Geek Rivalries

It’s the Geek Rivalries meme:

The rules: You must choose one. If you like both, decide which one you like better. If you don’t like either of them, figure out which you dislike less.

1. Star Trek or Babylon 5? Babylon 5, no question.
2. Windows or Linux? Have to go with Windows, since I have no experience with Linux worth mentioning. I certainly root for a strong Linux presence in the marketplace.
3. Windows or Macintosh? I have a fondness for the Mac going back many years, and design-wise I admire it most. On the other hand, I’m a lot more comfortable with Windows, Have to vote Mac here.
4. Farscape or Stargate? Farscape. Never have gotten much into Stargate — no particular objection to it, but it seems terribly pedestrian compared to the craziness and cliff-hangers on Farscape. Hmmm. I need to start watching those DVDs I borrowed. In my copious free time.
5. Linux or BSD? Linux, but that’s splitting hairs.
6. Intel or AMD? AMD as the underdog. Nothing particularly wrong with either.
7. Star Trek or Star Wars? Star Trek. Star Wars went wrong exactly where B5 went right: a strong creative vision that drove the final product. ST had no such vision (esp. post-Roddenberry), and so was neither driven marvelously upwards or terribly downwards beyond a single episode or two.
8. Firefox or Internet Explorer? Firefox, duh.
9. Firefox or Opera? Firefox, but my experience with Opera has been very limited.
10. WordPress or Movable Type? Movable Type, but that’s at least in part due to familiarity and commitment. Plenty of good WP sites out there.
11. Marvel or DC? Marvel still stirs the blood from the old days, but I’ve been enjoying DC more for quite a number of years.
12. Neanderthal or Neandertal? Neanderthal (I haven’t gotten pedantic enough to pronounce it the latter way_.
13. Slashdot or Digg? Slashdot, I guess. I don’t really frequent either.
14. Anime: Dub or Sub? Subtitled, which is one reason I don’t watch as much anime as I’d like.
15. Dr. Pepper or Mountain Dew? Dr. Pepper, if compelled to choose. I’ll take Coke (or Pepsi) over either.

Some of these are so non-issues to me that it causes me to doubt my geekiness. On the other hand, they didn’t ask about “GURPS or D20?” or “WoW or Everquest?” or “Penny Arcade or PvP?” and the comic book question was terribly simplistic (“Batman or Superman?” “Avengers or JL?” “Thanos or Darkseid?”) so I guess I still have some areas of geekiness I’m more into than the test makers.