Mirror mirror on the wall ...

Gowri & I have been debating ... well, arguing really, about what I am: Geek or Dork. I think I'm a Geek and she thinks I'm a Dork. And so today she found an online test (which in my book is a sign of dorkiness) that she asked me to take, and that she took using her perception of me ... and here are the results:
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My test:

Pure Geek
39 % Nerd, 56% Geek, 39% Dork

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social expectations/interactions.

You scored better than half in Geek, earning you the title of: Pure Geek.

It's not that you're a school junkie, like the nerd, and you don't
really stand out in a crowd, like the dork, you just have some
interests that aren't quite mainstream. Perhaps it's anime, perhaps
it's computers, perhaps it's bottlecaps, perhaps it's all of those and
more. Your interests take you to events and gatherings that are filled
with people you find unusual and beyond-the-pale, but you don't quite
consider yourself "of that crowd." Instead, you consider yourself to be
fairly normal.

Which, you are.
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Her test:

Modern, Cool Nerd

82 % Nerd, 91% Geek, 30% Dork For The Record:

A Nerd is someone who is passionate about learning/being
smart/academia.

A Geek is someone who is passionate about some
particular area or subject, often an obscure or difficult one.

A Dork is someone who has difficulty with common social
expectations/interactions.

You scored better than half in Nerd and Geek, earning
you the title of: Modern,Cool Nerd.

Nerds didn't use to be cool, but in the 90's that all
changed. It used to be that, if you were a computer expert, you had to wear
plaid or a pocket protector or suspenders or something that announced to the
world that you couldn't quite fit in. Not anymore. Now, the intelligent and
geeky have eked out for themselves a modicum of respect at the very least, and
"geek is chic." The Modern, Cool Nerd is intelligent, knowledgable
and always the person to call in a crisis (needing computer advice/an arcane
bit of trivia knowledge). They are the one you want as your lifeline in Who
Wants to Be a Millionaire (or the one up there, winning the million bucks)!

Congratulations!
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My reaction to all this? ...

A girl thinks I'm cool!! Whee!

Comments

[Nikhil]

First of all, at the first glance I read it as "dating".. but then I realized that you are a dork and read it correctly as "debating".

Instead, you consider yourself to be fairly normal.You should know more than believing this test :)

So can you list the obscure or difficult areas that make you a geek? Exclude StarWars. There are so many posers that this does not qualify as a geeky subject anymore. (and beware, moment you say WoW, you become more of a dork.)