BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — Through more than 30 dates, Ren You, a Harvard MBA who recently moved to Birmingham, still hasn’t found any magic in the Magic City so he’s established www.DateRen.com, calling on his fellow Alabamians to “FIND ME A GIRLFRIEND AND I’LL PAY YOU $10,000…Seriously.”
On the website, which features a clever endorsement from his mom (“He is nice boy.”), You puts himself out there in hopes of finding true love.
The Things I Like
Movies: Shawshank Redemption, Memento, Prestige, Inception, Wedding Crashers, Secretary, Gattaca, American History X, Wall-E, Tangled, The Incredibles, Requiem for a Dream (+more…I watch a lot of movies, what can I say?)
TV Shows: Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Community, Arrested Development, Pushing Daisies, Black Mirror, Rick and Morty, Silicon Valley, Archer
Books: Ender’s Game, The Universe in a Nutshell, Snowcrash, Thinking Fast and Slow, Shogun, American Gods, Naked
Hobbies: tennis, hiking, board games, going on strange new adventures (like this one)
The People I Like
Most people don’t know what they want (even if they think they do), and I’m no exception. With that said, I’ve come up with a few heuristics:
Intellectually curious (about the rules to a new board game, random stuff on Wikipedia, etc.)
Finds it fun to think about ridiculous hypotheticals
Physically active
Thinks take-out and a movie sound like a good Saturday night
Knows the difference between “Astronomy” and “Astrology”
You says that any payout, should he hit the love jackpot, will not go toward the winning woman, but to the person who set them up.
Think your friend has a shot at stealing You’s heart? Fill out the application at the bottom of the website… Seriously.
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— Elizabeth BeShears (@LizEBeesh) January 21, 2015
