Yvette's Inner Geek Blog: How to say Geek, Nerd and Freak in Croatian

Even though the Geek Test has been around a while (and is pretty out-of-date), I still get a few cool and noteworthy emails from people who've just discovered it and remind me why I have this website and blog to start.

I especially love the emails with geek terminology in foreign languages and/or cultures. Here's one from Karmen, a science geek who's majoring in Biology and Chemistry:

I thought you might be interested in geek terminology from Croatia (Hrvatska).

Nerds are called "štreberi" (shtreberi). Geeks are actually called geeks, but they're sometimes also called shtreberi, frikovi (from English freak), šmokljani (shmokljani), and more specified names depending of the area of their geekness.

P.S. Your geek test is cool.

(I scored 54,95661% and titled as a super geek :)

but you were right - I'll try again!)

How geeky! Hooray! Now I just need to move away from trying to format this blog with very, very frustrating MovableType. I think I'm just not patient enough to learn all there is to learn about it, and become frustrated more easily because of the errors and stupid things that come with it being pre-loaded into Yahoo small business web hosting. I just need to skip the middleman and dive into it... but NaNoWriMo is only a week away and I want to prepare for that, not exhaust my mental efforts on blogging customization.

Last night I followed a couple online tutorials, did some chmods, and it still wasn't working. So I've asked Ben for some help, because he'll probably be able to learn it faster. He'll probably enjoy the break from rebuilding our home server and staring at Assembly code all day (or whatever he's doing at work now). Point is, I had to ask for help and he really enjoyed that. Not that I don't want to ask for his help; he just seemed to enjoy serving me humble pie yesterday.

P.S. I copied this entry before clicking "save" and it's a good thing I did, because MovableType must have detected my bitching and told me, for the tenth time in three days, that it was time to upgrade my database, then that it was already current (duh), and then my entry was gone. Nevermore, asshole! I'll find a workaround to your stupid code. Or Ben will.