Perhaps inspired by the anime conventions starting up again, or just nerdiness in general, I have decided to dig out an old nerd survey I created awhile back. It is certainly a less intimidating read than the prior post, and you can all see what a total nerd I really am :) Read on and I leave posterity to you, my fellow nerds and geeks.
btw, for fairness' sake, I shall complete the survey as well... and while it seems like a lot of questions, most of the answers are pretty easy, and of course, subjective, but that is the fun of this :)
1.First Name?
2.Age you would prefer to be?
3.Immortality?
4.What is your quest?
5.Nerd or Geek?
6.Single, Pre-Owned, or Attached?
7.History or Geography?
8.Favorite Sport?
9.Favorite Pro Sports Team?
10.Do you understand the infield fly rule?
11.Do you understand Cricket?(the default answer should be 'no', even if you are from the UK or former British colonial holding)
12.Fusion or Fission?
13.Do you own a lightsaber (real or otherwise)?
14.What is your favorite color?
15.What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?
16.Star Trek, Babylon 5, or Battlestar Galactica?
17.Phaser or Blaster?
18.Superman or Batman?
19.Spiderman or Wolverine?
20. Harry Potter or JRR Tolkien (or alternatively, CS Lewis)?
21.Robert Frost or Edgar Allen Poe?
22.Weather aside, do you feel more day baseball games should be played?
23.Who fought each other in the Hundred Years War?
24.How many digital media devices do you own? (ie, ipods, computers, cellphones, video game systems)
25.360, PS3, or the worst name for a video game system ever(Wii)?
26.What is the longest amount of time you waited in line for a movie?
27. And finally, if you had a teleportation device that would send you into any of the alternate universe described above, where would you go?
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So, here are my answers...
1.Chris
2.younger, but not much
3.hell yes
4.to write... a lot,and to seek the Holy Grail, but who doesn't want that these days
5.Not only nerd, but supernerd
6.Pre-Owned
7.Both
8.American Football followed close by baseball
9.The Dallas Cowboys
10.tragically, yes
11.tragically, yes
12.fusion (crossing fingers)
13.yes
14.burgundy, no...gre...ahhhhh!!
15.African or European?
16.Babylon 5, but I like all three
17.Blaster
18.Both, really... I love aspects of both characters.
19.Spidey
20.Tolkien, with some nostalgia for Lewis
21.Frost, though I do enjoy both.
22.yes
23.(I'll answer this one later... want to be fair :)
24.5
25.360
26.16 hours (Episode III, beating out by far number 2, 6 hours for the Two Towers)
27.Star Wars, but leanings to Babylon 5 I think.
1. Sayre
2. 35
3. No
4. Become a published writer
5. Nerd
6. Attached
7. History
8. KenPo (martial art)
9. Detroit Tigers
10. Yes
11. No
12. Fusion
13. Yes - a red one
14. Blue
15. Got me!
16. Star Trek
17. Phaser (small and elegant)
18. Superman
19. Spiderman
20. Potter
21. Poe
22. Yes
23. Ummmmm....
24. 2 (cell phone / camera)
25. Wii has got to be the worst.
26. 30 minutes
27. Star Trek
1. Lyndon
2. I'm happy with 30
3. No
4. To be a Rockstar (I'd settle for a job that I like)
5. Neek - A new subspecies
6. Single, not by choice
7. Good with both, but I'll choose History
8. Basketball
9. Toronto Raptors
10. Yes
11. Sort Of
12. Fusion
13. Nope
14. Blue
15. African or European
16. Star Trek
17. Blaster
18. Batman
19. Spiderman
20. Tolkien
21. Frost
22. Yes
23. England and France
24. Over 10
25. Have a 360, probably will get a Wii as well
26. Half hour
27. Middle Earth, Elvish women are cute!
Ah heck, I'll have a go :)
1. Sephy (sorry, ain't gettin' a real name outta me ;))
2. 18
3. Probably not
4. Being able to travel the world
5. Geek
6. Single
7. Both
8. Auto Racing, then Gridiron
9. Green Bay Packers
10. No
11. Yes, and I'm not ashamed of it :)
12. Fusion
13. No
14. Blue
15. African or European?
16. Star Trek
17. Blaster
18. Superman
19. Spiderman
20. Dunno; haven't read any of it
21. Frost
22. Yes, especially on the weekend
23. Hmm..I think the Prussians were involved, along with the Heugenauts (however that's spelt), and I think there may have been some more folks...
24. Somewhere around 10
25. PS3, if only for Gran Turismo
26. Maybe a minute
27. Probably Trek
1) Phil - enough said
2) 32
3) Nah
4) To rescue the princess
5) Nerd
6) Single
7) History
8) Rugby
9) QLD Red's rugby team
10) No
11) Yes but I don't play it.
12) Fusion
13) .... yes.
14) Blue
15) Depends if you hit it with a 12 guage or a 410 shotgun
16) Battlestar
17) My first love is SW so blaster
18) Superman
19) Spidey
20) Tales of Greek mythology
21) Poe
22) Day
23) 5
25) PS3
26) Ten minutes but I paid my little brother $10 to line up for three hours for the re-release of SW A New Hope. I'm a nerd not dumb.
27) Ancient Greece or Carthage.
Some great answers so far and always intriguing to see some of the random answers to random questions :)
btw, England and France is the correct answer to the Hundred Years War (the Hugeonots helped precipitate the Wars of Religion and Prussia was involved in the Thirty Years and Seven Years War :)
So it appears, so far, I am the only one crazy enough (or with enough time on my hands) to camp out for a day waiting for a movie...
1) Ummm, lets just say Rav`N
2) This one is fine. I always seam to like the age I am best.
3) No thanks
4) Joy. I just want to have some fun and be happy. That is all. No grand schemes for me.
5) Geek for sure. Or as my friend Jesse says, "cool geek".
6) Attached
7) A bit of both but more History probably.
8) Hmmmm, used to be basketball hands-down, now I'm not sure. Its either that or Drifting
9) 10 years ago I'd have said The Bulls without even thinking. Now I dunno. Timberwolves maybe.
10) So, um, is that a fishing term? An aerobatics term maybe? Football? Baseball?
11) No
12) Probably ahve to go wtih fusion
13) Nope :(
14) I'm one of the masses on this one. Blue
15) Um, the more important question is: do I particularly care?
16) Babylon 5 of course
17) Neither. I prefer the Goa'uld zat gun
18) BATS!
19) Spiderman
20) Since I haven't read either, based on the movies alone, definitely Tolkien.
21) I'm indifferent
22) Its always seamed like more of a day game to me.
23) Its been way too long since I've seen Bab 5 for my poor memory to come up with this answer.
24) About 3 I think.
25) Think I'll go with the x-box.
26) I don't remember. Probably not very long.
27) Can't I just have one that jumps me from one to the other?
Daaamn, I just remembered that there was a hundred year war in our history. Is that what you were referring to? it didn't actually last a hundred years did it? Wasn't there a similarly named war in bab 5? or am I just going senile? We didn't study much western hisory in malaysian schools and my main interest in ancient history so my knowledge of anything that happened in the western world since the coming of Christ or so up till current times is kinda sketchy. Other than the really big stuff; like the world wars, American independence, industrial revolution, etc, of course.
1. Marianne
2. 28.
3. nah, I get tired at the end of everyday. Imagine at the end of a lifetime?
4. to lasso people with my rope of truth, defeat the evil emperor and kiss the frog/find out he's a prince and live happily ever after.
5. dork.
6. single.
7. geography.
9. hahahahAHHAHAHAHA
10. um..I have no idea what you just wrote.
11. NO!! I have been known to give people who understand it dirty looks from hell!
12. fusion.
13. lol..no.
14. crimson.
15. um..*don't say "spit", don't say "spit"*
16. Quantum Leap.
17. ...
18. superman!
19. Spiderman!
20. CS Lewis.
21. poe
22. NO! well, actually I don't care since I don't have to have it on the tele.
23. England and ...France????
24. 6 (I think)
25. um..no, just no. I like supermario bros - the old school one. I also like tetris, pong and space invaders.
26. maybe 15 mins?
27. well I would TOTALLY love to have my own "quantum leap accelerator" so I could jump between so many different eras :)
okay, I totally didn't read your response to the 100 years war before I put that down!!
Too many questions too early in the morning..I'll be back :)
Wow, my brother would ACE this! But I'm not even going to attept it. I don't even know what some of those questions mean!
I do, however, revel in the general nerdiness.
1. Madame
2. 23
3. Absolutely
4. Immortality of course... and discovering what the Pyramids were really used for
5. Nerd
6. Single
7. History
8. Rhythmic gymnastics... shut up, I said I was a nerd
9. *snore*
10. The in-what?
11. I understand what an LBW is but the subtlety of the scoring still eludes me
12. Fission... I'm a realist
13. I own a fake Bat'leth... does that count?
14. Cherry red
15. Swallow as in bird? Unladen? What, is it starving?
16. oooh... BSG. It's such a quality series (but I've yet to see B5 and am looking forward to checking it out)
17. Phaser
18. Batman; he's much more studly
19. Wolverine; the same reason
20. Harry Potter. Reason? He doesn't have a ridiculous and mind-numbingly boring Tom Bombadil scene :P
21. Neither
22. Only if they give the public days off to see them
23. England and France... although, technically speaking, it really wasn't "France" since that political entity didn't exist at that time... not in the modern sense anyway ;)
24. 3
25. Wii by a mile... mostly for the entertaining dirty entrendre opportunities it gives you...
26. ...It was probably either Episode 1 Star Wars or one of the LOTR's (probably the 1st one)... maybe 15-20 minutes?
27. The future
Again, more great and amusing answers and I will respond more directly to all these when I get back in this afternoon, except for one:
MB, you are correct with the Hundred Years War... France as a political entity was not the France we know now, though her allies in the struggle were sometimes the regions that would become parts of France, though Burgundy (the modern low countries, Luxembourg, parts of Alscace-Lorraine and parts of Eastern and Southern france north of Lyon) switched sides a couple of times, finally siding with France to more or less end English support on the continent. And of course, it was more a series of wars that lasted 116 years, though the root conflicts really began in the 1200's and not 1337, the accepted date of the opening of hostilities... ok, if I say anymore about this, I am sure we will have people going into shocked or stunned stupor :)
Promise I will get back later with more pithy responses :)
ok, since I am such a nerdy person, some more detailed responses to y'all's kind comments:
sayre: I sensed a Star Trek theme here... why, oh why could they have not stuck with the original name and called the Wii the Revolution... much cooler.
lyndon: I have heard of the subspecies 'Neek'... they are most welcome... Oh, have you heard of the MMORPG coming out soon to be set in the LOTR universe... most excellent.
sephyroth: Thanks for dropping by and I agree that Gran Turismo would be awesome once it comes out on the PS3, and traveling the world is one of my secondary quests.
phil: those poor unladen swallows, blasted to bits by the shotgun :) and good idea making someone wait in line in your place, though hanging out in line with fellow nerds can be cool sometimes.
jedimerc: what kind of supernerd waits in line for hours on end to watch sci fi movie, and why do you answer your own comments?
rav'n: Yay, Babylon 5 fans unite :) The infield fly is a baseball term... basically with less than 2 outs and a runner on base if you pop up a ball in the infield the batter is out to proven unsportsmanlike conduct from the fielders... I wouldn't mind jumping from one place to another either.
m:Yay, Quantum Leap... very cool show. See above on my description of the infield fly :) I'm not sure how to respond to your response to number #15... whoa.
mistress: no worries... come back anytime as always :)
jac: Thanks for dropping by and feel free to revel as much as you want here. This is a nerd-safe blog :)
madameboffin: Sweet, a fake Bat'leth. That can count :) On the unladen swallow thing... think the Gorge of Eternal Peril in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Wii... sooo wrong in sooo many ways :)
jedimerc: are you still here? find something else to write about :)
How is Wii worse than 360? I mean really, what the hell is 360 about? Wow, look the camera rotates all the way around the character in the game. Sorry Microsoft, that's not new.
Anyways, great questions Master Chris. Vive la France!
I adore Star Wars, but Star Trek was my first love (the original). And I chose a phaser because if I have to carry a weapon, I don't want anyone to know it until it's too late. Blasters are harder to hide...
But I really want to be a Jedi.
egan: I have enjoyed the 360 and have nothing against the Wii (though it is graphically inferior to the PS3 and 360), I just can't get over the name... it should have stayed the Revolution. I know the name played better in Japan, but, man... Wii? Just amused :)
sayre: *sigh* me too... and I can see the concealability aspect of the phaser (though the PPG from B5 is more concealable, just does not have the stopping power of a phaser, but what does? :)
I guess I may be more of a berd (book nerd) than a true nerd. I don't mind a computer game on a rainy day but only if I'm out of books.
Chris have you ever thought about lecturing? You'd be a great liberal arts professor.
phil: I can be a bit of a bibliophile myself... it sort of depends on what I am reading. I am more apt to break away to read RPG material. Most novels and such I read for a couple of hours before I go to bed... helps me sleep.
Aside from writing, lecturing is one of the things I would like to do... just missing an all important Ph.D :)
You always answer mine, so it's only fair I do yours:
1. Becky
2. Right now, early 30s
3. No
4. To live without regret.
5. Neither
6. Pre-owned, now attached
7. History
8. Baseball
9. Don't really have one
10. Yes, see #8.
11. No, never really watched it played before.
12. Fusion
13. No
14. Red
15. Depends on the amount of foreplay
16. BSG
17. I don't have a clue what teh difference is
18. Superman
19. Wolverine
20. Tough call -- Harry Potter for the mystery/plot twists
21. Frost all theway
22. No, most of us are at work anyway.
23. Eeeek..England and France?
24. 5
25. I don't know all the names, honestly. PS3 is kind of ordinary.
26. About an hour and a half
27. Please be more specific about which things are actually alternate universes:)
becky: Yeah, I suppose it is fair :) On day baseball games, how did they fill up the stands before night games? I guess a lot of work hooky, hehe. I think if I had not grown up such a Cowboys fan I would be a bigger baseball fan, though to me, there is rarely anything better than wasting a lazy spring or early summer evening relaxing at the ole' Ballpark.
As for alternate universes, I mean like the Star Wars, Star Trek, BSG, Babylon 5, Tolkien, Warcraft universe... fictional universes mostly :) [though an alternate Roman universe would be cool]
1. Chicky
2. 7
3. Please.
4. Happiness
5. Sexy geek
6. I buy my cars new.
7. geography = travel
8. Vodka
9. Cheers!
10. More Vodka?
11. yawn...
12. Fireworks
13. No, but he has one...
14. Blue
15. Geek speak is a turn on.
16. Live long and prosper. And i can do the Vulcan V, either hand.
17. Phaser set to 'Perve'.
18. SuperCB
19. Wolverine
20. The one with the wand.
21. Chicken or the Egg
22. Who cares.
23. See no.7. La France et l'Angleterre. They fought over cuisine.
24. 7
25. I play other games.
26. 1/2 hour
27. Define above. I would an alternate universe to the one I'm in. Failing that, I want my own holodeck
I prefer my cars new too, but what can you do? It is better than me advertising I come with baggage... now it sounds like I just have a few miles on me, or left to go, depending :)
I'll take a holodeck too if alternate realities don't work out. My definition of those realities would be any of the cool scifi or fantasy universes like Star Trek, Star Wars, B5, BSG, Farscape, LOTR, Harry Potter, etc :)
Mine's in my blog, I have to make it difficult.
Eh, not that difficult, just a few extra clicks :)
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