I was in the showroom Sunday and you helped me pick out some spectacular frames. Just wanted to say thanks for the confidence boost. As I was leaving I told you that your own glasses are amazing. I should've mentioned your brilliant smile, too. Still thinking of it. :)

Here's to hoping this girl isn't creeped out by Internet strangers.

Peas in a pod Start-Ups: Silicon Valley star and "lifecaster" Sarah Austin snapped this pic of her and a friend hanging out with everyone's favorite early-aughts celebrity, Paris Hilton. The trio were partying at Sundance in Park City, Utah. Don't they look like a match made in heaven?

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Fight fight fight Sounds like GroupMe cofounder Steve Martocci recently tangled with that most reviled of New York institutions: Time Warner Cable. Seems a phone call to customer service got a tad heated. “‘If we had choice in NY we would NOT CHOOSE YOU...I urge the city of New York to change laws & eliminate your broken system’ -@smart to @TWC” tweeted Poptip founder Kelsey Falter.

Could this be another sign of techies ready to flex newfound political muscle? It seems not quite. In the @replies, Mr. Martocci admitted that he was “so so mad, figured there was some law holding back choice, either way, this just fucking sucks.” It's true that cable providers are probably the leading cause of inchoate rage in the five boroughs. And sadly, the traditional recourse seems to be out of Mr. Martocci’s reach: “my building was built in 1897, never getting fios.” Damn those historic homes!

Moving day Midtown no more: We hear that the Entrepreneurs Roundtable Accelerator has picked up stakes, relocating from the Times Square area to the far hipper environs of the Flatiron district. The current class of 10 companies (plus several alums) is now ensconced in a spacious 10,000 feet in Chelsea, with FIT as a neighbor. It comes complete with ping-pong table, kegerator-equipped kitchen, and a “videogame cave.” Party at ERA’s house?

Cozy!

Inquiring minds want to know If there’s one thing that unites denizens of both the Alley and the Valley, it’s frustration at the extent to which the rent is too damn high. But relief may very well be on the way! “Is it rude to ask if/when the Series A bottleneck/whatnot will produce cheaper rents in SF?” asks Techmeme founder Gabe Rivera. Hope springs eternal, we suppose.

Hey ladies Are you a hacker? Are you a lady? Have we got a Technologist thinker Gabriella Coleman tweets, “Lady hackers, especially with a political bent, Cosmo is wanting to write a story on hacker/hactivistas, Interested?” Boy oh boy, the Hacker News thread about this is going to be one for the ages.

Annals of awkward What's more "insufferable and obnoxious and annoying" than a venture firm producing a glossy music video mash-up of "Call Me Maybe" and "Gangnam Style"? For one thing, said venture firm producing a "making of" video about the mash-up, and embedding it in their annual report. So tell us, Josh Kopelman, about doing your own stunts—did your tush get toasted when the fireworks went off? "I couldn't feel anything," the First Round Capital partner said. "I just felt humiliated."

You and us both.

Beep bloop beep . . . love connection!

Did you just watch the love of your life exit the L train without asking for her digits? Digital renaissance man Luke DuBois is here to help. As the Brooklyn Paper reports, Mr. DuBois, an instructor at both the Polytechnic Institute of NYU and the Brooklyn Experimental Media Center, has built a website to help the Craigslist crowd find their "Missed Connections."

The site scrapes Missed Connections listings in nine different cities, including New York, then uses an algorithm that matches descriptive words from from listings in the same city. If it's a close enough match (upwards of 85 percent), users are prompted to email the authors of the initial posts to let them know you may have found their subway soulmate.

So far, [Mr. DuBois] has sent e-mail alerts to eight potential couples, but he hasn’t heard back from any of them, including a particularly close match between a salami-eating man and the woman who bummed him a cigarette.

“I think you two are looking for each other,” he wrote to each of them.

Unfortunately, the wonky interface looks like something only a Linux-lover could embrace. The algorithm, which is susceptible to spam posts, is also hindered by a gender gap. "Women tend to offer more detailed descriptions of their loves at first sight, while men often keep things overly simple, with postings like: 'You were on the R train and you were cute,'" says the Brooklyn Paper.

If nothing else, the site can be seen as an reminder that true love requires specificity. As Mr. DuBois explains:

"simple words like 'of' and 'the' have a very low score; nouns and verbs like 'train' and 'kiss' have a medium score; adjectives and adverbs like 'blue' and 'softly' have a high score; proper names like 'kevin' and 'chelsea' will score highest of all."

"Softly"? That sounds more like "Casual Encounters" than "Missed Connections" to us.

Spoiler alert?

New York writer and director Gregory Rizzi has a project on KickStarter to fund a short film about finding your dreamgirl on the morning subway commute that sounds like a relateable script straight from Craigslist's popular Missed Connections or the mind of Patrick Moberg. (They already make movies about Casual Encounters and I think it's called porn.)

This will be the first live action film for Mr. Rizzi, a feature film animator who has worked at Lucas Film and Electronic Arts. He's already exceeded his goal of $6,000, but hopeless romantics who want an answer to the Mr. Rizzi's questions--"How do you pick up a girl when you can't even get close enough to talk to her?"--have until 6.21 p.m. EST to contribute.

It wasn't one of these fine-looking young people, was it?

"First Kickstarter reference in a missed connection?" Kickstater's Fred Benenson wondered out loud on Twitter. A hapless fellow at the Kickstarter Roundtable at the Brooklyn Book Festival on Sunday may have met his dream girl, who according to a Craigslist posting under 'missed connections,' greatly distracted him from the panel:

I stumbled into the Kickstarter session at the North Stage yesterday afternoon. While I was definitely interested in the symposium, I just couldn't help noticing you and your beautiful and mysterious eyes. You repeatedly diverted my attention away from the stage. I could be mistaken, but I believe we noticed each other and our eyes met on more than one occasion. Putting aside the fact that I think you are very attractive, you seemed to have a wonderful smile and of course the fact that you were at the book fair on a weekend gives you major "undercover nerd" points :-D

I would like very much to learn more about you, my mystery book fair girl....

We have some criticisms of the post, namely, hello, you have to talk about how you were too shy to say anything, and like, what does this chick look like anyway?

More unconventional milestones in startup  fame, as recorded by Betabeat and in rough order of awesomeness, include:

3. Being tweeted about by Ashton Kutcher.

2. Catching the attention of a porn star on Twitter.

1. Getting referenced in a joke on popular nerd comic XKCD.

Source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/imaginace

A rare moment of sweetness from the swag-talking Tyler the Creator of the rap collective Odd Future: "Back In October I Met The Girl i Want To Marry. Still Havent Found Her," he tweeted this weekend, linking to a dim cell phone photo of a pretty girl sitting at a small round table in the Starbucks on W. 23rd St. Here's what he knows about her:

This is a really bad picture of a girl named Mya. I THINK? I met her in New York at a shitty Starbucks near 71 W. 23rd Street. She has a nose ring and curly hair. She goes to school for fashion and carries a sketchbook around. If you know her, tell her to get in contact with Tyler, the Creator. Thank you.

"She Mixed. Fuck, I Gotta Find Her," he wrote on Twitter. Then: "I'm going to find this bitch." Then: "No Homo For All This." Subsequent tweets revealed Mr. Creator later had a stomach ache and "cut his ball skin" skateboarding.

Twitter and Flickr followers chimed in, trying to help by working their e-stalking skills: "Her name is Mya Stone, look it up on FB," wrote a fan who tried to look her girl up. "No Luck =(," the Creator said. Others claimed to know the girl but were unwilling to give her up to Mr. Creator or Betabeat. We suggest Reddit as the most effective engine for such things.

UPDATE: Patrick Moberg of Bnter apparently already had success with this.