A Nerdy Proposal Story (I'm Engaged!)

Bernie: Hi Tammy, check out what I found!
Tammy: Wow, whats this?

Tammy: Hey its Bejeweled, my favorite game! On DS! Where could this have come from?

Tammy: Hey wait, the screen cleared! Whats going on?!

Tammy: It's a ring!
Bernie: Will you marry me?

Tammy: Of course!

So many those weren't her exact words, and these aren't pictures of exactly how it happened (it's a recreation of the event after dinner), but that's the general idea. I spent the past few weeks working on a version of Bejeweled (her favorite game) on Nintendo DS as a homebrew project. Once it hits a certain score, the screen clears and a ring drops down! Of course afterwards, we did the nice dinner and everything too =)

edit: Just for the record - I wrote the game from scratch!

Posted 1/5/2008 1:59 PM - 129212 Views - 1124 eProps - 600 comments

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wow.. creative! congrats!! 1st!!

Posted 1/5/2008 2:12 PM by moleman - - reply

You reprogrammed a game to propose to your fiance? That IS nerdy...but it also totally reeks of awesomeness! Congrats again!

Posted 1/5/2008 2:12 PM by thebigwang - - reply

Yay! Congratulations Bernie!

Posted 1/5/2008 2:14 PM by physcho20X9 - - reply

Rigging the game liketThat was awesome, btw.

Posted 1/5/2008 2:18 PM by physcho20X9 - - reply

yay!

Posted 1/5/2008 2:27 PM by JeffCP28 - - reply

omg, that's so awesome

Posted 1/5/2008 3:08 PM by chiKitty - - reply

Congratulations!!

Posted 1/5/2008 3:18 PM by williamlee36 - - reply

aww that's so bernie style! congrats!

Posted 1/5/2008 3:42 PM by elevation99 - - reply

that's awesome, congratulations!! =D

Posted 1/5/2008 3:46 PM by hockeydoc25 - - reply

best engagement story ever!! congratulations!!!!

Posted 1/5/2008 4:08 PM by soupbunnie - - reply

congrats again, dude... what a classic bernie proposal. looks like your days of programming games like chu chu rocket finally paid off! btw, you're going to have a chinese banquet for your wedding reception, right?

Posted 1/5/2008 7:19 PM by man9oman - - reply

nice job!

Posted 1/6/2008 3:03 AM by Chancancook - - reply

good job bernie! grats!

Posted 1/6/2008 6:47 AM by thranos - - reply

Niiiice. Nerdy, but niiiice =) Props and congrats.

Posted 1/6/2008 10:52 AM by simple2me - - reply

congratulations bernie!! i'd have to agree, quite nerdy.

Posted 1/7/2008 4:10 AM by grapes4u - - reply

that is money. my favorite line is "where could this have come from" im sure that's verbatim what tammy said...

Posted 1/7/2008 2:18 PM by Jollipopp - - reply

haha, it took a xanga entry like this one for you to score the record number of comments=p CONGRATS! on both the comments score and the engagement

Posted 1/9/2008 3:13 AM by giddiemon - - reply

pffft...haha, that's awesome! congratulations, bernie! the idea you came up with rocks! :)

Posted 1/13/2008 12:39 AM by foreverodyssey - - reply

Wow, very creative. Congrats! Saw this from Kotaku and noticed it was Xanga so I had to comment.

Posted 3/6/2008 12:29 AM by lon3vvolf - - reply

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=) cute!

Posted 3/6/2008 1:03 AM by XmIzZ_lAyZ33_d0r33nX

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edit: Just for the record - I wrote the game from scratch!
edit 2: Taking off Tammy's pic cause this is on kotaku

^you took the photo off the page but its still visible in the photos folder might want to remove it from there too!

Posted 3/6/2008 3:01 AM by vurt - - reply

aww how cute and romantic!! i wish someone would do that to me too some day! <3
congrats!!

Posted 3/6/2008 5:59 AM by evina - - reply