I told Elf this story yesterday, and she said I should write about it here because it was such a great story. Personally, I think she might have had too much wine. No, wait, I was the one drinking wine. Never mind.
Anyway, it’s an early music memory.
I’ve always been interested in music. I was reminincing [...]

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Well, it looks like most of the scores are hovering between 0% and 50%. Which means I probably have the test tuned properly. On the other hand, it also means there are four responses that just aren’t getting any play.
If you want to take the test go here. If you just want to read [...]

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The fuali.com geek test is pretty good, but it doesn’t really test the essence of geekdom - - just whether one is a computer geek or not. So Sarah and I sat down and wrote a few questions over Margaritas the other day and came up with the Polygeek Test. And here is my result [...]

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OK, here’s a great idea gone horribly wrong.
As I mentioned previously (sorry, vegetarians), I’m trying out a low-carb diet. This means, as a general rule, that I’m always on the lookout for some meat meal that’s not pepperoni or hamburgers or a slab of steak which takes too long to cook anyway given the [...]

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OK, so I’m trying to pick up JAVA programming now. Geekwise, I guess I’m a little behind the curve, and it’s slow going. I guess that’s because I’m only:
39% Geek.
You probably work in computers, or a history deptartment at a college. You never really fit in with the “normal” crowd. But you have [...]

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