Kathy shows a little geek love.

My Ears Are Bleeding

Jezebel Genius

Today on Jezebel this article appeared and struck a cord of sticky truth with me. It's all too true that we worry too much about fitting an image or toning down our splintery bits so that we can stop offending and snag a mate. But we utterly fail. Every. Time. Even in the geek community we suffer from this plague of insecurity and constant attempts to morph into something "more acceptable". I can assure all of you, from my experience with geek coupling, that no matter how opinionated, bitchy, strange, fat, thin, weird you feel you are....there is a person out there who will love you that you in turn...will love back. Geeks are simply exceptionally quirky humans looking for other quirky humans and it doesn't matter if your ass is fat or you rant about sexism in LOTR.

Fact: A Jedi costume is flattering on any shape.

If you happen to get the rare douchebag variety geek with arrogant expectations that he deserves a super model just move on. There will be another sweet, intellectual pussy cat just around the corner who will think you are an intergalactic goddess. Just keep throwing those twelve sided di until you get the right partner for your quest.




For Chrissakes, There Is Nothing Wrong With You: A Dating Manifesto 

By Lindy West

 As modern ladies of marrying age, our trusty inadequacy paradigm has always gone something like this: "I'm too fat for the men I like." "I'm too ugly to get married." "I'm too old to find a guy." Blah blah blah, fart, repeat, dead (the lifecycle of the human woman). And lately, this other sort of protest-too-much inversion seems fashionable: "I'm too smart/too pretty/too successful/too interesting/too funny/too outspoken to bag a man!" No matter what or who we (hetero) women are, we are always too something for men. Isn't that just fucked? Because to be "too" something implies that there's a something else out there to aim for. But there isn't. IT'S A TRAP. We constantly frame ourselves as outsized or undersized from every angle—and we either use our inadequacies to punish ourselves (too fat! No cookie!), or wear them like some crazy cold-comfort security blanket (you're my real boyfriend, sarcasm!). So couldn't we just call bullshit on this entire idea and be, I don't know, people? People who don't exist "for" men? Whose lives aren't upended by the latest terrible "too"-ness we read about in Cosmo? Read the rest HERE.

Please, don't start.

SOG Nerd Coupling ALERT!

So I got another happy announcement today from a couple of geek boys who want to proudly fly they gay geek flags in celebration! I thank Corey and Tom for sharing and wish them all the best in the world. Dear Sweetongeeks, I had been a member of your site for a few months and was feeling discouraged about online dating and not paying much attention to my profile. One day I got a wink from Tom. He lived in another state so I was pretty skeptical about responding but I am so glad I took that chance. Here is is one year later and we are still together. I'm a pretty introverted person and finding another gay geek has been challenging. Thank you for making a site that is for us all. Tom and I have moved to be near one another and we couldn't be happier. Best, Corey

I would like to suck Mr. Moneyball's Cupcakes. Who wouldn't?

Sean Whalen ~ Dorothy 50 Years Later

Vote for SEAN!!! He was the talent and genius behind our SOG commercial!
He supports the geeks so please support him.  And no...he's not related to Steve Buscemi.

DOROTHY 50 YEARS LATER - watch more funny videos      

Just in Time for Valentines ~ Singles Night at the Playhouse!

Geek Singles Night New Jersey! 
February 11th @ 6pm -Midnight


Jesters Playhouse 
545 Tilton Road
 Northfield, NJ 08225



Here is the official Jesters Invite.
AS always : Be there AND be square!


Geeks are intelligent people that passionately pursue intellectual growth through obscure media or activities. Examples of geeks' pursuits include role playing games, comic books, and trading card games. Although these people have marketable skills in the workforce, geeks are often times shy and reserved about dating and romantic pursuits. Jester's Playhouse, the premier hobby and gaming store of South Jersey, is hosting a "Singles Night at the Playhouse" event in partnership with Sweet on Geeks.

The party begins with highly entertaining ice breaking games that promote social interaction. The featured games are Got'em, Flux, Munchkin, Jungle Speed, and Bacchus Banquet. Movies will be featured in the theater room running simultaneous to the games for those who enjoy a good film. The featured films of the evening are "Scott Pilgrim vs The World" and "Sixteen Candles". At nine thirty live performances from local bands will begin. The performing artists are Bootie and the Beast, Louchious, and The Clique. The evening's events wraps up with a DJ playing the latest hit songs and dance music from ten o'clock until midnight. Food and beverages will be available throughout the evening. Door prizes and gifts will be awarded throughout the night as well. Best of all "Singles Night at the Playhouse" is free to attend. Semi casual dress code will be enforced. Sneakers and sandals will not be permitted.

Brave New World Geek Singles Night AGAIN!!

Brave New World in Newhall, CA is at it again!  They were the original 

and remain the MASTERS!  We aren't official sponsors of that event but as always we send mad geeky love and support their way.   Our new friends at Jesters Playhouse are also about to jump in the Geek Singles Pool.  I bet BOTH nights will be spectacularly nerdy and filled with geeky delights.   It's East Coast Vs West Coast!  OMG we need hand signs cuz geek is gangsta!

I think the two events should Skype into each other.  Maybe some long distance love connections will be made.

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GE3K SINGLES NIGHT!

(Just like prom, only this time you're invited...)

 

Looking for love in Alderaan places? 

Needing some nerd in the neediest way?Wondering where all the good geeks have gone?? Welly, well, my pretties! Fear not!Your friends here @ The World can help!

                                                          IT'S GE3K SINGLES NIGHT!

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11TH

7 - 11PM

Featuring LIVE music  cuz the dead kind is such a drag....

Food! Fun! Games! Prizes! Raffles! And most importantly....People who get you. Like, *really* get you! Pssst....not single? Not a problem!!! Surely you have some single friends, yeah?? (And I am totally calling you Shirley from now on...) EVERYBODY is welcome, even if you're not particularly a geek, a nerd, or funny book fiend. We don't discriminate! So long as you're awesome, you're welcome HERE. $5 at the door will get you $5 to spend in the store. Neato!!! Be there AND be square!!!! 

                                                      Not sure this one's for you?

It's adorable how wrong you are! 

                                                                   Check this out:

I'll explain it all right about 6:47.

                                                   See you there! Tell your friends!!!  

Heads Up South Florida Geeks!

Want to represent SOG in a little blind date scenario for the Paul and Young Ron Show in Miami?
It sounds like FUN!!!  Email me at Joyce@sweetongeeks.com for deets right away.  You've not a moment to lose.

Sean Whalen ~ Apologies to Steve Buscemi

Apple is on Santa's Nice List

So we have a couple of tiny geeks in training who live in our house.  As I have mentioned before, we grew our family through international adoption and our babies are cute little elfish creatures, ages 2 and 4.  Now, our youngest has a significant vision impairment due to Albinism.  The iPad, which was already an MVP in this house, has become a real lifeline of learning for our little geekling.  Even at her tender age it has allowed her to experience and learn things visually in a way that works for her.   Many kids with visual issues have found the iPad to be a life-altering adaptive tool.  

Well, woe to the geek republic, my little girl dropped it.  It was in a Targus case but it landed hard on it's edge on the top of the table.  It wasn't a big fall but just hard enough and at the right angle to create a spider webbing across the glass.  

That night we packed up the collective and drove to the nearest Apple store, which is about an hour away.  I was totally prepared to pay whatever it took for a repair after we spent the whole day listening to a very upset little girl cry over the iPad being off limits.  We only allow her two short iPad sessions a day but once you say no to a toddler over something she had come to rely on....life can be HELLISH.

So there I was, sitting in the Apple Store, waiting for my genius with my little creature tucked in her stroller.  I was pacifying her with my iPhone and she was using it like a PRO.  Half the people in there looked at her with nerdy admiration (those are my peeps) the other half were various people who scowled at me for allowing my child to place a screen so close to her face.  I forgive them.  They just don't know that that is how she sees.  I still want to karate chop people in the throat from time to time but generally I stay calm.

Anyhoo, a manager came over to chat with me and she saw my little girl and I explained about her vision issues.   The manager, who had just returned from opening an Apple Store in Hong Kong, knew the province in China that my daughter is from, she understood not only the complications people with Albinism encounter in China but also the unique vision issues these kids have.  It was amazing to me.  Her interest, compassion and spirit were just wonderful.  :)  

She informed me that Apple makes it a priority to keep it's technology available to kids like mine and that she would be happy to replace our ipad2 for free.  I was stunned.  And overjoyed and a little verklempt.    I can never thank this person enough.  It was so generous and kind hearted.   To the rest of the world I'm just an ordinary mom with a cute blond kid who lets her baby place technology too close to her face.  This person saw past that with compassion and understanding.

Now, this is not the end of the story.   In my Apple-blissed state I left my wallet there.  I had no idea where I had left it, I just knew it was lost for two weeks now.  The only cards in it were a gift card and my insurance card because for some reason I put my debit in my pocket.   Yesterday we get an email from our health insurance company.  An Apple rep had found my wallet,  waited to see if I would come in to retrieve it and when I didn't they contacted my health insurance company and asked them to track me down and they did!  Again, shocked at the kindness and effort of everyone involved. 

Over the years I have spend a LOT of money on Mac products.  Yes, I will wait in line for a new release and if I ever met The Woz in a line I would likely spaz out, drop my iPhone and have to purchase another.  I am convinced that this is one company with it's moral compass still intact.  Now, I know that twenty other people will email me saying just the opposite. Blah blah blah.  

Thank you Apple for being so generous, making products that are bordering on magical and for employing such decent human beings!

Here is another story of how the iPad is transforming lives for children like mine.  

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/more-news/ipad-becomes-the-apple-of-hollys-eye/story-fn7x8me2-1226083773188

Nergasm Alert : Trailer for "The Hobbit"

Thanks Ana for the heads up on this!!!!

Part II of Epic Web Cam Failure

Also known as "The Case of the Mysterious Wine Cellar"

If you aren't up to speed on this situation see this Post.

For those of you who are here is the latest  still photo from our wayward webcam.  Nope, no naked, angry wine cellar sex yet.  YET.  But I am hoping for a holiday miracle.   Dear Santa.......

At least this time there is a face!
Blurry.
He has nice hair.
It's so shiny.  So wavy.  So perfectly groomed.
I bet he smells nice.
Who could he be?
Why do they almost never go in this wine cellar?
Is that a person behind him?

Best Amazon Review Ever

First...here is the product I was shopping for.  I'm a geek.  No question. 

Then, as if the product wasn't awesome enough on its own merit, I had to read all the reviews just to be sure when I came across this.   I <3 this person with all my <3

Renee and Scott! Another Happy Geek Couple!

Dear Joyce, 

When I read your email, I just had to share!  My husband and I got married on April 9, 2011, after dating for a little over two years.  Where did we meet?  Sweet On Geeks!  Scott wrote to me for the first time in October 2008.  We met on December 11, 2008, and the rest is history!  Thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!

Sincerely, 

Renee    :)

Dear Renee and Scott,

We wish to thank you from the bottom of our hearts for sharing this.  Every time we hear from a new happy couple it is a complete joy.  We wish you all the best this universe has to offer and thank you for helping to inspire the many geek singletons who are still looking for their Jedi match. 

Live long and love!

Joyce 

Epic Web Cam Security Failure

Ok, so a while back we had a small crime rash in our rural neck of the woods.  We responded by purchasing a webcam from a large, well trusted company and within a day realized it didn't have the night vision we needed to protect our property.  So we returned it.

So recently we started to get email alerts for motion detected on this camera that we no longer owned!   Apparently the company resold it and didn't delete our email that was attached to it when we created the online account which we can no longer access.  So we have gotten a fair number of pictures of a mysterious wine cellar.  Most benign....one questionable.   It's incredibly well stocked but not frequently visited so I don't think it's a restaurant.  However, it's incredibly big for a private collection.  I can't help but wonder whose it is.   I like to imagine it belongs to Steve Wozniak and that is his private chef and/or various staff.   I feel quite sure it is.

The irony is that this camera was placed in an attempt to INCREASE security.   Then it gets sent to me.  Then I post it to the internets as a warning to all of you!  (and because I'm a voyeur pig who is enjoying this all too much)

The decent thing to do would be to notify the company of this horrible lapse in security.  I will.  I will.
But first please, please, internet Gods....please let someone smoke a big fat doobie or have sex first.  Angry, secret, screw the boss, wine cellar sex.  Please.

I am never buying a stand alone webcam again.   How do I know this wasn't resold to me and someone has pictures of me naked on my couch, picking my nose while I watch Tosh.0 ?   It's disturbing....it's all just deeply disturbing.

Update: For those of you having a moral crisis over this situation....I emailed the maker of the camera.   Perhaps they don't read their emails.  Maybe they are too busy?  Unless I figure out who this is I might be getting these pictures forever (I hope).  :)

Ahh the Younglings

Cherese and Christopher ~ Another Geek Wedding!

Dear Sweet On Geeks:

Hello! My name is Cherese. I had been through a difficult divorce and was lonely. I really wanted to meet someone that I could share my love of books, science fiction and comic books with. I really wanted to meet someone who would appreciate me for me. I was disappointed by the traditional dating scene- blind dates, set ups by friends and *gasp* the club scene had become stale. Having grown bored and frustrated, I had almost decided to become a "cat lady."

One late August evening in 2007, I was visiting my grandmother after work. We saw the news story about Sweet On Geeks on ABC's "World News Tonight with Charles Gibson." I turned to my grandmother and said, "I'm going to join that web site and find my soul mate." She smiled and said, "But you aren't a geek." I laughed and replied, "You have to say that because you are my granny. I'm as geek as they come."

A few days later, I took a chance and created a profile. I began receiving emails and "winks" from some really interesting users. Then, on September 30, 2007, I received a "wink" from a user named Christopher, AKA "Raintree." I immediately took note because it was a Holy Hand Grenade from "Monty Python's "Holy Grail," one of my favorite movies. I decided to email him a reply.

Christopher and I began emailing each other regularly and soon, those emails turned to phone calls. We discovered that we were very similar intellectually and spiritually. We had so many things in common- including our birthdays, our hometown and even a mutual friend! I could hold conversations with Christopher that were interjected with "Star Wars" quotes and he didn't scoff. We became instant best friends! Soon, we decided to meet face. A two hour drive south for me and a two hour drive north for him and we met. The chemistry was instant! That was October 12, 2007.

Fast forward into the future...

I relocated and we spent the next couple of years falling in love and building a wonderful relationship. On September 10, 2011 at noon (Yes, 9/10/11 @12), Christopher and I were married in Cleveland, Ohio. My daughter, gave me away! We had a wonderful ceremony that was as unique and memorable as the way we met. My grandmother danced at our reception!

Having just celebrated our one month wedding anniversary and the fourth anniversary of the day we met, Christopher and I agreed that it was time that we shared our story. Thank you, Sweet On Geeks for creating a place where two people who, were often misunderstood or out on the fringe of the social scene, could have a place to meet just for them. When I created my profile, I said that I wanted to find, "...the dork of my dreams." Not only did I find my dream geek but, I found my best friend, my soul mate and the love of my life. Christopher and I are very happy and we are looking forward to our future together. Thank you so much for being that catalyst that lead us to one another.

Sincerely,
Cherese & Christopher 

Thank you Cherese and Christopher from the bottom of our hearts for sharing this.  Stories like yours help give life to the reality that online dating is a beautiful, romantic and effective option!!!   Give your granny a hug from me.  I have a special spot in my heart for Grans.   Congratulations!


Live long and love!
Joyce

King of the Nerds ~ Open Casting Call (this one is AWESOME)

Lewis and Booger! Together again and all is well with the cosmos.

These two (shivers with delight) will be the hosts of a new show called King of the Nerds. Brought to you by the producers of Mythbusters, The Amazing Race and Top Gear comes a new competition based television show embracing and celebrating passionate and INTELLECTUALLY SAVVY guys and girls 21-30 years old. Showcase your skills by competing on topics you already know and WIN BIG $$!!!

If you are in CA and in the vicinity of our friends at Brave New World Comics then stop by for their open casting call TODAY from 6-9pm! Meet the producers and pitch them your nerdly assets and get on the show! If you see the owners of Brave New World send them all our East coast geeky love. I think we need East coast West coast geek gang symbols and colors. It just feels appropriate.

OK so the reason this casting call is , IMHO, the bomb, the shizz and the bees knees is because 1) the producers are associated with some fantastic show.

B)the creator is of hard core nerd material and this is going to celebrate genius and expertise.

and) the clearly state that this will not be mocking but rather an Iron Geek of sorts.

Here is the remainder of the official flyer. If you go to the open call or contact the show to submit please make sure you mention SweetonGeeks because we will get mad love and shout outs for it and that helps geeks get laid everywhere.

OFFICIAL FLYER:

Are you passionate about:

ASTRONOMY, MATHEMATICS, PHYSICS, BIOLOGY, and CHEMISTRY?

Are you a super fan of STAR WARS, STAR TREK, GAMING?

Do you build ROBOTS and write APPS and PROGRAMS for fun?

Do you consider yourself a MAKER or DIY person?

Do you compile your own LINUX DISTROS?

Do you love everything SCI-FI?

Are you arduino proficient?

Can you count PI to 50 or more places?

Are you in MENSA?

While KING OF THE NERDS will be exciting and fun, with unique challenges geared toward specific "nerd" cultures, what it definitely will NOT be is a show that pokes fun at today's nerds and geeks. We are looking for the best of the best because we want to showcase, embrace and celebrate the specific talents of today's KING OF THE NERDS! We are here to reclaim, reinvent and re-define the word "NERD" to reflect the REAL nerd of today... the ASCENDANT NERD that is taking over the world!!

If you answered yes to any of the above, consider yourself a geek or nerd and are between the ages of 21-30, we want to meet you!

BE A PART OF A SHOW THAT DEFINES A NEW GENERATION OF NERD

HOSTED BY THE ORIGINAL UBER NERDS FROM “REVENGE OF THE NERDS”!

MUST BE INTELLECTUAL. MUST BE PASSIONATE. MUST BE READY TO WIN BIG$$!

EMAIL: KINGOFTHENERDSCASTING@GMAIL.COM

CODE WORD: SWEETONGEEKS for PRIORITY

Include your name, age, photo, contact info, and brief bio on what makes you today’s MOST INGENIOUS nerd!

I love these days......

Hello,
I just wanted to write a little message. I havent been on here in about 2 years. I met my now fiance on this site and weve been going strong for almost 2 years and we are getting married in a year and a half. Thank you so much to this site for giving me the opppotunity to meet him and hes also made me an even bigger geek! Thank you!!!
Crimson


Dear Crimson,
Congrats and how wonderful!  Thank you so much for sharing this and we wish you all the best.  Please send along those wedding pics as we would love to see them!

image from xaxy.com

GAWD I love days when people send us happy news. Thank you and our very best to you and your wonderful fiance!

Live long and love!
Joyce

DamselFly and Clovis

Hello Joyce! 

Mark and I met on Sweet on Geeks way back in Sept, 2008. It took me FOREVER to respond to him, because I was so busy at the time, but eventually I got around to it! If you or someone you know is a plane geek, you know or see from his handle, which has PDX in it, that PDX indicates that Mark was in Portland, OR, when we met. I was in Washington State. Mark sent me a message--an answer to two trivia items I posted in my profile about where my cats' geeky names came from. 

At the time, I was very much NOT interested in having a long-distance relationship and expressed that thought to him early on. He answered that he thought that was just fine, and that he still was interested in being friends. Reluctantly, I agreed... and there began the relationship with the most wonderful man I've ever known. I had to go to a conference down in Portland, in November, and we met for coffee. It turned into dinner, then drinks, then we shut the bar down, chatting! To this day, we laugh at the ending to that night, though--I got quite offended, thinking the date had not gone well when after hours together, he only offered me a stiff and awkward hug goodnight! Turns out, the desk person at the hotel I was staying was smirking at him, and he got all self-conscious! We became friends anyway, though, I stopped seeing anyone else in late November, and by December both of us wanted more than friends. By January 2009 (!), we were engaged and he moved to Washington. This even encouraged Mark's best friend to try online dating--although not being a geek, he went with another popular site. Within months, he, too, had found his sweetheart and they just got married in July 2011.

We had planned to get married that Christmas, but my job ended in June and things were really stressful for a while. I got a job offer to teach in Anchorage, AK, and after much discussion about the bad economy, we decided to take it! Just before we moved, though, I broke my arm. We decided to go anyway! We moved up to Alaska in September 2009 and Mark almost immediately found a computer networking job. Then, instead of a Christmas wedding, I had a Christmas surgery to repair my arm. Mark was there for me through thick and thin, and nursed me through everything. By the next summer I was well, and once again began making plans for a holiday wedding. We were married in December 2010, in Las Vegas. 22 people came from both sides of our families! It was a blast, and seeing Vegas at New Year's was awesome. We still live in Anchorage and are planning to remain there for a few years yet, at least until the economy improves down in the Lower 48. 

Damsel.fly, and ClovisPDX

Dear Damsel.Fly and ClovisPDX,

We love love LOVE your story so much!  Thank you for sharing it.  Every time a geek shares a love story.....a magical mushroom grows in Endor.  I went to college in Juneau and envy your amazingly brave move!   : ) Thank you again for being so open with your story of geek love.  I often get emails from people after we publish these saying how much they are appreciated.    Stay warm in the great white north and we wish you all the best in the world!

Love long and love!

Joyce 

Newsletter August 3, 2011 ~ Oh so much love.....

HELLO GEEKS!!!
Just a quick note to tell you about some amazing and wonderful developments. We've had several recent marriages and the site is crazy busy right now. First Varoujan and Allison....
Varoujan was one of our earliest members and is an amazing, brilliant man. He finally found his intergalactic princess in Miss Allison, who by all reports is also brilliant and amazing. We are all so happy for them and wish them all the very best in life! Congratulations from SOG!

Then we have Diana and Miguel whose geek love story has gone GLOBAL! They are the now famous, "Married by a Computer" couple and SOG is so happy to be able to say they met on our site! The story is that Miguel coded his own minister, "Reverend Bit", to officiate at their wedding. It just seemed appropriate in honor of the way they met, the importance of technology in their lives and in the spirit of their geek love to have a computer be a part of the ceremony. Their story hit the newswire last Sat. and it has been picked up all over the world. CNET, Gizmodo, CNN, MSNBC, and hundreds more. This morning I found it translated into Vietnamese. Geek love resonates globally. I think we are one of the few niches that knows no geographic or ethnic boundaries. We are our own race! The site is swarming with international geeks right now so if you haven't been back in a while, now is the perfect time to update your profile and check in. I hear Diana and Miguel are doing a morning show in Australia via skype. AMAZING and wonderful! Congrats to them both on their marriage and we wish them every happiness!

The same heartfelt congrats goes out to two other, slightly less public SweetonGeeks couples who tied the knot. First, Mike and Jasmine. They privately shared their wedding pics with me and I cried. It was stunning. Love, love, love them. Our other couple is Amanda and Mark who overcame the long distance internet dating thing and now live happily ever after in Alaska. I will share their story soon on the blog with pics! :) Geek love can overcome anything!

Not all of us are the shiny, gorgeous, perfect creatures you see on the Match commercials. Many of us are average, regular, ordinary but that doesn't mean that to the right person we won't be PERFECT! There is a lid for every pot or in our case....a dongle for every USB.

SweetonGeeks is your most trusted source for wookiee nookie and we are always here for you if you need help developing your profile, help with billing or any questions at all just email and an actual human will reply. Joyce@sweetongeeks.com
Don't forget to fan us when you can! :)
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Sweet-on-Geeks-Fanpage/245406343787

Joyce ~ Geek Yenta
http://www.sweetongeeks.com

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Another Geek Couple! My Drives are Hard With Happiness

First another couple met on Sweetongeeks and second check the story out on CNet! W00T! Good weekend.

Computer Conducts Couple's Wedding
by Chris Matyszczyk

If computers can create friends for you, why can't they create ministers?

This was the philosophical question that inspired Miguel Hanson, a Houston-based web developer and IT consultant as he contemplated his wedding.

As the Associated Press tells it, Hanson couldn't find an associate who would officiate at the betrothal to high school teacher Diana Wesley. So he said to himself: "Wait a minute, I am a Web developer and IT consultant. I am a Master of the Universe. One minister, coming up."

The first thought you might have if you were to create a virtual Man of God might be an appropriate name. How about Father Real-Time? Or the Bishop Apple? Hanson's choice was Rev. Bit.

So, at yesterday's ceremony, Rev. Bit was to greet the 30 or so guests, tell them a few stories about the happy couple, and then lead them through their "I do"'s.

I am delighted to report that Hanson is a geek with a sense of humor and not merely because he met his lovely bride on a site called "Sweet on Geeks" (motto: A Space Where Gray Matters.").

For he programmed Rev. Bit to declare at that most poignant moment during the ceremony when last objections may be raised: "If anyone here has anything to say that might change their minds or has any objections, they do not want to hear it and I will not recognize your objections since Miguel has programmed me to only recognize his commands."

You might be wondering how Rev. Bit knew when to pause so that the congregation could, well, say what it has to say. Hanson said that a little wireless mouse upon his person designed to keep the Virtual Reverend on the straight and narrow. (Should you be wondering about Hanson's full feelings about computer equipment, I believe this is his Web site. There is even a picture of him and his Diana.)

I am sure that you will join me in wishing this enterprising couple a wonderful marriage. I would suggest, however, that, should their marriage progress in that direction, a virtual midwife might be a little harder to design.

Read more: http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-20086035-71/computer-conducts-couples-wedding/#ixzz1Tk9VVMC0

Three Weddings and a Comic-Con!

Summer is a glorious time for geeks everywhere. Comic-con, outdoor LARPing without mittens, sunburns and best of all.....weddings with light sabers. We have had a rash of geek weddings and we are so proud to share a couple here.

Congratulations Varoujan and Allison!!

This light saber picture is one for the ages. The bride is glowing with intergalactic love. :)



More on the other couples later if I'm lucky enough to get pictures!

Geek Couples at Comic Con ~ It's a beautiful thing.

Happy Geek Pride Day

Happy Geek Pride Day

(aka Towel Day)

I'm certainly proud of my geek spirit.

I wonder what it smells like.

Probably a combination of stale farts, pizza pockets and that lovely smell a new Apple computer emits which will probably give me cancer in ten years.

I'm also incredibly proud of my geek man. His giant brain was so attractive that I abandoned my caveman pursuits for this quiet life of intelligent conversation and slightly

disturbing couple cosplay. (just kidding.maybe).

Ladies.....if you have yet to realize that the beefy guy who can build you a deck or has a motorcycle with a "no fat chicks" sticker is not life partner material I implore you to SNAP OUT OF IT!

Don't waste years (like I did) on men who think smart women are a myth and have no place except on their knees or in the kitchen. Find yourself a geek. A sweet, intelligent, grossly underestimated guy who will appreciate you for your intellect and be turned on by the fact you KNOW what "Towel Day" is in reference to. It will give him chub. You will be worshipped. THAT is the guy you will one day want to make little Ewoks with. Think about it.

NO wait....don't think about it. Quit wasting time and get your ass over to my website and sign up. e-Harmony is never going to create a compatibility section using criteria that includes fandom and obsessions so you are wasting your time there. Date within your species! On this day, our holiest of days, we should be celebrating one another. Happy Geek Pride Day people.

I love you just the way you are. Now go find someone to have sex with who also feels that way.

LLaP

Head She-Geek

Joyce (aka Phoenix)

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Chewbacca Bento Box

These noodles are a little chewie.

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Got Milk with the Beloved Sean Whalen