{"id":5756,"date":"2013-03-14T21:56:33","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T01:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=5756"},"modified":"2013-03-14T21:56:33","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T01:56:33","slug":"thursday-night-pi-day-geek-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2013\/03\/14\/thursday-night-pi-day-geek-test\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday night &#8211; Pi day \/ Geek test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Pi day everyone.. March 14th == 3.14\u00a0 the geekiest\u00a0 day of the year.!<\/p>\n<p>Geeks everywhere are celebrating by shining their slide rules .. I know my work neighbors had a big Pi(e) celebration in the cafeteria.. but I was traveling back to the states..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You know.. i should take this more seriously now. I was thinking about it yesterday how much I&#8217;ve grown to be the nerd I always dreamed of being. The hobbies, the look, the poor social skills. &#8230;the whole stereotype !.\u00a0 Its only a very happy accident of fate that has equated being nerdy with being cool again.. where would I be if hat hadn&#8217;t happened ?<\/p>\n<p>This week in Turkey I met with many other wonderful\u00a0 nerds and geeks at work.. one of them pointed me at<a title=\"the Geek test.\" href=\"http:\/\/innergeek.us\/geek.html\" target=\"_blank\"> the Geek Test . <\/a>Its an online test of just how geeky you are.. I noticed a sec ago that it&#8217;s even been updated for Pi day.. how geeky is that ?\u00a0 It&#8217;s many pages long.. so give yourself a good 20 minutes to do it..<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/piday.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5758\" alt=\"piday\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/piday.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/piday.jpg 600w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/piday.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/piday.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway..\u00a0\u00a0 the fine folks in IBM Turkey asked me to take the test and submit the results.. I came in with a score OF 60.51661 % .. a solid &#8220;extreme geek&#8221;.. I actually would have done &#8220;better&#8221;.. but Im not into sci-fi, video games or RPGS&#8230; actually.. with those three strikes against me, I should be proud of having any geek cred..\u00a0 I did score bi on electronic gadgets, peculiar interests, anti social habits , .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/geektest.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5757\" alt=\"geektest\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/geektest.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/geektest.jpg 600w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/geektest.jpg 300w, http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/geektest.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d be interested in hearing what you, gentle reader, score on this test.. i suspect that there are some Geek G-ds lurking out there.. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/innergeek.us\/geek.html\" target=\"_blank\">please try it <\/a>and let me know !<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>anyway.. happy Pi day everyone !<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Happy Pi day everyone.. March 14th == 3.14\u00a0 the geekiest\u00a0 day of the year.! Geeks everywhere are celebrating by shining their slide rules .. I know my work neighbors had a big Pi(e) celebration in the cafeteria.. but I was traveling back to the states..\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You know.. i should take this more seriously now. 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