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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. 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.