Me Oh Me Oh My, Malda Gets Married

For those of you who remember one of our most famous stories, the culmination of said event has happened. The team, plus other friends gathered in scenic Las Vegas this past weekend. The wedding happened on Sunday, 4:11 local time (would have been 4 sharp, 'cept the cabbie bringing the bride got lost). For those of you are nice, you can send congrats to Rob at [e-mail] or be a big meanie, like me, and send it to his regular address, like he has done to me. More detail below for other ways - and you can tell Kathleen what a mistake she's made *grin*. And pictures are found online, along with some video.

Wedding was held at the Excalibur Hotel, which was nice. If you want to send postal congrats/bundt cake/fondue pots/yet more place mats, I've included the postal address.

Rob and Kathleen Malda
PO Box 192
Dexter MI 48130-0192

Congratulations!

[Otter]

I couldn't possibly get first post on this? That would be an all-time honor!

Re:Congratulations!

[Otter]

Geez, a "Congratulations!" post gets two instantaneous "Offtopic" mods? C'mon, Michael, get in the spirit of the event!

I can't find a link to it, but my fondest CmdrTaco memory is his story "Hemos got married today at noon. I was in the wedding party." and the resulting posts: "Uh, Rob? If you were in a wedding party at noon, how did you manage to post that video card story at 11:50 am? I have a mental image of Hemos trying to shove you down the aisle while you're going 'Wait! AnandTech has benchmarks for the new GeForce!'"

I think that's actually what Hemos had intended to link to when he referred to Rob posting his real address, as opposed to the proposal link I'm getting now.

*ponder*

[Anonymous Coward]

This could be my chance to get rid of that never-before-used fondue set sitting in my basement.

But then again, I bet CowboyNeal would appreciate it more!

Cab?

[billh]

A Cab? Where was Roblimo?

Please..

[Doomrat]

..for the love of all that is holy, - reduce the size of those JPEGs!

Re:Please..

[Anonymous Coward]

Damn, Hemos! Ever heard of The Gimp, Photoshop??? Resize that shiznit pronto, Tonto! Oh, and if you could rotate an image or two that might help that crick in my neck. ;)

p.s. Congrats Taco!

/. Wedding Plan:

1. Fall in love
2. ???
3. Wedding!

Re:Please..

[Doomrat]

4. Children 5. PROFIT!

Re:Please..Corrected statement.

[Doomrat]

Well, it was meant to be read as:

4-Children
5-Sell Children
6-PROFIT!

but I thought it best to leave to people's own imaginations.

Re:Please..

[BiOFH]

No shit!
I mean... for fuck's sake this site goes on and on about Ogg compression and blah blah blah barf barf and we get these _huge_ JPEGs of Malda's wedding??? And don't be crying about loss, they're already grainy even at ludicrous size!

What're ya thinkin man! ;)

(but errrr I'm done bitching so 'congrats rob and kathleen!')

Re:Please..

[jamis]

And gotta love those mpg's burning up the bandwidth.

goonandkissthebride.mpg 09-Dec-2002 01:26 5.2M

Hmmm... I wonder about the double meaning here...

go on and kiss the bride

-or-

goon kiss the bride

Re:Please..

[gorilla]

That's actually Taco's spelling of 'Groom'

Re:Please..

[rat7307]

timothy did the grammar

Re:Please..

[Bunji X]

I am not so worried about size, I am more worried about content.

I mean: "robdoeswaynenewton.jpg". Still haven't found the guts to view that picture. ;)

Congrats, guys!

smaller pics

[Black Copter Control]

Grr... I did this for Hemos's wedding too.... It's silly that they can't do this themselves.

BTW: This isn't a job for GIMP... mogrify does a really nice job of bulk translation...

Once you've saved the (massive) jpeg files, you can do the following: mogrify -resize 14.6666% *.jpg
mkdir smaller
for i in *.mgk ; do mv $i smaller/${i%mgk}jpg ; done
cd smaller
ls | sed '%s_.*_<a href="http://spiderling.blockstackers.com/\~hemos/ wedding/&"><IMG src="&">&</a><BR>_' > index.html

in the sed script, I'm using _ instead of / for obvious reasons (there are slashes all over the edit string). The result should be your own index with smaller pictures (you might want to change the 14.6666% to 33.333 or 50%......

I put the result on my ISPs personal web service [telus.net]
Larger versions (33%) of the pics [telus.net] are there too. Mogrify also seems to do a pretty good job of JPEG compression overall....

I leave it as an exercise for the reader to rotate the thinker image right side up (gotta get to work).

Feel free to make your own mirrors (not like it's my copyright...). I have no idea as to if/when Telus [telus.net] (my ISP) will cut off the page for bandwidth usage.. Hemos... PLEASE feel free to put a copy on your site.

bah!

[RobertTaylor]

would have been 4 sharp, 'cept the cabbie bringing the bride got lost

Cabbie? You tight fisted git!

Re:bah!

[Tackhead]

> > > would have been 4 sharp, 'cept the cabbie bringing the bride got lost
> > Cabbie? You tight fisted git!
>
> No kidding! Had a cab pulled up to pick up my wife at our wedding, there would not have been a wedding!

So the wedding was at 411 because the bride was 404?

And yeah, I don't blame your wife. I mean, if I was standing at the altar, about to get married, and my wife suddenly showed up in a cab, I'd probably get a big 403 from the both of 'em. (Unless I was in Utah, where that sorta thing goes on all the time. )

Congrats on the wedding, but...

[little alfalfa]

White tube socks with a TUX?!?!

Re:Congrats on the wedding, but...

[TheGreenLantern]

What are you talking about? What other color would socks be?

Re:Congrats on the wedding, but...

[daeley]

You know, the darker color one wears with wingtips and plaid shorts. ;)

Re:Congrats on the wedding, but...

[Cire]

I'd have to agree here. Those things are horrible. Just horrible. ROB if you are reading this GET NEW SOCKS! Black. Blue. Something with a nice pattern. Anything.

Cire

not a vegas wedding ...

[WPIDalamar]

It's not a vegas wedding without Elvis presiding over the ceremony :)

My Big Fat Geek Wedding

[ackthpt]

It's not a vegas wedding without Elvis presiding over the ceremony :)

True, but... consider who these people are. It seems more appropriate if the vows went something like this:

"Do you, Rob, take all Kathleen base?"

"I do."

"Do you, Kathleen, imagine a beowulf cluster of little Robs and Kathleens?"

"I do."

"No repeat after me.. with this token ring I thee wed..."

Re:My Big Fat Geek Wedding

[Yohahn]

No, that would be
"With this tolken ring, I thee wed".

Whee.. and to think..
I, myself, am getting married in a month.....

The walk of (mount) doom!

Re:My Big Fat Geek Wedding

[mstyne]

and in the darkness bind them

Kinky!

This is a nerds online wedding gallery?

[Arcturax]

Seriously, wheres the html with thumbnails? Wheres the flash animation? Wheres the cheezy midi music?

But in all seriousness, congradulations CmdrTaco! I'll check out the pictures when the site is no longer slashdotted.

Mirror

[Cheeko]

Based on the response to the initial announcement, I'm thinking it might be prudent to mirror the pictures. Anyone get them before the raging hordes incinerate the server?

Great...

[Anne_Nonymous]

>> the culmination of said event has happened

That was way, way, way more than I needed to know.

Welp

[iomud]

Well at least we dont have to wonder who's getting first post. ;]

Re:Welp

[PrimeNumber]

Just hope there is no need for the lameness filter.

Congratulations!

[Anonymous Coward]

Dear Taco,

Congratulations! We may not always agree with your opinions/story selection/spelling/etc, but none of that is important in the long run. Marriage is one of those things that's truly important, and today we unite to wish you and Kathleen a long and happy life together.

Love,
Slashdot

Re:

[account_deleted]

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Obligatory poll

[selderrr]

How long till first kid ?

1 day
1 month
9 months
5 years
never
allready done
kid from who ? KidBoyNeal ?

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[account_deleted]

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You don't have to count on your fingers

[T1girl]

You can use the convenient online pregnancy calculator [mcw.edu] for this sort of thing.

Re:Obligatory poll

[Ralph Wiggam]

7 months is a popular one.

I worked with a guy that drove directly from the doctor's office to his girlfriend's mom's house to announce thier engagement and look up a
caterer.

-B

Re:Obligatory poll

[Captain Large Face]

Don't forget:

I don't know how to make children, you insensitive clod!

Happy marrage day!

[Anonymous Coward]

It's a rare event when someone who visits Slashdot gets married!

Live long and be happy!

Re:Happy marrage day!

[cperciva]

It's a rare event when someone who visits Slashdot gets married

Yes, but the editors don't actually visit Slashdot. That's why there are so many duplicate stories.

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[account_deleted]

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Re:I SAW ROB!

[Em Emalb]

I sAw ROB tOo. Except when I saw hIM, my keyboard didn't PUT random CAPS IN the MSG.

Yeah, I know your's were perfectly ok, but it looked funny, ya know?

Hey Rob...congrats. Why would anyone want to send you email though is beyond me.

I can see it now.
mailto:[e-mail]

Hi Rob, It's Em. I just wanted to congratulate you on your wedding. Oh, you dont remember me? I'm user 452530?? Remember, I once got first post on that article about that thing? Remember? Oh. Well, congrats anyway.

Re:I SAW ROB!

[JabberWokky]

Hey, I figure I'll toss out a congrats to both of them. I may have never met them, but between Geeks in Space and the various Blockstackers projects I can at least say I know a bit about Rob. So I'm posting this.

I can imagine the conversation when they get back from their honeymoon:

"Dear, look - 426 posts congratulating us." "Yes, and only six have that link [goatse.cx]".

--
Evan "First time I linked to there, and first time I've mentioned Rob and honeymoon in the same post. Coincidence? Hopefully. ;)"

Email?

[schlach]

Congratulations, you crazy kids! Best wishes!

And why would we tell you that anywhere but here? =)

Hmm..

[Loki_1929]

Gee, maybe you should have made her walk and used the cab fare to upgrade your web server. ;)

Congratz you two...

Congratulations!...

[Hard_Code]

...on all the extra spam you will now be receiving!

money to burn?

[RobertTaylor]

Index of /~hemos/wedding
Parent Directory 10-Dec-2002 02:00 -
darkrobatdinner.jpg 09-Dec-2002 05:04 756k
goonandkissthebride.mpg 09-Dec-2002 01:26 5.2M
kathleendowntheaisle.mpg 09-Dec-2002 01:22 3.0M
meditatingrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 01:00 1.1M
preweddingcasino.mpg 09-Dec-2002 00:35 5.2M
questionrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:51 892k
robdoeswaynenewton.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:56 1.4M
robinchapel.jpg 09-Dec-2002 01:18 863k
robthinkerpose.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:52 887k
robwantsu.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:51 903k
solarizedrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 01:00 1.3M
solarizerob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:58 1.3M
thoughtfulrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:58 1.3M

With those file sizes /. must be making enough to cover big bandwidth bills! :)

Ever heard of compression or resizing images?!

Re:money to burn?

[whiteranger99x]

Yeah really, i mean if you're gonna have pictures THAT big, at least have some of the BRIDE! :P
LOL ;)

Re:money to burn?

[Hemos]

Not when I was uploading directly from the camera... :)

Scariest Filename Ever

[mosch]

rob does wayne newton [blockstackers.com].

Re:Scariest Filename Ever

[Nachtfalke]

I thought that would be:
goonandkissthebride.mpg
which I first parsed as
goon and kiss the bride. Dunno why...

Photoshop

[Anonymous Coward]

Where's the photoshop contest going to be held at for these pictures? Fark?

So how does it feel to finally be...

[BinBoy]

...slashdotted! hehe

Oops...

[OldStash]

I think we broke your wedding album. Sorry... We promise we won't slashdot it the next time this post appears.

Yay!

[Thakandar2]

Congrats to Malda on the happiest day of his life, and my greatest sympathy for Kathleen during this trying time.

Hey, it had to be said, I just posted it first...

What?

[chazzf]

If you want to send postal congrats/bundt cake/fondue pots/yet more place mats, I've included the postal address.

No grits?

Congrats to the both of you,

~Chazzf

that means...

[gTsiros]

..there's hope for us!!!
Thank you Rob and god bless you and your family.

Where are the photos of the bride?

[delfstrom]

So we get a bunch of shots of Malda striking poses for the camera before the ceremony, but no pictures of the bride at all. There is a handheld shaky video taken as she walks down the aisle, but it's hard to see what she looks like. And in the other video (goonandkissthebride.mpg) we see the back of her head!

Isn't the bride supposed to be the focal point at a wedding? Shouldn't she at least get equal billing?

Come on, show us how beautiful she is!

Re:Where are the photos of the bride?

[Hemos]

Look at the videos. :)

Re:Where are the photos of the bride?

[delfstrom]

Hemos wrote:

Look at the videos. :)

And I quote myself from the original post:

There is a handheld shaky video taken as she walks down the aisle, but it's hard to see what she looks like. And in the other video (goonandkissthebride.mpg) we see the back of her head!

So, tell me again where I can see a portrait of the bride?

Re:Where are the photos of the bride?

[Anonymous Coward]

here [fent.net] you perv...
;-}

Who's ready to start stalking?

[sam_handelman]

The first person to drive the beautiful Mrs. Malda to file for a restraining order gets their name in a slashdot story.

Or.... is that how Rob met his better half?

Good Luck

[Ektanoor]

My congratulations to both of them and hope that /. and you will still be here to speak about grandsons and all the interesting things that ocurred since a few students decided to play news for nerds and stuff that matters.

I think the bachelor's party must have been fun.

[idiotnot]

If today's poll [slashdot.org] is any indication, perhaps tbere's some guilt goin' on there, boys?

Hmm?

congratulations Rob and Kathleen!

[digitalmuse]

congratulations! now go off into the wild and fork lots of child_processes... or not if that's not your bag.
Either way, we all wish you joy without end. And I'm sure your buds at blockstackers will forgive you for inviting so many guests to the reception-server and reducing it you a pile of smoking slashdot'ed slag. whoohoo!

finally!!

[r0b0t b0y]

a chance to get back at slashdot editors and give them a taste of their own medicine.

melt malda's server to the ground!

In case of Slashdotting...

[OrangeSpyderMan]

Index of /~hemos/wedding Parent Directory 10-Dec-2002 02:00 -
darkrobatdinner.jpg 09-Dec-2002 05:04 756k
goonandkissthebride.mpg 09-Dec-2002 01:26 5.2M
kathleendowntheaisle.mpg 09-Dec-2002 01:22 3.0M
meditatingrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 01:00 1.1M
preweddingcasino.mpg 09-Dec-2002 00:35 5.2M
questionrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:51 892k
robdoeswaynenewton.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:56 1.4M
robinchapel.jpg 09-Dec-2002 01:18 863k
robthinkerpose.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:52 887k
robwantsu.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:51 903k
solarizedrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 01:00 1.3M
solarizerob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:58 1.3M
thoughtfulrob.jpg 09-Dec-2002 00:58 1.3M


:-)

cabbie got lost...

[bje2]

would have been 4 sharp, 'cept the cabbie bringing the bride got lost...

sure, i bet that why Kathleen *said* she was late...

on the next HBO taxicab confessions:
Kathleen: "Can we take the long way to the church, I still need some time to think about this..."

seriously though, congratulations...

Slashdotted Wedding

[Thakandar2]

Argh, the pages have already been slashdotted! So I guess I'll just picture the wedding in my head...

I can see it now :

The modded servers inside the cake explode
The music board for the DJ was converted into a streaming Open Source Real Media media station
Ogg vorbis formatted dance music only, with anime soundtracks providing the selection of music
Jokes about imagining beowulf clusters of Natalie Portman bridesmaids
The guests reading the proceeds into a live IRC stream
And best of all: The wedding vows with spelling or grammatical errors intact...

Got to love the idea of a slashdotted wedding...

A Cab?

[tommck]

Hey... way to go all out for your new bride! Geez. I think my wife would have said "no" if she had to take a cab to the wedding!

T

Coming soon to Slashdot

[TheGreenLantern]

A list of upcoming features:

- Coordinated color schemes, heavy on earth tones and pastels. White is out as a background color this season, and those BSD colors have got to go.
- New moderation options: +1 Sweet, +1 Thoughtful, +1 Caring, and -1 You Don't Smile Like That To Me Anymore.
- A new built-in calendaring system with an auto-reminder app, featuring reminders for Valentines Day, Our First Date, and That Time You Said I Love You For No Reason.
- Moderation will now include an "Express Your Feelings" textbox, where the moderator must explain and justify their moderation in 250 or more words before they are counted. All Moderations will still be subject to Meta-Moderation, which will itself include a "We Need to Talk" textbox for similar purpose.

Re:Coming soon to Slashdot

[Captain Nitpick]

- New moderation options: +1 Sweet, +1 Thoughtful, +1 Caring, and -1 You Don't Smile Like That To Me Anymore.

On the plus side, we also finally get the -1 Wrong option so many of us have wanted. Unfortunately, it can only be applied by female readers to male posters, and cannot be overridden, even when the male is in fact right.

Re:Coming soon to Slashdot

[Mandi Walls]

...and cannot be overridden, even when the male is in fact right.

Which, of course, is never.

Unless you wanna sleep on the couch...

--mandi

Re:Coming soon to Slashdot

[Tim Doran]

C'mon... you're not married.

If you are, it hasn't been long and there's much for you to learn, grasshopper.

How's this enforced... sheesh. ;)

Congratulations, Rob and Kathleen!

[Craig Maloney]

Congrats you two!!! May you both find long lasting happiness together!!!

Congrats to...

[Alethes]

Cmdr and Mrs. Taco. Soon to follow, their children, Fish, Beef and Soft.

This hour's bottom of page quote...

[1WingedAngel]

"I sat down beside her, said hello, offered to buy her a drink... and then natural selection reared its ugly head."

How terribly appropriate.

Congratulations..wishes for a great married life!

[pkphilip]

Congratulations on your marriage Rob.

I appreciate the work you have been doing at Slashdot..I wish you and Kathleen a great marriage!

Regards,
Prem Kurian Philip

Three Picture/Movie Mirrors

[redink1]

As the link to the pictures and movies seems to be going slow (if that), here are three mirrors. Hopefully one will survive.

Mirror 1 [lycos.co.uk]: No movies

Mirror 2 [hypermart.net]

Mirror 3 [virtualave.net]

Freed from the Stone at Last!!!

[Tsar]

Wedding was held at the Excalibur Hotel, which was nice.

Those familiar with Arthurian legend will get a special chuckle out of that juxtaposition.

Congratulations, Rob!

philosophically speaking....

[pixelpusher220]

Hemos, Hemos, Hemos...

You missed a golden chance to ask a question that's been plagueing mankind (ok well this mankind) for almost 10 minutes now.

Post those pictures on Slashdot and you would get...

If Slashdot gets /.'d, would anyone be able to find it?

Congrats to the newlyweds!

Congratulations!

[Xpilot]

I know this is gonna get buried in a pile of similar comments, but congrats from me to Rob and Kathleen.

Now CmdrTaco, I asked before and I asked again... how does one go about getting a girl to like geeks like us, let alone marry us?

Images of Kathleen

[sverrehu]

Searching for Kathleen Fent on Google images gives just two pictures: One joystick, and a security lock. Could someone please explain the symbols?

Re:Images of Kathleen

[CmdrTaco]

She designs Slashdot's topic icons ;)

MS wins...

[Espectr0]

Now that taco has gone propietary with this wife, he has sucumbed to microsoft and left the open source community (a.k.a other girls) alone

heh

[bilbobuggins]

'but i HAVE to post pictures on the web!'
'well ok, but at least make them ridiculously large and serve them off of a 486 in the closet, that way no one can actually _see_ them'
'yes dear'
;)

And in other news...

[SupahVee]

Blockstackers was taken offline for not paying their bandwidth bill after the royal slashdotting it received when 1Meg photo downloads reduced it to a pile of steaming silicon. Some likened the /.'ing of Blockstackers to act of eating one's own leg.

Thinkgeek was also rumored to be entertaining the idea of geek-themed lingerie, with tacos on them.

C'Mon, do it up geek style!

[DdJ]

First, you have to make one of those iDVD-type DVDs of the wedding, with all sorts of footage and slide shows and all.

Then, that DVD has to be pirated and released on the internet as a DivX rip.

Congrats Cmdr and MrsTaco!

[E-Rock-23]

Nothing much else to say, other than luck for the future, and try to keep it down to under three BabyTacos. If they all start "geek news" websites, the world's web servers would cower in fear...

Is it just me..

[Hoonis]

or is "Mrs Taco" a touch unflattering..

Congratulations to both Tacos, and keep us posted on the cooking of any taclets

the question is..

[geekoid]

... is Rob her "first Post"? ;)
Laugh its funny...well not so much for the bride, but ist funny for everyone else!

So.. were there any hot grits on the wedding night?

I'm predicting twins.

[teamhasnoi]

Taco is on a duplicates spree!!!

WOW you slashdotted your own wedding!

[Augusto]

Is this a first?

The next reality show!

[jcsehak]

Next on Slashvivor:

Taco and Kathleen get in a tiff!
Pudge uses Gimp on a Mac.
CowboyNeal eats Cheesy Poofs...

Show gets cancelled despite small cult following...

Uh oh...

[DCowern]

They gave us their snail mail address. You remember what happened last time [slashdot.org] we got ahold [slashdot.org]of one of those. I wonder if Taco needs to get out of debt fast or refinance his home. Perhaps he needs a year's worth of cat food. #Grin#

In all serious, congrats Taco!

So what if it is?

[RobertB-DC]

So what if it is a "personal site"? Would you prefer a fully-automated newsbot like Google News [google.com], perhaps?

One of the reasons I've become hooked on Slashdot is the unpredictably "personal" nature of its editors. It's never knowing what's going to be on the homepage next that keeps me coming back.

I am proud to be a "subscriber"... $5 didn't hurt that much. I may send in another five-spot to help pay for the bandwidth overload this story appears to be generating!

Congratulations to the newlyweds, and keep the pictures [fent.net] coming! (sorry, but someone had to include that link...)

Re:I don't want to be a big meanie!

[ScuzzMonkey]

Congrats to you both, and best wished.

Re:What else is there to say?

[bsharitt]

To bad I used up my mod points earlier today since there sure are a lot of these redundant congratulations post :)

IN SOVIET RUSSIA

[Anonymous Coward]

Kathleen Fent marries YOU!

(Much love for Rob and Kathleen from the SlashTroll community, even if some can't say it)

Re:To Hemos and the whole /, team

[Hemos]

Uh, the machine is still running. There's a wonderful thing called max clients in Apache. So, while the machine may be slow to you, it's running fine for me, logged into it.

So, no, I don't feel any different about it.

Re:To Hemos and the whole /, team

[ebbomega]

You sure told them slashcomma types. =)

Re:And I needed to know this because.....?

[Da VinMan]

Get over yourself dude. By putting the wedding stuff on here they're admitting that there's more that matters to 'nerds' than just technology.

There are practical reasons that we can not take an interest in everyone's wedding here, but it's nice to see that the subject got a teensy bit of attention anyway. Besides, it helps dispel the whole anti-social nerd image.

Get the point now? I think the bottom line here is that if you want to be the hard-bitten anti-social nerd that you pretend, then you ought not to be here anyway. Why socialize, even online, if you don't care? If you're that far gone, no one will notice anyway, so just who are you threatening with your I start to lose interest in Slashdot quote anyway? Get a grip..