or that I've used one. Just that they exist. :-P

It's like a Magic 8 Ball, only with numbers!

hahahahaha. I had friends (oh, hell, BOYfriend) who was into D&D and used to go into endless discourses on the many sided dice and the various attributes of characters. Man, he could talk about it for hours.

(I was in junior high at the time. I would like to think I would be a bit more discerning now)

ricki - hopefully he would be, too. Anyone who did D&D beyond junior high needs another 20 points added to their score. The IDF does not take D&D gamers becuase they think it is a sign of a weak mind.