Using Utensils

Testing My Inner Nerd

Weird Al has a great song out now called, White and Nerdy and while I never really considered myself nerdy the song does brings up a few incriminating references.

After hear the song a few times I thought I’d download the lyrics and turn it into a type of nerdiness test.

Here’s the tally (5 pts per question):

1. Where you first in your class at MIT?
   • 1 – Didn’t go to school at MIT. However, I once drove to Boston with a couple of friends to go to MIT’s computer flee market.
2. Are you a champion at D&D?
   • 0 – Never really craved a second life as a magical elf.
3. Is your favorite MC is MC Escher?
   • 0 – No, but MC Escher’s art is pretty cool.
4. Would you prefer Earl Grey tea over a 40oz container of beer?
   • 1 – No, but I do have loose leaf Earl Grey tea and drink it often.
5. Do you prefer stationary rims over spinners?
   • 5 – I’ll stick with standard rims. I don’t have nothing wrong with spinners, except for spinner hub cabs… those are just sad.
6. Do you collect action figures?
   • 0 – Absolutely not.
7. Do you own any Steven Hawking books?
   • 5 – Yes I do, “A Brief History of Time”.
8. Do you have a pimped out MySpace page?
   • 0 – MySpace sucks… I only use it to test the Flash widgets I’ve created.
9. Do you know π (pi) to a thousand places?
   • 2 – I know pi to five places (3.14159), but the speed of light is still ingrained in my head (299,792,458 m/s).
10. Do you still wear braces?
    • 0 – No, never have.
11. Do you order all of your sandwiches with mayonnaise?
    • 3 – Not all of my sandwiches.
12. Are you a whiz at Minesweeper and could you play for days?
    • 0 – I’ve never played Minesweeper.
13. Are there any killer app you haven’t run?
    • 0 – Probably
14. Are you proficient in Pascal?
    • 2 – Not any more, but I had to learn it for my AP Computer Science class in high school.
15. Do you do vector calculus just for fun?
    • 0 – For fun… no.
16. Do you own a soldering gun?
    • 0 – Nope.
17. Is Happy Days your favorite theme song?
    • 0 – Hate it, but now it’s stuck in my head.
18. Could you kick butt in a game of ping pong?
    • 1 – Probably not, does beer pong count?
19. Can you ace any trivia quiz?
    • 4 – Not always, but I’m pretty good.
20. Are you fluent in JavaScript?
    • 3 – I’m not a grand master, but I can use it for general functionality.
21. Are you fluent in Klingon?
    • 0 – Nope.
22. Would you ever own a Segway?
    • 0 – Not as long as my legs work… I’ll walk.
23. Do you collect X-Men comic books?
    • 0 – Never owned a comic book.
24. Do you wear a pocket protector?
    • 0 – Definitely not.
25. Do you use an ergonomic keyboard?
    • 0 – I hate ergonomic keyboards, especially the curved ones with huge keys in the middle.
26. Do you often shopping online for deals (especially for writable media)?
    • 3 – Not often, but I do shop online for deals.
27. Do you edit Wikipedia?
    • 2 – I’ve never edited Wikipedia, but I have edited other Wikis.
28. Have you memorized the Holy Grail and could you recite it right now?
    • 0 – While I thought the Holy Grail was funny, I did not memorize any of it.
29. Do you know what ROTFLOL means?
    • 1 – I know what LOL stands for, but I had to look up the full acronym (thanks to Google and define:ROTFLOL).
30. Do you own a business doing websites?
    • 5 – Yes.
31. Have you ever made a homepage for your dog?
    • 0 – No, but my friend has a homepage for her dog.
32. Do you own and wear a fanny pack?
    • 0 – Absolutely not.
33. Do you shop at The Gap?
    • 0 – Nope.
34. Have you ever spent a night getting freaky with a roll of bubble wrap?
    • 0 – While it sounds interesting… no.
35. Have you ever been in the AV Club, Glee Club, or Chess Team?
    • 3 – Nope, but I was in 4-H, the Math and Theatre clubs, and sadly when I was in junior high my parents made me join the choirs (thankfully it was for only one year). In my defense I was also on the wrestling, football, and track teams.
36. Have you ever pondered whether who is better, Captain Kirk or Captain Picard?
    • 3 – Never thought about it, but I do know the other Star Trek captains are Janeway, Sisko, and Archer.
37. Do you spend every weekend at the Renaissance Fair?
    • 0 – Nope, turkey legs and meed really don’t do anything for me.
38. Do you have your name on your underwear?
    • 0 – Hahaha… no.

Almost 1/4 Nerd

Apparently I don’t meet Weird Al’s level of nerdiness:

44 pts / 190 pts = 23%

While I’m sure bonus points could be added for even attempting to measure one’s nerdiness, but this is one test I don’t mind not getting a 100 on.

In any case, a little bit of nerdiness can definitely be useful.