I mentioned to an overseas colleague, who was asking me a lot of technical questions, that my nerd quotient wasn’t very high and therefore couldn't help much.
He came back wanting to know how nerd-quotient is calculated and I ran off a set of ground rules.
It was quick so, you know, feel free to help out.
Nerd quotient is calculated by starting with a base of 100
Subtract 1 point for every girlfriend kept for longer than a year.
Subtract 3 points for every one night stand with a partner of equal or better beauty rating
Subtract 1/2 a point for every night spent hiking/dancing/sailing/gun running
Subtract 10 points for all of the following:
Having represented your country in a sport
Having more than one knife-fight scar
Being arrested for any of the above
Add 10 points for getting all of XKCDs jokes
Add 1/2 point for every Battlestar (new) episode watched
Add 5 points for needlessly quoting Buffy/Python/SG1/Underground uber nerd sites/Firefly/Penny Arcade/Star Wars.... and on and on and on
Add 10 points for beard covering multiple chins
Add 10 points for every time you've had a LAN party
Add 50 points for learning Shakespeare in Klingon
Subtract 10 points for all of the following:
Having represented your country in a sport
Having more than one knife-fight scar
Being arrested for any of the above
Add 10 points for getting all of XKCDs jokes
Add 1/2 point for every Battlestar (new) episode watched
Add 5 points for needlessly quoting Buffy/Python/SG1/Underground uber nerd sites/Firefly/Penny Arcade/Star Wars.... and on and on and on
Add 10 points for beard covering multiple chins
Add 10 points for every time you've had a LAN party
Add 50 points for learning Shakespeare in Klingon
Dammit!
ReplyDeleteBrother, you don't count.
ReplyDeleteMy saving grace that kept me under the 200 mark was my hairlessness, lack of lan party participation and poor klingon linguistic skills
ReplyDeleteOh Man. I was in the negatives until I got to the "Needlessly quoting Python" bit. Could you possibly qualify "Needlessly"? I also believe a lone knife fight scar should count for points, then the points should grow exponentiall (Bigger & bigger) with every scar.
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