I'm a nerd

Dec 20, 2006

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That did amuse me. Much needed after a day that seemed to start well (good drive to the school) took a nose dive (took an hour to travel 5 miles to work from the school), got complicated (colleague still off sick) and stayed hectic (learnt lots of new skills, and have stuff to finish off this evening).

Small is shattered – I think some time off is going to come at just the right time for him. It’s their Christmas party tomorrow, and then I’m going to pick them up and take them to the office for an hour as I’ve to lock up and I can’t be in two places at once (picking them up and locking up both at 6pm). I think Big is ready for a break as well – she burst into tears tonight when she realised Tim hadn’t been out to buy a new car seat for Small (he’s using her trio, she’s on the booster).

1 1/2 days to the weekend. What are my chances of finishing that shawl (yes, still unfinished) and knocking out a cardigan, a hat and some bits and pieces before then?

Ooh, and I nearly forgot to mention. Since signing up to myspace to get back in touch with an old school friend, I’ve also managed to locate an old uni friend through there. Just in case he pops by the blog, hi Paul!

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Comments

20 responses to “I'm a nerd”

Tim
20 December 2006
Your score is: 279
Your rating is: 59.74%
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Jax
20 December 2006
1) you’re just not trying.
2) I don’t believe you 😉
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HelenHaricot
20 December 2006
def 2 Tim!
as I got 329 at 70.45%
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Bob
20 December 2006
Mumble mumble score 409 rating 87.58% mumble mumble
Thought I was better adjusted than that after Katy’s sane influence for a good while. Oh well, a lost cause.
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Bob
20 December 2006
Hope you all manage to survive until the weekend, and I hope you have some fingers left after speed-knitting for 36 hours straight.
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Ron
20 December 2006
I’ll post mine later 🙂
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Sarah
21 December 2006
lol, my score wasn’t that high but I did get 25 extra points for the Mac!
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liberta
21 December 2006
409 87.58%
lost a point for using IE but didnt get extra for pocket pc version. humph.
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Alison
21 December 2006
I got exactly the same as Tim.
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Jo
21 December 2006
My score is 9
And my rating is 1.93%
I have only just got a computer though, so I’m still practising! One day, maybe, I’ll be up there with the greatest.
Not sure if I should be aspiring that high though, although perhaps it’s one of the signs of ‘greatness’…. I’m just confused…. I’m going away now….
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Tim
21 December 2006
Jo, I think you are doing just nicely as you are. 🙂
Alison, twin souls separated by Kismet, sigh
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Alison
22 December 2006
Sigh indeed 😆
Jo, I don’t know whether that’s scary or impressive, lol! You should probably get rid of the computer again and preserve your lack of nerdiness 😉
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Jo
22 December 2006
Can’t decide if I’m going for ‘scarily impressive’ or ‘impressively scary’!
I like my computer! It’s called George!
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Jax
22 December 2006
my desktop is called Colin and my laptop is called Eric 🙂
my computer at work is named after me, which is slightly odd.
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Alison
22 December 2006
Our printer is called Arthur, and my pc is Obadiah (as named by C on the network, *I* didn’t have anything to do with these!).
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Tim
22 December 2006
The first web company I worked with had all their machines named after LOTR characters. Server called Aragorn and my pc was called… wait for it… Merry. 🙂
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Nic
22 December 2006
my laptop is called ‘shiny new laptop’ cos it was when I had to name it. When I was at school I named all my ‘equipment’ my calculator was called Malcolm (Malc the calc), my ruler was called Julian (Jules the rule) and my hole punch was called Henry. I have, however never named my cars cos that would be twee! 😆
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Bob
23 December 2006
I managed to fulfil a long-held nerdy ambition last year and get a series of computers at work named after stations on the shipping forecast: cromarty, finisterre etc.
As one of them is Trafalgar, one of my colleagues organised a 21-CD tray salute for Trafalgar day. Trafalgar and all its friends are piled up next to each other, and my colleague set them up on a schedule (a cron job, for you UNIX fans) to eject their CD drawer at the same time. The different machines’ clocks were a bit off, so it was not a salute of which the military would have been proud, but fun nonetheless.
He forgot to cancel the cron job, so we got it all over again the next day, which was a bit of a surprise!
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Jax
23 December 2006
nerd humour, you’ve gotta love it!
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Swiss Clare
24 December 2006
Been reading your blog for a bit, so thought I’d pop out of lurkerdom to comment. Not quite sure why I thought my first comment should be in response to a nerd quiz, but then I did just get 429 & 91.86% doing it!
Our computers are posey, perkin and pootle, and I’m not ashamed to admit that I chose the names!
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