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Geekiest Marriage Proposals Ever

Posted by samzenpus on from the got-the-valentine's-achievement dept.

carusoj writes "Just in time for Valentine's Day, here's a collection of marriage proposals done in true geek fashion — from hacked video games, to an iPhone app, to CmdrTaco's own 2002 proposal here on Slashdot."

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  1. Missing the hacked Ms. Pac-Man proposal by Gulthek · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The guy that did this was actually a co-worker of mine at the time. Pretty awesome.

    http://www.kotaku.com.au/2009/06/hacked-ms-pac-man-rom-wins-hand-in-marriage/

  2. Re:Putting the pressure on by DudeTheMath · · Score: 3, Interesting

    My wife recently turned 42 (she's a Douglas Adams fan, too). I put eight candles on her cake, and lit three of them: 00101010. She got it right away. Not bad for an English professor. I lost her, though, when I said she was my shining *.

    --
    You save only 59 seconds over 8 miles by going 75 instead of 65. Do you really have to pass that guy? Do the Math!
  3. Re:Putting the pressure on by Belial6 · · Score: 1, Interesting

    The problem I always see in those math formulas is that they leave out the stop lights as well as the odds of getting behind someone driving 30 miles per hour. The best, the slower drive can accomplish is keeping up if they are lucky. The faster driver on the other hand, has a chance at every light they hit to gain a couple of minutes over the slower driver. 8 miles is also very short difference. If you are only going 8 miles, it looks just as bad comparing 65 to 35. To get it right, one must also factor it over thousands of cars. Why? Because traffic doesn't scale linearly. The move from 55 to 65 for freeway speed limits has saved a lot more time than what DudeTheMath's signature would imply.

  4. Geocaching by blaster151 · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I proposed to my wife on a geocaching expedition. I'd set up a fictitious geocache location (with a box full of mementos and photos and special stuff pertaining to us) in a secluded forest clearing. I modified the latitude and longitude in the HTML on the geocaching site screen scrape in order to fool her into thinking it was a legitimate geocaching site like any other. We "found" the cache together; she opened it up and saw all of our stuff in there, including the ring box, and was floored. I got down on one knee and proposed.

    I thought it was somewhat geeky! But she liked it and it went well from there.