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title: "We're engaged!"
date: 2005-06-17T11:30:33-04:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2005/06/17/were-engaged/
author: Les Orchard
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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:*
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Please excuse this interruption in your regularly scheduled surfing.
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<p>
Last night, in front of the Max &amp; 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. 
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<p> 
And, you know what...? 
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<h2>SHE SAID YES!</h2> 

<p> 
I am now the luckiest nerd in the universe. 
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<h2>I love you, Alexandra!</h2> 
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If you'd happen to like to see the box again while I've still got it on the site: 
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<a href="#" onclick="setCookie('shinyshown', 'no')">Click here to clear the shiny cookie.</a>
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                <a href="#comment-221090882" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-06-17T11:50:56">2005-06-17T11:50:56</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Congrats!

She *does* know what she's getting into, right? :)</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090883" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-06-17T11:58:48">2005-06-17T11:58:48</time></a>
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            <div class="content">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</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090884" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-06-17T12:14:52">2005-06-17T12:14:52</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Ah--congratulations!</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090886" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-06-17T12:39:50">2005-06-17T12:39:50</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Les, Alexandra - Congratulations, and Best Wishes!</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congratulations from Madrid, Spain!!

Love's cool! :-)

I love you Miriam!</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090888" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-06-17T12:48:29">2005-06-17T12:48:29</time></a>
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            <div class="content">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!</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090890" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-06-17T12:49:07">2005-06-17T12:49:07</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Ah, nerd love. It's so geekily sweet.

Congratulations, you two, and may you be very happy together.</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090891" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-06-17T12:49:24">2005-06-17T12:49:24</time></a>
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            <div class="content">Congratulations!</div>
            
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                <a href="#comment-221090893" class="permalink"><time datetime="2005-06-17T12:55:06">2005-06-17T12:55:06</time></a>
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            <div class="content">You and whathisface, you know, the less handsome, movie actor... Anyway, congratulations!

P.S. See where love can get ya!</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congrats! I wish you both the best!</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congratulations!  :)</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congrats to the both of you! :)</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congratulations! And don't fuck it up :)</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Toldja geeks rule! Congratulations to you both.</div>
            
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            <div class="content">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 :)</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congratulations Les!  Ed</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congrats to both of you.</div>
            
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            <div class="content">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.</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congratulations!</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congrats!</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Rock on!</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congratulations. :)

May your union be successful and lasting.</div>
            
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            <div class="content">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 ;)</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Les, congratulations!  I'm so happy for you. :)</div>
            
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            <div class="content">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.</div>
            
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            <div class="content">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.</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Hooray for you guys!

All the best...</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congratulations!</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congrats old man!  Wish you both the best!!!</div>
            
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            <div class="content">Congratulations!

That's the first engagement announcement I've ever seen via RSS... and there I was thinking the day was out of suprises. :-)</div>
            
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            <div class="content">First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes Les pushing the little geeks to code in Python.

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

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