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10 things every geek should know

10 THINGS EVERY GEEK SHOULD KNOW!?

In fact there are only nine.
Deduct one geek point from your total yearly score!

Who says she's counting in base A?

Dear brit_in_okc,
Thanks for pointing out this publishing snafu. There are now 10 items in the list. (For some reason, our publishing system choked on the first URL in item number 9.)

Thanks again!

Mary Weilage

Then these Different geeks could combine to form a web, of knowledge..I can cents it now!

It's 'things to know'.

It's also 'I can sense it now!'; cents are coins.

Nothing does more damage to geeks than an inability to communicate.

haha geek guide gives this post a 9 outta 10 lol :P id rather know cheat codes for call of duty modern warefare 2 but thats cuz its such a good game

No Red Dwarf?

A true geek knows what "Smeg!" is derived from and why it's particularly disgusting! 8^P

I know the first 2 and the last one so does that make me a Geek in training? Or a dork or a dweeb?

I can count to well enough to see this list of "TEN things" contains only NINE entries.

I don't know who Ash is or what the BotD is, or what a Konami code is. I didn't get much exposure to the Pythons in my formative.

Back to nerd status, I guess. In my defense, co-workers seek me out on Tuesday to translate the previous night's 'Big Bang Theory'.

Sometimes I wonder how I ever got married I'm such a geek. You can't imagine how much I love my wife.

My family indulges me. I have one tshirt that says "you are dumb" and another that says "DAD" in binary. I have a blanket that says "BLANKET" in binary.

Go to EMDB.ORG and look up Army Of Darkness.

Her reaction was something like "Hey, is that the guy from Burn Notice? He looks so young"

While I was aware Bruce Campbell had a career before 'Brisco County', I was also aware it was in a genre I had no interest in. I enjoyed his autobiography ("If Chins Could Kill"), but I didn't retain the name of the movie or the character since I never planned on seeing it.

Though it was probably a fun show to produce, it may also be one the cast would rather forget.

She's grateful for Xena's 'warrior battle cry'. She says it's the only thing that keeps the kids in line.

I bet there are times she wishes the sword was real also (as any parent does from time to time).

Too funny!

Thought this was awesome, my friends and I have been having fun with it all day. Personal favorite was #3

Yes, for those who were not aware, there is an 11th Level, which is only designated for those who have achieved Supreme Geekdom Status.

$ /usr/games/trk

. . . . . . . . . .
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. . . . . * * * . .
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K K . . . . . . . .
. . . . . . . * * .
. . . . . . . . . E
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. . . * @ * . . . .
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CONDITION RED!
KLINGON AT 0,5 FIRING....
SHIELDS HOLDING
KLINGON AT 1,5 FIRING....
SHIELDS HOLDING
STARBASE AT 5,9 DESTROYED!!!
STAR AT 4,9 HAS GONE SUPERNOVA

======== YOU HAVE BEEN DESTROYED =======

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCARADb9asE

That was absolutely hilarious. I bow to powers of Ultimate Geekdom.

Oh yeah, here's one for you.....

$ /usr/games/adventure

..you are in a maze of twisty passages...
all alike......:-)

...wall...

Damn!

...by a WOMBAT....!!!!!

I was on the wrong map.

Okay, time to restart...again!

turn off light

Every Geek should know the end result of this one (by this thread, some certainly do)

and you'll Grue the day...

Good times, man; good times. Be sure to name your dog.

A brief moment of silence.....

"...CAPTAIN SCARLET and the MYSTERIONS...."

Enuf said

That is a slightly different version of that game than I remember. Of course I never got to finish the changes to fix/complete/improve a version in high school math club via a teletype machine (1973 I think). Still have a print out and paper punch tape rolled up somewhere in storage.
The code that got me interested in programming.

Oh wow I had forgot all about that game!

I know almost all of these except how to say anything in binary. But the conversion tool you linked to takes care of that.

A wink is as good as a nod to a blind bat ... eh, eh.

0101010001101000011000010111010000100111011100110010000001110100011010000110010100100000011000100110010101110011011101000010000001110111011000010111100100101110

I think any geek worth their salt should know how to play "Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock".

Since part of geekdom is hair splitting I've got you correct you on #8. Binary is a number system, not a character coding system.

You should be able to say "I love you" in ACSII or Unicode or UTF-8 (single and double-byte) in the person's native language character set and know the corresponding binary, decimal and hexadecimal numeric values. Earn one extra fossil geek point for knowing the octal codes as well.

01101001001000000110110001101111011101100110010100100000011110010110111101110101x2

733210811111810132121111117x10

49206C6F766520796F75x16

111040154157166145040171157165x8

Any body else notice the similarity of the phrases?
Klaatu barada nikto. (To disable robot Klaatu)

Clatto Verata Nicto. (To Call up the Book of the Dead)

It was intentional.

Gort was the robot, Klaatu was the alien visitor.

The command did not disable the robot, it stopped him from exacting retribution, possibly annihilation of Earth.

The correct decimal string is:

073032108111118101032121111117x10

OK I missed the leading zeros...

097032100111110101032083105114033x10

This is a horrible injustice. There are two types of geek. A Star Wars geek and a Star Trek geek. Most are either or but some are both.

The directors of the new Star Trek said in the commentary that they were trying to imitate the Star Wars action in the new film so if you think your a fan of Star Trek only because of that movie you are dead wrong.

Hilarious! Finally a difinitive guide. LOL

Why 1+2*3+4 = 11 (NOT 13)

Why the greatest work Lord Byron gave to the world was a daughter.

In cases of Alien infestation, the only way to be sure.

Who fired first.

first one, order of operations, PEMDAS, parentheses, exponents, multiplication, division, addition, subtraction.

I don't know.

Nuke the place from orbit. But a fusion device wouldn't runaway, only a fission device would.

The US did during pearl harbor against a japanese min-sub??

The Byron question is worth googling.

The last one is for the star wars geeks.