Sci-Fi Geek Qualifications

Dalton Ross ("The Glutton" over at Entertainment Weekly) has posted a confession that he is a sci-fi junkie. And, unlike me, he seems a bit embarrassed by the revelation! He says, "...I'll check out pretty much anything that features lasers and people dressed in stupid rubber alien costumes, and I'm not ashamed to admit it....Actually, what am I talking about? I'm totally ashamed. It's embarrassing as hell to be that dude at a party waving his hand in front of his face and proclaiming that ''these aren't the droids you're looking for,'' only to receive a group of blank stares in return."

Heck Dalton, try it in a business meeting while reviewing a software development process document - I did ;-)

To ease his pain, Dalton put together a pretty humorous list of tests to determine if you qualify as a true science fiction geek. I took the liberty of paraphrasing the best ones from his list, in a pseudo-Jeff Foxworthy style:

You might be a Sci-Fi geek if:

...if you understood a single word coming out of the mouth of the the Architect at the end of The Matrix Reloaded.

...if you have ever substituted terms like ''frak'' ("Battlestar Galactica") and ''frell'' ("Farscape") for actual down-to-earth curse words

...if you have found yourself in the awkward position of mounting a defense for "The Arrival" (featuring a goatee-rocking Charlie Sheen) with an argument that goes something along the lines of ''Seriously, it's not that bad. See, the global-warming thing is not our fault after all. It's the aliens, man! The aliens!''

...the meaning of the following acronyms: TNG, HRG, ESB, BSG, TARDIS, and CSM

...if you have ever at any point in your life donned Spock ears

...if you know the difference between ''warp drive'' and ''hyperdrive'

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