Geekiness Guaranteed for a Smile!
~chuckling at the "Fire at Will" post from ubergeeks~ I always laugh at that on ST:TNG & on Independence Day. "No, don't fire at Will!" cracks, being the geek that I am. Well, since I'm way behind in reading LJ entries and I'm too depressed to make a real entry, here's some geekiness...because I feel like it...
Geek Facts of the Day (11th):
1999 - Pluto, a planet with an irregular orbit, changes from the eighth to ninth planet furthest from the sun. It had been the eighth furthest since 1979.
National Inventors' Day in the United States.
Geek Facts of the Day (14th):
1961 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
Births: 1948 - Teller, American magician (Penn and Teller)
Deaths: 2003 - Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
Geek Facts of the Day (15th):
1995 - Hacking: Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.
Births: 1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)
Deaths: 1988 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
Geek Facts of the Day (16th):
1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Births: 1822 - Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (d. 1911)
1834 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
-a selection from the posts by monkeyspike in ubergeeks.
Geek Quotes of the Day (11th):
"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." [Hellen Keller] **How true, how true**
Geek Quotes of the Day (12th):
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." [Albert Einstein] **I whole-heartedly agree!**
Geek Quotes of the Day (15th):
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] **I wish I could, Goethe, I wish I could.**
Geek Quotes of the Day (17th):
"You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?" [Bernadette Peters]
-posted by edible_hat in ubergeeks. (My comments in **'s)
"With this candle, I will set your mother on fire..." LOL
Geek Facts of the Day (11th):
1999 - Pluto, a planet with an irregular orbit, changes from the eighth to ninth planet furthest from the sun. It had been the eighth furthest since 1979.
National Inventors' Day in the United States.
Geek Facts of the Day (14th):
1961 - Discovery of the chemical elements: Element 103, Lawrencium, is first synthesized at the University of California.
Births: 1948 - Teller, American magician (Penn and Teller)
Deaths: 2003 - Dolly the sheep, first cloned mammal (b. 1996)
Geek Facts of the Day (15th):
1995 - Hacking: Kevin Mitnick is arrested by the FBI and charged with breaking into some of the United States' most "secure" computer systems.
Births: 1564 - Galileo Galilei, Italian astronomer and physicist (d. 1642)
Deaths: 1988 - Richard Feynman, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
Geek Facts of the Day (16th):
1923 - Howard Carter unseals the burial chamber of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
Births: 1822 - Sir Francis Galton, English explorer and biologist (d. 1911)
1834 - Ernst Haeckel, German zoologist and philosopher (d. 1919)
-a selection from the posts by monkeyspike in ubergeeks.
Geek Quotes of the Day (11th):
"People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant." [Hellen Keller] **How true, how true**
Geek Quotes of the Day (12th):
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education." [Albert Einstein] **I whole-heartedly agree!**
Geek Quotes of the Day (15th):
"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture and, if possible, speak a few reasonable words." [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe] **I wish I could, Goethe, I wish I could.**
Geek Quotes of the Day (17th):
"You've got to be original, because if you're like someone else, what do they need you for?" [Bernadette Peters]
-posted by edible_hat in ubergeeks. (My comments in **'s)
"With this candle, I will set your mother on fire..." LOL