vilakins | Cool?

Modern, Cool Nerd
78 % Nerd, 52% Geek, 39% Dork

For The Record:
A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning / being smart / academia. A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one. A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations / interactions. You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning you the title of: Modern, Cool Nerd.
Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90s that all changed. It used to be that if you were a computer expert, you had to wear plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and geeky have eeked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and "geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgeable, and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice / an arcane bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!
Congratulations!

My test tracked 3 variables How you compared to other people your age and gender:

You scored higher than 92% on nerdiness
You scored higher than 59% on geekosity
You scored higher than 63% on dork points

Link: The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test written by donathos on OkCupid Free Online Dating

Actually that's better than I thought.

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Not just cool. Way cool.

Thank you! :-D

I'm just happy my dorkiness is at a acceptable level.

Eh. Don't talk to me about dorkiness.

::runs away to hide::

Hmm. Where does it become unacceptable? *eyes own much higher dorkiness level suspiciously*

I suspect that depends on the company one keeps. Hence, on-line fandom.

Ah, yes, indeed. There are reasons I prefer this medium, and this group of people. :)

Actually, I was a little surprised that my "dork" score was as high as my score in the other two categories. I've met a lot of people who are much dorkier than I am. Of course, I went to a tech school... :)

Didja ever see the TV show, 'Dweebs'? It was about programmers at a cutting-edge software company. It only lasted a few weeks, and one of the reasons given for its demise was that viewers didn't relate to the characters because 'there aren't really people like that'. Whereas, I loved it because I went to school with those people! And I miss them. :(

I've never heard of it but I'd watch that! Greg and me on screen! I think there's a UK version whose name escapes me (it could even be 'Dorks') but I've heard at least one character is very fannish.

Oh, yeah, does it ever. Finally I have somewhere I fit in.

Your icon reminds me--I've just started reading a fantasy novel called 'The Redemption of Althalus'. Have you read it? I'm only four chapters in, and the title character immediately struck me as if they'd smushed Avon and Vila together into one character. So far, I like him a lot.

Ooh! Is it a single book or some huge series I'll have to locate every book of? I'm in need of some fiction. [resists...must write Labor Day story...]

'Tis a single, very large book. 700+ pages, but I'm liking the tone and it doesn't seem particularly overwritten, as far as I've gotten, so I don't expect to get bored. Mind you, it may just be my personal taste, but for the longest while I've been reading books more to get to the end than to enjoy the journey. This one, I'm actually enjoying reading.

Oh, good! I shall note it then and look it up in the library system.

I recently read part 1 of a new Tad Williams and it was really five times longer than it could have been. If certain fantasy writers were more concise, we wouldn't have all these trilogies and series.

If I don't enjoy the journey, I stop reading. Life is too short. :-)

::scratches head:: I think my tolerance for long books and series is higher than most people's, as long as I'm enjoying the characters (and their story?) - because if I enjoy the world and characters, I want more of them. Perhaps I've gotten a tad bit lazy, because I find a certain degree of familiarity desirable. OTOH, perhaps it's not that unusual - isn't that the impetus behind most fanfiction, wanting more of what we like?

Oh, true. But nothing much happened in this book. It was full of introspection and long conversations and I kept wanting some plot. But yes, if the characters had engaged me, all of this would have been good. I can thoroughly enjoy an idle conversation between the Liberator crew.

Where does it become unacceptable?

Well, mine has been several times in places I've worked where no one's bothered to speak to me because I don't have anything in common with them and my humour was too strange for them. :-(

This test said I was below 50% which I thought was a good result. I don't think I'm normal though, but that's only another word for average. ;-)

Yeah, like you, I am an "outcast genius" (I was 73 % Nerd, 73% Geek, 65% Dork)

I've always said you were cool. :)

Have you? [is extremely flattered] :-D

Of course! :)

(notices icon). Cool! But why do you call Orac Beta software? Because he's a prototype?

I know it's a bit of a stretch but I wanted the wordplay. :-P

Well, except for spelling 'eked' as 'eeked' the spelling was good on this one. :^)

I love Vila the pinball wizard. :^)

Thanks! I just had the beta-delta icon and someone else gave me the idea for the pinball bit so I combined them.

'Eeked'! That should be a verb. :-) I had to correct something in this but I can't remember what.

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