The Chat Thread

[DavidW]

I took the test in DavidW's signature:

My results-
Mega-Dorky Non-Nerd

Not sure I agree with that last one being that high... and apparently, not programming in extinct programming languages and not taking apart a VCR player and reassembling it lowers my "Computers/technology" score. 

Now I feel like an old fart!   Those were the languages taught when I was in school.  Taking apart a vcr player probably goes under science, you don't need any help there though... probably sleep with a periodic table, you nerd you!   Yeah it is weird that you scored highly in every area but the one you uber like.  Well and also you're not a dork.  I am! <puts on pocket protector>

[DavidW]

Wow Leon you're so non-nerdy most of the questions you must have thought "huh?"

Soapy is nerdy like me, but not dorky.  I stand alone on the dorkiness!

[ibanezmonster]

Now I feel like an old fart!   Those were the languages taught when I was in school.

Well, I guess some languages come and go, with the exception of C++/Java/BASIC, or HTML/CSS... Ada and COBOL? lol if I saw a job posting that required any of those languages I'd die laughing.  I've read that even Perl is dying out, being replaced by PHP for internet (understandably...), and being replaced by Lua for video games.

[Gurn Blanston]

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Don't know if this is a good thing or not

[karlhenning]

Summa cum nerdy

[DavidW]

Well, I guess some languages come and go, with the exception of C++/Java/BASIC, or HTML/CSS... Ada and COBOL? lol if I saw a job posting that required any of those languages I'd die laughing.  I've read that even Perl is dying out, being replaced by PHP for internet (understandably...), and being replaced by Lua for video games.

Well you might be surprised... alot of businesses have legacy code and it's much easier and cheaper to keep modifying that instead of replacing it wholesale with the current languages.  Even fortran is still used extensively today since so much engineering projects were done using it back in the day.

[DavidW]

It looks like Gurn would give a history prof a run for his money!

[karlhenning]

[karlhenning]

Soapy, I cannot believe that anyone got a lower Sci-Fi Comic score than I did.

I suppose part of it is just that I happened to know when Superman opened, and twigged the TOS/TNG question . . . .

[karlhenning]

Don't know if this is a good thing or not

Nice History/Lit score! Hat's off to you!

(Mine should be better, but I suppose some of those questions were on the nerdy side, too . . . .)

[karlhenning]

I have literally no idea what that means.  Please don't tell me.

Don't read this:

The Original Series (i.e. of Star Trek)
The Next Generation

[DavidW]

Don't read this:

The Original Series (i.e. of Star Trek)
The Next Generation

Nerd alert!  

[Lethevich]

The rating is a little odd given the median...

[DavidW]

All hail the nerd god!  We are not worthy!!

[Sergeant Rock]

My score...nothing surprsing here 




Sarge

[karlhenning]

Votive candles burning to Sara!

[karlhenning]

Nerd alert!  

I probably wouldn't know that, except my roommate in Buffalo was a serious Next Generation addict.

(He was also a great fan of The Wonder Years and Quantum Leap, FWIW. Oh, and Alien Nation.)

[DavidW]

I probably wouldn't know that, except my roommate in Buffalo was a serious Next Generation addict.

(He was also a great fan of The Wonder Years and Quantum Leap, FWIW. Oh, and Alien Nation.)

When the show premiered I taped every first air episode for the whole 7 season run.  I watched each one 5-10 times.   Of course I was a kid then, kids get obsessive.

[Père Malfait]

No surprises here, except the Science/Math score seems a bit high (since I have always been clueless about the latter and indifferent about the former). OTOH, there weren't really any *actual* science or math questions on the quiz, imo.

So, fwiw, here's mine:

[karlhenning]

The Kings of Nerd