Journal bethanie's Journal: Geeks: Rate Your Dates!! 15
You know, I was having a chat last night with my good friend coloth last night, who is currently doing the match.com thing. He was saying how he wish there was an on-line dating service where you could rate the people you meet. For e-mails, the range would run from -1 to +1, for phone calls -3 to +3, and actual face-to-face dates -5 to +5. And that's when it came to me: SlashDate!!
Following basically the same format as Match.com, it'll be an on-line dating service tailored specifically for geeks. And as for the male-to-female ratio "issue" -- well, we'll mirror the site on "futurebeauticians.com", OK?
Anyway. Here are some of the categories that you will be able to choose from to create your profile:
Hair color (choose one)
Following basically the same format as Match.com, it'll be an on-line dating service tailored specifically for geeks. And as for the male-to-female ratio "issue" -- well, we'll mirror the site on "futurebeauticians.com", OK?
Anyway. Here are some of the categories that you will be able to choose from to create your profile:
Hair color (choose one)
- black
- brown
- blonde
- red
- receding
- whatever color I had lying around last week
- don't own a mirror/can't tell in the reflection of my CRT
Body type (choose one)
- Slim/Slender
- Pencil-neck
- Some Hacker Flab
- Neck? What neck?
- Spare Tire
- Jabba the Hutt
Languages Known (select all that apply)
- English
- Korean
- Chinese
- Japanese
- Hindu
- Prolog
- Fortran
- Assembler
- Ada
- Lisp
- Perl
- Smalltalk
- Cobol
- Algol
- Forth
- Scheme
- Awk
- Logo
- Pascal
- C++
- C#
- C
- Java
- Delphi
- PostScript
- SQL
- APL
- Lex
- Yacc
Religion
- Agnostic
- Atheist
- Buddhist/Taoist
- Christian
- Hindu
- Muslism
- Jewish
- Druid
- Wiccan
- Pagan
- Jedi
- GPL
- BSD
- Windows
- Macintosh
Occupation
- Code Wrangler
- Hardware Geek
- Contract Hack
- Custodian at Internationally Renowned Tech School
- Card Counter
- Other Miscellaneous Technical
Drinking Behavior
- Teetotaler
- Party Hearty
- Life's Too Short to Drink Cheap Beer
- No Thanks, I Brew My Own
Relationship Status
- Married
- On hiatus until the restraining order expires
- Never had a girlfriend
- Never kissed a girl
- Never talked to a girl
- Built my own animatronic simulation
I would describe my sense of humor as:
- Monty Python
- Douglas Adams
- Trolling on Slashdot
When there's nothing on TV, I:
- Tune in to the 200 hours of recorded programming on my hacked TiVo
- Switch over to the closed-circuit feed from my ex-girlfriend's apartment
- frag
When it comes to work, I:
- I keep a standard 80-hour work week
- I should have a bed in my office
- I do have a bed in my office
- I do all my hacking on company time
- Work? Please see my resume at www.PleaseHireMe.com
When it comes to meeting a friend, I usually:
- pack heat
- bring a Mountain Dew with me to the computer
- am violating a restraining order
- use ICQ
My ideal match:
- is smart, funny, easy-going, and enjoys long walks on the beach
- is smart, funny, easy-going, and enjoys hacking the kernel
- knows their way around a Linux server
- frags with the best of them
- has a pulse, or can at least fake it
So here's the business plan:
- match up geeks with girls
- let them rate their encounters
- ???
- profit!
Or something like that. *grin* Contact me if you're interested in investing! I think this could be the most profitable venture since Napster!!
Hah! (Score:2)
Not a bad idea, but I think you need to insert a step between 2 and 3 before you start an open source project on sourceforge...
1. match up geeks with girls (by the way, humans only?)
2. Let them rate their encounters (no descriptions please, just on a scale of 1-5 or whatever)
3. ???
4. Profit!
Also, you need to institute some sort of Karma based moderation system so the geeks will have something to talk about when they are on the date!
Re:Hah! (Score:2)
amusing concept... (Score:2)
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Disclaimer (Score:2)
Though SlashDate does not turn away hackers, crackers, phreaks, quacks and even recovering Microsoft developers, no meatland violence is either implied or condoned. Virtual violence against or among SlashDaters is considered moderate flirtation, and is encouraged.
Start your engines, daters... RENDER!
10 words for you... (Score:1)
Nuf said...
Re:10 words for you... (Score:2)
Problem SOLVED!! Next?
Re:10 words for you... (Score:1)
And the Girl's Guide to Geek Guys is a classic. Never met a girl that lived by it though. The jocks still lead the game.
I tried to convert my girl.. I tried.... Oh, come one a girl that can install memory and uses Mozilla... *sniff* That is the girl that dumped me...
Re:10 words for you... (Score:2)
And YES the Girl's Guide IS a classic. BUT you are wrong -- some of us DO live by it!!!! Jocks? Blech. Never cared much for 'em. (Feeling was usually mutual, in any case.) Give me a smart guy who can "DO STUFF" (as my mother puts it) ANY day!!
Re:10 words for you... (Score:2)
They also tend to be "wallflowers" and painfully shy/awkward in RL social situations not having something to do with their geeky obsessions. This is a trait
Re:10 words for you... (Score:2)
Librarians: Does working in Knowledge Management count? (semi-check)
Various Language majors: Latin American Studies (Spanish, Portuguese & French [for just 1 year]) - (check!)
Sewing (check!)
Knitting & Needlepoint You missed one: Crochet (check!)
Hard to meet people (check!)
Hurrah for ces!! Great point!
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Oh, and no need to explain for your girlfriend -- we understand that you're doing the best you can -- no offense.
P.S. Really -- no offense. I just couldn't help playing with the words. Please forgive me. I'm sure she's a wonderful girl -- must be if she's got you, right?
Re:Bandwidth (Read: too much time) (Score:2)
Hey, I pay $9