Meet People
Lance has a great post about meeting people and how to identify other interested parties. He came up with The Inqueery Gesture, a shoulder shrug (SYN) followed by the confirmation by lip lick (SYN,ACK) or denial by scowl (NAK). Nothing to close the handshake like sequence though, maybe walking away could represent the final FIN. His concern is meeting other men, which doesn’t apply to me (actually meeting women doesn’t apply to me either anymore, but that’s besides the point), but I’ve long proposed that a system is needed for everyone (especially geeks) to find out if they are interested or not quickly and without the embarrassment of actually talking to them.
My idea, years ago now, was that everyone gets a little LCD implanted in their forhead that has vital information like sexuality (straight/gay/bisexual), mental state (psycho/not psycho), relationship state (single/attached/undecided) (very important this one IMHO) and interest level (interested/not interested/you are a toad).
The one downside of this would be that everyone would have an LCD implanted in their head, but I think the benifits would far outweight the disadvantages.
can you imagine all the geeks hacking and modding those LCDs?
Or advertising with big fucking flashing banner ads…
As Foxworthy says, “those are things a man gotta know” or something like that.
Already been done, but without the major surgery. There are these devices that use bluetooth (or some other short-range protocol) that you program with your stats, desires, likes, whatever. Then, you go to a party and when you find a compatible person, it alerts the both of you so you can begin talking, etc.