# You know you are a geek couple when... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 15, 2005, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818 "2005-01-15T04:08:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/21 "2005-01-16T13:31:20Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > - Your wedding reception involved lightsabers…and/or actual sabers. Errr… in Spain (and I imagine Gibraltar… help, Martha!) many of the restaurants that specialize in wedding receptions give the newlyweds a big sword engraved with their names and the dates, to cut the cake with. It’s certainly prettier than your usual big old knife. So I guess here you should amend it to “the sword from your wedding is actually hanging on the wall, rather than a dark closet.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![velveeta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/13edae/32.png) [@velveeta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/velveeta)\ **Post date:** [January 16, 2005, 1:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/22 "2005-01-16T13:46:24Z")
You both play an online MMORPG. You stay home from work one day and level past your SO. SO refuses to speak to you for the rest of night. ---
**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/23 "2005-01-17T03:35:34Z")
- The guests at your wedding wore Medieval and Renaissance costume… …although you didn’t actually specify it on the invitations. uh-oh… 🙂 Distance from the telephone central office is seen as a valid criterion for house-selecting by both parties. An otherwise wonderful house is taken out of the running as it’s over 10,000 feet from the CO and thereby, unable to receive better than 2.5 megabit speed on DSL. The chosen house is 4,000 feet from a CO and gets 6 megabit service. ---
**Author:** ![emekthian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecae2f/32.png) [@emekthian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/emekthian)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/24 "2005-01-17T06:11:47Z")
> [@](#): > > You developed a conlang together so you could email at work without anyone knowing what you were saying. That’s romantic, but unrealistic. What happens when you get into an arguement over whether to make it a Semetic-style triconsonental language with clicks and no case system or a hypothetical PIE daughter language with split ergativity and lots of retroflexes? Not to mention the inevitable fight that leaves you not speaking to each other for days over whether to romanize /C/ as \ or \<š\>. ---
**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/25 "2005-01-17T06:55:51Z")
The first thing I though of when I saw the thread title was [this high school prom photo](http://www.imageupload.org//images/VebUsd.jpg). Disclaimer: it’s not mine. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 7:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/26 "2005-01-17T07:02:10Z")
…Neither of you have ever said, “They’re playing our song”. But you’ve both said, “They’re showing our Star Trek episode.” …For the sake of your marriage, neither of you will raise the issue of whether or not a prepared Batman could beat Superman. …You’ve called each other by screen names during sex. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/27 "2005-01-17T17:35:09Z")
You feel the need to define “love” at innapropriate junctures, instead of saying “yes”. You read a romantic list on the internet email your other half to ask if there _is_ an aleph-4[sup]\*[/sup] You popped the question with “If I were to ask you to marry me, would your answer the same as you are to this question? Haha! Got you there.” Indeed, there’s an aleph-infinity. And an aleph-aleph-infinity. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 6:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/28 "2005-01-17T18:44:37Z")
> [@Qadgop the Mercotan](#): > > Tonight it’ll be further delight at another italian restaurant known for Osso Buco, then out to the hot tub (the low tonight is supposed to be -10 F) while stargazing and discussing the Huygens findings on Titan. > > I am a lucky, lucky man. > > Geek love lasts! Osso buco in that area? It’s not Stephano’s, is it? My husband buys me computer/video game hardware for presents, even for Valentine’s Day. (Either that or kitchen gear, yay!) Three networked computers in our living room/dining room area. We panic when the net connection goes down, and immediately start troubleshooting. (I diagnosed a bad router the other night.) We bought the initial release of each RotK DVD when it came out, watched it, then bought each extended special edition and gave the original to our niece. We play City of Heroes together, and have taken to hanging out with another RL couple in-game. They’re cute geeks too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![FilmGeek](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@FilmGeek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FilmGeek)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/29 "2005-01-17T18:55:09Z")
We play World of Warcraft together. Our computer desks face each other so we can see while we play. ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/30 "2005-01-17T19:03:25Z")
…You’re both Engineers. …When describing materials you often use their atomic symbol or their elemental composition instead of their common names. (We use H2O2 instead of the cumbersome Hydrogen Peroxide.) This also helps with preventing mixups due to different native languages. …When telling your SO the weather you give the temps in both degrees Farenheight and Celcius. ---
**Author:** ![Clothahump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/51bf81/32.png) [@Clothahump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Clothahump)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/31 "2005-01-17T19:21:04Z")
Heh. SWMBO and I are ubergeeks. We both have a desktop. She has a laptop and a Palm, I have a Palm, so she’s ahead on technology points for the time being, but I’ve got knowledge and experience points 'cause I be a DBA and all that. The house is wireless, so the Teenaged Terror can get online with her laptop. When I get my own laptop, we will sit in the living room watching TV out of one eye and our screen with the other. True Geek Love 😃 ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/32 "2005-01-17T19:33:31Z")
> [@](#): > > **Madd Maxx** said: > …When describing materials you often use their atomic symbol or their elemental composition instead of their common names. (We use H2O2 instead of the cumbersome Hydrogen Peroxide.) I once asked an ex if he had any acetylsalicylic acid. He handed me the Bayer without asking a question. If you ask your SO ‘can I plug in here?’ and they don’t respond ‘What?’ If instead of playing Marco-Polo in the pool, you play Ping/Pong and sometimes the response is ‘Destination Net Unkown’. If you discuss on your mutual IRC channel where to go for dinner because talking outloud would disturb the melodic sounds of keyboard tapping… ---
**Author:** ![taxi78cab](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e47c2d/32.png) [@taxi78cab](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/taxi78cab)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/33 "2005-01-17T21:53:27Z")
If you were in [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=5729941#post5729941) thread and read > [@Stranger On A Train](#): > > I started to get confused with all the Xs and Ys floating around, like a particularly confusing algebra problem. :dubious: And I have a minor in mathematics. :o > > So, to sum up your story, your ex-girlfriend, whom we’ll call, mmm, **lambda** , is (presumably) sleeping with **Y** and “seeing” **X**. You (we’ll call you **delta** ) have been solicited for advice, but wisely, considering the particularly nasty calculus of the problem, declined to differentiate. Now you’re wondering if you should sum the function from **X** to **theta** and take the limit as it approaches **Y**. > > My advice: I think this tensor already has too many dimensions as it is. I don’t think you need to integrate yourself into it. Besides, many complex functions in the natural world have a way of collapsing into trivial solutions once all the parameters are discovered. Why complicate the topology with needless convolutions? As every set theory geek knows, you can’t create a Venn diagram with four circular domains. > > Don’t even get me started on strange attractors. Some things in life are just too messy for Boolean logic. ☹ > > Stranger and then immediately sent it to your SO. ---
**Author:** ![Shade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2bfe46/32.png) [@Shade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shade)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/34 "2005-01-17T22:04:48Z")
> [@Madd Maxx](#): > > …When telling your SO the weather you give the temps in both degrees Farenheight and Celcius. I think you mean “…give the temp in Kelvin” ---
**Author:** ![Madd\_Maxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Madd\_Maxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Madd_Maxx)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 10:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/35 "2005-01-17T22:14:46Z")
> [@Shade](#): > > I think you mean “…give the temp in Kelvin” I would but then she would say “Who?” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/36 "2005-01-17T22:23:16Z")
> [@catsix](#): > > If you ask your SO ‘can I plug in here?’ … …as foreplay. ---
**Author:** ![ouisey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/9fc29f/32.png) [@ouisey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ouisey)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/37 "2005-01-17T22:52:12Z")
Wow. And I felt bad last week when my SO and I held a conversation over instant messenger on our laptops while sitting side-by-side on the couch. ---
**Author:** ![scout1222](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/34f0e0/32.png) [@scout1222](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scout1222)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2005, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/38 "2005-01-17T23:05:14Z")
My SO sent me flowers for my birthday. The card read “You are the r0xx0r!” We both laughed. He’s got a light saber in his trunk. Should I be afraid? ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/39 "2005-01-20T01:40:05Z")
> [@Ferret Herder](#): > > Osso buco in that area? It’s not Stephano’s, is it? Well, Stefano’s, yes. Their smoked trout mousse appetizer was to die for, too. ---
**Author:** ![dangergene](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@dangergene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangergene)\ **Post date:** [January 20, 2005, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818/40 "2005-01-20T03:02:55Z")
> [@Jonathan Chance](#): > > **Used the ‘Star Wars Processional’ (the awards ceremony music at the end of Episode IV) for the wedding recessional…check** > Half the audience laughed and half looked confused.\*\* But did you have a Jedi escort precede the couple? Who later danced to YMCA with the groom for the entertainment of the audience? And did your father present you with your lightsaber to cut the cake? (and you comment that the blade ‘would be put in during post’ while cutting the cake -to the amusement of half the guests and confusion of the rest)? And did you use the Naboo ‘Celebration’ theme for the arrival of the food during the banquet? Or Meco’s Disco-Star Wars Theme(s) as background music during dinner? Or were your Bride and Groom voodoo-cake-dolls actually Playmobile figures? (with little guns to match their wedding attire) (which was actually a princess and a union soldier. (-his sideys that match my own)) and did you do the ‘yam seng’ wedding toast with Fanta (imported from Thailand for the event). 😃 The wife’s not a geek, but she tolerates my geekitudinousity (sometimes barely). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-know-you-are-a-geek-couple-when/284818.md?page=1)