Damn it, I got Normal again!
Snatched from xmissdemeanorx:
You fit in with:
Normal
You don't really fit into any highschool stereotype: you're pretty much normal. Hovering somewhere in the middle between non-conformity and conformity, you're your own person ... within the group.
'What highschool stereotype do you fit in with?' at QuizGalaxy.com
You have a sexual IQ of 133
When it comes to sex, you are a super genius. You have had a lot of experience, and sex interests you so you know a lot about it. You pride yourself on being a source of information and guidance to all of your friends.
Take this quiz at QuizUniverse.com
Okay, I don't agree with this one. I answered no to the last question & of all of my friends, I'm pretty sure that I'm on the bottom of the totum pole on experience.
A selection from posts by monkeyspike in ubergeeks...
April 1st
Births:
1908 - Abraham Maslow, American psychologist (d. 1970)
1926 - Anne McCaffrey, American author **That is just awesome!**
April 2nd
Births:
1805 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish writer (d. 1875)
1941 - Dr. Demento, American radio personality
Deaths:
1742 - James Douglas, Scottish physician and anatomist (b. 1675)
1872 - Samuel Morse, American inventor (b. 1791)
1966 - C.S. Forester, British author (b. 1899) **Anyone seen Finding Forester?**
April 3rd
1973 - The first portable cell phone call is placed in New York City.
1986 - IBM unveils the PC Convertible, their first laptop computer.
2000 - United States v. Microsoft: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust laws by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. **HISS! Bad US court!**
Births:
1783 - Washington Irving, American author (d. 1859)
1934 - Jane Goodall, English zoologist
April 4th
1983 - Space Shuttle Challenger makes its maiden voyage into space.
Deaths:
1923 - John Venn, British mathematician (b. 1834)
April 5th
1804 - The first recorded meteorite falls in Possil, Scotland (High Possil Meteorite).
Deaths:
1967 - Hermann Joseph Muller, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1890)
1970 - Alfred Henry Sturtevant, American geneticist (b. 1891) **My students should remember what this guy did.**
Observances:
*On April 5, 2006 at two minutes past one o'clock in the morning, it will be 01:02:03 04/05/06 -- this will be the only time this century that this occurs (for countries observing the mm/dd/yy date convention at least). For those countries not on a - 24-hour clock, this will also occur in the early afternoon.
*In Star Trek, April 5, 2063, is the First Contact Day. This day marks the first interaction of the human race and an extraterrestrial race, the Vulcans. This day is celebrated by some Trekkers. **Another holiday I missed!**
April 6th
648 BC - Earliest solar eclipse recorded by the Ancient Greeks.
1938 - Teflon is discovered.
Births:
1928 - James D. Watson, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine **I guess I have to put this jerk's birthday up just because he was big in genetics.**
Deaths:
1992 - Isaac Asimov, Russian-born author (b. 1920) **RIP A great who will be dearly missed.**
April 7th
1969 - The Internet's symbolic birth date: publication of RFC 1.
1983 - During STS-6, astronauts Story Musgrave and Don Peterson perform the first space shuttle spacewalk (duration: 4 hours, 10 minutes).
Deaths:
1997 - Tomoyuki Tanaka, Japanese movie producer (Godzilla) (b. 1910)
April 8th
1820 - The Venus de Milo is discovered on the Aegean island of Melos.
1971 - a 6 pound meteorite struck the home of Robert and Wanda Donahue in Wethersfield, Connecticut
Births:
1911 - Melvin Calvin, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
Deaths:
2003 - Anita Borg, American computer scientist (b. 1949)
April 9th
1987 - Dikye Baggett becomes the first person to undergo corrective surgery for Parkinson's disease.
Births:
1932 - Cheeta, the longest living known chimpanzee in history
Deaths:
1626 - Sir Francis Bacon, English philosopher, statesman, and essayist (b. 1561)
Posted by edible_hat in ubergeeks:
"No one who cannot rejoice in the discovery of his own mistakes deserves to be called a scholar." [Donald Foster] April 3rd
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." [Galileo Galilei] April 4th
"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest." [William Hazlitt] April 8th
"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." [Plato] April 9th
"For four-fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pond scum." [J. W. Schopf] April 11th