November 30, 2006
I Taught Him His Crossover, Too
Apparently Tony Parker heard that I made Ruth a formal proposal yesterday and said, "Oh shit, it looks like the cool kids are all getting engaged today." Otherwise, why not do it on an off day?
Speaking of our engagement, I should write down how that happened. For the kids, and all.
The thing is, if you've been paying attention, you know that the wedding is already halfway planned. If you're in the loop, you know that Ruth even had a hand in picking out the engagement ring.
Given all of that, you might have been surprised that I even made a "formal proposal." If so, you clearly don't know enough girls. Whatever else has already happened, no girl wants to be robbed of her one good chance to have someone on bended knee with a ring.
The problem was, it seemed to me like this would only be fun if it was a surprise, and after we got the ring from her grandmother over Thanksgiving she had to be expecting it at any minute. Any kind of proposal during a traditional romantic moment -- our anniversary dinner is around the corner, and there are tons opportunities for scenic walks on the beach -- was right out. Way too obvious. I thought about it a lot, and I could only come up with one time where I felt like it wouldn't be seen coming from a mile away: during a class.
So, I got in touch with one of her professors and arranged to add an extra slide to the end of the PowerPoint slide for her lecture on Wednesday. Then I waited outside of the class for forty-five minutes until the class was over and she put my proposal up:
Then I went in and did the knee thing and put the ring on her. All of her good girl friends are in the class, which was a nice bonus. They all seemed to get a kick out of it.
Meanwhile, here is the ring. If it were made of kryptonite, it would be able to take out Superman at fifty paces.
Posted by todd at November 30, 2006 8:41 PM
Comments
Dude, love totally plateaus at 50 years and continues for the next two decades. The data above 70 is too scattered to determine a clear pattern.
Posted by: tony at November 30, 2006 9:43 PM
Tony, everyone knows that love comes in many forms. For some, those whose love is weak, it is indeed a lame sigmoid that plateaus around 50 years. For the strong at heart, however, it's exponential all the way.
Posted by: todd. at November 30, 2006 10:12 PM
This is nerdiest proposal ever. And it couldn't be more awesome!
My favorite part is the graph of your love increasing over time.
"Baby, will you be my partner in the laboratory of luuv?"
...Awesome!
Posted by: Rinners at December 1, 2006 7:01 AM
Todd, this is so cool! I love everything about it, except that it wasn't videotaped so the rest of us could see Ruth's classmates' reactions.
The graph is my favorite part, although it looks like love (in love units)=0 for the first 10 years or so. Is that the years of your relationship or the years of Ruth's life, because that makes a big difference!
Posted by: Kate at December 1, 2006 12:50 PM
It just looks like 0 because the scale is so large. The function is just y=x^2, so at 10 years it's 100. Just hard to see.
However, that does mean that it's just 1 for the first year. But in this case, 1 "love unit" is really quite a lot, so that's no problem.
Posted by: todd. at December 1, 2006 1:20 PM
Recent polls show, this post has been deemed "the cutest post evar."
Posted by: Adrianne at December 1, 2006 2:22 PM
well done! i really like your graph and bullet points. you've truly raised the bar for the rest of mankind... (grumble grumble jerk grumble).
Posted by: jurvis at December 1, 2006 4:46 PM
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