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Me Oh Me Oh My, Malda Gets Married

For those of you who remember one of our most famous stories, the culmination of said event has happened. The team, plus other friends gathered in scenic Las Vegas this past weekend. The wedding happened on Sunday, 4:11 local time (would have been 4 sharp, 'cept the cabbie bringing the bride got lost). For those of you are nice, you can send congrats to Rob at wedding@malda.org or be a big meanie, like me, and send it to his regular address, like he has done to me. More detail below for other ways - and you can tell Kathleen what a mistake she's made *grin*. And pictures are found online, along with some video.

Wedding was held at the Excalibur Hotel, which was nice. If you want to send postal congrats/bundt cake/fondue pots/yet more place mats, I've included the postal address.

Rob and Kathleen Malda
PO Box 192
Dexter MI 48130-0192

76 of 450 comments (clear)

  1. *ponder* by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    This could be my chance to get rid of that never-before-used fondue set sitting in my basement.

    But then again, I bet CowboyNeal would appreciate it more!

  2. Cab? by billh · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Cab? Where was Roblimo?

  3. Please.. by Doomrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..for the love of all that is holy, - reduce the size of those JPEGs!

    1. Re:Please.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Damn, Hemos! Ever heard of The Gimp, Photoshop??? Resize that shiznit pronto, Tonto! Oh, and if you could rotate an image or two that might help that crick in my neck. ;)

      p.s. Congrats Taco!

      /. Wedding Plan:

      1. Fall in love
      2. ???
      3. Wedding!

    2. Re:Please.. by BiOFH · · Score: 5, Funny

      No shit!
      I mean... for fuck's sake this site goes on and on about Ogg compression and blah blah blah barf barf and we get these _huge_ JPEGs of Malda's wedding??? And don't be crying about loss, they're already grainy even at ludicrous size!

      What're ya thinkin man! ;)

      (but errrr I'm done bitching so 'congrats rob and kathleen!')

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      - I am made of meat.
    3. Re:Please.. by Doomrat · · Score: 5, Funny

      4. Children 5. PROFIT!

    4. Re:Please.. by jamis · · Score: 5, Funny

      And gotta love those mpg's burning up the bandwidth.

      goonandkissthebride.mpg 09-Dec-2002 01:26 5.2M

      Hmmm... I wonder about the double meaning here...

      go on and kiss the bride

      -or-

      goon kiss the bride

    5. Re:Please.. by gorilla · · Score: 5, Funny

      That's actually Taco's spelling of 'Groom'

    6. Re:Please.. by Bunji+X · · Score: 3, Funny

      I am not so worried about size, I am more worried about content.

      I mean: "robdoeswaynenewton.jpg". Still haven't found the guts to view that picture. ;)

      Congrats, guys!

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      The combined human population is enough to feed every living tiger for app. 28000 years.
    7. Re:Please.. by rat7307 · · Score: 4, Funny

      timothy did the grammar

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      Burma?
  4. bah! by RobertTaylor · · Score: 5, Funny

    would have been 4 sharp, 'cept the cabbie bringing the bride got lost

    Cabbie? You tight fisted git!

    1. Re:bah! by bwalling · · Score: 2, Funny

      would have been 4 sharp, 'cept the cabbie bringing the bride got lost

      Cabbie? You tight fisted git!


      No kidding! Had a cab pulled up to pick up my wife at our wedding, there would not have been a wedding!

    2. Re:bah! by Tackhead · · Score: 5, Funny
      > > > would have been 4 sharp, 'cept the cabbie bringing the bride got lost
      > > Cabbie? You tight fisted git!
      >
      > No kidding! Had a cab pulled up to pick up my wife at our wedding, there would not have been a wedding!

      So the wedding was at 411 because the bride was 404?

      And yeah, I don't blame your wife. I mean, if I was standing at the altar, about to get married, and my wife suddenly showed up in a cab, I'd probably get a big 403 from the both of 'em. (Unless I was in Utah, where that sorta thing goes on all the time. )

    3. Re:bah! by zodar · · Score: 2, Funny

      The reason they got lost? The Cabbie, of course, was 420.

      Congratulations, Rob and Kathleen.

  5. Congrats on the wedding, but... by little+alfalfa · · Score: 5, Funny

    White tube socks with a TUX?!?!

    1. Re:Congrats on the wedding, but... by TheGreenLantern · · Score: 5, Funny

      What are you talking about? What other color would socks be?

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      It hurts when I pee.
    2. Re:Congrats on the wedding, but... by daeley · · Score: 3, Funny

      You know, the darker color one wears with wingtips and plaid shorts. ;)

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      I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
  6. not a vegas wedding ... by WPIDalamar · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not a vegas wedding without Elvis presiding over the ceremony :)

  7. Great... by Anne_Nonymous · · Score: 5, Funny

    >> the culmination of said event has happened

    That was way, way, way more than I needed to know.

  8. Welp by iomud · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well at least we dont have to wonder who's getting first post. ;]

    1. Re:Welp by PrimeNumber · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just hope there is no need for the lameness filter.

  9. Rob Malda's Marriage: Huge Liberal Myth by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yes

  10. Obligatory poll by selderrr · · Score: 5, Funny

    How long till first kid ?

    1 day
    1 month
    9 months
    5 years
    never
    allready done
    kid from who ? KidBoyNeal ?

    1. Re:Obligatory poll by Ralph+Wiggam · · Score: 3, Funny

      7 months is a popular one.

      I worked with a guy that drove directly from the doctor's office to his girlfriend's mom's house to announce thier engagement and look up a
      caterer.

      -B

    2. Re:Obligatory poll by Captain+Large+Face · · Score: 3, Funny

      Don't forget:

      I don't know how to make children, you insensitive clod!

  11. Happy marrage day! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's a rare event when someone who visits Slashdot gets married!

    Live long and be happy!

    1. Re:Happy marrage day! by cperciva · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's a rare event when someone who visits Slashdot gets married

      Yes, but the editors don't actually visit Slashdot. That's why there are so many duplicate stories.

  12. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  13. Photoshop by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Where's the photoshop contest going to be held at for these pictures? Fark?

  14. So how does it feel to finally be... by BinBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...slashdotted! hehe

    1. Re:So how does it feel to finally be... by phrantic · · Score: 2, Funny

      The fashion police took one look at those socks and pulled the site down..

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  15. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Funny

    Comment removed based on user account deletion

  16. Oops... by OldStash · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think we broke your wedding album. Sorry... We promise we won't slashdot it the next time this post appears.

  17. Yay! by Thakandar2 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Congrats to Malda on the happiest day of his life, and my greatest sympathy for Kathleen during this trying time.

    Hey, it had to be said, I just posted it first...

  18. that means... by gTsiros · · Score: 3, Funny

    ..there's hope for us!!!
    Thank you Rob and god bless you and your family.

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  19. Who's ready to start stalking? by sam_handelman · · Score: 5, Funny

    The first person to drive the beautiful Mrs. Malda to file for a restraining order gets their name in a slashdot story.

    Or.... is that how Rob met his better half?

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    The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
  20. Re:Scariest Filename Ever by Nachtfalke · · Score: 3, Funny

    I thought that would be:
    goonandkissthebride.mpg
    which I first parsed as
    goon and kiss the bride. Dunno why...

  21. Re:Congratulations! by Otter · · Score: 4, Funny
    Geez, a "Congratulations!" post gets two instantaneous "Offtopic" mods? C'mon, Michael, get in the spirit of the event!

    I can't find a link to it, but my fondest CmdrTaco memory is his story "Hemos got married today at noon. I was in the wedding party." and the resulting posts: "Uh, Rob? If you were in a wedding party at noon, how did you manage to post that video card story at 11:50 am? I have a mental image of Hemos trying to shove you down the aisle while you're going 'Wait! AnandTech has benchmarks for the new GeForce!'"

    I think that's actually what Hemos had intended to link to when he referred to Rob posting his real address, as opposed to the proposal link I'm getting now.

  22. Slashdotted Wedding by Thakandar2 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Argh, the pages have already been slashdotted! So I guess I'll just picture the wedding in my head...

    I can see it now :

    The modded servers inside the cake explode
    The music board for the DJ was converted into a streaming Open Source Real Media media station
    Ogg vorbis formatted dance music only, with anime soundtracks providing the selection of music
    Jokes about imagining beowulf clusters of Natalie Portman bridesmaids
    The guests reading the proceeds into a live IRC stream
    And best of all: The wedding vows with spelling or grammatical errors intact...

    Got to love the idea of a slashdotted wedding...

  23. Re:I SAW ROB! by Em+Emalb · · Score: 5, Funny

    I sAw ROB tOo. Except when I saw hIM, my keyboard didn't PUT random CAPS IN the MSG.

    Yeah, I know your's were perfectly ok, but it looked funny, ya know?

    Hey Rob...congrats. Why would anyone want to send you email though is beyond me.

    I can see it now.
    mailto:malda@slashdot.org

    Hi Rob, It's Em. I just wanted to congratulate you on your wedding. Oh, you dont remember me? I'm user 452530?? Remember, I once got first post on that article about that thing? Remember? Oh. Well, congrats anyway.

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    Sent from your iPad.
  24. A Cab? by tommck · · Score: 3, Funny
    Hey... way to go all out for your new bride! Geez. I think my wife would have said "no" if she had to take a cab to the wedding!

    T

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    ---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.
  25. Coming soon to Slashdot by TheGreenLantern · · Score: 5, Funny

    A list of upcoming features:

    - Coordinated color schemes, heavy on earth tones and pastels. White is out as a background color this season, and those BSD colors have got to go.
    - New moderation options: +1 Sweet, +1 Thoughtful, +1 Caring, and -1 You Don't Smile Like That To Me Anymore.
    - A new built-in calendaring system with an auto-reminder app, featuring reminders for Valentines Day, Our First Date, and That Time You Said I Love You For No Reason.
    - Moderation will now include an "Express Your Feelings" textbox, where the moderator must explain and justify their moderation in 250 or more words before they are counted. All Moderations will still be subject to Meta-Moderation, which will itself include a "We Need to Talk" textbox for similar purpose.

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    It hurts when I pee.
    1. Re:Coming soon to Slashdot by Captain+Nitpick · · Score: 5, Funny
      - New moderation options: +1 Sweet, +1 Thoughtful, +1 Caring, and -1 You Don't Smile Like That To Me Anymore.

      On the plus side, we also finally get the -1 Wrong option so many of us have wanted. Unfortunately, it can only be applied by female readers to male posters, and cannot be overridden, even when the male is in fact right.

      --
      But then again, I could be wrong.
    2. Re:Coming soon to Slashdot by Mandi+Walls · · Score: 5, Funny
      ...and cannot be overridden, even when the male is in fact right.

      Which, of course, is never.

      Unless you wanna sleep on the couch...

      --mandi

    3. Re:Coming soon to Slashdot by Tim+Doran · · Score: 3, Funny

      C'mon... you're not married.

      If you are, it hasn't been long and there's much for you to learn, grasshopper.

      How's this enforced... sheesh. ;)

  26. Congrats to... by Alethes · · Score: 4, Funny

    Cmdr and Mrs. Taco. Soon to follow, their children, Fish, Beef and Soft.

  27. Re:What else is there to say? by bsharitt · · Score: 3, Funny

    To bad I used up my mod points earlier today since there sure are a lot of these redundant congratulations post :)

  28. Re:Please..Corrected statement. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Obviously someone who's never had kids. That should read.

    4-Children.
    5-Profit (Love my kids).
    6-Loss (Oh my GOD! My bank account).

  29. IN SOVIET RUSSIA by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Kathleen Fent marries YOU!

    (Much love for Rob and Kathleen from the SlashTroll community, even if some can't say it)

  30. Re:money to burn? by The-Perl-CD-Bookshel · · Score: 2, Funny

    and that's OK because it is your day. However, tommorow we expect thumbnails, 3 different resolutions/compressions, grayscale and ascii art renditions. Thanks!

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    I don't keep a lid on my coffee so when I walk around I look busy -me
  31. Re:CONGRATS!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    A Slashdotter and a female. What are the odds of that? And sex too? Scary stuff, this story.

  32. Freed from the Stone at Last!!! by Tsar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wedding was held at the Excalibur Hotel, which was nice.

    Those familiar with Arthurian legend will get a special chuckle out of that juxtaposition.

    Congratulations, Rob!

  33. philosophically speaking.... by pixelpusher220 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Hemos, Hemos, Hemos...

    You missed a golden chance to ask a question that's been plagueing mankind (ok well this mankind) for almost 10 minutes now.

    Post those pictures on Slashdot and you would get...

    If Slashdot gets /.'d, would anyone be able to find it?

    Congrats to the newlyweds!

    --
    People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people :-D
  34. Re:Please..Corrected statement. by Doomrat · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, it was meant to be read as:

    4-Children
    5-Sell Children
    6-PROFIT!

    but I thought it best to leave to people's own imaginations.

  35. Congratulations! by Xpilot · · Score: 5, Funny

    I know this is gonna get buried in a pile of similar comments, but congrats from me to Rob and Kathleen.

    Now CmdrTaco, I asked before and I asked again... how does one go about getting a girl to like geeks like us, let alone marry us?

    --
    "Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
  36. Images of Kathleen by sverrehu · · Score: 4, Funny

    Searching for Kathleen Fent on Google images gives just two pictures: One joystick, and a security lock. Could someone please explain the symbols?

  37. My Big Fat Geek Wedding by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny
    It's not a vegas wedding without Elvis presiding over the ceremony :)

    True, but... consider who these people are. It seems more appropriate if the vows went something like this:

    "Do you, Rob, take all Kathleen base?"

    "I do."

    "Do you, Kathleen, imagine a beowulf cluster of little Robs and Kathleens?"

    "I do."

    "No repeat after me.. with this token ring I thee wed..."

    --

    A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
    1. Re:My Big Fat Geek Wedding by Yohahn · · Score: 3, Funny

      No, that would be
      "With this tolken ring, I thee wed".

      Whee.. and to think..
      I, myself, am getting married in a month.....

      The walk of (mount) doom!

    2. Re:My Big Fat Geek Wedding by mstyne · · Score: 4, Funny

      and in the darkness bind them

      Kinky!

      --
      mstyne: real name, no gimmicks
  38. Re:Fuck these lame video clips.... by fataugie · · Score: 2, Funny

    For the humor challenged...this was meant to be a joke (I can see the Karma going up in smoke).

    Also, I am not gay! (not that there's anything wrong with that)

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    WTF? Over?

  39. After all this time... by Chexsum · · Score: 1, Funny

    Malda and Scully are married - congrats.

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    Pixels keep you awake!
  40. MS wins... by Espectr0 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that taco has gone propietary with this wife, he has sucumbed to microsoft and left the open source community (a.k.a other girls) alone

  41. heh by bilbobuggins · · Score: 5, Funny

    'but i HAVE to post pictures on the web!'
    'well ok, but at least make them ridiculously large and serve them off of a 486 in the closet, that way no one can actually _see_ them'
    'yes dear'
    ;)

  42. And in other news... by SupahVee · · Score: 4, Funny
    Blockstackers was taken offline for not paying their bandwidth bill after the royal slashdotting it received when 1Meg photo downloads reduced it to a pile of steaming silicon. Some likened the /.'ing of Blockstackers to act of eating one's own leg.


    Thinkgeek was also rumored to be entertaining the idea of geek-themed lingerie, with tacos on them.

    --
    "See, we plan ahead! That way, we never have to do anything now."
  43. C'Mon, do it up geek style! by DdJ · · Score: 3, Funny

    First, you have to make one of those iDVD-type DVDs of the wedding, with all sorts of footage and slide shows and all.

    Then, that DVD has to be pirated and released on the internet as a DivX rip.

  44. Congrats Cmdr and MrsTaco! by E-Rock-23 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Nothing much else to say, other than luck for the future, and try to keep it down to under three BabyTacos. If they all start "geek news" websites, the world's web servers would cower in fear...

    --
    Blog Prophyts - Right On, Man
  45. Re:I SAW ROB! by JabberWokky · · Score: 5, Funny
    Hey, I figure I'll toss out a congrats to both of them. I may have never met them, but between Geeks in Space and the various Blockstackers projects I can at least say I know a bit about Rob. So I'm posting this.

    I can imagine the conversation when they get back from their honeymoon:

    "Dear, look - 426 posts congratulating us." "Yes, and only six have that link".

    --
    Evan "First time I linked to there, and first time I've mentioned Rob and honeymoon in the same post. Coincidence? Hopefully. ;)"

    --
    "$30 for the One True Ring. $10 each additional ring!" -- JRR "Bob" Tolkien
  46. Is it just me.. by Hoonis · · Score: 3, Funny

    or is "Mrs Taco" a touch unflattering..

    Congratulations to both Tacos, and keep us posted on the cooking of any taclets

  47. happy days! by EngMedic · · Score: 2, Funny

    Dear Rob:
    As a present to you on your wedding, we, the Slashdot community as a whole, wish to give you this: the slashdotting of your pic/video server.
    love,
    The Gang

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    filter: +3. Hey, look! all the trolls went away!
  48. the question is.. by geekoid · · Score: 3, Funny

    ... is Rob her "first Post"? ;)
    Laugh its funny...well not so much for the bride, but ist funny for everyone else!

    So.. were there any hot grits on the wedding night?

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  49. Re: Your sig (Eternal Hosting) by referee · · Score: 2, Funny

    I believe it was misspelled for legal reasons.

  50. I'm predicting twins. by teamhasnoi · · Score: 3, Funny

    Taco is on a duplicates spree!!!

  51. Re:To Hemos and the whole /, team by ebbomega · · Score: 3, Funny

    You sure told them slashcomma types. =)

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    Karma: Non-Heinous
  52. WOW you slashdotted your own wedding! by Augusto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is this a first?

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    - sigs are for wimps.
  53. Wedding Registry? by bpfinn · · Score: 2, Funny
    Items from the wedding registry:
    • iMac
    • Itanium chip
    • XBox, PS2, Game Cube (Pick the one they don't own already)
    • Wheelbarrow full of Anime
    • Autographed photo of Linus
    • A Legitimate New York Times registration
  54. The next reality show! by jcsehak · · Score: 3, Funny

    Next on Slashvivor:

    Taco and Kathleen get in a tiff!
    Pudge uses Gimp on a Mac.
    CowboyNeal eats Cheesy Poofs...

    Show gets cancelled despite small cult following...

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