Tests: The 50 Skills Every Geek Should Have

Tests: The 50 Skills Every Geek Should Have

I scored 41/50, not bad; I mostly drop points on the consol-games related stuff, in which I do not indulge:

13. Shove the guts of a modern game console into a retro game console
19. Enter the Konami code
29. Play any SNES game on your computer through an emulator
33. Hack the Wii to play homebrew games
38. Build a fighting robot
39. Write your own Firefox plugins
47. Get an NES cartridge working again by blowing in it
48. Calibrate a 7.1 surround-sound system
49. Play downloaded games on a Nintendo DS

…and I have liberally reinterpreted Slashdot for Digg and Gizmodo, since I see no reason to prop up those social networks when intent is to me measured.

Never bothered buyig a surround system, so no chance to calibrate one.

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  1. […] to this my geek cred is 27 out of 50. Like Alec (who scored 41), I come up short on the gaming and entertainment hacking front. I woulda done […]

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