> It's been fun, guys. I just found out my Nerd score,
> and I know I'm going to be asked to leave. How
> embarassing...it's only 79.
>
> [sniff]
>
> Eric
> KE6US
>
>
>
>
> --- Ake Hedman <.....akheKILLspam@spam@eurosource.se> wrote:
>> This was on the UKHA list today. Though I should
>> share it with all
>> PICLIST'ers to.
>>
>> http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php
>>
>> /Ake
>>
>> --
>> ---
>> Ake Hedman (YAP - Yet Another Programmer)
>> eurosource, Brattbergavägen 17, 820 50 LOS, Sweden
>> Phone: (46) 657 413430 Cellular: (46) 73 84 84 102
>> Company home: http://www.eurosource.se
>> Kryddor/Te/Kaffe: http://www.brattberg.com
>> Personal homepage: http://www.eurosource.se/akhe
>> Automated home: http://www.vscp.org
>>
>>
>
> I scored a 95. I would have aced it if I wouldn't have admitted using
> Windows as my main OS.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>It's been fun, guys. I just found out my Nerd score,
>>and I know I'm going to be asked to leave. How
>>embarassing...it's only 79.
>>
>>[sniff]
>>
>>Eric
>>KE6US
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--- Ake Hedman <akheKILLspameurosource.se> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This was on the UKHA list today. Though I should
>>>share it with all
>>>PICLIST'ers to.
>>>
>>>http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php
>>>
>>>/Ake
>>>
>>>--
>>> ---
>>>Ake Hedman (YAP - Yet Another Programmer)
>>>eurosource, Brattbergavägen 17, 820 50 LOS, Sweden
>>>Phone: (46) 657 413430 Cellular: (46) 73 84 84 102
>>>Company home: http://www.eurosource.se
>>>Kryddor/Te/Kaffe: http://www.brattberg.com
>>>Personal homepage: http://www.eurosource.se/akhe
>>>Automated home: http://www.vscp.org
>>>
>>>
I think my love of RPN calculators helped... Err.. Contributed. Also having
dead insects in my office. And actually those are all programming languages,
BASIC is just the one that is least respected. In the picture, the first
thing I noticed was the pretty blue thing in the upper left corner. What is
that? A vase? A bottle? If want to look at klingon females, the place is http://www.houseofkamin.com/sa1.htm WARNING! Don't go there Russell!
>
> I scored a 95. I would have aced it if I wouldn't have admitted using
> Windows as my main OS.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jim
>
>
>
>
>
>
>>It's been fun, guys. I just found out my Nerd score,
>>and I know I'm going to be asked to leave. How
>>embarassing...it's only 79.
>>
>>[sniff]
>>
>>Eric
>>KE6US
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>--- Ake Hedman <akhespam_OUTeurosource.se> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>This was on the UKHA list today. Though I should
>>>share it with all
>>>PICLIST'ers to.
>>>
>>>http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php
>>>
>>>/Ake
>>>
>>>--
>>> ---
>>>Ake Hedman (YAP - Yet Another Programmer)
>>>eurosource, Brattbergavägen 17, 820 50 LOS, Sweden
>>>Phone: (46) 657 413430 Cellular: (46) 73 84 84 102
>>>Company home: http://www.eurosource.se
>>>Kryddor/Te/Kaffe: http://www.brattberg.com
>>>Personal homepage: http://www.eurosource.se/akhe
>>>Automated home: http://www.vscp.org
>>>
>>>
> It's been fun, guys. I just found out my Nerd score,
> and I know I'm going to be asked to leave. How
> embarassing...it's only 79.
>
> [sniff]
>
> Eric
> KE6US
>
>
>
>
> --- Ake Hedman <spamBeGoneakhespamBeGoneeurosource.se> wrote:
>> This was on the UKHA list today. Though I should
>> share it with all
>> PICLIST'ers to.
>>
>> http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php
>>
>> /Ake
>>
>> --
>> ---
>> Ake Hedman (YAP - Yet Another Programmer)
>> eurosource, Brattbergavägen 17, 820 50 LOS, Sweden
>> Phone: (46) 657 413430 Cellular: (46) 73 84 84 102
>> Company home: http://www.eurosource.se
>> Kryddor/Te/Kaffe: http://www.brattberg.com
>> Personal homepage: http://www.eurosource.se/akhe
>> Automated home: http://www.vscp.org
>>
>>
At 04:39 PM 5/9/2005 -0300, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>>I scored 99!!!!
>
>
> I really have to tell my wife about this !! I scored a 75 !! I am
> Normal and I did not know it :-)
>
>Best regards.
>Alexandre Guimaraes
Gack! 99 too!
I hope it was some kind of glitch, but I'm not so sure...
On Mon, 9 May 2005 13:45:32 +0500 (CDT), Paul James E. wrote:
> I scored a 95. I would have aced it if I wouldn't have admitted using Windows as my main OS.
I scored 92 - I was probably let down by the fact that graphical calculators are really uncommon over here,
and that the machine I happened to be using (ThinkPad 380z) maxes out at 160MB. The other three computers
around me all have over half a Gig... and howcome they didn't ask how many computers there are in your living
room?
I was somewhat annoyed (as I often am when questionnaires don't ask the right questions) that there was no
option for my operating system of choice: OS/2! If I could have said that I think it should have upped my
score considerably...
It's ok i got "Nerd God" and I've been running around all day
collecting AOL disks to make my crown out of. :-D
Dave
-> It's been fun, guys. I just found out my Nerd score,
-> and I know I'm going to be asked to leave. How
-> embarassing...it's only 79.
->
-> [sniff]
->
-> Eric
-> KE6US
->
->
->
->
-> --- Ake Hedman <EraseMEakheeurosource.se> wrote:
-> > This was on the UKHA list today. Though I should
-> > share it with all
-> > PICLIST'ers to.
-> >
-> > http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php
-> >
-> > /Ake
-> >
-> > --
-> > ---
-> > Ake Hedman (YAP - Yet Another Programmer)
-> > eurosource, Brattbergavdgen 17, 820 50 LOS, Sweden
-> > Phone: (46) 657 413430 Cellular: (46) 73 84 84 102
-> > Company home: http://www.eurosource.se
-> > Kryddor/Te/Kaffe: http://www.brattberg.com
-> > Personal homepage: http://www.eurosource.se/akhe
-> > Automated home: http://www.vscp.org
-> >
-> >
-> > --
How is it possible to have a Human/Klingon hybrid as shown on Next
Generation (Warf's son), as well as the Klingons that were genetically
modified with Human DNA on Enterprise if they are silicone based?
....maybe I don't need a nerd test afterall...
-Dal
Eric Jorgensen wrote:
>Some revelations for me. No wonder I only scored 79.
>
>I picked Assembly as not being a language since it is
>basically just shufflying bits around from one
>register to another.
>
>And the Klingon website dispelled another
>misconception. So much for Klingons being
>carbon-based. Apparently, they are silicone-based.
>
>Eric
>KE6US
>
>
>--- James Newtons Massmind <RemoveMEjamesnewtonEraseMEEraseMEmassmind.org>
>wrote:
>
>
>>And actually those are
>>all programming languages,
>>BASIC is just the one that is least respected.
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
>>If want to look at klingon
>>females, the place is
>>http://www.houseofkamin.com/sa1.htm
>>---
>>James.
>>
>>
>
>
>
>
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>
> How is it possible to have a Human/Klingon hybrid as
> shown on Next
> Generation (Warf's son), as well as the Klingons
> that were genetically
> modified with Human DNA on Enterprise if they are
> silicone based?
>
> ....maybe I don't need a nerd test afterall...
> -Dal
> Eric Jorgensen wrote:
>
> >Some revelations for me. No wonder I only scored
> 79.
> >
> >I picked Assembly as not being a language since it
> is
> >basically just shufflying bits around from one
> >register to another.
> >
> >And the Klingon website dispelled another
> >misconception. So much for Klingons being
> >carbon-based. Apparently, they are silicone-based.
> >
> >Eric
> >KE6US
> >
> >
> >--- James Newtons Massmind
> <RemoveMEjamesnewtonTakeThisOuTspammassmind.org>
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >>And actually those are
> >>all programming languages,
> >>BASIC is just the one that is least respected.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>If want to look at klingon
> >>females, the place is
> >>http://www.houseofkamin.com/sa1.htm
> >>---
> >>James.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> >
> >
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--- Jake Anderson <grooveeeSTOPspamspam_OUToptushome.com.au> wrote:
> mmm note this link
> is NOT WORK SAFE!
>
> well unless you have a really nice employer
> tell me where you work, any openings?
>
> > {Original Message removed}
>I got 96%. Expected 50% ;-) Russel you can come forward now with
>your full score... ;-)
Well, I was immensely surprised.
I didn't lie - but I leant towards the obvious nerdy answers where
possible where there was an honest choice.
Main OS is Windows - that should mark me down.
Browser is IE - surely another black mark.
Said 3 or 4 for microscope etc as one on that list was probably
lacking. (The calculator isn't mine).
Could have done better in quite a few other areas, I felt.
Pondered on whether COBOL or C++ is less a programming language and
opted for COBOL as being the more likely approved choice (as people
who set such tests are probably less nerdy than some).
So, overall, I was rather surprised to get 143 ! (octal, of course*).
The test result is, it says, a ranking of your nerdiness relative to
others, not an absolute score, so you can "fail" any number of
questions and rank highly as long as most others do worse (or better,
depending on perspective).
Note that there is code at the end of the test to paste on a website
to brag about your score and direct others to the page.
Those who can't even spell RPN are at a distinct disadvantage here.
RM
* For neophytes that's 01100011 or $63
For those (vanishing few) who want to know, my rating was:
All $
53 55 50 52 45 4d 45 20 4e 45 52 44 20 47 4F 44 21 21 21
>
> http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php
>
>> I got 96%. Expected 50% ;-) Russel you can come forward now with
>> your full score... ;-)
>
>
> Well, I was immensely surprised.
> I didn't lie - but I leant towards the obvious nerdy answers where
> possible where there was an honest choice.
> Main OS is Windows - that should mark me down.
> Browser is IE - surely another black mark.
> Said 3 or 4 for microscope etc as one on that list was probably
> lacking. (The calculator isn't mine).
> Could have done better in quite a few other areas, I felt.
> Pondered on whether COBOL or C++ is less a programming language and
> opted for COBOL as being the more likely approved choice (as people
> who set such tests are probably less nerdy than some).
> So, overall, I was rather surprised to get 143 ! (octal, of course*).
>
> The test result is, it says, a ranking of your nerdiness relative to
> others, not an absolute score, so you can "fail" any number of
> questions and rank highly as long as most others do worse (or better,
> depending on perspective).
>
> Note that there is code at the end of the test to paste on a website
> to brag about your score and direct others to the page.
>
> Those who can't even spell RPN are at a distinct disadvantage here.
>
>
> RM
>
>
> * For neophytes that's 01100011 or $63
>
> For those (vanishing few) who want to know, my rating was:
> All $
> 53 55 50 52 45 4d 45 20 4e 45 52 44 20 47 4F 44 21 21 21
>
> I don't think blasphemy is intended :-)
>
< Alan B. Pearce commented>
> Hmm, amusing item on the radio this morning. Discussion centred around
funny
> names people have, and how they suit their profession.
>
> Apparently there is a solicitors office in a town near here called "Wright
> Hassel & Co."
My favorite is a window sign I saw for a small law partnership in a rural
farming town: "Upp & Adam"
To make matters more interesting there was a discrete plaque nearby
announcing the practice of "Lloyd Grumbles, Psychiatrist"
> -----Original Message-----
> From: KILLspampiclist-bouncesspamBeGonemit.edu [EraseMEpiclist-bouncesEraseMEmit.edu]On Behalf
> Of John J. McDonough
> Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 21:20
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT] Nerdtest
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Russell McMahon" <@spam@apptech@spam@spam_OUTparadise.net.nz>
> Subject: Re: [OT] Nerdtest
>
>
> > >> >Apparently, they are silicone-based.
> >
> > That would be Silicon. Or not.
>
> Actually, based on the pictures on that one web site, could well be
> silicone!
>
> --McD
>
>
>>>93 and I'm a lawyer =8-0
>
>
> < Alan B. Pearce commented>
>
>>Hmm, amusing item on the radio this morning. Discussion centred around
>
> funny
>
>>names people have, and how they suit their profession.
>>
>>Apparently there is a solicitors office in a town near here called "Wright
>>Hassel & Co."
>
>
> My favorite is a window sign I saw for a small law partnership in a rural
> farming town: "Upp & Adam"
>
> To make matters more interesting there was a discrete plaque nearby
> announcing the practice of "Lloyd Grumbles, Psychiatrist"
>
> Aza D. Oberman
>
There is a funeral home in a city nearby,
name: Swackhammer and Hilts (and the font diminishes the relative
prominence of the "l") ;)
D
On Tue, 10 May 2005 07:19:35 -0400, Aza D. Oberman wrote:
> > Hmm, amusing item on the radio this morning. Discussion centred around
> funny
> > names people have, and how they suit their profession.
> >
> > Apparently there is a solicitors office in a town near here called "Wright
> > Hassel & Co."
>
> My favorite is a window sign I saw for a small law partnership in a rural
> farming town: "Upp & Adam"
>
> To make matters more interesting there was a discrete plaque nearby
> announcing the practice of "Lloyd Grumbles, Psychiatrist"
I used to know a solicitor ("lawyer" for the left-ponded) who worked for a firm where the senior partner's
name was Cheetham...
...and I used to go to a dentist who was called "I. Screech"
:-)
Cheers,
Howard Winter
St.Albans, England
PGP Public Key Fingerprint= C8 2B DE DE E5 CE 71 4D B1 6C BF 21 D4 A2 A8 0D
>On Tue, 10 May 2005 07:19:35 -0400, Aza D. Oberman wrote:
>
> > > Hmm, amusing item on the radio this morning. Discussion centred around
> > funny
> > > names people have, and how they suit their profession.
> > >
> > > Apparently there is a solicitors office in a town near here called
> "Wright
> > > Hassel & Co."
> >
> > My favorite is a window sign I saw for a small law partnership in a rural
> > farming town: "Upp & Adam"
> >
> > To make matters more interesting there was a discrete plaque nearby
> > announcing the practice of "Lloyd Grumbles, Psychiatrist"
>
>I used to know a solicitor ("lawyer" for the left-ponded) who worked for a
>firm where the senior partner's
>name was Cheetham...
>
>...and I used to go to a dentist who was called "I. Screech"
>
>:-)
>
>Cheers,
We've got a funeral home called "Turner and Porter". A dentist named "May
Tak Pang".
And a world-famous duo of penis enlargement doctors- Dr. Long and Dr. Stubbs.
> On Tue, 10 May 2005 07:19:35 -0400, Aza D. Oberman wrote:
>
> > > Hmm, amusing item on the radio this morning. Discussion centred around
> > funny
> > > names people have, and how they suit their profession.
> > >
> > > Apparently there is a solicitors office in a town near here called "Wright
> > > Hassel & Co."
> >
> > My favorite is a window sign I saw for a small law partnership in a rural
> > farming town: "Upp & Adam"
> >
> > To make matters more interesting there was a discrete plaque nearby
> > announcing the practice of "Lloyd Grumbles, Psychiatrist"
>
> I used to know a solicitor ("lawyer" for the left-ponded) who worked for a firm where the senior partner's
> name was Cheetham...
>
> ...and I used to go to a dentist who was called "I. Screech"
>
> :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Howard Winter
> St.Albans, England
>
> PGP Public Key Fingerprint= C8 2B DE DE E5 CE 71 4D B1 6C BF 21 D4 A2 A8 0D
>
>
Car Talk's "lawyers" are Dewey, Cheatham and Howe.
And let us not forget Teddy Kennedy's lawyers after a
woman died in the back seat of his car when he
drunkenly missed the bridge on Martha's Vinyard -
Weiner, Deiner, Dicker and Dunker.
('tis an olde joke)
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SiliconE. OK, it was a pun. See...someone here
referred to a site featuring Klingon women. I went to
the site. Everyone of them was chemically enhanced. So
I made a little pun about Klingons apparently being
silicone-based life forms. I'm REALLY sorry I did...
On second thought, I guess you could also say they
were silicon-based since silicone is related to
silicon...but I'm not going there, RM.
>
> http://www.nerdtests.com/ft_nq.php
>
> >I got 96%. Expected 50% ;-) Russel you can come
> forward now with
> >your full score... ;-)
>
> Well, I was immensely surprised.
> I didn't lie - but I leant towards the obvious nerdy
> answers where
> possible where there was an honest choice.
> Main OS is Windows - that should mark me down.
> Browser is IE - surely another black mark.
> Said 3 or 4 for microscope etc as one on that list
> was probably
> lacking. (The calculator isn't mine).
> Could have done better in quite a few other areas, I
> felt.
> Pondered on whether COBOL or C++ is less a
> programming language and
> opted for COBOL as being the more likely approved
> choice (as people
> who set such tests are probably less nerdy than
> some).
> So, overall, I was rather surprised to get 143 !
> (octal, of course*).
>
> The test result is, it says, a ranking of your
> nerdiness relative to
> others, not an absolute score, so you can "fail" any
> number of
> questions and rank highly as long as most others do
> worse (or better,
> depending on perspective).
>
> Note that there is code at the end of the test to
> paste on a website
> to brag about your score and direct others to the
> page.
>
> Those who can't even spell RPN are at a distinct
> disadvantage here.
>
>
> RM
>
>
> * For neophytes that's 01100011 or $63
>
> For those (vanishing few) who want to know, my
> rating was:
> All $
> 53 55 50 52 45 4d 45 20 4e 45 52 44 20 47
> 4F 44 21 21 21
>
> I don't think blasphemy is intended :-)
>
Hosts of a popular Public Radio show about automobiles
(Car Talk) has "DEWEY, CHEETHAM & HOWE" in the window
of their Cambridge offices. But it's meant as a
joke...I think.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Eric Jorgensen [RemoveMEeric_ke6usspamBeGoneyahoo.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, May 10, 2005 1:40 PM
>To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
>Subject: Re: [OT] Nerdtest
>
>
>
>Hosts of a popular Public Radio show about automobiles
>(Car Talk) has "DEWEY, CHEETHAM & HOWE" in the window
>of their Cambridge offices. But it's meant as a
>joke...I think.
>
I'm fairly sure the original reference was credited to
the Three Stooges, posing as lawyers..
Yes, the Three Stooges used it. I seem to recall
Groucho Marx and Bugs Bunny / Daffy Duck used
it as well, although I think one expanded it to
"BOYD, DEWEY, CHEETHAM & HOWE".
Hmm... A few years ago, a comic strip ran in the local newspaper
(US) where the character's law firm was "Sueman & Schuyster".
I think that might qualify as a double-double-entendre.
> Hosts of a popular Public Radio show about automobiles
> (Car Talk) has "DEWEY, CHEETHAM & HOWE" in the window
> of their Cambridge offices. But it's meant as a
> joke...I think.
> Car Talk's "lawyers" are Dewey, Cheatham and Howe.
>
> And let us not forget Teddy Kennedy's lawyers after a
> woman died in the back seat of his car when he
> drunkenly missed the bridge on Martha's Vinyard -
> Weiner, Deiner, Dicker and Dunker.
>
> ('tis an olde joke)
> Hosts of a popular Public Radio show about automobiles
> (Car Talk) has "DEWEY, CHEETHAM & HOWE" in the window
> of their Cambridge offices. But it's meant as a
> joke...I think.
Actually it's a trademarked name for a production company. I think it is
the company that produces and sells Car Talk.
>
> http://techref.massmind.org/techref/ascii.htm shows
> 48444820484448204844480d0a45524943 to be:
> HDH HDH HDH
> ERIC
>
> And Russell's original 53555052454d45204e45524420474F44212121 is:
> SUPREME NERD GOD!!!%
>
> Yes, I know, that is cheating, but I wrote the JavaScript on those pages so
> I have a "get out of jail" free card.
>
> ---
> James.
>
>
>
>From: Eric Jorgensen <@spam@eric_ke6usRemoveMEEraseMEyahoo.com>
>Reply-To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <EraseMEpiclist@spam@mit.edu>
>To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <@spam@piclistspam_OUT.....mit.edu>
>Subject: Re: [OT] Nerdtest
>Date: Tue, 10 May 2005 10:26:59 -0700 (PDT)
>
>SiliconE. OK, it was a pun. See...someone here
>referred to a site featuring Klingon women. I went to
>the site. Everyone of them was chemically enhanced. So
>I made a little pun about Klingons apparently being
>silicone-based life forms. I'm REALLY sorry I did...
>
>On second thought, I guess you could also say they
>were silicon-based since silicone is related to
>silicon...but I'm not going there, RM.
>
>Eric
>KE6US
>
>--- Russell McMahon <spamBeGoneapptechEraseMEparadise.net.nz> wrote:
> > >> >Apparently, they are silicone-based.
> >
> > That would be Silicon. Or not.
> >
> >
> > RM
> > --
>>SiliconE. OK, it was a pun. See...someone here
>>referred to a site featuring Klingon women. I went to
>>the site. Everyone of them was chemically enhanced. So
>>I made a little pun about Klingons apparently being
>>silicone-based life forms. I'm REALLY sorry I did...
>>On second thought, I guess you could also say they
>>were silicon-based since silicone is related to
>>silicon...but I'm not going there, RM.
Your evident erudition is accepted as explanation :-)
It was just that many people use the term Silicone when meaning
Silicon and in the context the latter seemed to make more sense. But,
maybe not :-)
eurosource.se> wrote:
