I've written a bit here in the past about online dating. I think it's generally a crapshoot that I'm not really interested or, for that matter, good at. I've tried Match.com (too many boring and not so educated folks) and Nerve (literally everyone scared off by crips, it seems) and been disappointed.

At Sunday's Mets game Gerard and I briefly discussed that he'd had success with eHarmony. It's a bit different. You don't wade through a pile of profiles making snap judgements based on, well, appearances. Instead you fill out a lengthy questionnaire and eHarmony makes matches for you. You can only deal with the people that they've matched you with. Even then you can't e-mail them right away. Instead you choose a series of close-ended questions for them to answer and they can, if they're interested, send you close-ended questions of their own. I'm not sure what happens after that (I think it then goes to a series of exchanged open-ended questions) and only after that can you have "open" communications. Kind of interesting. We'll see how it goes.

Oh, and it's the only site I've heard of where women literally outnumber men two-to-one. That can't be a bad thing.