This Is The True Story...

...of love gone wrong in the weblog age. Geek meets geekette, geek falls in love, geek gushes about geekette on weblog, geek learns geekette's terrible secret from a regular blog reader, geek confronts geekette in dramatic Chandler-esque climax, with a little Columbo-fu thrown in for good measure. Tragic, scary, and entertaining as hell. So Go Read It.

Me (very calmly): What's the difference between HTTP GET and POST?
New Girl (taken aback): ?uh, what?
Me: GET and POST. What's the difference?
New Girl (looking somewhat rattled): You...You've got to be fucking kidding.

Her body language changed to a more defensive stance. I leaned forward and smiled. At this point, even after all the evidence that had been presented to me, I still had the tiniest bit of hope that everyone was wrong about New Girl. I needed to hear an admission -- either intentional or accidental -- from New Girl herself. If I kept the pressure on, she would either cave and admit everything or make a mistake.

Me: I'm not kidding. C'mon, if you're really a Web programmer, you'd know this. This is straight out of chapter one of "Web Forms for Dummies".
New Girl: I refuse to answer this question. Such a simple question...it's...it's insulting!
Me: Answer it, and you'll shoot such a big hole in Whistleblower's story that I'd have to believe you. And trust me, right now, the evidence makes you look like the liar..
New Girl: I won't answer it! I know the answer, but you still won't believe me if I give it to you!
Me: You know, if you accused me of not being a programmer, I'd be dropping mad computer science on your head. I'd be saying "Get me in front of a machine! I'll write 'Hello World' in half a dozen languages!"
New Girl: But I'm not you!
Me: And you're not a programmer. You're a damned liar.

This guy's my new hero.

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