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Found in the spam filter, a relationship failure borne of HTTP error codes

Wednesday, June 18th, 2008

A story about an internet crush…

… a few weeks later when I checked my spam filter. “Congrats–most women have to meet me at least twice before a crush wears off,” he’d replied. Cute. I replied, and we ended up having a bizarre but hilarious (to us) discussion about HTTP error codes. (Reproduced after the jump for the curious.) Fellow Metblogger Josh once told me upon reading that conversation, “I can’t imagine how things between the two of you didn’t work out.” And sometimes I wonder the same thing.

Go read the ongoing story at Single in Seattle: Blogger Boy No. 2

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A True Intarwebnet Love Story

Thursday, August 3rd, 2006

Google: I owe you in a very big way. There are six billion people in the world, approximately five zillion web pages cataloged in your little magnetic platters, and you somehow managed against the odds to deliver a highly intelligent (major: aviation science / minor: journalism/creative writing), dynamic, gorgeous human being to my doorstep. http://neopoleon.com/blog/posts/23893.aspx

Want to find love on the intarwebnet? It’s easy!

  • Step 1: Get super awesome google page rank.
  • Step 2: Wait.

Worked for that guy.

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