Intro to Black Sabbath’s “Ironman” should be played here…
Check out the Superhero quiz and see who you are! (Hat tip to Joseph for pointing this out.)
Tag Archive for 'quiz'
06
Feb
I am Ironman
10
Jan
Another geek test
I took another geek test today. (Thanks for the link, Punk!) I couldn’t score very many points on the television-related questions, because I haven’t watched TV for several years, and before that I only watched a few shows on PBS. I was a little let down when I scored under 45% (major geek). But then my wife took the test and scored 22.68% (geek), so I got to go back and change the answer to “Did you marry a geek?” This was enough (along with some other things I mis-marked) to push my score up to 46.15385% or “super geek”–woo hoo! My older daughter also took the test and scored 36.09467% (major geek). I’m so proud! My baby’s all grown up, sniff sniff. I think I should get bonus points for having “major geek” offspring!
One of the last questions on the test is, “I can think of other things that should get me points on this test”. Well, of course!
- Bonus points for geek offspring.
- Grant points for other open-source flavors of Unix, e.g. FreeBSD, et al, instead of being Linux-centric.
- Points for having a computer as part of your home A/V system.
- Points for home-automation hardware, e.g. X-10.
- Bouns points for integrating caller ID announcement and/or home automation into your home’s audio/video system.
- Add “The Return of the King” and “Star Wars Episode III” to the movies list.
- Add “Firefly” and/or “Serenity” to the list of geek media.
- Add soldering iron, digital camera and digital video to list of geek toys (microscope, etc.)
- Bonus points for barometer (on “thermometer that also measures humidity”).
- Points for knowing which is faster, FireWire or USB 2. Bonus points for knowing by how much.
01
Jan
3% stupid
I found a humorous quiz on Kevin’s blog:
The question on how many planets are in the solar system threw me for a bit–not because I’m stupid, but because there is some ongoing discussion as to what constitutes a planet. I thought the quiz authors were trying to be tricky, but it turns out that they are merely looking for the customary answer, i.e. consider Pluto one of the planets and ignore 2003 UB313.
I guess “3% stupid” isn’t too bad, but I prefer the nerd test over this stupidity test.
26
Dec
Seven things…
Andante sent me an invite for this survey. How could I refuse, especially since I was listed as her first victiminvitee?
Seven Things To Do Before I Die
- Finish remodeling my house!
- Take my wife to Ireland
- See the metric system (SI) implemented in the United States
- Become more active in my community
- Take a motorcycle tour with my wife
- Visit New Zealand
- Watch my children grow up and overhear somebody say, “Their parents raised them right”
Seven Things I Cannot Do
- Sing
- Bicycle “no hands” (at least not since 1976, when I was struck by a car while doing that)
- Keep my desk tidy
- Any sport requiring hand-eye coordination
- Bake
- Tolerate mean-spirited people
- Support the invasion of a country that was not a threat to us
Seven Things That Attract Me to…Blogging
- Stumbling across kindred spirits
- Being able to rant without obligating anybody to listen
- I can write about anything I want
- It’s easier to keep a blog up-to-date compared to a static page
- Finding out that some people are actually interested in some of the stuff I write about
- No schedules, deadlines, etc.
- “Meeting” people
Seven Things I Say Most Often
- George Carlin’s Seven Words You Can’t Say On Television
- Holy cow (i.e. something astonishing/good happened)
- Crap (i.e. something unexpected/bad happened)
- Lame (i.e. reading a university administration memo)
- Chowderhead (often heard in traffic when somebody’s driving irritates me)
- Dumb ass (usually when a politician or right wing-nut is on the radio)
- “Computer hacking skills” (Napoleon Dynamite)
Seven Books That I Love
- The Harry Potter series (I realize that’s seven books all by itself, but too bad)
- The Plug-In Drug/Television, Children, and the Family
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide series (I know, 5 books this time…)
- Small Is Beautiful
- Job: A Comedy of Justice (or just about any other Heinlein book)
- The Best Democracy Money Can Buy
- The Complete Gilbert & Sullivan: Librettos from All Fourteen Operettas
- Bowling Alone : The Collapse and Revival of American Community
(Yes, I know I went over the limit. Luckily I only went over by 1, it was hard enough to trim the list down to 8!)
Seven Movies That I Watch Over and Over Again
- Princess Bride
- Galaxy Quest
- Thomas Crowne Affair
- Subway
- Monty Python and the Holy Grail
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Seven Brides for Seven Brothers
Seven People I Want To Join In Too Obviously there is no obligation, but it would be interesting to hear from the following people:
(Those who don’t blog, feel free to leave your answers as comments on this article.)
I was looking at Mike Little’s Journalized-blue page today, to see if there was anything new there, and I ran across some “diversionary” stuff in the left sidebar. I played with investigated the following:
My blogger code: B2 d++ t+ k s+ u- f i- o++ l- c–
I’m in the 89th percentile of nerdiness:
Lastly, I registered my blog on GeoURL. I did this the Right Way, by getting GeoURL to ping my blog after I plugged the geotags for my location into the header. (I tried to whip up a quick-and-dirty header plugin for this, but it wasn’t doing what I expected, so I just hard-coded the geo.* meta tags into my blog header.) You can use this page to generate geo.* meta tags for your own location. I think XHTML requires all tags to be lowercase, so be sure to change the generated <META name=blah> tags to <meta name=blah>.
