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schneefink) wrote2010-12-05 07:52 pm
schneefink) wrote2010-12-05 07:52 pm
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Randomness, geeks, bonus TARDIS
I´m currently participating in an online challenge to win summer jobs. ... Yeah. I don´t know. It just happened. So I spend three hours a day, every second day for almost two weeks, solving online riddles by using google-fu. Or by knowing obscure facts. I got up at five am to answer an SMS question. And I tried to get a photograph of a random guy in an orange jacket in Barcelona and (get the other teammembers to) phone random Spanish people to do it for us. No, I don´t understand it either.
(This online challenge means I´ll miss two choir practices. Two. Why am I doing this again?)
One question that was apparently so difficult people complained about it at length: "It appears on TV at various times and in various dimensions for forty years, is blue and bigger on the inside. (second part of the question)", heavily paraphrased mostly because I don´t remember the wording. It seems that very few people had the bright idea to simply translate it to English. I, on the other hand, had the biggest grin on my face and kept shouting "GEEKS WILL INHERIT THE EARTH" to my team members. And by shouting I mean typing in capslock. They probably think I´m a bit crazy, but I solve questions so they don´t care.
I´m not even sure if I qualify as a "geek" ever since I started to discuss it with Little Brother, who has a different definition of the word. He thinks that my status is questionable at best because a) I don´t know anything about computers, b) I´m average in natural sciences, c) ... I forgot c. It might have been that I´m only strange in private, ie too good at blending in and pretending to be normal. That might have spawned the epic "connotations of the word normal" debate we had recently, come to think about it...
I do, however, have a vast (if fragmentary) knowledge of various science fiction and fantasy books and shows that I´ve somehow absorbed by osmosis (or reading, but mostly osmosis), have the tendency to make obscure jokes nobody understands, can talk at length about internet trivia and various miscellaneous topis I´ve picked up somewhere and - well, that´s it, I guess. I also enjoy steampunk? I´m not even sure why I care, and if I do then why do I care what LB thinks, who also doesn´t care?
It´s a little bit depressing to note that LB doesn´t understand all of my jokes anymore. Or that I have to remind myself not to say things because he wouldn´t understand them. When did we become two separate people?
(This online challenge means I´ll miss two choir practices. Two. Why am I doing this again?)
One question that was apparently so difficult people complained about it at length: "It appears on TV at various times and in various dimensions for forty years, is blue and bigger on the inside. (second part of the question)", heavily paraphrased mostly because I don´t remember the wording. It seems that very few people had the bright idea to simply translate it to English. I, on the other hand, had the biggest grin on my face and kept shouting "GEEKS WILL INHERIT THE EARTH" to my team members. And by shouting I mean typing in capslock. They probably think I´m a bit crazy, but I solve questions so they don´t care.
I´m not even sure if I qualify as a "geek" ever since I started to discuss it with Little Brother, who has a different definition of the word. He thinks that my status is questionable at best because a) I don´t know anything about computers, b) I´m average in natural sciences, c) ... I forgot c. It might have been that I´m only strange in private, ie too good at blending in and pretending to be normal. That might have spawned the epic "connotations of the word normal" debate we had recently, come to think about it...
I do, however, have a vast (if fragmentary) knowledge of various science fiction and fantasy books and shows that I´ve somehow absorbed by osmosis (or reading, but mostly osmosis), have the tendency to make obscure jokes nobody understands, can talk at length about internet trivia and various miscellaneous topis I´ve picked up somewhere and - well, that´s it, I guess. I also enjoy steampunk? I´m not even sure why I care, and if I do then why do I care what LB thinks, who also doesn´t care?
It´s a little bit depressing to note that LB doesn´t understand all of my jokes anymore. Or that I have to remind myself not to say things because he wouldn´t understand them. When did we become two separate people?
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Well done you in the quiz! I totally grok that! I kind of failed in the geek stakes in our pub quiz a while ago by not being able to figure out a mystery number from the first round clue (which included "I am the total number of plays written by Shakespeare" AND "I am the number of minutes the Stargate can stay open consecutively"...I mean, I knew both of these were thirty-something, but couldn't be more specific). But then in a later round they gave you the number written in binary and I worked it out from that! Which the maths teacher on my table couldn't do! I was brimming over with pure geek pride, so I totally get your glee!
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I was going to say I could never calculate binary numbers. But LB was standing right there, LB loves talking about anything math-related, so now I do! :D And also ternary.
Now I just have to find a pub quiz. ^^