Deeting Gakes

I’ve been thinking about this Pay It Forward concept that I discovered recently courtesy T. I look up and down my blogroll and think “but I want to recommend ALL of them! Not to mention the stonesoupers and livejournalists who aren’t even singled out!” And I decided it was far too hard to choose, so I haven’t. Not yet anyway.
Instead, I draw your attention to the fascinating work of two folk on that blogroll, both of whom have written about Dating For Geeks.
Susan, over on Thinking With My Hands, has posted what I hope is the first part of a series: Geeks on dates. Choosing whether to even start thinking about going for the other person. Sample:

So, do you fancy them? If you don’t there’s no point. Oh, you don’t know how to tell if you fancy them? Well, how are your palms? Hairy? Ah ha ha. No, the more relaxed you are the dryer your skin is and so the higher the skin’s electrical resistance, when you’re stressed (or excited) your hand sweats and the resistance goes down. Go on, build a Galvanic Skin Response Sensor and work it out.

Whereas self-professed biggeek D3vo has been blogging his adventures in dating for quite some time. His online writings are all in his very distinctive voice, but you don’t get the full effect without being face to face – about a year ago we were having coffee every few days and he expounded on several of his dating theories in absolutely compelling fashion. I really think there’s a market for ‘the engineer’s approach to dating’ and he should write it. Excerpt:

Speed dating is all talk and no action in my experience, a bit like dealing with business partners in startups. It appears to be an extended and ritualised form of the disposable conversations you have with anonymous travelers when you fly long distance on a plane.

I love this stuff. Go read.
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In other news, Cal and I have found an apartment in Newtown. We move in during May. Hurrah!