Wired’s top 100 geek skills must be not geeky enough

Considering they suggest you can Google stuff to figure out any of these skills, I’d automatically get 100/100 on this list of 100 geek skills you need to know. Even without Googling, I count 85 things on that list I can do right now, without looking anything up. I don’t know whether to boast or cry about it though.

This reminds me, I should post pictures at some point of the cool NES controller mint tin that I turned into a 5-volt USB power injector so I could connect USB devices to my Nokia 770 Internet Tablet. If you have even half an idea what I’m talking about, you’d be impressed. If you’re not impressed, pretend I said I built a vibrator. See? Right back to impressed.

And no, calculating THAC0 is not on my list of stuff I can do. I never did get into D&D. Nor can I do much with LEGO other than stick them together. That’s more CyberLizard’s domain.

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2 thoughts on “Wired’s top 100 geek skills must be not geeky enough

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    Dude, a vibrator is not hard to build… you’ve got old Playstation controllers that don’t work any more, don’t you? Get two of the rumble packs (both big and small), a battery clip (AA or AAA, your choice, prefer rechargeable obviously), and one of those old plastic extendo-swords you could get at any bargain toy store (the ones that look like lances and are all multi-color). The last, smallest part is most phallic and makes an excellent case. Get also a switch (push-button switch preferably). Wire them together so that when the switch is on, the batteries power both rumbles at the same time. Stuff them down into the end of the case. If you have to hot-glue the rumble packs down, be careful not to bind the weights or you’ll lose any vibration effect altogether. Put the battery clip into the case as well, and electrical-tape it all closed so that the switch is under the tape and can’t get all gross but you can still turn it off and on. Mind you, I’m not sure electrical tape would go over well, so you may want to use a condom with it.

    Not that I’m saying I’ve done this or anything.

    Also, that LEGO HD is freaking cool. Thanks for that… yet another gadget to lust after.

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    If you have even half an idea what I’m talking about, you’d be impressed. If you’re not impressed, pretend I said I built a vibrator. See? Right back to impressed.

    I do know what you’re talking about, but I’d still be more impressed if you had built a vibrator.

    That was a cool list. I was confused about some of them, though. You mean you can use something other than vi to do <insert-task-here> ? I got 84 on the list, but I counted stuff that I have done in the past, but purged those cylinders to make room for other info. DASD isn’t infinite, after all.

    You missed out on D&D. I’ve just started my 6yr old on his first dungeon crawl. The 4th edition stuff looks pretty cool.

    LEGO is, of course, at the top of the list. I bought an external hard drive simply on the basis that it was shaped like a LEGO brick.

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