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Kathleen Fent Read This Story
Kathleen, I wanted to do this in this most potentially embarassing way
possible, and I figured doing it here and now, in front of a
quarter of a million strangers
was as good a way as any. I love you more then I can describe within
the limits of this tiny little story. We've been together for many years
now, and I've known for most of that time that I wanted to spend my
life with you. Enough rambling. Will you marry me? Update
15 minutes 30 seconds later: Subj: "Yes", message body: "Dork. You made me cry. :)"
Hazah! I'm getting married!
:)
Congratulations, if you are.
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
Max V.
NeXTMail/MIME Mail welcome
This is what I call A Geeky way to ask someone in mariage...
I like it !
Good luck to both of you.
"Tui Nati vulnerati."
Go for it... he's rich.
All the best to both of you!
b&
All but God can prove this sentence true.
What better way to propose...well...except for maybe in person, with a ring? When I get married can I propose on /. too?
~.Evanrude
that's not embarrasing, that's is very romantic (once in a lifetime). and this takes a lot of curage!
i hope the answer is yes.
We really should have given her first post.
Hot Damn! It's the Soggy Bottom Boys!
I guess he "first post" me...
A geek who would post his proposal this way is a very good catch.
Prime numbers are exactly what Alan Greenspan says they are -S. Minsky
Man, I hope for your sake there's only on Kathleen Fent.
Assuming, of course, that you don't live in Utah.
Congrats either way.
--saint
I'm intrigued to see if her reply gets modded "Interesting", "Troll" or maybe "Flamebait". ;-))
:-)
If you two get married, will you be all propritary towards her, or will she be open source?
God is real unless declared integer
One ring to rule them all?
What will the moderation on her response be? (+5, Insightful), (+5, Informative), (+5, Funny) or (-1, Troll)?
Wuv is in the air on Slashdot. It's a beautiful thing. And I don't mean that sarcastically. Go Taco!
Imagine a beowulf cluster of ... euh ... ooops sorry, wrong story
-
#include "coucou.h"
Do I have to read this thread all day to find the reply? I hope she posts with a +2.
~.Evanrude
Congratulations, both of you!
"from the typed-with-one-pair-of-sweating-palms dept."
Was first seen as "from the typed-with-one-sweating-palm dept."
Which seemed much less romantic.
God, I hate this 'holiday'.
Brant
Argle. Bargle.
because he spell-checked this post.
So what happens when Miss Fent gets pounded by a quarter of a million Slashdot readers? Ewwhh...
Which one?
Although, now that I post that link, i see only one is listed. I guess out of the quarter of a million people there is only one Kathleen Fent.
But we can all call and congratulate her.
Do you Gentoo!?
1. No, you will not call him Commander. Or Taco.
2. He will not make you metamoderate during sex. It's just not right.
3. Cowboyneal is NOT allowed to sleep at the foot of the bed.
4. He has to leave work at work. No logging in from home.
5. You will not be the subject of various polls.
and finally,
6. No open-sourcing bedtalk!
Best of wishes.
My wife made me promise that computers wouldn't be involved in my proposal.
I wish i had the first post on this story! This one will be remembered for a long time
:)
Congratulations to you both!
WOO HOO... No one can mod me down this time
Don't Panic
I have a feeling she will give you an enthusiastic "Yes"
Be sure to UPDATE: us and congratulations on your courageous proposal.
=)
My poetry site welcomes the unusual.
Seriously, congrats (I hope).
ceci n'est pas un sig.
How does this fall into the topic of "News for Nerds" then? ;)
Dude, this is so fucking lame, its not even funny. She's going to call up her mom...
Kathleen: "Mom, Rob proposed!!"
Mom: "GREAT!!! How big is the ring??"
Kathleen: "Uhm... Well... There isn't a ring.."
Mom: "Oh..... I see... How did he propose?"
Kathleen: "Well.. It was on his website."
Mom: "Run. Run Like Hell. Don't look back."
(Somewhere on the Black Horse pike in New Jersey)
Say, do you want to get married...
(Screech)
(Did I mention she was driving...)
"Learning is not compulsory... neither is survival."
--Dr.W.Edwards Deming
hey, how come you rejected this when i posted it?!
Cretin - a powerful and flexible CD reencoder
Yes, I'll marry you!
Oh wait, that wasn't for me? BREAK MY HEART WHY DON'T YOU!@@#@#
Moderation: Put your hand inside the puppet head!
What has this got to do with news for nerds?
Plenty. It's so rare, that every time a geek finds love, it should be treated like a court judgement against Microsoft! Another win for the underdog!
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
Good luck Rob. Congratulations.
Hey, how about a link to a picture?
sPh
I can't decide whether this is just the ultimately geeky thing to do, or a ploy to get /. into the national news. Either way, I hope she accepts. Everyone deserves a little happiness. You go, Rob. Oh, and it's Valentine's Day. How womantic.
....One ring to bind them.
Seriously, I hope she says yes.
You will let us know what she says, won't you Taco?
Brought to you by Frobozz Magic Penguin Fodder.
Go for it dude!
But be careful.. if you marry her, she's entitled to half of your mod points! Pre-nup!
Damn you Taco! Now Slashdot will really suck! This is just like the musical buffy episode.
Damn you, Damn you to Hell!
Oh and I hope she says yes.
This
You hate spam and yet you post something like this for the entire world to see. You will get spam for the next few weeks saying congrats, then for the next few months sayin "has it happened yet??", then for the next year saying "WANT TO MAKE YOUR PENIS GROW 12 INCHES IN 2 WEEKS?"
Is there nothing you're prepared to spellcheck? ;-)
Tales from behind the Lagom Curtain
Is this informative or a troll? ;-)
Tele Communications Protocol / Internet Proposal Standards tested today on Slashdot.
Will the first test be successful?
We are still waiting for the results.
42 - So long and thanks for all the fish.
A quick google search turned up this image....
Once you get married, all your base are belong to her.
Yeah, like us geeks weren't going to find this... Sarcasta.Net
Pics
Bryan J. Casto
bryan.casto(a)gmail.com
on a much smaller scale....
2 -17&res=l
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=1999-0
Good luck!
m l
Here's a couple of sites that might come in handy:
A guide to buying engagement rings:
http://www.boodleanddunthorne.com/leap/index.ht
And a look at one of the world's best jewellers:
http://www.graff-uk.com/
[Disclaimer: I got my wife's engagement ring at Graff]
Would she change her name to Kathleen Taco or Kathleen Fent-Taco?
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Go back while you still can! You have no idea what you're in for when you ge....
What? No, honey, I'm just typing a message on Slashdot. Yes dear, I'll take the garbage out.
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
Maybe slashdot her website?
http://www.fent.net/about.html
http://packetnexus.com
This site may give a slight clue...
Well there is the issue of if IQ goes down in proportion to the size of the mob times the average intelligence.
For example, an individual scientist might be brilliant, but a group of them can be pretty dumb.
On this basis, the collective IQ around here has got to be heading into negative numbers.
[Joke! Joke!]
Of course, we are all waiting to see if
1) she replies in this forum,
2) if the reply is moderated to 5+.
3) Or will it go to -1 as redundant
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
How ironic...
I spent a good three minutes making an ASCII heart that says "SAY YES!" over and over again, but your own lameness filter prevented me from posting it, Rob!
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
Unix or Windows?
Free or Proprietary?
DMCA or Fair Use?
Vi or Emacs?
GPL or BSD?
Gnome or KDE?
C or C++ or Java or C# or ...?
Linux or GNU/Linux?
No typos. Passable grammar.
Kathleen, he actually thought about this one...
All the best to ya both.
"Consider yourself a member of a virtual corporation with Mr. Torvalds as your Chief Executive Officer." - Linux Advocac
I wish you many happy years together.
"Kathleen, I wanted to do this in this most potentially embarassing way possible"
The real question is embarrassing for you or for her? =)
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
Max V.
NeXTMail/MIME Mail welcome
... Slashdot is getting worse every day.
If you propose on ./, is she allowed to answer "CowboyNeal"?
No mention of an engagement ring... Hmmm, maybe he got her a token ring prior to this.
Heh.
I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep Dracula and Superman away.
Yes.
Slashdot your girlfriends web site!
;-)
BTW, Taco, could you imagine a beowulf cluster of Katherine Fents?
I hope she says yes.
doh!! way to go, Taco!!
Congratulations, guys. Now just tell me what colour you want the Beowulf cluster to be.
Carousel is a lie!
Congratulations
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Good luck to you both
Not quite a weblog, but similar:
Gabe's Proposal
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon? :P)
(If you can't figure out how to E-Mail me, Don't.
Of course she cried; if a woman doesn't cry, then you just didn't get it right. Besides, that is the best part for us - it shows she really loves you.
.JPG of Slashdot and that email now - gotta have something for the grandkids before your HDD dies :)
Burn a CDR with
We've been together for many years now, and I've known for most of that time that I wanted to spend my life with you. Enough rambling. Will you marry me?
Shut-up. Just shut-up. You had me at hello. You had me at hello...
If you celebrate Xmas, befriend me (538
OK, that was odd... but best of luck to you anyway. You're gonna get wedding presents from slashdotters, now. That was your whole plan, wasn't it!
-- Minds are like parachutes... they work best when open.
Awwww!
The only thing that we learn from history is that nobody learns anything from history.
So, will it be an "Open" marrage?
Congrats - best of luck to both of you!
_sig_ is away
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Kathleen Taco?
No moderation on this post, please, I just wish to add my two cents on this historic occasion.
Congratulations, Taco, and good luck.
I will now step aside for all the inevitable beowulf, first post, meta-moderation, CowboyNeal, etc. jokes.
~Chazzf
No statement is true, not even this one.
so we can moderate up!
DO NOT DISTURB THE SE
Congrats!!!!
Enjoy marriage and a lifetime of coding PERL together!
www.slightlycrewed.com - Because aren't we all?
Buy him a dictionary as a wedding gift.
Someone you trust is one of us.
Congrats! :)
But are we all invited to the wedding?
Having been a frequent vistitor since the site opened way back in 97 all I have to say is it couldn't have happened to a nicer, geekier guy =)
There are 4 boxes to use in the defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, ammo. Use in that order. Starting now.
... take it upon themselves to mod down the other +5s as '-1, not Kathleen's reply'? :)
IAAL,BIANLY
Oh well, never thought I'd see the day when I'd try and post an informative post on a proposal on Valentines day, but anyways, for those of you who are ignorant of who Kathleen is, check out this site.
;-)
Sorry, couldn't resist
Everyone knows the Slashdot editor moderate posts using SQL. Mod her up to +6 so it's above everyone else.
Way to go dude !
But please teach him how to spell. Best of luck to you both.
Love,
Jay and Silent Bob
Guys, congratulations. As I always say to my buddies, any girl that helps you build a MAME cab is a keeper. :)
Best of wishes. Good job on the sappily romantic... Dork, you made me cry... hope that one day, my girlfriend responds in about the same way.
So, last question... webcast the wedding for all of us here at slashdot???
I am disrespectful to dirt! Can you see that I am serious?!
Getting married on Valentine's Day saves you one set of gifts and makes for one less date to forget.
Wow! That's all it takes? A post on /.?
Michelle Pfeiffer, I love you, will you....
Er, what? He _knew_ this Kathleen chick?
Aw, crap.
CONGRATS!
"Win treats sysadmins better than users. Mac treats users better than sysadmins. Linux treats everyone like sysadmins."
Asking a girl to marry you on Slashdot, and having her reply on Slashdot.
:)
I don't know if this is one of the coolest things I've ever seen, or one of the most pathetic.
Good luck guys!
I am sure that this article will be saved and preserved in the Slashdot hall of fame. 15 years from now your kids will read what I am saying now wondering if the person posting this even knows you.
Anyway, no I don't. but best of luck. Geek chicks rule. (I have one too!)
Rob or Kathleen- How about posting a pic of the ring for all to see? I mean, what kind of proposal is it with no rock?
_sig_ is away
Congrats Taco, ya big dork =)
So, will it be an "Open" marrage?
No, not "open". GNU is all about the word "free" as in they're "free" to break up at any time :-)
Will I retire or break 10K?
1) Not a single typo.. I guess whe you care, you can do it.. Now, care daily..
/. sans Taco's personal life.
2) Wasn't this posted before??
3) Imagine a beowulf cluster of Kathleen Fent's. A veritable harrem..
3) Can we see pics of her, nake and petrified, covered in hot grits.
and, the actual point:
4) When some red-neck hick rents a big-screen at a sporting event in order to propose, it's mildly sweet.. When the arena manager does it for himself, it's downright unprofessional. You really should have hired a sky-writer or something..
I kiss you! All your babe are belong to Taco! Congrats.. We now return you to a
The REAL jabber has the user id: 13196
What you do today will cost you a day of your life
This page was generated by a Squadron of Cyber Cupids for CmdrTaco and kathleen.
If you are confused about the context of a particular comment, just link back to the love page through the marriage link...
All the best!
the real problem will be working this into the best man speach ....
oh and who is going to be the best man ??
have fun
regards
john 'ijured knee' jones
May you both have a long and happy live together.
OK, everybody back to the salt mine. No move it!
--- Think of it as evolution in action ---
Congrats, Kathleen and Taco. So when should we expect to hear the pitter-patter of little chalupas?
Congratz and mad propz, Rob.
You broke it. And a piece landed on my foot! You'll be hearing from my team of high-priced lawyers.
There should be a moratorium on the use of the apostrophe.
Max V.
NeXTMail/MIME Mail welcome
Congrats! And on Valentine's Day, too - what a hopeless romantic.
:-)
If it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet.
First, congrats!
:-)
But if you were going to ask her on-line, shouldn't you have made sure your site, at least, would be able to handle the inevitable slashdot effect?
Milalwi
I had my wife try out an application I was working on, saying I needed someone who had never seen it before to test it. After 4 boring dialog boxes and 2 error messages it suddenly showed a big flashy screen, and my proposal came screaming from the speakers. Lots of tears then too :]
:>
Again: Good luck Rob and have lots of kids. They are quite a bit noisier than computers but a helluva lot more fun to make and have
karma capped
Congatulations!
But you know, this -should- have been modded (-1, Saccharine Sweetness) -- that stuff causes cancer, you know! Not to mention (-1, Twisting the Knife of Bitterness in the Hearts of All Geeks Who are Alone on Valentines Day). But on the other hand, it should get several fat (+1, Making All the Trolls Feel Vaguely Uncomfortable About Trolling, For One Article at Least).
Haha. Congrats again -- be happy.
The enemies of Democracy are
You realise that hundreds of geeks the world over are going to be so touched by this story that they're all going to go off and propose to their girlfriends.
:)
Well, those that have girlfriends.
Now the question is... what'll li'l Luitenant jg Taco be like?
OFTC: By the community, for the community
"It's here, but no one wants it." - The Sugar Speaker
But will he be "Free" as in able to drink Beer all night with the boys?
I just wanted my name listed on the 'Taco Gets Married' story. That's really my only reason.
Congrats Taco! Way cool way to propose.
Now I can return to being depressed about being single.
El riesgo vive siempre!
I though my mom would enjoy this story. She's a sappy romantic. So, I e-mailed her.
Her reply:
"When are you going to move out of the house? You're 30 years old for God's sake!"
Crongrats CmdrTaco!
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. -- William James
At least someone is going to have a good valentines day!
well CmdrTaco, you better have a real expensive wedding because as you said yesterday "you get what you pay for" :)
This is the nerdiest thing I have ever seen, I'm in awe. Proposal on /., acceptance via email? Wow.
Wow, I can never hope to top that... Unless perhaps I propose via Everquest... I'm sure that's been done, though.
Congratulations.
classic
Someone you trust is one of us.
...and you bought it.
;-)
This is just a ploy to kill all the "CmdrTaco is Gay" crapfloods
Best of luck to the both of you Taco. Might I suggest DisneyWorld for the honeymoon. Its where my wife & I went, and it was great.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
Good luck to you both!
quis custodiet ipsos custodes - Juvenal
Remember to compliment the size of his CVS tree occasionally!
My deepest sympathy, Kathleen.
Congratulations !!!!
I hope you have a very long and happy life together.
Iain
"Because we are not employing at entry level, offshoring will kill our industry stone dead."
pooptruck
First off, congrats! Secondly, can we see some pictures of the happy couple?
I submitted this a week ago, but they wouldn't post it!
Good luck!
I love you more then I can describe
Cripes, Taco, you couldn't even use a grammar-checker on this, the most important posting of your life?
Having said that, congratulations, and (I think I speak for more than a few Slashgeeks here) f--- you for reminding me that tonight I'll be going home to heat up a can of Chef Lonelyheart's Soup For One.
~Philly
I've never quite understood this, "wait til you're old and don't want to have fun anymore" crap. If you're going to commit to someone who's going to try and rule your life, you're stupid anyway.
:-)
That said, Yow, bflong. Do remember, you're *only* 22. You've got the rest of your life for this. There's just as many good women out there as good men, it's just a matter of cutting through the morons. Can take a horrid long time tho. But don't worry, you'll find someone.
Yeah, i *know* i'm offtopic, and i don't really care right now. Have a nice day!
or it would have been 5 very large paragraphs wondering if people really *can* fall in love in these times of strife, war, politics, information superhighway, technology, and the whole point would have gotten lost in the drivel.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
T-1 connection: $1,000/month
Slashcode GPL: free
Proposing marriage on your own website and having your beloved say "yes," priceless.
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
Heartiest of congratulations and best wishes, Rob and Kathleen!
May your love grow and may you find much happiness in the days ahead!
Wow. Congrats to both of you.
:-)
And let's make this the most commented story ever. A gift from the Slashdot community.
Ometedou!
The handbook pretty plainly states that if you have a life, you must be stripped of all your geekly honors and be forced to drive a mini-van. I'm afraid we can't make any exceptions. Please check your dual athlon at the door on the way out.
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Glad to hear it. Good job on the way you did it. First proposal I have ever scene like this.
Welcome to the bedroom battlefield!.
Just remember, it now no longer a question of who. It is a question of when.
Either give it away or get top dollar, but never sell yourself cheap.
Way to go!
Good luck and all that!
Congratulations Rob and Kathleen. Been married for six years myself and we even have a shorty who's 10 months old. It's great, especially if you have managed to find a fellow geekette who understands the need to have computer parts lying around the house, a poster of HAL 9000 in the bedroom, etc.
As for those criticising Taco's choice of proposal venue, it's his friggin' site, for crying out loud. If he wants to propose here, he damn well can. If you have a problem with it, you're probably bitter because you're D.I.H. on another Valentine's Day
dear sir
I fear that you will be takeing a redhead from the singles population and placeing her into the married population. I find this kind of act intolerable as there are very few of them left as it is.
regards
john jones
Take my advice Rob, go simple. Kathleen, really, you do not want a big wedding.
I've heard people say, "The wedding is for the family, the honeymoon is for the couple." I say screw that. Have the wedding you want. All the headaches of a wedding are really not worth it.
For instance, my wife and I got to 2 notebook pages of people, and started cutting. We ended up having a lot of fun with a small number of people, and it was still almost too many people.
-- Who is the bigger fool? The fool or the fool who follows him? --
Woohooo! Way to go Rob! Good luck to the both of you guys!
Wow. This suddenly reminded me that today is Valentine's day. I really need to get a life... (And THAT'S why my wife was giving me hints this morning...)
-Russ
Me
All about me
I just puked.
/. had been my brain child and I built it up to where it had the kind of traffic and following it has now, I would like to think at some point I would have realized it would belong more to the community that uses and supports it rather than my own personal playground.
I must be the most unromantic piece of shit I know. I just think this story is immature, or irresponsible, or something. And in a couple of different ways.
One: If
And Two: Don't get me too, wrong. I'm a happily married man of 6 years, with my second kid on the way. And I proposed on Valentines Day, too (on one knee, with just the two of us). It's just there are some ways in which the private and serious institution of marriage gets treated in such a public and hyped way these days that really burns me. Public spectacle proposals is one.
Another one is the cake cutting thing. Please don't start a cake fight and jam cake into each others face. That's no way to start a marriage.
jt
More to the point, does she have a sister ???
As a single nerd tear rolls down my eye, its nice to see other romantics also get what they want on valentine's day.
Mod point free since 2001
Well done.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Done with style.
Cheers,
Ian
Way to go! Congradulations! So are we going to see little Tacoletts? Best Wishes! Make sure to keep us updated :)
Check out my sysadmin blog!
Can we assume this whole proposal pst is also an open invitiation to the wedding for us all?
This is just soooo cute...
Best of luck to you both, from Sweden.
Opinions stated are mine and do not reflect those of the Illuminati
It wouldn't be that hard and it would be really sweet.
El Karma: excelente(principalmente la suma de moderación hecha a los comentarios de los usuarios)
Ok, so I "borrowed" the quote. Congradtulations! My wife and I celebrated our 10 year anniversary this past September and it gets better every year (no, my wife didn't make me post that - she doesn't read /.). Nothing makes life more enjoyable than finding someone to share everything with then have a family! Our two girls are such a blessing! In this age of 'things' and 'stuff' it is still the people that count the most. You two just have found the person to put at the top of each others list.
"If you are on fire you can just stop, drop, and roll. If you fall into Lava you are just dead." - my 5yr old daughter
The best from my family to yours, Rob!
that is so sweet. I was wondering if something like this would happen today ... cute!
sulli
RTFJ.
I assume there'll be a streaming webcam covering the ceremony? It'd be the Right Thing to do. See if VA Linux has any servers left over: you're gonna need a bunch of 'em!
/. people can be sometimes...
One recommendation, though: no polls on the website. Either that or one humongous database to store all the replies to, "If anyone knows any reason why these two...". *sigh* You know how
:)
When I proposed in the fall, the first thing my fiance did was try to set a date. I was unprepared for this; in my mind I was getting engaged, it had never crossed my mind that I was going to be planning a wedding that soon!
So when is the date!?! Will the guests all be wearing name tags bearing their logins like "CowboyNeal"?
Wonderfully done. Congratulations on your engagement. So when can we expect to see EnsignTaco's first post?
144l. ph34r my 133t l3g4l 5k1lz!
And the winner is: CmdrDorko!!!
Congrats you two.. :)
Congrats!!
Now the really tough question, does ThinkGeek do wedding registries?
I'm out of my mind right now, but feel free to leave a message.....
This article/proposal is one of the coolest things I've seen on the web in a very long time.
A million points to Gryffindor!
Bold and daring, you get the Doritos!
/usr/local/waycool is full.
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of marriage proposals...
"You've got my axe...and my bow...and my something borrowed..and MY something blue!"
First Pos^H^H^Hroposal!
But seriously, congratulations! Don't forget to try the chicken, I'll be here all week.
Congratulations to the bost of you - and know that the odds are with you as geek marriages have far greater odds of surviving than civilians'.
This is kinda like the first MS antitrust article or the WTC article - I just had to get in for posterity.
-Jon
Congratulations. We wish you both happiness.
I was going to post: "Imagine ... now they can start their own little beowulf cluster".
Congrats!
Tuus crepidae innexilis sunt.
And here is a link to a picture of the to-be bride :)
Kathleen Fent
More information is available over at: Fent.NET
I can just see it now. A Lan party with 100+ geek guys sitting around downloading pr0n....
....and a live webcam feed to a local strip club...
Grats, ya fraud! ;)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
And here is a link to a picture of the to-be bride :)
Kathleen Fent
More information is available over at: Fent.NET
Kathleen and Rob, best of luck to both of you. Especially Kathleen
The big question awaits... does she get your root password?
Kathleen
sorry commander, the public wanted to know...
congrats!!!
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Informative? Of course. Insightful? Absolutely. But Troll? Overrated! That's blasphemy! I demand, demand that those moderators have their privliges revoked!
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...you do know you're going to karma hell for that, don't you?
You're using her as bait, Master!
A friend of mine proposed & married in Ultima Online. Actually, they married in UO first, then in real life. (Assuming UO isn't real life.)
There is absolutely no reason to panic.
... Well, this dispells the rumor that you're gay!
/. history, so I'm sure we'll be visiting this post sometime in the future.
Seriously though, congratulations to you both. You've also created yet another classic moment in
Now, go make some mad lovin'!
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
In no event unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing will the husband and wife, or any other party who may modify and/or attempt to modify the marriage as permitted by law, be liable to you for damages, including any general, special, incidental or consequential damages arising out of the use or inability to use the marriage (including but not limited to loss of life or life being rendered inaccurate or losses sustained by you or third parties or a failure of the marriage to operate with any other programs), even if such holder or other party has been advised of the possibility of such damages.
So that's what the Alter Relationship buttons are all about!
--
(if you're still looking for the point, it was back there, in the post. </sig>)
Congrats Taco and Kathleen!
"The quality of life is determined by its activites."--Aristotle
Not in my case. I proposed at Ed Debevic's (a 50s diner place) over the PA in front of a dining room full of people, but the waiter kinda tried to talk me out of it. "Last guy who tried this, she said 'No'." I told him I wasn't worried.
Only downside was that Amy was a bit flustered, and her response was "OK".
And who says geeks don't know how to be romantic! Congrats Taco & Kathleen! Bill
I was almost done sulking in my own self-pitty when you stuck it in my face. I had promised myself, that if any annoying cute cuddly couples got in my way today and rubbed in how crap my crap life is, i would strangle one of them (probably the guy). This troll/flame has made me feel better. So thankyou slashdot (PS. Please have it in your heart not to mod me down :)
This comment does not represent the views or opinions of the user.
Imagine starting a web site and building it up to be incredibly popular - taking almost 5 years - just to propose to your girlfriend. Now that's love.
I'm sure you're not reading down this far, but congrats Rob and Kathleen. Here's wishing you a long and happy life together. And I agree with an earlier poster, Rob - you BETTER post pics of the wedding. ;-)
Again, congrats! That was so cool. ^_^
-Kasreyn
Kasreyn: Cheerfully playing the part of Devil's Advocate to hairtrigger
This is the highest concentration of 'Funny' modded comments I've ever seen.
Am I Wrong?
Probably real, according to http://www.fent.net/archive/troll.html :
"... will NEVER post on Slashdot" - so much for that, eh?
(I'm losing the first moderation points I've ever had by posting here, but it should be worth it...)
Remember Kathleen, 'never ask a geek why, just nod slowly and back away.'
Congratulations, Rob.
Don Negro
Perl 6 will give you the big knob. -- Larry Wall
So...where's the wedding?
Slashdot - News for Herds. Stuff that Splatters.
Congratulations to you both, and good luck and happiness for many years to come.
Rhapsody in Numbers
Someone should renew fent.net... it expires on Saturday...
Vs lbh pna ernq guvf, ybt bss abj. Tb bhgfvqr. Syl n xvgr.
I guess it's only a matter of time before we've got little Tacquitos running around here, eh?
that they'll be bringing a webcam on their honeymoon?
___
It's the end of my comment as I know it and I feel fine.
It's official! /. has been /.ed with LOVE !!!
...probably gonna be buried in a mountain of comments, but for what it's worth, congrats Rob... you certainly are a lucky guy... you actually got a girl :)
...now teach the rest of us geeks how it's done!
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
I was expecting some typical geek/nerd related news. Congrats on the wedding.
/. effect.
Now since you have stolen a news slot from my daily reading, I'm expecting to now see an update to this when the wedding happens, and a website with webcam so it can feel the
Congratulations :) A really well received /. story
errr....umm...*whooosh* *whoosh* Is this thing on ?
Rob,
/.er in the world will be replying to this story, I thought I'd jump on with some advice (as a married nerd, I'm qualified).
/. ref into this. Let the other one say what is up with them before you mark them as a troll.
/. posters.
Seeing as every
1. Always listen to each her. Nothing will get you into the doghouse faster than her thinking you are not listening when she thinks she has something important to say.
2. WIRELESS! Yes, good old 802.11b. It allows you to be on the couch doing nerdly things, while you are in the same room with her. No more lost in your home office for hours and hours every night. This is definitely one of the best technologies for a married couple.
3. Respect each other. It sounds so simple, but a lot of couples seem to lose that over the years. They start doing dumb things like rolling their eyes when the other speaks. Lack of respect for your mate has destroyed more couples than anything.
4. Respect each other. Am I repeating myself? Well, yes, because it is so important. Just let the other person be themselves, and the small stuff will take care of itself.
5. Don't lose yourself! That sounds anti-love, but it's not. Make concessions, but don't change yourself. You are who she fell in _love_ with. Of course, you will grow, and change, but your soul will remain.
6. Laugh with her. You should be marrying your best friend. If she is not, you are doing this too soon (said that one a little late, didn't I). It is the friendship that carries you through life together. You both will have times when all you need is a friend, and being there like that for each other is critical.
7. Don't mod each other. Ok, I had to get a
8. Just SAY IT. When something is up, take the risk, and just SAY IT. Don't hem and haw, and let it build up. The friendship and respect you build will allow you to trust in the ability to just say what is on your mind. It feels so much better when it's out in the open, whatever it is.
9. Men are from mars, women are from venus. I know this to be true. Get the book on CD, and listen to it in your car. Then dispose of it like you would pr0n. Descreatly. Never let anyone know you listened to it (because they will think you are a f4g. However, there actually are some good tools and concepts in the book. It teaches you not to try and solve her problems, but when to just listen.
10. Don't listen to
Spackler
So where are you registered? Thinkgeek?
Mechanik
So, we're all invited to the wedding, right I'm allergic to shellfish, if that helps with organising the catering.
Congratulations and all that, but now I'm going home to pull the network cable out of the back of my girlfriends machine until this story drops off the front page. ;-p
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
Will we be seeing child processes anytime soon?
Kathleen, just get his root password, then all the cooking and cleaning will magically be done.
GO TACO
If people can connect to one another even the smallest of voices will grow loud.
--Serial Experiments Lain
congratulations to both CmdrTaco and Kathleen. Now you can spawn all kinds of child-processes! whooohoo!
"If I wanted your input on my pet project, I'd stick my hand up your ass and use you like a sock-puppet." - Muse
So when you gonna meet her, Rob? (j/k) Congratulations. :o)
- adam
One ring to bind them?
Will she be open source?
She should marry CowboyNeal!
Hey, I submitted this a week ago!
And, of course, best of all:
Taco's bride naked and petrified (well, almost).
But, man, did he have it coming or what?! Anyway, congratulations to you both!
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"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance" - Derek Bok
..does what we have mean nothing to you? And who is this, this.. Kathleen? |-;
Congrats, you've now spawned a permanent process.
Of course, when I submitted this story a week ago, it was rejected. Fools. :)
Just kidding. Great way to get the job done!
Posted from the wireless couch.
Wait a minute, that's not her face, that's her..... (looks up) Oh.
(Now she's gonna kill me... http://www.fent.net/archive_strange_letters.html )
By the way, how much of a hit will my Karma take if I mod up my own post to make sure you see this?
Laws affecting technology will always be bad until enough techies become lawyers.
I don't care how redundant this post may be.. it's worth losing karma!
:P Best of everything to you both!
Congratulations, Rob and Kathleen !!!
I believe slashdot has just slashdotted itself on this one
Congratulations!
Are we all invited to the batchelor party?
Information wants to be beer.
I mean, 800+ comments on a marriage proposal located in a site aimed at unix nrrds ... and not even one pun about linking or ld(1) ?!?
:-) Now you get to discover what a logistical nightmare something as conceptually simple as wanting to be together forever can turn into. Have I mentioned that I hate caterers, photographers, and members of the clergy? If you find yourselves getting stressed out, just take a step back mentally and remind yourselves that the day is all about the lasting emotional intangibles, not what kind of flowers are on the reception tables...
Kidding aside, congratulations to the future Mr. & Mrs. Taco.
News for Geeks in Austin, TX
When I asked my geek girlfriend (who occassionally goes by the hacker alias Kiesa) to marry me two months ago, I didn't use Slashdot, or even my webpage; just our Visors. (These would be PalmOS units built by Handspring.) We were driving east on I-84 east of Portland (Oregon) and I innocently suggested we stop by Multnomah Falls. Because it's a neat place, and we had a little extra time, we stopped. As we got out of the car, I covertly grabbed her Visor and stuffed it in my pocket next to mine. We hiked to the top of the waterfall, overlooking the Columbia River, and I broke out my Visor and scribbled "Kiesa - I love you and I want to share the rest of my life with you. Will you marry me? - Jaeger". I handed her unit to her and beamed the memo. She read it and I repeated my query verbally. She pulled out her stylus and started writing something. Even though I was fairly certian she would say yes, waiting for her to respond was still the longest fifteen seconds of my life.
She said yes. I was happy.
And what took you so long? Me, I'm 31, and have been married for 10 years :)
Free as in "the Truth shall set you..."
"w00t!" was the thread I wanted to chime in with.
Congratulations.
Slashdot 's editors are dickheads
Wired has already posted an article about this. I wonder if it will make the NY Times? ;)
The only thing cooler than this, would have been to make it a Slashdot Poll...
But it would really suck if she decided to marry CowboyNeal.
Congratulations, man. Welcome to the ranks!
What else is there to say? Cool... Very Cool... Even Steph was impressed! :)
MOO;IANAL.
There used to be a picture linked here.
dont get the usual duplicate post from Timothy, we should be ok... ;)
On getting accepted!
If this alternative seen this day on Freshmeat is any indication (one of the more depressing license agreements you'll read), then your marital happiness will be inversely related to your productivity as a programmer.
"Provided by the management for your protection."
Congratulations, Commander Taco,
I wish you and your bride many many years of happiness and joy and lots of little tacettes running around the house.
Mike Kenny
SDMI: Finally! Music that won't rip or burn! Brought to you by the fine folks at RIAA.
This is really going to make headlines tommorow..
:-)
/. story ever?
The first Slashdot story that is no aggrageted..
Congratz!
(is this going to be the highest commented
I hope so)
I thought I'd join the masses (and give up my ability to mod this!) and say congratulations, Rob! Best of luck and happiness to you both for, well, the rest of your lives.
;)
So, are we all invited to the wedding? I mean, we were here for the proposal, it's only appropriate to invite us!
(Remember, the more people you invite, the more gifts you'll get.)
Awwwwwwwwwwwwwwww....
:-)
I want a boyfriend who will do this for me, too!
Alright now I can tell my kids that I saw the CmdrTaco propose to his women on slashdot. I know everything I'd like to say has already been said, so congrats and best wishes Malda.
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
Pretty ugly list of options, if you ask me.
Perhaps Natalie Portman as the maid of honor, with hot grits to be served at the reception.
-Cybrex
Boundless Expansion, Self-Transformation, Dynamic Optimism, Intelligent Technology, Spontaneous Order- BEST DO IT SO!
Congrats Rob & Kathleen!!!
try this one :))
"If anyone needs me, I'm in the angry dome."
Kathleen Fent
To say that Taco has to face his fears is to not pay attention to what's happening here. He could have easily turned comments off for this story - and we would all know whether or not he was rejected. 250K people being exposed to your proposal takes a lot of balls, IMHO. Big ones. Ones that ride shotgun when you drive.
And the down on one knee thing is overrated this time of the year. The ground is really cold...
A truly geeky proposal ;)
Best wishes to you both.
You know, I agree with you, but OTOH I proposed to my wife on Valentine's Day as well. In my defense, however, I can offer the fact that I was such a clod that I didn't even notice the date until afterwards.
This next song is very sad. Please clap along. -- Robin Zander
"...I think it takes more guts to propose in front of all the flamers..."
:p
I would hope that User #1 is pretty flame-proof by now. I doubt there's anything a troll could say to really get under his skin. The only possible flames could have come from you. Fortunately, I've yet to see an outlandish proposal (billboard displays, newspaper ads, etc.) fail, and this was no exception.
And I wouldn't really call it guts. There's a certain personality type that will propose in public - or even in as massively public of a manner possible - and there's a certain type that will do it in a more intimate manner. It's more a question of style.
I'm not criticizing it (but like I said, it's irrelevent if anyone but you would) - in this case, using a public forum that is a big part of your life to propose I found kinda cute - even if it is on Valentine's Day.
And so have many others - this thread is up to over 1,000 posts, a good contender for the hall of fame.
Congratulations to the future KathleenTaco! (Does this mean she has to change her account name now?)
--GrouchoMarx
Card-carrying member of the EFF, FSF, and ACLU. Are you?
Moderation Totals: Flamebait=1, Troll=1, Insightful=2, Informative=5, Overrated=2, Total=11.
Okay, who're the idiots? And can someone please mod the parent back up where it belongs, please?
Nope, no sig
:)
How the hell do you outdo proposing on a popular geek website in front of thousands... and leaving the comments on?
I'll be racking my brains for months on this one. Nice one Rob, couldn't do it the old-fashioned way to make it easy on the rest of us poor schlubs, could ya?:)
Congratulations you two.
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
Otherwise why would she possibly consent to be called Mrs. Taco?!?
I stole this Sig
Man, that is really cool. Romantic, but in a cool way. Those must have been the scariest 15 and a half minutes of your life. Wow. I wish you the best of luck, and many happy years together. Mazel Tov!
I'm the stranger...posting to
The e-mail exchange...
>>>>>> Yes!
>>>>> Yes, what?
>>>> Yes, I'll marry you!
>>> Huh? You are such a kidder.
>>Proposing to me over Slashdot was so romantic!
>>Should we plan on a June wedding?
> I don't know how to tell you this, but
> someone hacked Slashdot. I didn't post
> that. I mean, I love you and all, but
> I'm not ready for that kind of commitment.
> Besides, things are really so great
> between us, I'd hate to do anything to
> mess it up.
Kathy? Did you get my last message (see above)? Hey, I got you a heart shaped box of chocolate. Maybe we can go to a movie tonight. I think you've got a problem with your phone. Every time I've called, it rings once, sounds like it's being picked up, and then disconnects. Call me. Please. Luv U!
...
The Double Meat conspiracy? The one where she takes the new job, and finds out the old lady is eating everyone? You thought that was one of the bets episodes ever?? WHY? Please explain the appeal... because my friend and I (long time Buffy fans) thought it was one of the WORST episodes ever. It just seemed... unbalanced. Just kinda weird and creepy.. and not in a good X-Files way.
:)
I thought "Hush" was one of the best ever... loved the musical too. Whedon wrote all the music and lyrics himself, and the entire cast trained for 3 months so they could all sing their own parts.
*Wonders how we went from talking about CmdrTaco's wedding to Buffy, and watches the sky nervously for the inevitable "-1 Offtopic"*
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
in her prefs. Otherwise that might have been a LONG fifteen minutes. :)
:)
*sigh* Slashdot humor. It just never gets old.
Congratulations, you two
---
"how can the same street intersect with itself? i must be at the nexus of the universe!" - cosmo kramer
Redheads are god's gift to the men of the world. I should know, I married one :)
Congratulations you two and I wish you all the best!
EOM
DefCon parties are wild enough, image what that would be like??
...instead of confetti?
Best wishes on the marriage Rob!
All the trolls said Rob was gay...I don't know what to think now. Well congrats anyhow Rob. I guess it is time to retire the "I [heart] Rob" shrine that has gotten me many a karma points. So...is CowboyNeal...a real cowboy?
I'm a loner Dottie, a Rebel.
Imagine making a Beowulf cluster of these!
Congrats!
by Mike Buddha -- Someday the mountain might get him, but the law never will.
Rob,
On Valentines day...that's so sweet!
My best to you and new your life together!
Congratulations!
-AP
I noticed -- in fact, I put an ad in the school paper. I was in RI, Donna was in ME. One of her friends walked up to her after class and said "Did you look at the paper today?" "No...." "Let me show you something."
Will your wedding be open admission to all the slashdot crowd? Have someone at the entrance hooked up with a slashdot db and you give them your username and pw to get in...
You better have a wireless LAN there (for checking slashdot of course) and be prepared to say no to those trying to bring in their watercooled Athlon systems.
Seriously, though, this is really cool. It's a little cliche, but oh well the main point is it worked. Congrats to you both!
"I'll just chip in a bit for RedHat: I actually have that installed on my university machine." - Linus, '95
I spent a while trying to think of something clever or witty to say, but it seems like everything's taken already (and that's reading at +2!). Oh well...
Congratulations Rob and Kathleen!
Stuart.
PS I did actually *think* of posting a "one ring to bind them" comment before I read the three or four that are already here, though. I guess some things are just too obvious.
Just wanted to say congratulations and best wishes. I bet even the rest of the K5ers are happy for you!
.sig wanted: Must be concise, funny, and display my cleverness.
Someone should set up some sort of micropayment system to get these two somethin nice for the wedding; like a car or whatever they feel like. Imagine, if 10,000 /.ers contribute a buck each, that's 10 grand. Or maybe we can be more modest, and only ask for a few cents, and get em...I dunno. But this should be done!
-Abe
"McBane to base: Under attack by Commie Nazis!" -the Simpsons
So basically y'all just invited 150,000 trolls to your wedding. [mental image of a bunch of large green people fidgeting in white tuxedo/dress outfits under the watchful eyes of a squadron of truncheon[1]-armed moderators... and the single most popular wedding present would be fairly predictable]
Kidding aside, w00t! Congratulations! I did the bent knee thing, but for a twist I hid the ring in her clothes so I pulled it out of her pocket instead of mine...
[1] Five use only, patent pending,
News for Geeks in Austin, TX
Anyway, congrats, Taco.
Chris Beckenbach
but congratulations anyway. Just fantastic. I hope your fiancee likes that picture from the website. Its in the browser cache of nearly every geek on earth by now.
-
I wish both of you nothing but the best. :-)
Way to go Rob! Contratulations on your wedding! I wish you both the best! You should set up a gift registry online and provide your address so we can send cards or gifts!
Why not go for a world record? Have the reception outdoors in a stadium and invite 250,000 of your closest friends over for a toast!
You better watch out for all those open sores he's always talking about!
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
Okay, here's a bit of blatant vote-manipulation, but it's in a good cause, and it's not like anyone's going to read the twelve-hundred-and-somethingth post anyway...
:)
If you have an account on www.kuro5hin.org, you'll notice this story is in the queue of submissions. At the time of writing it needs about 30 more votes to be posted (minus anyone who votes against it in the meantime), and the proportion of votes that say "front page" needs to increase by about 10% for it to get there.
Go vote it up!
Stuart.
So when is the first litter of taquitos expected?
And Kathleen, please keep your last name... Sooner or later, someone is going to call you "Kat" Taco, and you know it's going to stick.
Congrats!
Karma: 0 (But I wield a mean +10 Vorpal Apathy)
Congratulations and good luck!
The only request my wife-to-be has made, is that I don't name any of the kids after operating systems (or their mascots). Although I'm sure she'd agree with some of the prenup suggestions that have been added to this thread...
Sometimes I doubt your commitment to Sparkle Motion.
How do I mark the STORY down as a troll?
Linux O Muerte!
There once was a fellow named Taco
Ran a web site for geeks, most un-macho
Asked Miss Fent for her hand
With a twisted-pair band
Then they both honeymooned in Morocco
On behalf of the Electric Minds community, congratulations, Rob. Long life and much happiness to you both.
Eric
Be who you are...and be it in style!
Now for a blatant plug, set a date and go visit my wife's Wedding Invitation business and order your invitations. We expect there to be lots of wedding pic stories soon.
Brian
Remember Lexington Green!
We need a hof measurement for "most moderator points spent on 'funny'".
(it's very well possible my spanish sucks..)
Care about electronic freedom? Consider donating to the EFF!
Love it that someone has moderated the wife to be as offtopic ;)
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
check out Zdnet
I got this from a t-shirt and think it will help all of us single geeks out there that are still waiting for something like this to happen to them:
How to meet chicks:
1. Pump iron three times a day
2. Join a rock and roll band
3. If all else fails, stuff a sock down your pants
The last one assumes, of course, that you have opted in for the "pants" option.
My life's goal is to get a score of +3!
1. Are we invited to the wedding?
2. Can we crash at your place?
3. Will you have a simulcast of the wedding for those too cheap/////far away to attend?
4. When's the bachelor party?
5. When's the bachelorette party?
6. Can we go to both?
7. Will the wedding be Open Source?
8. Will the ring you give her say "One Ring To Rule Them All" in Elvish?
9. Is Jon Katz invited? Can we dunk him in the punch bowl?
-
--- Will in Seattle - What are you doing to fight the War?
See the wired article about all of this.
Incredible.
Lawrence Lessig is my personal hero.
You had me at
(and best wishes too, mainly to override the LOUD CONGRATULATIONS FILTER)
sulli
RTFJ.
I love Brent! So much for a romantic valentine's day post proclaiming my feelings for him. I guess they aren't kidding about using that preview button instead of submit....
Can you imagine a beowulf cluster of CmdrTacquitos? Now that'd be a handful... :)
:)
BTW, anyone who says "Is this news for nerds...?" etc. is a complete and total moron, and should be modded as such.
Also, you greatly improved my otherwise lonely and exam-filled V-Day.
One more thing: if you are CmdrTaco, why are you reading this? You should be celebrating with your fiance long after this discssion is archived
Congrats to you both.
LOTR: Elijah Wood is a munchkin asshat. Yes, asshat. LOL.
I should've learned by now to check Slashdot for news first.
No, Thursday's out. How about never - is never good for you?
Congrats, but Damn.... Just another reminder I am doing the lonely hearts thing tonight......
Linux is unix training wheels, while BSD *is* unix.
Your good old days are just beginning!
so since yuou pulled the ultimate in geek proposals - will the ring be a token ring?.
.
sorry.
.
Shouldn't this really be in Ask Slashdot?
hey rob heres an idea. since you were first marriage post on /. - why not have the first web-cam-enabled wedding (a webbing?). and wedding nigh... er... nevermind.
just post some decent pics after the event. or why not get married at linux world. ok nevermind that too.
grats!
.
Will there be a webcast of the event?
Winton
You do realize, of course, that you must record the wedding and post it as a special episode of "Geeks In Space".
In Ogg Tarkin format, natch.
www.eFax.com are spammers
Embarassing? If she said "no", now that would be embarassing.
=brian
If my wife sees this, it'll make my Burger King/Onion Ring proposal look horrible! And just when I finished convincing her that it was what "all the guys" were doing... Shoot!
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
Somebody, post a marriage proposal on Freenet and see who replies. :)
Someone you trust is one of us.
Courtesy hemos' wedding
marotti.com
Add to that the readers of wired.com because of the article at that site on Rob's proposal.
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
Um, that's all.....
And the brethren went away edified.
Have many happy years!
RFC2119
Kathleen Fent and Cmdr "Rob" Taco
The wedding will be broadcast as streaming media over a wireless T3 link from the home network of Hemos, who has graciously, if unknowingly, offered the hoSPITality of his home. The ceremony will be performed by a JP, offending everybody, but offending everybody EQUALLY.
As a sign of their approval of this solemn event, the families of the happy couple have generously allowed them the satisfaction of paying for their own arrangements.
To insure that the guests feast on their favorite foods, the happy couple have decided to make it a pot-luck. Bring a covered dish! This means you! Guests are invited to feast on all the food they can bring, in a sumptuous atmosphere including: genuine plastic cutlery, dishes made of the finest paper and a wine so good, it comes in a box.
The wedding will be semi-formal and the reception semi-informal. The bride and groom will exchange matched rings - twice. (Something old, something gnu...) The token rings will be made by Hemos, a close, personal friend, and the flowers will be provided by CowboyNeal, a less close, more impersonal friend. Music will be borrowed from the top bands in the world, via mp3. (You got a problem with that?) Suspence will be provived by the bride's mother, who may or may not attend.
FEEL the tension as the in-laws meet for the FIRST TIME!
SEE the happy couple nervuously approach their STATE OF WEDDED BLISS!
WATCH as people you know dress in FUNNY CLOTHES and ACT SILLY! (Pants are manditory.)
THRILL to the luxery of FOLDING TABLES AND CHAIRS!
HEAR the bride's mother cry VERY, VERY LOUD!
The happy couple would prefer not to allow their friends, or even their families to drive home drunk, so bring a sleeping bag. (You know who you are.)
(This invitation is covered by the GNU product license.) ---
Alright, it's just a first draft.
=brian
By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher... and that is a good thing for any man.
-anonymous
By the time /. had UIDs, it was already pretty famous IIRC.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo
--Andy Finkel (J. Klass?)
So, should every geek in the world simaltaneously show up for the wedding, making it impossible to actually get the thing done?
-Miko
Miko O'Sullivan
Fortunately, I've yet to see an outlandish proposal (billboard displays, newspaper ads, etc.) fail, and this was no exception.
Was at a hockey game one night and the traditional using-the-arena-scoreboard thing came up. The couple was shown, the guy kneeled down, and showed the ring. She put her hand over her mouth, stared at it for a few seconds, SHOOK HER HEAD, and ran off. I believe it was even on TV, but I can't remember.
The camera cut away real quick so we didn't see the guy upset.
Hey, Rob, congratulations!
/.ers know (or may know a bit of), the first year of my marriage was less than fun. My mom dies two weeks after we get hitched. Three and a half months later, *I* almost died! That, of course, is Slashdot history. I'm doing a LOT better now... :-)
;-D
;-) Keep the long term in mind, stay the course, 1000 points of light (pixels?), etc.
As many
In fact, my wife and I are expecting a little something...
Rob: My only advice to you is to love her, respect her, and, have fun! It will be a lot of work, quite possibly more work than you've ever done for anything in your life. Hopefully, things will go well, and you'll pull through the hard times. My investment banker always talks about having a "long term perspective". That's true for marriage as well as investing.
Good luck, and have fun!
- Jason, a.k.a.
-- haaz.
... they're all carrying it.
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:)
ZDNet: http://zdnet.com.com/2110-11-837844.html
Wired: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,50428,00
C|Net: http://news.com.com/2100-1023-837794.html
Keep the comments coming, people, this story's almost made the top ten.
got standards? --- http://www.w3.org/
Come on people, a thousand more posts and this will make the hof!
PS. What's so lame about a lot of exclamation points? I think they're called for here :)!
HAHAHA!! Thats amazing. I also caught the story on Wired earlier today.
Someday when I propose to somebody, I hope MSNBC will cover the story too.
Skiers and Riders -- http://www.snowjournal.com
Chris
So, is all of /. getting invited to the wedding? :)
On the whole, I find that I prefer Slashdot posts to twitter ones because I don't get limited to 140 chars before
He completely retyped it at least 15 times. :-)
[I rehearsed what I was going to say probably every ten minutes for about four months. On the bus. In the shower. In class. During exams. Etc. Etc. Etc.]
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Subject says it all. Congratulations Rob and Kathleen! And best wishes!
"I may not have morals, but I have standards."
All these great responses show that this site is worth it, hermano.
Congrats to both of yaz!
She sat at the window watching the evening invade the avenue.
I agree. That is the funniest post I've ever seen ever on Slashdot or anywhere else ever.
And someone said that to me once, about one of my posts. But it wasn't as funny as this.
Best wishes.
Make him act like a man, get down on one knee, profess his love for you and present you with a ring.
:)
I did something like this. I took My Lady to the Tearoom we'd gone to on our first date. We took a walk in the gardens, and when we returned the dozen roses I'd arranged for had arrived. The roses distracted her long enough for me to overcome my last second jitters and do the one-knee bit.
Twelve years later we *still* get mistaken for newlyweds.
Excellent, excellent proposal. Have a terrific life!
Congrats man
and what a way to do it...
The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. Shakespeare, Henry VI, Part 2, Act 4, Scene 2
Taco, takes major balls to do what you did today. This gives hope to nerds everywhere. Myself included. A toast to Rob and Kathleen, may they have many long years of happiness together
Think For Yourself. Question Authority.
I have nothing interesting to say. Certainly nothing interesting enough to top what you've done today. So just bask in the moment.
:)
Besides, at least you didn't ask her with an e-mail. That would have been low. This is just... well, sweet but embarrassing. But that'll be your problem tomorrow.
Oh, and congratulations to the pair of ya from MSBob
Your pizza just the way you ought to have it.
Well Rob, life is starting to get real now. Well wishes and advice have been heaped upon you to the sum of over 1500 messages now; most of what can be said has been said, so I will keep it brief.
There will be some majorly hairy fights the first year. Just remember that you love her, and that it's forever, and that no matter how mad you get you've got this person for the rest of your life.
It'll be good, it'll be bad, but mostly you'll get laid regularly.
- Rev.Serves me right for taking a day off work (where I read Slashdot every free minute I get! ;) ). Congrats Rob! Married life is so kewl. But one warning: Sex is a tool....her tool. Anytime she wants you to do something, anything, all she has to do is CUT OFF THE PUSSY! :) Once you do what she want you can have the pussy again! ;)
Gorkman
Hey this is a perfect excuse....you could record a episode of geeks in space as the wedding, and then you could post a ground control with everyone's well wishes being sent in. Oh and one make sme wonder: Do scomputer stores have registeries?? Heh heh. Congrats again!
Gorkman
I see that Kathleen has this mission statement posted on her site. To quote:
This is the same site, you will note, where she confirms that she said yes.
Well, at least she's sure to not forget her proposal. My better half was so overwhelmed that it's just a blank. She takes my word for it that she said "Yes!"
Congratulations to both of you!
-"Zow"
Another solution is to put your main computing location somewhere close to the main living spaces of the living room or the kitchen. In my case, our house is pretty small, and my station is actually in the corner of the kitchen. She cooks a lot (woohoo!) so we spend a lot of time in the same physical space that way.
If I lean over I can see the living room, and be face to face (20 feet away) with my S.O. who's reading or watching the boob tube or something.
So I can share her love/hate of beauty pageants without actually having to watch them :/
Resist the urge to put your computer in a separate room, and instead make it part of the central rooms of the household. It's worked great for me -- I'm online 4 hours every evening, but we're still in sight of each other and I can be right next to her in 5 seconds if necessary.
She cooked me filet mignon tonight ...
One simple rule for its versus it's
For future reference, try robots.cnn.com whenever CNN is down. Its the load-balancing server, and IIRC it held up pretty good.
I asked my fiancé at Michael Jordan's Steakhouse in Grand Central Station. I was able to pick a time of day (4:20 pm on a Saturday) where we would be alone in a booth in one of the most busy places on earth. We had a view of all Grand Central Station with noone withing 15 feet of us. Pretty cool to alone in a busy place.
Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.
If everyone was invited that would be the first real life slashdotting we could overload the freeways and the airports. Just hope none of the planes crash.
https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
And here's one of them together
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and good luck!
Will work for bandwidth
Kathleen and Rob, congradulations! Nice to know nerds can find love too :)
ANYway... it's nice to see so many people are interested in this... it's already in the top 5 number of posts. I wonder how high it will go...
--Paladin128
Lex orandi, lex credendi.
Get married at the next linuxworld in the Church of Emacs before Saint IGNUcius. A free wedding, where your vows should start with the Confession of the Faith : There is no system but GNU, There is no other from here on to death than you in my life.
yes, as indicated by the bananna icon, Kuro5in.org catagorized this as in the topic of "Funny" (and MLP, Mindless Link Propogation).
/.?
HERE's the article itself.
...not as popular as it is here (only 63 comments so far), but then again don't most k5'ers have a grudge against
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
I saw it.
Whatever happened to JonKatz?
And I had to be offsite all day today. Congratulations, you two! It's work, but it's sooooo worth it.
So, when are you expecting little ones?
Whatever happened to JonKatz?
"unlike X-files it had the balls to take something so perfectly MUNDANE like fastfood and make it so twisted, sinister and evil"
:)
What about the X-Files episode with the proboscis wielding kid working at the fast food place, that eats meat and the occasional late night customer?
Actually I seem to recall a lot of X-Files episodes dealing with mundane rural life. (Don't get me wrong, I like Buffy better
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
LOL.. touché. I would have to go with one from first season though... there's some real groaners. (And some real gems too, of course)
"Mind, as manifested by the capacity to make choices, is to some extent present in every electron." -Freeman Dyson
thats funny, I went to her site, and she didn't seem like a geek to me.
The catscan was funny, though.
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
you know taco has a harem, i mean come on... hes king geek
can't sleep slashdot will eat me
But, I just wanted to offer the same thing that's been said a million times already. Congratulations. Your site has been responsible for making my life better, and to see that your life will be batter makes me happy. Congratulations, and good luck.
Dozings.com -- Its kinda funny... If you're as crazy as me.
My best wishes and may your future togeather be happy.
[Science] is one of the very few things that raises human life a little above farce and gives it the grace of tragedy.
Rob,
You've never met me, and probably never will. I'm quite grateful for this source of information which is the proximate cause of at least $40,000 going straight into my pockets.
Good luck, and I wish you the best of happiness.
hanzie
********* sig: If you don't like the law, get filthy stinking rich, and buy a better one.
Someone wrote a perl script that posted tons of crap tp that story. Damn shame too, cuz it wasn't a bad book. (But certainly not worthy of HOF#1)
Reality has a liberal bias
First, let me say Mazel Tov. All the best for a happy life together.
Now, since I don't read Slashdot every day, I was fortunate to come across this story. I only found it through Rob's journal entry, which showed up as a message to me on the front page. Let this be a lesson... make slashdot editors your friend, and read their journal entries when they are posted.
Reality has a liberal bias
Dear Rob,
Thanks to the rather zealous readership you've attracted, I think we all have a good idea of who you're marrying, and what she looks like. Truly a beautiful woman, and a sharp mind, too. Congratulations are definitely in order!
You certainly had to expect this would generate a lot of traffic here, but who imagined the reaction from the press?!? I was amazed to see Wired cover it... and The Register, and MSNBC (posting the C-Net story), etc! Geez Rob, you're a public icon!
Now that things have settled a bit and your proposal "story" has risen to be well-seated in the Hall of Fame (currently #5, and close to being #4!)... allow me to review the coverage your proposal generated:
- Cupid's Bull's-Eye on Nerd Site
- Slashdot editor proposes on front page
- News for Nerds: Will you marry me? (Cnet) or the same thing on MSNBC
- Geek pops the question online (ZDnet)
- A Google search on "Kathleen Fent" turns up 77 hits -- The first two being your proposal and its' place in the Hall of Fame, and nearly all of the rest referring to your proposal!
My wife (who happens to be a redhead as well!) thinks the way you proposed was really sweet. She wants to steal Sushi, too... but that's something else entirely. Our congratulations on your engagement, and my wife and I wish the both of you a long, happy and healthy life together!The co-founder of the popular Slashdot website proposes to his girlfriend on Valentine's Day. One reader wonders if the marriage would be an open-source arrangement. By Michelle Delio.
"Valentine's Day special" 14 February 2002 4:22pm
"...America's great minds of today, teaching America's great minds of tomorrow. Poor bastards." -- A Beautiful Min
I believe it will be archieved and unpostable before then.
But don't let that stop you from trying !
It's not like you'll ever see a story like this on the front page of slashdot again !
Ms. Fent seems to fit the definition of geek, as does Taco, IMHO.
If you thought "Kernighan and Ritchie" when you read that then you are a nerd.
Look at the Hall of Fame. The stories above this one are all about Osama bin Laden. If you are not posting to the this story, then that means you support Osama bin Laden over Kathleen Fent.
Post to this thread now, so I won't have to report your name to Dick Cheney for incarceration at Guano Bay, Cuba.
Thanks, and with your help the scorge of terrorism will be eradicated from the HOF page once and forever.
New job, pay raises and promotions.
/. and following up on the knowlege.
/., it wouldn't have happened.
There's some extremely good information to be had by reading this site. My current salary is directly a result of reading
I went from inventory clerk to Unix admin to private consultant. Without
hanzie
********* sig: If you don't like the law, get filthy stinking rich, and buy a better one.
I proposed to my first wife at the premier of Star Trek: the Motion Picture. A large group of my geeky friends got together and bought tickets, and my then girl-friend flew to St. Louis from Columbus, Ohio, to see the movie with me. The lights dimmed, and I reached into my pocket and handed her a box of Cracker Jacks. She opened it, pulled out the prize, and it was a diamond ring.
In retrospect, this wasn't the best way to propose, because she spent the entire movie staring at the ring, and we had to go see the movie again. But, she still has the collage she made from the box, the prize wrapper, the TWA boarding pass, and a picture of the two of us.
Nothing for 6-digit uids?
Way back in 1995 when we got married, we put up wedding pictures online and it was so rare and unusual that People Magazine, Cosmopolitan Magazine and NetGuide Magazine all ran printed-on-paper stories about it! Now there are zillions of great wedding web pages, and no one bats an eyelash.
On the other hand, Rob's proposal is probably one of those "great Internet moments" that'll become part of the lore now.
*raises a glass* Congratulations and have a great adventure together!
-Mark
Many people have posted here in an attempt to defeat the Star Fraction story on the HOF. I would argue that posting crap to this discussion with the sole purpose of beating the SF story makes us as bad as the person who crapflooded that story in the first place. Slashdot should be a place for meaningful discussion of important technological and social issues. You disgrace this holy place, and our exalted leader Commander Taco, when you crapflood. ;-)
(Feel free to reply if you disagree
Reality has a liberal bias
Could it be me?
Remember, there were no nuclear weapons before women were allowed to vote.