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What to Get My Geek for Valentine's Day?
A reader writes "Help!!! I've been dating my geek for three months and I'm in a bit of a dilemma. So I thought I'd ask the men of Slashdot what they would want as a Valentine's Day gift. I'm looking for something out of the ordinary that will knock his socks off. Somthing clever, crafty and unique. The budget is $100. My geek's interests are typical geek fare, games, computers, music and gadgetry. So! You, men of Slashdot, tell me what you would want to recieve for Valentine's day and help me make my geek happy."
give him a blow job
stop calling him GEEK every other sentence. That's a start.
and get yourself some coded underwear.
Just don't get it backwards-- wear the 200 ones when you are gearing to go.
Dress as:
- Seven of Nine (Star Trek)
- Princess Leah (You know, the mini stuff)
What else? ohh...he might wanna have sex with you but our kind is used to rejection so it should be ok.
I'm sure most men here would just like a girlfriend at all.
Maybe you could get him some soap, a razor or decent clothes.
A room that is NOT in the basement would probably be good, too.
Sunlight is also a good possibility.
She asked what _her_ geek, who HAS a girl, would like. Not what YOU want so badly.
All geeks would love an Windows XP license or subscription to MSDN.
(I'm jealous and trying to break you up)
Roses are red
Violets are blue
All of my base
Are belong to you
Not even an iPod? Dude, they've got 40GB ones now.
Bow, nigger. h
Wait, you are actually suggesting that a non-geek figured out the user interface of Slashdot?? :)
I've had enough abrasive sigs. Kittens are cute and fuzzy.
Geeks also appreciate it when you dress up as Princess Leia in her slave outfit from Return of the Jedi.
I would also suggest a Leatherman
I don't know if that's such a great idea.
~jeff
Hot, wild monkey sex
Monkey sex? Pff, I'd rather just have an army of monkeys. With that I could take over the world and get sex whenever I wanted.
he is probably the guy that said blowjob
Heh the HTTP Panties Valenties Box is pretty funny. http://www.thinkgeek.com/interests/valentines/6796 /
Although they forgot some errors that would be equally amusing
402 "Payment Required"
405 "Method not Allowed"
411 "Length Required"
500 "Internal Server Error" (you know, for that time of the month)
503 "Service Unavailable"
If you've read this far I'm sure you can tell I'll be on my own for Valentine's Day. Fuck.
Now there's a thought... Slashdotting someone's girlfriend...
I decided to give up my chance to moderate this story because I couldn't find a -1 "Too Informative" mod for this.
Is it bad that I thought he was going to say linux?
Well there are only a limited number of ports to begin with and the administrator may very well have closed off at least one of them. After that you've got simple load-bearing issues as to how many users can be served simultaneously. The system doesn't scale particularly well on its own and you're likely to get a great number of dropped packets from clients even if the host is set to promiscuous.
A mirror or two can help, but not nearly enough to distribute the load. You'll need to get a whole server farm going just to be able to handle a moderate number of requests.
he has the thing most geeks want but cant get already.
Yeah...but it's been done. I broke up with my last girlfriend after I found out she served more requests than Apache.
Looks like somebody touched one of the renaissance man's nerves.
If you really care and your significant other is really a Geek,
a great gift is to let him know what you want him to get YOU on the holiday as well as where to eat.
How can YOU prevent the following conversation?
"Honey," (he begins ever so sweetly), "Where would you like dine?"
"Oh, I don't know dear, surprise me."
"But dear, my love of food means that there isn't a restaurant on planet earth that I don't like and you were so unhappy the fourth time Christmas week I took you to MickeyDee's, there was no lovin' for weeks after."
"Just pick a romantic place, OK?"
"Bunchkins, just name one or two or three you like, and I'll be more than happy to pick one."
(Tone at this point turns icy.) "That is NOT romantic. I want you to surprise me with a romantic choice."
"My love, when I surprised you on your birthday with a McFlurry and a hot McPie with a candle on top, I thought you would appreciate the originality. Instead, I obviously did something wrong when you threw it at me. Please just tell me what you would like."
"What I would like is for you to have a romantic thought. And since you want advice, make sure your gift is romantic, but not too flashy or ostentatious."
"Dearest, I am just too Geeky to translate the word 'romantic' into the most appropriate gift and dinner. I know you love me despite my geekiness. Couldn't you just give me a note with the details of what to get you and where to take you?"
"If you ever want affection even once in you life after the holiday, I suggest you drop this conversation now and do what you need to do."
Geek mutters under breath, "I should have slit my wrists a long time ago."
Live Long and Prosper - Thanks Leonard. You are missed.
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