The Nerd? Geek? or Dork? Test
Pure Nerd
56 % Nerd, 47% Geek, 0% 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, earning you the title of: Pure Nerd.
The times, they are a-changing. It used to be that being exceptionally smart led to being unpopular, which would ultimately lead to picking up all of the traits and tendences associated with the “dork.” No-longer. Being smart isn’t as socially crippling as it once was, and even more so as you get older: eventually being a Pure Nerd will likely be replaced with the following label: Purely Successful.
Congratulations!
I feel vindicated.
According to the newest Disneyland Podcast, the Pirates of the Caribbean ride will be getting a facelift this year, including a new digitally restored soundtrack, Jack Sparrow, Barbosa and Davey Jones figures from the movies added to the set and their musical themes added to the ride score.
Since moving to California, I’ve probably gone on the ride 50+ times (it’s slightly different than the Disneyworld one), so I’m a little nervous about this, but they’re saying Jack Sparrow, for instance, will just be inserted into the existing scenes instead of being made part of new ones which would displace some of the classics. (The pirates pulling the treasure up the final climb of the ride will be going away, though.) The revamp was apparently planned before the first movie was released, just to modernize the classic.
I had no idea that one of the ships on the ride was called the Wicked Wench. Neat.
At least, that’s what Wired says:
According to recent research published in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, I’ve only a 50-50 chance of ascertaining the tone of any e-mail message. The study also shows that people think they’ve correctly interpreted the tone of e-mails they receive 90 percent of the time.
“That’s how flame wars get started,” says psychologist Nicholas Epley of the University of Chicago, who conducted the research with Justin Kruger of New York University. “People in our study were convinced they’ve accurately understood the tone of an e-mail message when in fact their odds are no better than chance,” says Epley.
The researchers took 30 pairs of undergraduate students and gave each one a list of 20 statements about topics like campus food or the weather. Assuming either a serious or sarcastic tone, one member of each pair e-mailed the statements to his or her partner. The partners then guessed the intended tone and indicated how confident they were in their answers.
Those who sent the messages predicted that nearly 80 percent of the time their partners would correctly interpret the tone. In fact the recipients got it right just over 50 percent of the time.
“People often think the tone or emotion in their messages is obvious because they ‘hear’ the tone they intend in their head as they write,” Epley explains.
At the same time, those reading messages unconsciously interpret them based on their current mood, stereotypes and expectations. Despite this, the research subjects thought they accurately interpreted the messages nine out of 10 times.
Given how many stupid fights I’ve seen over e-mail and on message boards, I’m surprised this percentage isn’t even worse.
Oh, the fleeting nature of celebrity. One moment, you’re standing before television cameras in Baghdad, insisting that US forces are not, in fact, entering the city, the next, you’re a Trivial Pursuit answer.
Fortunately, one site remembers Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf, also known to some as Baghdad Bob.
In addition to letting us know what he’s up to (no new news since the capture of Saddam and Bob going to work for Al-Jazeera), we have a great record of classic quotes, including “God will roast their stomachs in hell at the hands of Iraqis.”
I have to admire a quote machine like him.
“I triple guarantee you, there are no American soldiers in Baghdad.”
Remember this guy?
Well, he’s gotten himself into a bit of trouble with the law, as you might expect with a high-profile Satanist vampire:
A fringe candidate for governor who played up his satanic side — and pledged public impalement for terrorists — wound up behind bars Tuesday thanks to a sharp-eyed sheriff’s dispatcher.
Jonathon Sharkey, 41, of Princeton, Minn. was arrested Monday night on two felony counts from Indiana, said Mike Smith, the Mille Lacs County jail administrator. One warrant was for escape, another for stalking against a former girlfriend.
“(Authorities are) very well aware of my ex-fiancee’s vicious and malicious attacks against me,” Sharkey said.
In a phone interview from jail, Sharkey said he did nothing wrong because he never signed his probation papers.
“I never signed the order of probation to begin with, never agreeing to it,” Sharkey said. “Hence, if the contract was not signed, it’s null and void.”
Buried in the paper trails of lawsuits is an even stranger claim: that Sharkey once faked his own death.
“I overdosed on over 120 tranquilizers,” Sharkey told WCCO-TV. “That definitely lowers your heartbeat real good.”
The site includes video.
Go on, you know you want to see the King of the Vampires-turned-gubernatoral-candidate’s press conference.
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