What Are the Best Valentine's Day Stunts? 470
With the oh-so-dreaded Hallmark holiday on the horizon we are flooded with tips and tricks (mostly designed to sell us things our mates cannot live without) of how to please/capture/sedate the ones we care for. One writer even suggests ways to capture the interest of a geeky girl. That said, what are some of the crazier romantically inspired, geeky V-day stunts or activities that you or someone you know has executed to terrible success or failure?
They Mentioned treasure hunt on the list (Score:5, Interesting)
And I pulled off one of those a while ago. Actually its been like 2 years. Anyways. Yeah - its pretty easy to do, once you know your girl well enough to get her to play along - and a car definately helps. The idea is simple, place letters along a path, each one giving clues to the next one. Given todays technology, just about everyone has a web enabled phone, which lets you take things a bit further than just a hunt. I had converted the clues into binary... ascii values... Hex... knowing not to do anything complex like public key encryption, lol, but she can recognize what is what and can look it up if she needs help. She eventually made her way down the street to my car, the previous letter informed her to look under the trunk, where an envelope with a spare car key was taped up. She opened the car to find a subjective question of who would win in a fight, 2 raptors or a t-rex - in a very crowded jungle. (We'll leave that open to debate). One envelope said Raptors, and the other said T-rex. It didn't really have any bearing on the actual hunt, but it kind of goes along with this inside joke that we have. We personally think that -EVERYONE- secretly still loves dinosaurs, just when they get older they are too afraid to admit it. Anyways, so it leads her into this park where I'm sitting there, reading my book, with a nice picnic set up. We both agreed earlier that week that Peanut Butter and Jelly Sandwhiches are totally still delicious, it seems odd that you stop eating them completely as soon as you are out of junior high. So we had a picnic with sandwhiches.
Needless to say, she really enjoyed it. However, she told all of her friends, and her friends got jealous and razzed their boyfriends, and they all gave me guff the next time they saw me, saying it made them look bad.
I think I did OK for my geek girl (Score:3, Interesting)
I sent my geek girl a box of comic books, calligraphy and knitting supplies and a Supergirl camisole. Later in the week I'll gift her with Dragon Age Origins and Batman: Arkham Asylum through Steam, since I know she wants those games.
She lives a thousand miles away so we don't get to see each other very often, but I know she'll at least be happy with her box of geek goodies.
finger (Score:4, Interesting)
Boy, this takes me back to the past of the Internet without firewalls and Unix servers running with the regular services, including, finger [wikipedia.org], enabled. We were at different Universities and often talked using talk [wikipedia.org]...
But she was not online as much as myself, so I had to know, when to start the talk... The solution is obvious: execute finger every minute. If "on since" is detected in the output, write out a log-entry to a file. A separate instance of xbiff [wikipedia.org] was running to alert me, when that file was modified.
Nowadays various instant-messaging clients do this all for you, and even on Slashdot I have to provide Wikipedia links to describe things I'm talking about...
Dump'em before, patch it up after.... (Score:3, Interesting)
I've had more men dump me right before Valentines day and then try to fix thing afterward just to avoid the day all together. How's that for a Valentine's stunt. Lovely..... NOT.
Re:They Mentioned treasure hunt on the list (Score:5, Interesting)
Needless to say, she really enjoyed it. However, she told all of her friends, and her friends got jealous and razzed their boyfriends, and they all gave me guff the next time they saw me, saying it made them look bad.
This was my goal for every Valentines day. Don't worry about what she thinks, think about the story she will tell.
On February 13th, around 11:30 at night back in my college days, I got 3 rolls of ribbon and tied a bow around as many trees as I could between her dorm and her classes. I put a note under her door saying "Every time you see a bow, remember how much I love you".
Cheesy, I know. But, she was the talk of the college campus. Word got around that I tied the bows for her, and she felt like the most popular girl in school. That made her feel like a million bucks. Total cost? $15.
Her birth star... (Score:5, Interesting)
Here's a cheat sheet to help you select the right star: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nearest_bright_stars [wikipedia.org] and here's a site to help you locate the chosen star: http://www.heavens-above.com/ [heavens-above.com] (use the constellations page & the whole sky chart).
Next year, she'll be a year older, and it will be a different star. We sometimes do this on her birthday.
Re:None whatsoever (Score:3, Interesting)
You focus the rest of your post on the Big Romantic Stunt, but I think there's more to it than that. While seeing idealistic stunts in the name of love is part of the draw, there's also something to be said for the happily-ever-after ending. I've heard friends talk about big romantic gestures they've done for their significant others, and a good chunk of them are now broken up or divorced. The stunts are nice, but the ending where True Love blossoms is a very attractive and re-assuring part of the movie. I even know guys who watch romantic comedies from time to time because of this.
Re:Keep it simple (Score:3, Interesting)
My girlfriend is perverted enough that she would actually like that. I'm thinking maybe I'll hold a box labeled "A gift for your mouth" conspicuously near my crotch and make her open it, only to discover chocolates and a note "What did you expect? My Dick?"