Here is one you won't hear many people say: I met my partner due to GEB. Some twenty years ago I was operating a muni network and was up at stupid hours due to

Here is one you won't hear many people say: I met my partner due to GEB. Some twenty years ago I was operating a muni network and was up at stupid hours due to a maintenance window. The people I normally talk to were all asleep, so I made a script that searched people on live journal that had similar tagged interests and added them to my aim buddy list-- then if they were online I messaged them. She was awake at an odd hour because someone had pulled a fire alarm in her dorm. I later went back to see why my program had added her, and there were a number of overlapping tags but it turns out there just weren't many people that listed "douglas hofstadter" as an interest on LiveJournal-- maybe 8 in total at the time-- so it had a lot of weight.