"After spending rosh hashana with ali's family, I hijacked her and flew to vegas instead of sf where she thought we were having a quiet dinner at jackson filmore.

Ali started seeing weird lights in the desert and realized it was vegas. She started yelling in the back. Dave and I shut the pilot doors.

I told ali we were going for a fun vegas night because the past wk was hard for her moving to sf. She didn't think we were getting engaged. She said her nails weren't done and since I didn't care she thought it was going to be mexico over her bday...."

--Entrepreneur and friend Mark Pincus, describing his recent proposal to his now fiancee (congrats, folks!)