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We’re engaged!

The following is the text of an overlay box I've stuck on my site today, which should only appear for you once and only within the next day or two:

Please excuse this interruption in your regularly scheduled surfing.

Last night, in front of the Max & Erma's restaurant where we had our first date, I dropped to one knee, presented Miss Alexandra Asher Arnold with a ring, and asked her to marry me.

And, you know what...?

SHE SAID YES!

I am now the luckiest nerd in the universe.

I love you, Alexandra!

If you'd happen to like to see the box again while I've still got it on the site:
Click here to clear the shiny cookie.

This entry was written by l.m.orchard and posted on June 17, 2005 at 11:30 am and filed under Uncategorized. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Trackbacks are closed, but you can post a comment.

31 Comments

  1. Dougal Campbell
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 11:50 am | Permalink

    Congrats!

    She does know what she's getting into, right? :)

  2. l.m. orchard
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 11:58 am | Permalink

    Oddly enough, I think I've more than met my match. :)

    Here's an old LiveJournal post of mine, if it's any indication:

    http://www.livejournal.com/~deus_x/91013.html

  3. Buzz Andersen
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 12:14 pm | Permalink

    Ah--congratulations!

  4. Jason Clark
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 12:39 pm | Permalink

    Les, Alexandra - Congratulations, and Best Wishes!

  5. eoliTH
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 12:41 pm | Permalink

    Congratulations from Madrid, Spain!!

    Love's cool! :-)

    I love you Miriam!

  6. Simon Willison
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 12:48 pm | Permalink

    Did she have the old BBS files on a disk somewhere then?

    (From a comment on that LiveJournal post: "Dude. The last of a dying breed. Snag her quick. And if she has all her old bbs text files still on a disk somewhere... MARRY HER. ;D")

    Congratulations!

  7. Dorothea Salo
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 12:49 pm | Permalink

    Ah, nerd love. It's so geekily sweet.

    Congratulations, you two, and may you be very happy together.

  8. Bill
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 12:49 pm | Permalink

    Congratulations!

  9. jcwinnie
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 12:55 pm | Permalink

    You and whathisface, you know, the less handsome, movie actor... Anyway, congratulations!

    P.S. See where love can get ya!

  10. Mike McBride
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 1:06 pm | Permalink

    Congrats! I wish you both the best!

  11. Geof F. Morris
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 1:09 pm | Permalink

    Congratulations! :)

  12. Dan Dickinson
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 1:54 pm | Permalink

    Congrats to the both of you! :)

  13. Henning Koch
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 2:19 pm | Permalink

    Congratulations! And don't fuck it up :)

  14. Basil Crow
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 2:45 pm | Permalink

    Toldja geeks rule! Congratulations to you both.

  15. Dougal
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 3:11 pm | Permalink

    Ah, so she does know what she's getting into! Awesome :)

    Just to beat my own geeky chest a bit, back in college I started to write my own BBS system. On my Radio Shack Color Computer (1MHz 6809, 64K of RAM). With floppy disks (2 double-sided 5-1/4" 80-track drives, no HD). And a manually operated 300baud modem (I hacked auto-answer by running the ring signal to a joystick port). And I was basically writing my own customized file system to implement a fixed-size message queue that would automatically drop out the oldest messages. In BASIC.

    I was probably about 80% done before some other project distracted me from finishing it :)

  16. Edward Vielmetti
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 3:18 pm | Permalink

    Congratulations Les! Ed

  17. Roger Benningfield
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 3:26 pm | Permalink

    Congrats to both of you.

  18. Shelley
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 4:14 pm | Permalink

    I'll refrain from humming the Queen song under my breath while I send you both my felicitations and hopes for a long, happy, and, most importantly, fun life together.

  19. Jed
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 5:52 pm | Permalink

    Congratulations!

  20. Cyndy
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 6:14 pm | Permalink

    Congrats!

  21. Brian
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 6:35 pm | Permalink

    Rock on!

  22. Aristotle Pagaltzis
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 6:37 pm | Permalink

    Congratulations. :)

    May your union be successful and lasting.

  23. Lorenzo
    Posted June 17, 2005 at 7:48 pm | Permalink

    Congratulations!

    Well, I was just surfing in search of blosxom plugins, but when I saw the text box I couldn't help but smile :) But that's probably because I'm in love, too.

    (¡Te quiero, Pili!)

    Greetings from Spain ;)

  24. d.w.
    Posted June 18, 2005 at 9:00 am | Permalink

    Les, congratulations! I'm so happy for you. :)

  25. Don Park
    Posted June 20, 2005 at 12:07 am | Permalink

    Congratz! I don't quite remember how I proposed (definitely no kneeling) but I now regret having done more...cuz she bugs me about it still.

  26. AJ
    Posted June 20, 2005 at 8:56 am | Permalink

    Congratulations! As a newlywed myself (today is our two day anniversary), I can say from experience that being married is awesome to the max.

    Best wishes for a happy and healthy life together.

  27. Pete Prodoehl
    Posted June 20, 2005 at 2:13 pm | Permalink

    Hooray for you guys!

    All the best...

  28. Sunir
    Posted June 20, 2005 at 5:20 pm | Permalink

    Congratulations!

  29. Nick Shue
    Posted June 21, 2005 at 12:47 am | Permalink

    Congrats old man! Wish you both the best!!!

  30. Lee
    Posted June 21, 2005 at 4:06 pm | Permalink

    Congratulations!

    That's the first engagement announcement I've ever seen via RSS... and there I was thinking the day was out of suprises. :-)

  31. jcwinnie
    Posted June 24, 2005 at 7:49 am | Permalink

    First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Les pushing the little geeks to code in Python.

    "But, Dadddddd, Python is so... old-fashioned."

    (grin)

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