He gave me a laptop. I thought he was cute. :) I think since then I've bumped into him a couple of times in a kind of friend-of-friend way, and he was definitely in the FSG at the same time as our Thursday-meet some time towards the end of last year, & I chatted to him then, & he seemed like a cool person.

The problem is I know who he is, but I don't really know him well enough to just invite him to stuff out of the blue without it looking a bit weird...

And your problem with looking a bit weird is what, exactly?

I don't want to frighten him off?

Seriously, I think he'd just go "uh, who?" if I invited him to a party -- I doubt if he even remembers my name!

I suppose that's Possible. But, personally, I like getting party invitations out of the blue, from people I only dimly recall (not so unusual with a memory lie mine). It's a nice fillip, because giving an invitation is a positive act, and it implies that you must have made some kind of favourable impression them at some time.

's true. ... I'm just always worried that, in combination with me being a bit all-over-the-place in real life, it will end up looking like stalkerish behaviour. ("Argh! That mad woman I met in the pub has found my email address!")

According to what I've heard Brian is _seriously_ weird in relaitonships - I mean he's barking anyway, but his ex certainly seems to think he's seriously abnormal in a mad-end-of-the-geek-spectrum sort of way. Last count I _think_ he had a girlfriend also, but I'm a year or three out of touch - try asking sgt for more recent gossip. I'm sure he'd turn up to a party if you invited him though - he's the sort of person who'd have an iwj-style discussion with you of exactly who you are before accepting the invitation rather than just quietly ignoring it..

Doesn't really make any difference to me whether he's got a girlfriend or not! I just think he seems like an interesting person & I wouldn't mind chatting to him over a beer some time. So unless he has a girlfriend who doesn't let him chat to women it's not really an issue... (Yes, he is cute, but I can't chase everybody who's cute; I don't have enough hands.)

*laugh*
Maybe chase a few of them my way, then? I could do with a couple of spares.

Any particular type you're looking for, or are you not fussy? ;-)

*laugh*
Tall, skinny, longhaired (though two out of three sometimes ain't bad!)

hmmm....