The holidays are just around the corner, and with this tough economy its hard to figure out what to give your loves ones. What’s a geek to do?! (dum DUM DUM!!!!)

Well, do not fear, Jessica is here! I am here to provide you with a list of geeky gift ideas to give to your geeky love ones. A list of 5 things that are inexpensive and expensive.

Literally, I come bearing gifts!

$1 – 10: Get the Hint Mini Sticky Notes (ThinkGeek & Urban Outfitters) $4.99-$6.00

Fuck Post-Its! this will communicate a strong message to yourself and others. Sometimes we cannot find the right words to communicate how we feel. We’ll these sticky suckers will do the trick!

For more gift ideas, READ AFTER THE BREAK!

$10 – 20: Ceramic Noodle Cup (ThinkGeek) $12.99

Who lives off of Cup Noodles or Ramen? If you do, and eat tons of it and dont want to ruin the planet even more by dumping styrofoam onto ducks, buy this. It’s handy, its dandy. It’s cute. Not only will you save the world like Captain Planet, you’ll look super Asian doing it.

$20 – 30: Nintendo Super Mario Brothers T-Shirt (Hot Topic) $22.00 – $24.00

The best thing about these shirts? They’re sick! You can dress it up, you can dress it down. No matter what you’ll be geek chic. You can’t go wrong.

$30 – 40: Giant Ear Bud Speakers (Urban Outfitters) $40.00

Ok, so you’re asking, “Jes, why this item?” Because! I have always wanted to see someone jog around the park or in the gym holding these giant things up to their ears. =) That is all.

$50 – ??: Lomo Lubitel 166+ (Lomography.com) $350.00

I have a thing about vintage items. They are worldly, and timeless. Just recently I got into lomography and if you are a photo fanatic like myself, this would an awesome present to give or receive. For once, fuck pixels, fuck resolution, and fuck a display screen.

Ever wanted to dress up like your favorite ninja turtle and not seem like a total idiot that lacked a childhood?

Well our dear friends at Urban Outffiters will let you live out that dream.

For only 8 USD you can either cover your mouth and have sexy turtle lips (btw do turtles have lips?) or cover your head and have a fierce turtle stare. Either way, you are going to look like a badass, a badass fashion forward nerd. BOOM.

Now here is a very cute way to ask a girl to marry you.  Especially if you both love LEGO bricks.

“This set was taken the day of our LEGO Engagement (July 18, 2009). We were technically celebrating our dating anniversary, and since we regularly buy LEGO sets for each other, she didn’t suspect a thing.”

Joe gave his now fiance 3 LEGO sets.  Each one providing a small clue as to what Joe will be asking her after she opened all three gifts. Each set was customized to look like the couple and hint at the proposal.

The first LEGO set was called “Kristin and Joe” which had two look-a-like minifigs riding bikes. The second was “our favorite things” which included small pieces that looked like a flat screen TV, keyboard, pizza, and books.  The third and final LEGO set was called “Engagement Picnic” which was made to look like the couple at that exact moment.

A very cute and creative way to ask a girl to marry her. Congrats Kristin and Joe!

[via flickr]

Last year, Jessica celebrated her 22nd birthday.  Her bestfriend baked her a cake.  At first all us were relectant to eat such a cute cake.  Why would we want to ruin this masterpiece? But after gutting this poor Domo, we knew we had to “FINISH HIM.” NOM!!!!!!!!

More photos of what the insides of a Domo-Kun looks like after the break.

Here is a mug that made me smile big.  Mainly because I’m such a cookie monster. I love all kinds of cookies.  Add some milk (lactaid please) and thats what I call an awesome snack.  Now, with this new mug invention, I would be able to carry them both with one hand! This really blew my mind. But not only did the people at Mocha think about the cookie monster of the world, they also thought about people like me. The lefties.

“Left handed dunkers haven’t been forgotten either as it’s available in both right and left handed versions. The slot of the Dunk cup should always face away from you when drinking so that the biscuits in the slot slide towards the back of the mug rather than onto your lap.”

Great invention Mocha. I just might be buying one of these real soon.

[via Mocha]

I remember back when AOL was the biggest ISP on the market and online chatrooms were relatively safe, everyone typed normally.  Sure there were some mispelled words here and there, but it was ok. Everyone understood each other and hardly anyone abused the CAPS LOCK. But then, the internets started becoming mainstream.  I think by the time I turned 16 or so, other “teenie” boppers started to poke their heads into chatrooms to see what all the fuss is about. How did I know they were “teenie boppers”?  They typed LyKe DiSh.

Now, travel to present day internets and you have so many different kinds of acronyms, different kinds of “speaks” (leetspeak, lolcat, geekspeak, etc.), and emoticons.  That’s all fine and sometimes funny to read, but one thing stood the test of time. Uppercase, lowercase typing.  This is my biggest internet pet peeve of mine and I really don’t understand how it is still here.

Why do people think iSh SoOoOoOoO kEwL 2 tYpE lYkE dIsH? Damn, just typing like that made me angry. I guess it gets under my skin because when I first saw that kind of typing it was like kids stomping on my internet lawn. Call me old but, if you see a full paragraph of that, it’s hard to read and it gets annoying to me.

Does it make you look cool if you type like that? I really don’t see the point of it but I do hope to see the end of it soon.

It’s cool and all, but all the flashing lights makes me want to have a seizure. =/

Click here to view the embedded video.

[via Gizmodo]

Facebook has been busy lately, first introducing Facebook Lite, a stripped down simple version of the site for those who don’t want to wait or sift through the main site. The second introduction today is the inclusion of @mentions in status updates. Taking a page from Twitter, people can tag their friends in updates using the @ tag to induce a user selection screen. The @ symbol isn’t actually displayed in the update, but it just goes to show that the @mentions that started first with Twitter have transcended the social networking site to become a more universally recognised tag.

[Via Facebook Blog]

Halloween is just around the corner, and you don’t know what to wear? Well, here you go. Remember creativity is sexy, this will for sure impress the ladies and get you laid..without a doubt. BOOM.

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On a side note, due to some personal issues this past weekend, Tales of Geek Dating will be back up this coming Sunday. So stay tuned!

Ok, whats the saying?

“If it’s not broken, don’t fix it”?

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As a fellow lady, I would never! EVER want to pee while standing up!

Sure, I get jealous at times, because guys are able to just point and shoot, but I wouldn’t want to carry that around with me in my purse.

Can you imagine a lady putting that into her carry on and being stopped by TSA? Or a mom trying to pull her wallet out of her purse and having that plastic….cup fly out and land on the floor?!

Not worth it. And besides, that would mean I would have to wash that every time I peed.

Thanks, but no thanks, I’d rather just tough it out and squat.

[via GOGIRL]