geekfest

i've got this friend named peter. he lives in england, so i don't see him that often. i have to give him as much trouble as possible whenever i do see him since i don't know when i'll have the next chance to give him crap (or as they say across the pond, 'take the mickey out of him').

back in april i posted about a nerd test i took where i scored a 20. pete commented on that post that he scored 50. somehow we both thought that meant that i scored more nerdy than he did, and he's given me grief every since. or maybe he just bluffed it to see how long he could keep me believing it was actually possible for me to come out ahead of him when our geekyness was called into account.

something in me has always felt that couldn't possibly be right. anyone that has been nicknamed 'the gadgeteer' (granted, i gave him that nickname) and has a tag on his blog that randomizes the banner pictures can't truly deny his nerdieness, can he? it just sounded wrong to me. it had to be a fluke. so i revisited my results.

and i was right. my score of 20 meant that only 20% of people were less nerdy than me, making pete 30% nerdier than i am. what a relief.