What do you want for Valentine's Day?

[cousinlucky]

I was asked this question today by a female friend. She was taken aback when, without hesitation, I said I want a device that I could carry with me that would block cell phones from working within twenty feet of me.

She looked at me as though part of my mind had gone missing before she asked me why I felt that way. She drives a car and very seldom uses any public transportation. I, on the other hand, use public transportation every day.

I should tape record the loud, screeeching, inane, insane, and quite useless conversations loudly forced into my ears on the bus or ferry every single day and put them up on a website. www.a--holesandidiots.com

Do any of you ever get peeved at folks with cell phones??

[Dozer]

That would be a nifty gadget indeed.

Hmm... I want a beautiful, single, independently wealthy, geeky, gamer, hacker-type woman, to arrive in my general vicinity, randomly strike up conversation with me, and decide to take me out, only to fall in love, and do all the things that come with that, and live happily ever after.

Hey, you asked!

Actually, I want that regardless of what day it is. Winning the lottery would be nice too, but that has even less chance of happening, since i don't bother to play.

What WILL happen is, i will go to work as usual, be avoided by all the decent looking females throughout the day, during which I'll be saturated with self-loathing, because I'm not that rich, popular, hip/trendy/well-endowed, jock-guy, who "everygirl" wants... Instead, I'm the guy who girls have always avoided, and hence, have grown irreversibly socially awkward, and can't say what i need to say, to women I'm attracted to, due to fear of rejection or ridicule. And then I'll finally finish my work shift, go home, browse the web for a few, maybe watch some TV, maybe play some game, eat, shower, sleep, wake up tomorrow and do it all again, just like today, just like yesterday.

So i guess, what i REALLY want... is to do something i've never done on any of my past valentine's day... be someone's valentine.

Oh well, maybe next year.


p.s. - can o' worms, man... can o' worms.

[geese]

I got an e-mail from an online retailer that i usually but stuff from - "Show a little love with an Abit motherboard"

I had to show it to my wife.
I wouldn't mind getting a little love like that.

[Cabhan]

I remember reading some time back about a guy who developed and sold devices that do cell phone blocking (for the same reason you want one). I'm sure you can find them on Google.

Anywho, since I have no gf, it's a moot point as to what I'd want. Maybe to stop all these godforsaken "Buy her a diamond, otherwise it's obvious you don't love her." commercials?

[Farmer Mike]

I would very much like to have a cell phone jammer in my car. Every day I encounter other drivers driving way too slow and way too erratically. They always turn out to have a cell phone held to their ear and are driving one handed. Unfortunately, I think cell phone jammers are illegal in the U.S..

And Dozer, keep the faith. There are ladies out there who want a real guy and not some egotistical poseur. You may meet her when you least expect it.

[Themer]

I don't know, Part 15 of the FCC rules for communication systems states that:

1) This device may not cause harmful interference, and 2) This device must accept any interference received, including interference which may cause undesired operation.

In theory, it would break the first part, but the cell phones would have to comply with the second

[techieMoe]

That would be a nifty gadget indeed.

Hmm... I want a beautiful, single, independently wealthy, geeky, gamer, hacker-type woman...

You know, those kinds of women sound a lot better in theory than in practice. Trust me on this: you do not want a woman who's as interested in gaming and/or geekiness as you. It just doesn't work out the way you think it would.

[jayd512]

You know, those kinds of women sound a lot better in theory than in practice. Trust me on this: you do not want a woman who's as interested in gaming and/or geekiness as you. It just doesn't work out the way you think it would.

He's right. I been there. But now I got one that's into games as much as I am... but I got her beat when it comes to the techno/gizmo/geeky thing.

[ryokimball]

You know, those kinds of women sound a lot better in theory than in practice. Trust me on this: you do not want a woman who's as interested in gaming and/or geekiness as you. It just doesn't work out the way you think it would.

Just a point of interest, I have long been known as the techno-dweeb by pretty much everyone that spends a few seconds talking to me (even the lady that carpools with me to classes Monday and Friday). I can't say that I'm the worst --I have been known to put the control down to acknowledge someone's (or my own) existence every once in a while. However, my current girlfriend, who literally brings herself to tears over me not living closer, has very often spent the times we do have together playing on her DS or my Xbox, sometimes going out of her/our way to do so.

But I don't think that common interests are bad. I mean, I would love for a person to actually know what I'm talking about, like now I am obsessing over this theoretical portable computing platform I'm going to design and make (and maybe sell, if anyone's interested...) and I have found myself stammering off to complete strangers about it, because no one is competent enough to bounce ideas off of. I suppose everyone needs some level of "companionship," even if it's not the ideal relationship outside of this.
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Oh, and I wanna pony, and a Dodge Viper GTS-R twin-turbo w/ venom kit (midnight metallic blue with two white racing stripes), and a WHHOOOLE bunch of really cool electronic gismos!

[hazel]

Hmm... I want a beautiful, single, independently wealthy, geeky, gamer, hacker-type woman, to arrive in my general vicinity, randomly strike up conversation with me, and decide to take me out, only to fall in love, and do all the things that come with that, and live happily ever after.

Well, I'm not beautiful or wealthy and I don't play games, but I *am* single and some people consider me a geek because I love using software and do a bit of programming too. And I feel sorry for anyone that's lonely because it's not a problem I've ever suffered from. So happy Valentine's day, Dozer!