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New Additions
Yes, I emailed these to her... :-)

1) You've actually posted your score somewhere, with all the decimal places.
1a) as a badge of honor
1b) in a group of people doing the same, and you had the high score.
2) You know that 9 * 6 really DOES equal 42... in base 13.
3) You know that the futexes are also cursed.
4) You've programmed a MUD.
4a) Several MUDs.
4b) Your own mudlib.
4c) Your own MUD driver.
5) You played online networked games before 1992.
5a) That you wrote.
5b) On a VAX.
6) You can recognize 5 or more of the Doctors by sight.
7) You can name 5 or more of the Companions.
7a) You know what a Companion is.
8) You have blank CDs/DVDs on your desk.
9) You've edited a Wikipedia article.
9a) Several times.
9b) And gotten in an argument/flame war/discussion about it.
9c) Several articles.
9d) Several arguments.
9e) You "own" an article.
9f) Several articles.
10) You've used more than one variety of Wiki.
10a) And can discuss the differences.
10b) And know the Wiki codes for all of them.
11) You've built your own networking appliance.
11a) From Linux.
11b) From BSD.
11c) From scratch.
12) You've reflashed a router or switch with Open Source software.
12a) A game console.
12b) An iPhone.
12c) Someone else's iPhone.
13) You have more than one plaid dress shirt.
14) You wear cargo pants so you can carry paperbacks around easily.
14a) Cargo shorts.
15) You've written a compiler.
15a) An assembler.
15b) An interpreter.
15c) You know the differences between them.
16) You've made "________ Considered Harmful" jokes.
16a) They weren't jokes.
17) You've written programs in languages that weren't meant to do the things you made them do.
18) You've entered an "Obfuscated _______" contest.
18a) And won.
19) You know what Foo and Bar are.
19a) And have used them in a sentence.
20) You've used the word "munge".
21) You've said an emotive word (like "sigh", or "groan") in a conversation instead of doing the action itself.
21a) You know what an emote is in the first place.
22) You say things like "teh" or "pwned" or "muah".

To add to the geek shows/movies:

Doctor Who
The new Doctor Who
Firefly
Dune

To add to the "You now" sections:

1) Assembler
1a) For more than one architecture.
2) Perl, Python, or Ruby
3) Languages that other geeks have never heard of (like Dylan, Haskell, Cecil)
4) About at least one joke language.
4a) How to program in a joke language.
4b) Like INTERCAL
4c) Or Befunge
5) What INTERCAL stands for.
6) The difference between Big and Little Endian.
7) How many bytes are taken by chars, shorts, ints, longs, floats, doubles
7a) For more than one architecture.
8) The difference between the *BSDs.
8a) and the entire history of them.
Regards,
-scott
Welcome to Rivendell, Mr. Anderson.
New 49 and change
Super Geek.
I will choose a path that's clear. I will choose freewill.
New forgot termcap and printcap entries
that were rolled into releases
New Re: Additions
10) I built a wiki engine. A hidden one. I've forgotten a bunch of the codes. It is a major part of my marketing in my new career. www.moonwaves.com - but you have to visit a special page and enter a username and password to activate the wiki features. Otherwise it looks like a non-wiki site.

13) I used to but my wife owns a costume shop and she swiped them. She rents them out.

17) My usual "hello, world" for a new language is a simplified Zork engine. I've implemented it in the macro language of graphics programs in order to convince myself I knew the language well enough to document it.


     THE GEEK TEST - (Bman) - (23)
         And getting the link to it is part of the test? :) -NT - (a6l6e6x) - (2)
             You failed. -NT - (malraux) - (1)
                 Can one fail w/o trying? :) - (a6l6e6x)
         get rid of the geek to get some pie :-) -NT - (boxley) - (1)
             Hey, that's *my* pie! -NT - (drook)
         OOPS!! - (Bman)
         Yes, it's old. - (static)
         11.43984% - Geekish Tendencies - (Andrew Grygus)
         23.66864% - Geek -NT - (Another Scott)
         No surprise, but: 58.57988% - (malraux) - (1)
             You fail. - (mvitale)
         Did the first section, noticed how much was left, and bailed - (drook)
         Additions - (malraux) - (3)
             49 and change - (beepster)
             forgot termcap and printcap entries - (boxley)
             Re: Additions - (mhuber)
         I guess I'm not one anymore - (crazy) - (6)
             I guess I'm *really* not one any more: - (CRConrad) - (5)
                 Wow - (crazy) - (4)
                     Bah. - (CRConrad) - (3)
                         Are you sure you want to risk... - (folkert) - (2)
                             Hey, kewl, an extra bonus! - (CRConrad) - (1)
                                 Nothing to do with smoking - (crazy)

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