100 Essential Skills for Geeks

1. Foreigner1
   July 13th, 2009 at 8:33 am

   Now let's see what numbers apply to me...:
   19. Use any piece of technology intuitively, without instruction or prior knowledge. As long as it is NOT computer- or electronix related...
   29. Run AWAY AS FAST AND PANICING AS I CAN FROM more than two monitors on a single computer.
   30. Successfully disassemble a laptop....
   45. Build amazing structures with LEGO and invent a compelling back story for the creation. ... I leave the compelling story up to my kids...
   46. Understand that it is LEGO, not Lego, Legos, or Lego’s. Yep- to utmost frustration of my wife...
   51. Assemble IKEA furniture without looking at the instructions. Bonus point if you don’t have to backtrack. Yep, but you definitely don't want to hear all the swearing that I utter while doing it...
   65. Solve a Rubik’s Cube- Does disassembling it and putting it correctly together also count als "to solve"...?
   99. Talk about things that aren’t tech related. Yes- Mostly as long as they are not computer-related...

   7 ... wel, 4 or 5.5 skills out of 100 depending how you count.

2. eni
   July 13th, 2009 at 8:55 am

   I believe my score was a 29 when I didn't do the "award yourself points for something you think you could google how to do" thing, and a 56 or so when I did. Not including, of course, googling the answer to questions such as "knowing what a grue is."

3. Edward
   July 13th, 2009 at 9:33 am

   I stopped reading after I said, "Yep" to the first ten. But, then again, I do all of that for a living.

4. Miss Cellania
   July 13th, 2009 at 9:46 am

   I knew hardly any of hte first half, but once I got to 47, I can do almost all of the rest!

5. Toasti
   July 13th, 2009 at 10:38 am

   21---I guess that means I am more of a nerd than a geek! Glad to have that finally cleared up!

6. Screen Sleuth
   July 13th, 2009 at 10:52 am

   I can do many of those things, probably 95%. Does make me an uber-geek or something? I don't know if that's a good thing or not...

7. MrPumpernickel
   July 13th, 2009 at 12:11 pm

   74/100, pretty decent.

8. Matt
   July 13th, 2009 at 12:51 pm

   I hate to say it. But several of the things on this list are not geeky at all. They just seem to be something he has arbitrarily decided are geeky. Also, using a soldering iron next to a baby just seem irresponsible. A true geek would know there are other search engines besides google and how to use them.

9. Cola
   July 13th, 2009 at 1:04 pm

   I definitely have a zombie plan. Not a robot one, though. I guess I've always figured that with robots, there isn't really anything I can do.

   But I always size up new buildings for the potential resistance to zombies.

10. gurnorg
    July 13th, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    I got about 70 but feel that a better list would have a lot more different kinds of geekdom and not just computer stuff.

11. Foreigner1
    July 13th, 2009 at 2:11 pm

    Looking at the results of all you lot, I'm not quite sure if I should be deeply ashamed of myself. Or that I'm just totally different- a visitor from another universe than yours....

12. NicoNicoNico
    July 13th, 2009 at 3:03 pm

    I got 56, even though I don't ever think of myself a computer whiz or fountain of pop culture trivia. Heh, guess I am.

13. vonskippy
    July 13th, 2009 at 6:55 pm

    Does it count as 100 if you can afford to hire a nerd/geek/dork to do them for you?

14. renderanything
    July 16th, 2009 at 11:18 pm

    46/100 I've got quite a bit of work to do. Good thing I'm seriously considering installing Fedora Core 8 64 bit on the next machine I'm building. Then I'll be able to cross off #23.

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