{"id":369,"date":"2002-02-26T00:12:20","date_gmt":"2002-02-26T08:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/26\/how-much-of-a-nerd-are-you\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T14:51:51","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T22:51:51","slug":"how-much-of-a-nerd-are-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/02\/26\/how-much-of-a-nerd-are-you\/","title":{"rendered":"How much of a nerd are you?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:16527,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mcphee.com\\\/goodies\\\/nerdtest.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.mcphee.com\\\/goodies\\\/nerdtest.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16528,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.mcphee.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314102924\\\/https:\\\/\\\/mcphee.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.mcphee.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7118,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/macosx&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.apple.com\\\/macosx&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>Casey sent me a link to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcphee.com\/goodies\/nerdtest.html\" title=\"Archie McFee: Nerd test\">nerd test<\/a> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mcphee.com\/\" title=\"Archie McFee\">Archie McFee<\/a> website. This thing gives some really interesting results, as it turns out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Casey&#8217;s score:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Score: 840<br \/>\n  Rating: 179.88%<br \/>\n  400 extra points for running Linux\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So, I got curious &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/macosx\/\" title=\"Apple: Mac OS X\">Mac OS X<\/a> is a UNIX-based system &#8212; would the test be able to factor that in? Yes and no, apparently. I took the test twice &#8212; the first time using Internet Explorer:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Score: 128<br \/>\n  Rating: 27.41%<br \/>\n  25 extra points for using a Mac\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The second time I took the test, I put in the exact same answers, only this time I used links, a text-based command-line browser:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  Score: 1140<br \/>\n  Rating: 244.12%<br \/>\n  (No extra points noted)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interesting, huh? Apparently browsing the web from the command line is pretty nerdy&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently browsing the web from the command line is pretty nerdy&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2038],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}