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zcat_abroad) wrote2005-01-09 09:32 pm
zcat_abroad) wrote2005-01-09 09:32 pm
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Nerd? Me?
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neongraal's site:
Hmmm, Nerdier than I expected.
Yet, is Nerdom in the control of computer geeks?
I could have gotten a higher score if they were testing for other kinds of nerdity, particularly the kinds associated with old books, libraries, second-hand book shops, new books, dictionaries (, versions of (, dead languages)), book sales, literature departments, PhDs in dead languages, catalogues (without pictures), palimpsests, paleography, manuscripts, illuminations, initials, scriptoria, incunabula, transcriptions (some of dead languages), conferences in literature departments (run by PhDs in dead languages), and people who understand that the greatest contribution of computers to society is their ability to do rapid word searches on long texts, even in dead languages.
neongraal's site: Hmmm, Nerdier than I expected.
Yet, is Nerdom in the control of computer geeks?
I could have gotten a higher score if they were testing for other kinds of nerdity, particularly the kinds associated with old books, libraries, second-hand book shops, new books, dictionaries (, versions of (, dead languages)), book sales, literature departments, PhDs in dead languages, catalogues (without pictures), palimpsests, paleography, manuscripts, illuminations, initials, scriptoria, incunabula, transcriptions (some of dead languages), conferences in literature departments (run by PhDs in dead languages), and people who understand that the greatest contribution of computers to society is their ability to do rapid word searches on long texts, even in dead languages.