100% Geek · Stef Lewandowski

There were some great speakers and I got to meet some very interesting people and have more of those “wouldn’t it be great if” conversations.

The big news is that according to the bTWEEN Geek-o-meter (a questionnaire - see below) I am officially 100% Geek. I thought I’d managed to walk the fine line between being ‘cool’ and ‘geek’ for most of my formative days… looks like it was all in vain and I must now accept that I am definitely not going to be a ‘cool dad’!

Find out your geek rating:

You choose concentration over conformity? - 33%
You regularly update your blog from your smartphone? - 20%
You’ve fully converted your music collection from CD to MP3? - 16%
You collect cool dolls? (Kubrick / Gundam / Anime etc.) - 13%
You collect your old mobile phone handsets instead of trading-in or discarding? - 9%
You had a crush on Scully from the X-Files? - 9%

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Earlier in writing: Oh No Logo – an article for the Birmingham Post. Later in writing: Illuminate.

About this piece

First published 17 Jun 2007.

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