There’s a new virus going around the match.com circuit, but you’d really have to be an idiotic horndog to pick it up. (You, my darling boys, may be horndogs, but you’re certainly not idiots.) According to this article I saw on Twitter today, there are some people sending out look-alike match.com emails with links to [...]
If A Hot Chick on Match.com Wants To Show You Her Sexy Video, It’s a Trick. Get an Axe.
9 Apr By 5 Comments
J’s Soapbox: Why The Pick-Up Artist Does More Harm Than Good
8 Apr By 19 Comments
Every now and then I tell someone that my job is to help geeks find love. Often, that’s when they ask me, “What, like the Pick-Up Artist?” What? No! The Pick-Up Artist is a TV series that has had two seasons, thus far, on VH1. The concept behind the show is that Mystery, a “seduction [...]
E’s Geek Obsession of the Moment: Learning Chinese
7 Apr By 14 Comments
This is a short, but funny story. I discovered the show Ni hao, Kai-lan on the TV channel Noggin while babysitting my friend’s five year old. Now I’ve decided that it would be fun to learn Chinese a couple words at a time. Why I decided watching a preschool TV show was going to be [...]
Why Are Girls Not Responding to My Dating Profile? Mabe ur spelin n grammers sux.
6 Apr By 17 Comments
Okay, guys. I gotta level with you here. I’ve seen this problem on enough dating profiles that it’s driving me nuts. USE SPELLING AND GRAMMAR CHECK! I cannot tell you how many perfectly intelligent, wonderfully sweet geek men have profiles that make the perfectly intelligent, wonderfully sweet geek girls want to tear their hair out.
When Worlds of Warcraft Collide: Should You Raid With Your Loved Ones?
2 Apr By 5 Comments
As I’ve mentioned before, I’ve got a pretty large family, and we’re all involved in various geek pursuits of some kind or another. Thus, it wasn’t really a surprise when I found out one of my sisters was interested in playing World of Warcraft. I have to say, though, I had a little bit of [...]
How To Overcome the Fear of Internet Dating
1 Apr By 14 Comments
(Today’s guest post is by Cherie Burbach, author of Internet Dating is not Like Ordering a Pizza.) Have you tried online dating yet? When I ask singles that question, I usually get a horrified look in return. I’ll tell you a secret, before I started Internet dating I was pretty unsure about it, too. I [...]
4 Ways To Speed Up D&D Combat
1 Apr By 11 Comments
I often hear the comment that combat takes too long to run in 4e, there is some truth to it. I’ve seen a lot of solutions involving tinkering with HP numbers or damage outputs. While those are perfectly valid, I think they are unnecessary. There are plenty of ways to speed up 4e combat without [...]
