Wednesday, May 15, 2008, 5:30 – 9pm
AS220, 115 Empire Street, Providence, RI

FREE (buy your own food and drink – it’s cheap)

‘This week’s Geek Dinner will feature a presentation by the Founder and CTO of The Search Agency and Providence Geek regular, Carl Dunham. Carl and team are enjoying a great spring having just announced a major investment by JMI Equity (JMI knows something about picking winners in the online advertising space, having invested in a few including a little outfit called DoubleClick).

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In case you were wondering, honesty is not dead in the digital age. Today on craigslist, the best men seeking women personal of the day:

The headline reads: “ I just want to get laid.”

Who doesn’t?

The text of the ad reads:

“I don’t want to meet your mother or father. I don’t care about your personal life, your history or your dreams and aspirations. I just want to fuck you. It’s natural, I’ve got the penis and you’ve got the vagina. Hopefully they fit together. The rest of these guys are just yanking on your chain to get down your pants after some cheap pizza and beer. All men are scumbags and I am the only honest scumbag left on the planet. You read this far so obviously you are not all that disgusted so send me a photo and Ill send you one of mine.”

The honesty of this ad is refreshing. Why more people don’t just put it right out there like this astounds me. I’d like to shake this guy’s hand.

Don’t think I forgot about my homeboys. I found you fellas out there a little someone special:

Creative Diva Looking for Ideal Man

This 5′6″ cutie has bi-colored eyes and can’t start a conversation to save her life, but she loves getting nasty underneath the sheets. She’s good at it, too, evidently: she has four kids, all of whom still live at home. Dude, now’s your chance to start that band.

If all of that wasn’t good enough for you, Creative Diva has an identical twin. Hot city, ain’t it? The undertone of this ad suggests that Ms. Diva is the “good” twin, while the other mysterious twin is the wild child twin. I say you find out what Ms. Diva looks like, then go find her swinging sista. Maybe she has less children.

Since Ms. Diva posted her ad in Missed Connections instead of the expected Women Seeking Men section, it’s clear that Ms. Diva is either: 1) innovative in her approach to man-hunting or 2) dumb. Either works in your favor. Go get her, cowboy.

Okay, ladies, I found a real winner for you:

Ax Dude Seeks Love

The ad starts with: “I’m sick of being judged by the way I look?”, which, please note, is not a definitive statement but a question, as if the writer wonders if, in fact, he is being judged for the way he looks, not for the weaponry in his hands. “CONSIDER ME WILLY FUCKING WONKA,” demands the ad, before ending with, in a most beautiful irony, “Please, no fatties.”

Go ahead, girls. Fight it out.

Jack Templin: Tapping Rhode Island’s Growing Geek Community to Win on the Internet

Tuesday, May 6th 3pm - 4pm

Show Floor Theater
RI Convention Center
1 Sabin Street, Providence

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Ian’s got a spread in the Phoenix this week, on the RI Blogosphere. (Those are our friends from RIFuture up there.) We, apparently, have cornered the ‘young and irreverent’ demographic:

There are, to name a few, locally based blogs for tech geeks and entrepreneurs, the legal community, same-sex marriage proponents, industrial designers, the young and irreverent, Democrats, and Republicans, and those concerned with intellectual property.

Wow, you idiots were stalking the hell out of each other this weekend! In this installment dudes are getting all creepy on the womenfolks, by chasing them, (seriously dude, you chased her? Good luck with all this) while this girl seems like a fascinating bore. Wow, she talked about herself a lot, and she was a hipster? Man, how’d you let this opportunity slip through your fingers? But as usual, it’s the gays who know how to rock a missed connection. Really, this is less a missed connection than a “Hey, we fucked in the booths at FLIXXX last night, wanna do it again?” Sounds like a connection was definitely made. And yes, I read the m4m ones. Oh, you don’t?