dynagirl

Besides the fact that the stereotypical stock images are teh g3y, this quiz is for amateurs. Viz…

1: How many functioning computers are in your house?

Available answers stop at four, and don’t include, “I can’t remember, hang on while I go down to the server room and count them.”

2: What kind of computer do you use?

The answers reference operating systems, not computers. Also, there is no option for “OSX, Windows (but only for testing and himself’s work), at least 2 flavors of Linux and THERE IS NO MENTION OF BSD.

4: Do you text-message or e-mail from your cell phone or BlackBerry?

Hello?! Treos are much more awesome, I am in IRC right this minute on mine, and himself got into his AS/400 box on his on the way to work this morning. Blackberries are for corporate hacks.

8: Which of these do you have attached to your television?

OK, props for mentioning Slingbox, which we don’t have but really want. (Mentioned in our podcast a couple weeks back. And no, there were no bonus points awarded for podcasting.)

9: Which game system are you playing most often today?

Hacked Xbox with MAMEs not an available option. (Not that I hacked it, but still.)

17: When you need driving directions you…

No option for “use internet in car, either wardriving or on Treo.”

My score was 79, Seriously Nerdy (out of a possible 102); however, the quiz didn’t give me an extra ten bonus dork points for blogging a complaint about it. Meh.

Holy crap, I just looked at the other results. Out of 16948 people taking the quiz, nearly 60% were under 30, or “stuck in the last century.” Only four percent are as geektastic as I am, which is is scary, considering that of the tech people I know, I would consider myself on the low end of the totem pole (being a web designer, not a programmer). No wonder we have to translate ourselves so much.