Geek Test #1
I was trying to explain this comic from xkcd to my wife, but I couldn’t explain what it means or why I thought it was amusing.
I think if you both understand this comic and find it at least mildly amusing you are clearly a geek (whether the inverse is true is an exercise I’ll leave to the reader)…
hm, I’m totally lost here. fred initially only got the d&d reference, then a minute later, bust out into laughter and tried to explain it to me. i think he proved your point.
Comment by shiso mama — April 24, 2007 @ 10:55 pm
ps - as a follow up, F immediately went to the website and is surfing through their entire archive of comics. he said they are ones that would only appeal to geeks. i guess that’s why he’s still surfing.
Comment by shiso mama — April 24, 2007 @ 10:59 pm
100% D’n'D, and it’s not remotely amusing. In fact, it lacks any creativity at all.
Comment by Anonymous — May 11, 2007 @ 2:02 am
Hmm, how could I have left out a corollary test for the anonymous troll as part of geekdom? Clearly the “mildly amusing” portion of the test is now empirically invalidated.
Comment by Nathan Dintenfass — May 11, 2007 @ 6:42 am