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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
I couldn't possibly get first post on this? That would be an all-time honor!
What I'm listening to now on Pandora...
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!
A Cab? Where was Roblimo?
..for the love of all that is holy, - reduce the size of those JPEGs!
would have been 4 sharp, 'cept the cabbie bringing the bride got lost
Cabbie? You tight fisted git!
White tube socks with a TUX?!?!
It's not a vegas wedding without Elvis presiding over the ceremony :)
Seriously, wheres the html with thumbnails? Wheres the flash animation? Wheres the cheezy midi music?
But in all seriousness, congradulations CmdrTaco! I'll check out the pictures when the site is no longer slashdotted.
--Won't that be grand? Computers and the programs will start thinking and the people will stop. - Dr. Walter Gibbs
Based on the response to the initial announcement, I'm thinking it might be prudent to mirror the pictures. Anyone get them before the raging hordes incinerate the server?
>> the culmination of said event has happened
That was way, way, way more than I needed to know.
Well at least we dont have to wonder who's getting first post. ;]
Dear Taco,
Congratulations! We may not always agree with your opinions/story selection/spelling/etc, but none of that is important in the long run. Marriage is one of those things that's truly important, and today we unite to wish you and Kathleen a long and happy life together.
Love,
Slashdot
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How long till first kid ?
1 day
1 month
9 months
5 years
never
allready done
kid from who ? KidBoyNeal ?
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
It's a rare event when someone who visits Slashdot gets married!
Live long and be happy!
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Congratulations, you crazy kids! Best wishes!
And why would we tell you that anywhere but here? =)
Gee, maybe you should have made her walk and used the cab fare to upgrade your web server. ;)
Congratz you two...
-- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
Index of /~hemos/wedding
/. must be making enough to cover big bandwidth bills! :)
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darkrobatdinner.jpg 09-Dec-2002 05:04 756k
goonandkissthebride.mpg 09-Dec-2002 01:26 5.2M
kathleendowntheaisle.mpg 09-Dec-2002 01:22 3.0M
meditatingrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 01:00 1.1M
preweddingcasino.mpg 09-Dec-2002 00:35 5.2M
questionrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:51 892k
robdoeswaynenewton.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:56 1.4M
robinchapel.jpg 09-Dec-2002 01:18 863k
robthinkerpose.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:52 887k
robwantsu.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:51 903k
solarizedrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 01:00 1.3M
solarizerob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:58 1.3M
thoughtfulrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:58 1.3M
With those file sizes
Ever heard of compression or resizing images?!
rob does wayne newton.
Where's the photoshop contest going to be held at for these pictures? Fark?
...slashdotted! hehe
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I think we broke your wedding album. Sorry... We promise we won't slashdot it the next time this post appears.
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...
If you want to send postal congrats/bundt cake/fondue pots/yet more place mats, I've included the postal address.
No grits?
Congrats to the both of you,
~Chazzf
No statement is true, not even this one.
..there's hope for us!!!
Thank you Rob and god bless you and your family.
Looking for people to chat about multicopters, coding, music. skype: gtsiros
So we get a bunch of shots of Malda striking poses for the camera before the ceremony, but no pictures of the bride at all. There is a handheld shaky video taken as she walks down the aisle, but it's hard to see what she looks like. And in the other video (goonandkissthebride.mpg) we see the back of her head!
Isn't the bride supposed to be the focal point at a wedding? Shouldn't she at least get equal billing?
Come on, show us how beautiful she is!
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?
The good and new comes from no quarter where it is looked for, and is always something different from what is expected.
My congratulations to both of them and hope that /. and you will still be here to speak about grandsons and all the interesting things that ocurred since a few students decided to play news for nerds and stuff that matters.
If today's poll is any indication, perhaps tbere's some guilt goin' on there, boys?
Hmm?
congratulations! now go off into the wild and fork lots of child_processes... or not if that's not your bag.
Either way, we all wish you joy without end. And I'm sure your buds at blockstackers will forgive you for inviting so many guests to the reception-server and reducing it you a pile of smoking slashdot'ed slag. whoohoo!
"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
a chance to get back at slashdot editors and give them a taste of their own medicine.
melt malda's server to the ground!
----
i do not use drugs, i AM drugs -- Dali
Index of /~hemos/wedding
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darkrobatdinner.jpg 09-Dec-2002 05:04 756k
goonandkissthebride.mpg 09-Dec-2002 01:26 5.2M
kathleendowntheaisle.mpg 09-Dec-2002 01:22 3.0M
meditatingrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 01:00 1.1M
preweddingcasino.mpg 09-Dec-2002 00:35 5.2M
questionrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:51 892k
robdoeswaynenewton.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:56 1.4M
robinchapel.jpg 09-Dec-2002 01:18 863k
robthinkerpose.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:52 887k
robwantsu.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:51 903k
solarizedrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 01:00 1.3M
solarizerob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:58 1.3M
thoughtfulrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:58 1.3M
:-)
Try NetBSD... safe,straightforward,useful.
would have been 4 sharp, 'cept the cabbie bringing the bride got lost...
sure, i bet that why Kathleen *said* she was late...
on the next HBO taxicab confessions:
Kathleen: "Can we take the long way to the church, I still need some time to think about this..."
seriously though, congratulations...
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true." - Homer Simpson
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...
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.
Sent from your iPad.
So what if it is a "personal site"? Would you prefer a fully-automated newsbot like Google News, perhaps?
One of the reasons I've become hooked on Slashdot is the unpredictably "personal" nature of its editors. It's never knowing what's going to be on the homepage next that keeps me coming back.
I am proud to be a "subscriber"... $5 didn't hurt that much. I may send in another five-spot to help pay for the bandwidth overload this story appears to be generating!
Congratulations to the newlyweds, and keep the pictures coming! (sorry, but someone had to include that link...)
Stressed? Me? Of course not. Stress is what a rubber band feels before it breaks, silly.
T
---- It puts the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again. It does this whenever it's told.
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.
It hurts when I pee.
You can use the convenient online pregnancy calculator for this sort of thing.
Congrats you two!!! May you both find long lasting happiness together!!!
Congrats to you both, and best wished.
No relation to Happy Monkey
Cmdr and Mrs. Taco. Soon to follow, their children, Fish, Beef and Soft.
"I sat down beside her, said hello, offered to buy her a drink... and then natural selection reared its ugly head."
How terribly appropriate.
To bad I used up my mod points earlier today since there sure are a lot of these redundant congratulations post :)
Congratulations on your marriage Rob.
I appreciate the work you have been doing at Slashdot..I wish you and Kathleen a great marriage!
Regards,
Prem Kurian Philip
Is Pachelbel's Canon in D Major, a quite popular wedding theme.
/
Here is page full of midi versions for those who are interested:
http://www.ray.hutchings.dial.pipex.com/pachelbel
Congrats the the happy couple.
"TK-421, why aren't you at your post?"
REALLY FRIKKIN HUGE JPEGS....
;)
little tiny low res mpegs....
Someone really might have planned the photo section a little better.
But congratulations anyway, hope you have a wonderful life together.
-- There is no sig line, only Zuul.
Kathleen Fent marries YOU!
(Much love for Rob and Kathleen from the SlashTroll community, even if some can't say it)
Mirror 1: No movies
Mirror 2
Mirror 3
A Slashdotter and a female. What are the odds of that? And sex too? Scary stuff, this story.
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!
Hemos, Hemos, Hemos...
/.'d, would anyone be able to find it?
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
Congrats to the newlyweds!
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
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.
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
Quoting from a wise person...."Rob keep yourself on the bottom" not that way, but cherish your wife and love, esteem her, and look for her needs above your own.
Searching for Kathleen Fent on Google images gives just two pictures: One joystick, and a security lock. Could someone please explain the symbols?
To my defense when I started writing this post there were only 3 replies posted so far. To defend the nature of this comment. Just let those who give a little respect to the announcment a little breathing room. In contrast to all the trolls who just toss up thier pithy attempts at comedy. Marriage is a topic that deserves respect, so raise your glasses
I have great faith in fools; My friends call it self-confidence. Edgar Allan Poe 1809-1845
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
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)
WTF? Over?
I think there is a new Commander Taco, he should probably be called Lieutenant Commander Taco.
I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people. - Jack Handey
I know,
Does it count as a double post?
/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$/i
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
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So I guess this means its Command PinkTaco for the next few days eh? =^) At least someone is getting laid around here...
Congrats...
The Doormat
If you're not outraged, then you're not paying attention.
As one who fears he may be right behind you, I say congrats Rob. When did I get so fucking old? I remember pretty much every birthday until I turned 21, and now they're all just a blur. When I wake up tomorrow and am 50, I'm going to be really upset.
Every year during my review, I just pray the words "slashdot.org" aren't mentioned.
How does it feel to be given a taste of your own medicine, a.k.a slashdotting?
Do you think it's funny that not so big sites are driven down by your website users?
Do you think you can't do anything about it? Yes, you can.
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Slashdot gets slashdotted! I love it!
Congratulations, who caught the bouquet?
... whenever a text is transmitted, variation occurs. This is because human beings are careless, fallible, and occasiona
If everyone was invited, it would be the first real life slashdotting! We could've overloaded the freeways and the airports!
'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'
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."
Here's a mirror, while it lasts.
[%- PROCESS life -%]
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.
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.
:-)
Hmmm, one wonders how many nice shiney new toasters they have (possibly with onboard NIC's).
Somebody was also mentioning a collection of AOL CD's, perhaps we could a wedding donation. If I were rich, I'd send them a laptop or two, but I suppose that I will have to think up a suitably geeky-but-affordable present otherwise.
Geesh, couldn't you wait until after the Xmas season to hitch up... you'd get more loot that way anyhow
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
You, sir, have made my day! Very funny.
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
Dealing with those endless requests for grandchildren from your parents!
Congrats, Sir. Well done. *golf clap*
Boobies never hurt anyone. - Sherry Glaser.
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
I'll never forget that day. One of the sweetest proposals I've ever seen. Better than mine, which was over mac and cheese in front of the TV, with Frasier going. . .
You are not the customer.
You want him to work on his *wedding* night touching up images? Are you *heartless*?
May we never see th
But I think putting their real email address in a state where spammers can retrieve them easily was the wrong gift.
Disclamer - Opinion of Person
In keeping with Slashdot tradition, their second honeymoon will happen sometime later this evening. Expect this story to still be on the front page. ;)
Wah!
another leaves the fold of geekdom
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Man, I've just gotta say the AC hit you right between the eyes on that one.
A grin and a good-natured shrug would have sufficed. Best of luck in the obviously ensuing flamewar!
"So on one hand, honey is an amazingly sophisticated and efficient food source. On the other hand it's bee backwash."
you've been warned
Congrats Rob and Kathleen. Now we just have to await the announcement of your first kids. Maybe the first one should be named 'Linus' eh?
Seriously though, all joking aside, congratulations to you both and I wish you all the best of luck and happiness. Glad you two found each other.
[Something witty and intelligent should have appeared here.]
{Traicovn}
Why is the bride wearing white, and why is the groom wearing white socks?
BTW: This isn't a job for GIMP... mogrify does a really nice job of bulk translation...
Once you've saved the (massive) jpeg files, you can do the following: mogrify -resize 14.6666% *.jpg/ wedding/&"><IMG src="&">&</a><BR>_' > index.html
mkdir smaller
for i in *.mgk ; do mv $i smaller/${i%mgk}jpg ; done
cd smaller
ls | sed '%s_.*_<a href="http://spiderling.blockstackers.com/\~hemos
in the sed script, I'm using _ instead of / for obvious reasons (there are slashes all over the edit string). The result should be your own index with smaller pictures (you might want to change the 14.6666% to 33.333 or 50%......
I put the result on my ISPs personal web service
Larger versions (33%) of the pics are there too. Mogrify also seems to do a pretty good job of JPEG compression overall....
I leave it as an exercise for the reader to rotate the thinker image right side up (gotta get to work).
Feel free to make your own mirrors (not like it's my copyright...). I have no idea as to if/when Telus (my ISP) will cut off the page for bandwidth usage.. Hemos... PLEASE feel free to put a copy on your site.
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
or is "Mrs Taco" a touch unflattering..
Congratulations to both Tacos, and keep us posted on the cooking of any taclets
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
filter: +3. Hey, look! all the trolls went away!
Isn't that a bit early in the morning to be getting married?
Or perhaps it was really late into the night?
Congratulations from fellow geek from across the pond. :-)
Cheers!
The Official Steve Ballmer Webpage
For whatever reason, slashdot is putting space between 'hemos/' and 'wedding' in the sed string. You'll have to remove it manually.
OS Software is like love: The best way to make it grow is to give it away.
Malda marries YOU!!!! *ducks* *runs*
"Entropy is the bad-guy, and he is everywhere"
If anybody else wants to get married online (you must bn an American), we will soon be posting a proposition form on geek.is-a-geek (see sig for URL).
Fuck it
Here's to the couple!
CHEERS!
********* sig: If you don't like the law, get filthy stinking rich, and buy a better one.
... 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?
The Kruger Dunning explains most post on
eh... all they had to do was tell the cabbie that if s/he took them there straight there would be a $10.00 in it for them so they save some time...
Its a well known non-secret that for a cabbie to make any money in Las Vegas they have to charge at least $10.00 a fare.... Thats why they got the scenic route..
--
Time is on my side
(In best Helen Lovejoy voice possible) Think of the mailservers! Oh *please*, won't somebody think of the mailservers!
To make laws that man cannot, and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt.
--E.C. Stanton
Maybe we should give him the mad wife package as a gift:
1 set of earplugs when the man's hearing fails (hint in one ear out the other)
1 set of ear muffs to aide the ear plugs
1 foam pillow that never needs to be fluffed and remains comfortable all night.
1 extra thick blanket for those long cold nights on the couch in a dark wet basement.
1 years supply of free flowers in case of emergency for the times spent programming at the office late at night.
1 box of...well you can figure out the rest.
Congradulations CmdrTaco.
At the next eco-hypocrisy-meeting, count the private jets used to get to the meeting. Should be interesting to see that
I believe it was misspelled for legal reasons.
Why are they all just pictures of Rob sitting (or standing) around alone in some room?
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
*** Cool, congratulations to Mr and Mrs Taco!!! ***
/. sure DOES feel a bit like family. So this is a happy family event, and there is even the equivalent of drunken Angry Uncle Bob vandalizing the decoration in the background (read: the trolls) while the others celebrate... :-))
Man, at times like this
I'd actualy venture that rob has more looks then brains.
autopr0n is like, down and stuff.
Taco is on a duplicates spree!!!
[ hateful rant snipped ]
timothy, that was totally inappropriate.
-Bill
SlashSig Karma: Excellent (mostly affected by moderatio
Is this a first?
- sigs are for wimps.
4:11 am? How is that morning? It's not even noon yet!
Karma: Non-Heinous
Get over yourself dude. By putting the wedding stuff on here they're admitting that there's more that matters to 'nerds' than just technology.
There are practical reasons that we can not take an interest in everyone's wedding here, but it's nice to see that the subject got a teensy bit of attention anyway. Besides, it helps dispel the whole anti-social nerd image.
Get the point now? I think the bottom line here is that if you want to be the hard-bitten anti-social nerd that you pretend, then you ought not to be here anyway. Why socialize, even online, if you don't care? If you're that far gone, no one will notice anyway, so just who are you threatening with your I start to lose interest in Slashdot quote anyway? Get a grip..
Please mod this post only if you think others should/n't read this. I have enough ego^H^H^Hkarma. Thanks!
Happy Birthday everybody!
I was at the wedding myself and I'd have to say CowboyNeal really likes shrimp. Anyhoo congrats to Hemos and CmdrTaco for continuing the charade that is their heterosexuality.
PS: All jokes aside really congrats and I hope the marriage lasts longer then Slashdot's credibility.
The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education. - Paul Feyerabend
404 - Wedding not found ;^)
Congrats.
-bill!
recently married, as well!
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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They gave us their snail mail address. You remember what happened last time we got ahold of one of those. I wonder if Taco needs to get out of debt fast or refinance his home. Perhaps he needs a year's worth of cat food. #Grin#
In all serious, congrats Taco!
Hopefully it was more like a 503... and I can't imagine Malda would marry a girl without an integrated PDA/cell phone tucked away in her wedding dress somewhere, so there was probably a Retry-After header present too.
Many congrats to the happy couple... I'll look at the photos next week :-)
Two congratulations in order:
:)
Good luck Rob and Kathleen!
Second:
I think this is the first time I've seen a post containing a non-obscured Goatse link get +5. But it was a well deserved +5.
retrorocket.o not found, launch anyway?