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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 :)
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
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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Index of /~hemos/wedding
/. must be making enough to cover big bandwidth bills! :)
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With those file sizes
Ever heard of compression or resizing images?!
...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...
..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.
If today's poll is any indication, perhaps tbere's some guilt goin' on there, boys?
Hmm?
I thought that would be:
goonandkissthebride.mpg
which I first parsed as
goon and kiss the bride. Dunno why...
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.
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.
Cmdr and Mrs. Taco. Soon to follow, their children, Fish, Beef and Soft.
To bad I used up my mod points earlier today since there sure are a lot of these redundant congratulations post :)
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
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
Searching for Kathleen Fent on Google images gives just two pictures: One joystick, and a security lock. Could someone please explain the symbols?
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
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
Open Source Java Web Forum with LDAP authentication
'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'
So, no, I don't feel any different about it.
Yeah, I'm that guy.
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."
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.
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
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
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
... 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
Taco is on a duplicates spree!!!
You sure told them slashcomma types. =)
Karma: Non-Heinous
Is this a first?
- sigs are for wimps.
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!
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Taco and Kathleen get in a tiff!
Pudge uses Gimp on a Mac.
CowboyNeal eats Cheesy Poofs...
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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!