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Any Suggestions For a Meaningful Geeky Wedding Band?
mbutala writes "I am getting close to popping the question, and I've been racking my brain for an idea for a cool and unique wedding band. I've been thinking of contacting a company that can (possibly) fabricate a ring from pure Iridium (Ir) or a nearly pure alloy. It is the most corrosion-resistant metal known — it cannot be dissolved in aqua regia like gold or platinum. Iridium is extremely rare on Earth, and the high concentration of it at the K-T boundary in the Earth's crust is what suggests a meteor took out the dinosaurs. I am positive that the symbolism of the permanence of Iridium, the reminder that we are star-stuff, and the fact that the ring would be one-of-a-kind would really strike a chord with my girlfriend. It's a really geeky idea, so I thought I would run it past you all — what do you think? Any other ideas?"
Bucky Balls. Nothing says I love you like a ring made out of carcinogenic carbon nano tubes!
Now in less carcinogenic flavours!
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
If it's made out of Platinum-Iridium, you can make a wedding band which weighs exactly one kilogram.
Geeky wedding band? Weird Al!
...Huh? Wrong kind of band?
It's all about the Pentiums, baby.
If I mod you up, it doesn't necessarily mean I agree with what you've said, sorry.
Zircons are forever!
Don't get your question posted on /. immediately after a story about a man killing his wife
In Soviet Amerika the ballot boxes YOU!
I think they stand on their own .. hell just getting a band who is willing to cover their songs might do well enough ...
A charmonium ring would be pretty geeky and certainly impress the heck out of her. As the ground state of a charm and anticharm quark bound state, it is also amongst the most expensive materials on the planet, costing perhaps hundreds of millions of dollars and thousands of person-years to produce mere zeptomoles of the stuff. It not only has a nice moniker with the word "charm" in it, it is also a humble reminder we were once all part of a seething mass of quark-gluon plasma. Never mind the copious radiation that will be emitted as a ring-sized clump of the stuff rapidly decays on her finger. Ok, I'll shut up now. Iridium is definitely a good call.
i\hbar\dot{\psi}=\hat{H}\psi
That way, your wife can say, "It's very, very dense. Just like my husband."
But seriously - A fancy ring is totally worth it.
Mine is Palladium/Platinum split diagonally - looks mostly like silver but if you look closely you can see the brownish tint of palladium on one side. My wife thinks it's a symbol of how close we are (or something like that - I never listen to her anyway).
Yes, nothing says eternal love like something that caused one of largest losses of life the Earth has ever seen.
Tea and kung-fu. Life is good. Rising Phoenix
I had a friend years ago who had been married 9 times when we lost track of him. Each time, he would disappear for months at a time to Alaska in order to kill a grizzly bear from whose bones he would hand carve a wedding ring for his wife-to-be. After the 4th bear, it became pretty clear that his marriages were an excuse to go kill go bears. They were all crazy hippy chicks, but none of the wives seemed to find it any less romantic that they were (nth) to have received a hand-carved wedding ring from the bones of a bear killed by the bare hands of their man.
Go north, to Alaska . . . you know what you need to do.
No matter how strong the material is, it changes with time.
You should have understood the redundancy-reliability tradeoff.
Get your redundant array of inexpensive wedding bands now!
Colorless green Cthulhu waits dreaming furiously.
You can have mine.
I reserve the write to mangle english.
Dude, it's right there in the Silmarillion. What kind of geek are you, anyway?
I nominate this as the best advice ever posted on Slashdot.
Every woman dreams of the perfect "fairy princes" wedding. Even the ones that say otherwise have that dream. If you are in any way responsible for that dream not coming true, you will pay for it for the rest of your life. It's nearly impossible to pull off that kind of wedding. Just don't be the fool who screws it up.
My baby sisters wedding was screwed up by the bakery. They completely screwed up her wedding cake order and delivered a lovely green Irish derby cake.
My wedding was in a castle in Europe (Buda Castle, Budapest). The women in my family have yet to forgive me for outdoing them.
-- Will program for bandwidth
... and she gave me a Token Ring.
Honest.
Unlikely. You forget where you are.
I hate printers.
Their wedding bands are going to be made of unobtanium.
"the idea of having a back up ring is pure genius."
No it's not. Every time I tell people I've got problems due to not having a backup they call me an idiot, so it seems it's just common sense.
I hate printers.
Clearly parent isn't married. In the real world women expect you to read their mind or at least know perfectly and exactly what they like and want.
Please don't mod this funny. It's the sad, sad truth...
"Inability to hit the "S" key due to a missing finger? Not geeky."
The 'S' key is under the pinky...well, if you're a geek, anyway. Inability to hit the 'O' key is more like it.
The possibilities are simply endless.
I get resizing offers in my e-mail all the time.
SlashDot is up to almost a million for uid. Statistically, there's got to be at least 10 user's that are/were married at some point in their lives. Hell, I'll go out on a limb and say 15.
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
"hit the "S" key"
You wear your ring on the pinky finger of your right hand!?
Oh, QWERTY... Not geeky.
But the real question is, how many heads will your kids have?
Depends on how many kids we have.
I am a geek attorney, but not your geek attorney unless you've already retained me. This is not legal advice.
1. Find non-geek.
2. Do what they say.
3. No matter how much you doubt it, do what they say.
4. Step. Away. From. The. Tools.
Unless of course, she's a geek too. Then, show her the plans and don't be hurt when she wants to change them. You can even let her use the tools.
For all intensive purposes, "whom" is no longer a word. That begs the question, "who cares"?
The ring could always be upgraded with an additional core, a co-ring or a front-end ring to give the extra capacity required. Alternatively, they could run a copy of the ring on a virtual finger.
One final possibility is to switch the larger unit for a thinner client.
AT&ROFLMAO
There you are! That was a helluva night.. shame we never saw each other since. :(
>... My ring ran something like $99, so I can afford to have a backup living in my filing cabinet in case...
Did you see that people? /. IDs under 1000 have even backups for their wedding rings.
People with
Optimist.
I hate printers.
there are no women on internetz so you are lying!
yush
Just offer her the One Ring then.
Uhh...., but doesn't that deny jewellers, caterers, florists, hoteliers etc.. their opportunity to bless the wedding? If they aren't given their opportunity to transmute the soon-to-be-newlyweds' cash into future happiness, how will the marriage succeed?
Requiem for the American Dream
Also, keep in mind that fingers do get larger during the normal course of life, so you will need to resize it anyway at some point in the future.
Why resize the engagement ring? In marriage there are three rings:
Engagement Ring
Wedding Ring
Suffering
It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
You had me at Iridium.... *sob* You had me at Iridium!
> Most ring-related injuries are a result of the ring bending into the finger.
You ould liten to hat thi guy ha ti ay it' really important!
It also deters Superman from flying off with your wife
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beware he who would deny you access to information, for in his mind he dreams himself your master
Oh no, she's so much more than your average girl. She's at least three of them!
Or keep the ring for yourself and just give her a token ring.
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