How a Hacker Asks His Date To Formal

http://emily.willyougotoformalwithme.com/jud

by Judson • 16 years ago

25 19 16 years ago

emily.willyougotoformalwithme.com

Judson• 16 years ago

Thought this was slightly entertaining. But I can't recommend this method to anyone trying to impress a non-tech girl, or one that won't see it as slightly humorous.

Timothee2• 16 years ago

The non-tech girl will not be interested or impressed.

The tech girl will not be pleased to see her name can be changed to anything with a different URL.

Not a good plan!

jdoliner• 16 years ago

I beg to differ. I just found this little gem and asked out every single latent crush I have. All yeses every single one of them, I'm telling you guys it can't fail guys. Now this is going to a crazy formal :-/. I didn't really think about that while I was asking.

JacobAldridge• 16 years ago

And completely customisable for the rest of us - http://harmony.willyougotoformalwithme.com/jacob

(Would have been more romantic had it been created for a single lady. I'm glad you can change the asker's name as well, otherwise it was just a website optimised for one guy to cycle through an infinite number of rejections.)

bojiang• 16 years ago

I love that you can change the name. Way to optimize for the unknown!!

tlrobinson• 16 years ago

http://hello.willyougotoformalwithme.com/world

sachinag• 16 years ago

Ah, it doesn't work for compound names (like Mary Beth). Hyphens and underscores still come through. :(

ErrantX• 16 years ago

http://emily%20a.willyougotoformalwithme.com/jud

bmelton2• 16 years ago

I recently put together a (very) basic website for my wife, that allows me to put little 'thinking of you' cards on it for her to see. It's fairly rudimentary, but she loves it.

When I went to her office to take her out to lunch the other day, I was shocked to see that she had printed out each of the cards (basically business card format) and taped them to her wall.

I've been thinking of expanding the idea and allowing for logins (as it currently has zero backend code, just HTML for the page and JS/AJAX to see browse the archive), but thought it might be fairly one-off.

This has just changed my mind.

noonespecial• 16 years ago

Ooh! Give it a twitter @somethinorother listener and an auto-refresh tag so she can just leave it up and you can twitter a new message in anytime. Dammit, now I'm inspired too. Just when I thought I might get free time...

Timothee2• 16 years ago

And just a few days after Valentine's Day too ;-)

bmelton2• 16 years ago

It wouldn't work with the format it's in, as they're images, not text. I mean, they're mostly textual images, but they're images, just the same.

I've found it's actually done wonders for my Photoshop skills too, as it has taught me better use of typography, color theory, and (as I got bored with the simplistic format) more actual graphic design technique as I started incorporating backgrounds (some lifted from others, some hand-drawn) to them as well.

leelin• 16 years ago

Wow, this is one case where a hijacking URL shortener actually comes in handy... the non-hacker girl will think it's just for her!

andyn• 16 years ago

http://emily.willyougotoformalwithme.com/%3Cmarquee%3EWooo

Edit:

Which is probably a good thing.

eplanit• 16 years ago

Let's not confuse 'Hacker' with simply being a 'Geek'. I'd hate to improperly elevate one, or reduce the other. Static HTML?...maybe even the term 'Dork' is more appropriate.

setori88• 16 years ago

excuse my ignorance, but is a "Formal"?

arantius• 16 years ago

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_formal

Social event.

rphlx• 16 years ago

Bah. A real hacker would have used a .me domain, eliminating the .com

maxwin• 16 years ago

http://emily.willyougotodinnerwithme.com/max

How a Hacker Asks His Date To Formal

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