May 2, 2002

7:58 AM

BlindDateBlog started it's run yesterday. Ten men and ten women battle it out to be the finalists in the male/female (not-so-)blind date. Can you pic out the MeFites? Can you pic the winners?
posted by silusGROK (23 comments total)

Ugh.

I could be a gunslinger with a long cool drawl
a lemonade sipper that gives deep foot massages
or perhaps, your "pool guy"
wink
wink
(still worthy of meeting mom of course)
but I'd rather just be the guy that wins this thing.
Oh, and red roses are way too cliche.
The name's Ezra
no last name required.


Well, I found this game's Puck.
posted by jragon at 8:20 AM on May 2, 2002

lnicole is one of the participants. I was talking about it with her in #blogirc last night. Voting takes place on Friday.
posted by riffola at 8:28 AM on May 2, 2002

um...

i thought it was supposed to be somewhat anonymous

*going further into hiding under the desk*

but since riffola mentioned it... vote for me, guys?
posted by lnicole at 9:43 AM on May 2, 2002

Oops I am sorry :)
posted by riffola at 9:45 AM on May 2, 2002

Warning: the website explodes into a useless mess when viewed with Netscape 4.07 (curiousity made me do it)


...back to the conversation.
posted by fatbaq at 9:51 AM on May 2, 2002

Hey! I know Ezra! He's a good friend of mine. He is Puck! Really!

oh yeah, and he's on mefi too
posted by emptyage at 9:55 AM on May 2, 2002

There are a few thirty-somethings in there. I didn't think we were allowed to be in this kind of thing.
posted by goto11 at 10:03 AM on May 2, 2002

Oh, no, riffola, it's okay... =)

I was just under the (probably false) impression that our extra-BDB activities were supposed to be secret, i.e. our blog URLs aren't revealed to the others on the site until after we have been eliminated. But I'm not that sure of the rules; I'm just playing (to WIN, of course).

More info on the rules and voting can be found at the Yahoo group.
posted by lnicole at 10:09 AM on May 2, 2002

you spelled picke wrong.
posted by Satapher at 10:11 AM on May 2, 2002

Hey... none of these people are fat!
posted by linux at 10:15 AM on May 2, 2002

Listen you mudder puckers, I don't know crap about Hockey. I'm squishy, soft, and emotional. Worse, my hangover hurts.
posted by ezfowler at 10:19 AM on May 2, 2002

If you're concerned about being found-out at BDB, I'd suggest scrubbing your MeFi profile, and not mentioning BDB on your personal site (in case you're Googled).
posted by silusGROK at 10:30 AM on May 2, 2002

The menu is just like this one. And Ezra is cute - my daughter says so.
posted by iconomy at 10:34 AM on May 2, 2002

It's all good. Flame me, love me, make me pancakes.
posted by ezfowler at 10:37 AM on May 2, 2002

Heh. Every last one of those kids is totally google-able. I found them all. Muh ha ha.
posted by RJ Reynolds at 10:51 AM on May 2, 2002

There are several of us MeFites in the Peanut Gallery — where we don't play the game, we just make fun of the people who do.
posted by arielmeadow at 10:52 AM on May 2, 2002

it didn't bother me that much, Vis10n... Like I said, I just didn't get the rules at first, and waking up to traffic from Metafilter is always a startling thing...

i am a media whore anyway =)
posted by lnicole at 10:53 AM on May 2, 2002

Stupid on TV == Clever on the web?

No.
posted by HTuttle at 11:03 AM on May 2, 2002

Just an idea... best of luck by the way...
posted by silusGROK at 11:16 AM on May 2, 2002

Ah, but is it as good as your blog, HTuttle? ;)
posted by RJ Reynolds at 11:55 AM on May 2, 2002

..Tawdry as dirty cleavage glitter.

Ok, Helen Jane is the ONLY one saving this thing.
posted by goto11 at 5:36 PM on May 2, 2002

Some constructive criticism: I wish the site had some consistency, design-wise. You've got your big pixelated heart, which could be its own "look" like k10k, you've got the zeldman bar which would look perfect on ... well, Zeldman.com, and then the rest is a straightforward CSS dotted line template.

Oh, and then there's the sliding menu -- if you have to add flashy effects, Flash works fine. This DHTML makes my Mozilla go all wonky when I mouseover.
posted by jragon at 9:08 PM on May 2, 2002

imo, the "D" in DHTML stands for Degenerative. There's a reason it never really caught on.
posted by ajbriones at 11:43 PM on May 2, 2002