Comments on: 100 Essential Skills for Geeks

By: renderanything

renderanything — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:18:53 +0000

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.

By: vonskippy

vonskippy — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:55:45 +0000

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

By: NicoNicoNico

NicoNicoNico — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 20:03:31 +0000

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.

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:11:37 +0000

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….

By: gurnorg

gurnorg — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:06:23 +0000

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

By: Cola

Cola — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:04:30 +0000

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.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:51:21 +0000

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.

By: MrPumpernickel

MrPumpernickel — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:11:05 +0000

74/100, pretty decent.

By: Screen Sleuth

Screen Sleuth — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:52:31 +0000

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…

By: Toasti

Toasti — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:38:07 +0000

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

By: Miss Cellania

Miss Cellania — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:46:28 +0000

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

By: Edward

Edward — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:33:28 +0000

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

By: eni

eni — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:55:36 +0000

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.”

By: Foreigner1

Foreigner1 — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:33:25 +0000

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.