Just found out a friend of mine, and fellow nerd, from my youth is loosing her husband to stomach cancer. This makes me very sad.

Crazy Taxi and Jet Set Radio on Xbox Live with Achievements. Be still my racing gamer heart. I hope this rumor pans out.

Apr 27: The first democratic general election in South Africa in which black citizens could vote occurred on this date in 1994.

Earthquake Averages 2.0>: 3562/day; 3.0>: 356/day; 4.0>: 36/day; 5.0>: 3/day; 6.0>: 1 every 4 days; 7.0>: 1 every 24 days; 8.0>: 1 per year

Come on people. Science isn’t that hard. A hypothesis is a guess in laymans term. A fact = fact. A theory is a group of facts explained and brought together into a unified system.

Apr 26: A nuclear reactor accident occurred at the Chernobyl Power Plant in the Soviet Union (modern day Ukraine) on this date in 1986.

Seems somehow my Facebook account was phished. Not really sure how as I’m extra careful. Regardless, if you received a facebook IM from me saying something about a gift card or such and such, it wasn’t me.

Some people are just… I mean… ugh… I’m at a loss of words. Coded neo-nazi license plate: http://is.gd/bFfhB

I’m really feeling bad now. I’m wondering if this IS allergy problems. I have gland swelling in my throat.

Apr 23: On this date in 1597 William Shakespeare’s The Merry Wives of Windsor is first performed.

Can’t sleep. Allergies flaring up pretty badly.

Today is my third anniversary of being on Twitter. Call me an early adopter. You can see my first post here: http://is.gd/bDvPr

Apr 22: On this date in 1993, Mosaic, the first web browser, is released. Mosaic developers later made Netscape, which lead to Mozilla.

How did I not know that the Super Mario Bros Super Show was on Netflix for streaming? Late 80’s cartoon, here I come! http://is.gd/bCv5m!

April 21: Roughly 100,000 students gather in Tiananmen Square to commemorate Hu Yaobang on this date in 1989. (Build up to the massacre)

I wish the voices in my head wouldn’t ignore me now. Its so quite up there.

Apr 20th: On this date in… in… hmm… I’m hungry.

I’m presently wow-ing people with my ability to actually pronounce the name of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull :)

Noam Chomsky Has ‘Never Seen Anything Like This’ - http://is.gd/bzp1i (Love me some Chomsky)

This… this makes me laugh. 7 Awkward Family Pictures - http://is.gd/bzlJc

Looking down Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull volcano - http://is.gd/bzl2Y

T.E.A. B.A.G.G.E.R. = Totally Enraged About Blacks And Gays Getting Equal Rights

Apr 19: On this date in 1936 was the beginning of the Great Uprising in Palestine. (Protest of colonial rule and mass Jewish immigration)

So, Halo 2 is finished. Trying to connect to the servers results in an error. Bye ol’ gal, we’ll miss you.

At this time, three years ago, I was just finishing my first day of work at UTD.

Goldman Sachs charged with fraud! I hope this is a sign of things to come. These bastards need to be wiped out quickly.

Apr 16: Today is the calculated date of when the Greek king Odysseus returned home from the Trojan War in 1178 BC.

Tonight is the final night for playing original Xbox games on Xbox Live. After tonight Microsoft is shutting down support for these older games. I’ll be on playing classic Halo 2 until the servers shut down.

Apr 14: In the Gopalganj district of Bangladesh in 1986, 2.2 lb hailstones fall in what remains the heaviest hailstones ever recorded.

I just made my first video for YouTube. Yay! It’s probably pretty bad, but I was oddly nervous making it.

Apr 13: An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks severely damages Apollo 13 en route to the Moon on this date in 1970.

Finally got 100% of the achievements for Halo 3: ODST yesterday afternoon.

Apr 12: Space Shuttle Columbia launched for the first space shuttle mission (STS-1) on this date in 1981.

Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster it’s Friday! RAmen!

Apr 9th: Martin Luther King’s funeral was held on this date in 1968.

Apr 8: Longacre Square in Manhattan is renamed Times Square after The New York Times on this date in 1904.

Virginia has declared April as Confederate History Month. No one saw a problem with that? At all?

Apr 7: Today is the symbolic birth date of the Internet when on this date in 1969 RFC 1 is published.

Apr 6: The Rwandan Genocide begins when the aircraft carrying the Rwandan and Burundian president was shot down on this date in 1994.

Two grilled cheese sandwiches and two oranges for lunch. I’m spoiled :)

Apr 5: On this date in 1930, Mohandas Gandhi breaks British law in an act of civil disobedience by walking to the sea and making salt.

Someone was just accepted at UT Dallas. I’m not naming names, but it begins with a ‘C’, and ends with ‘hristy’. - - - Congratulations baby :)

I continue to work on my video game database website. I’ve finished most, if not all, games released up to Dec 2009. The information represents nearly one half-million rows of data in the database. Insane!

Apr 2: The first full-time movie theater in the United States, “Electric Theatre”, opens on this date in 1902 in Los Angeles, CA.

Wikipedia’s main page is pretty funny today, being April Fools day. The stuff they have listed isn’t lies, but it is the truth represented in humorous ways.

April Fools Day is for amateurs. You NEVER need an excuse to mess with people’s heads.

Apr 1: During last years G-20 protest an English newspaper vendor, Ian Tomlinson, was assaulted by London police and died minutes later.

Mar 31: On this date in 1889, the Eiffel Tower was inaugurated. Also on this date in 1912, construction was completed on the RMS Titanic.

Mar 30th: On this date in 240 BCE, the oldest record that exists today of Halley’s Comet.

Traffic was horrid this morning. Took ten minutes to go from Plano Rd to 75. I probably could’ve walked it faster.

Did you know: That as of 11AM Central Time, I have been alive for 930,617,000 seconds? http://dubhghlas.info/aboutme/

Mar 29: In 1807, Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovered the asteroid “4 Vesta.” The brightest and second most massive in the belt.

Mar 28th: On this date in 845, Paris was sacked by Viking raiders who then collected a large ransom to leave.

My cat walked across my keyboard while I was on Google and she caused it to search for V for Vendetta. Gooooood kitty :)

Can’t sleep… don’t feel good.

Mar 24th: On this date in 1832, a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr. in Hiram, Ohio.

I feel… bleah. A warm laptop is keeping me company.

Suddenly, scaring me to death, Christy Jedigoddess screams in the kitchen, while jumping, “I did it! I opened it!” What did she open with such glee to cause such a commotion? A can of pasta sauce with a can opener…

Wow… the ground is completely covered with snow. It’s almost April…

Mar 20th: The Equinox.

Mar 19: Pluto was photographed for the first time on this date in 1915. It would be another 15 years before it was recognized as a planet and 91 years to its reclassification as the second largest Dwarf Planet.

Mar 18: On this date in 1893 Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada.

Triskaidekaphobia - fear of the number 13 - is rather silly, isn’t it?

Mar 17th: On this date in 1780, George Washington gives the Continental Army a holiday “as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence”.

Christy Jedigoddess loves me and knows me so much… … …. she can tell what I’ve eaten just by the scent of my farts.

Playing with Internet Explorer 9 Beta Preview. I’m amazed at how fast it runs. This is definitely not like the other IEs.

Mar 16th: The Battle of Boroughbridge - a battle in the First War of Scottish Independence - occurs on this date in 1322.

Is it strange that it bugs the hell out of me when people call it “Daylight Savings Time”? It is an odd thing to have a pet-peeve over.

Mar 15: Julius Caesar is stabbed to death by Brutus, Cassius, and several other Roman senators on this date in 44 BCE.

Mar 14: π day (pi day). The day where math geeks celebrate 3.14159265358979323846264338327950288419716939937510582097494459230781640628620899862803482534211706798214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812848111745028410270193852110555964462294895493038196442881097566593344612847564823378678316527120190914564856692346034861045432664821339360726024914127372458700660631558817488152092096282925409171536436789259036

Mar 12, 1930: Gandhi leads the “Dandi March” in defiance of the British to protest the British taxation on salt. http://is.gd/alfRV

Mar 11: On this date in 1425 BCE pharaoh Thutmose III, “the Napoleon of Egypt”, died.

Had to run about 15 feet from one building to another… soaked pretty good in between the buildings.

Mar 10: On this date in 241 BCE: The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.

Mar 9th: On this date in 1841 the US Supreme Court ruled that the captive Africans on the Amistad had been taken illegally.

Blood pressure … rising………

Mar 8th: International Women’s Day - http://is.gd/9Xwtx

Now watching: Alice in Wonderland in 3D.

Palm just updated the operating system for my phone. It can now record videos. Awesome.

Mar 5th: On this date in 1982 the Venera 14 Soviet satellite arrives at Venus.

Mar 4th: On this date in 1789 the first Congress of the United States meets in New York City, putting the United States Constitution into effect.

Pretty excited about the return of the magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly. That was my childhood right there.

Mar 3rd: On this date in 1875 the opera Carmen receives its premiere in Paris - also the first organized indoor hockey game was played .

Mar 2nd: On this date in 1717 the first ballet ever performed in England, The Loves of Mars and Venus, occurred.

Mar 1: 1954 - Castle Bravo is detonated on Bikini Atoll resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the US.

Feb 28th: On this date in 1935 DuPont scientist Wallace Carothers invents Nylon.

Just got done violently throwing up everything I’ve eaten today… so hard I even busted the blood capillaries around my eyes. It’s safe to say that I don’t feel too good.

Feb 26: On this date in 1935, Robert Watson-Watt carries out a demonstration which leads directly to the development of RADAR.

I’ve recently discovered the magic of Earl Grey Tea. Yum yum.

Feb 25th: On this date in 138, Roman Emperor Hadrian adopts Antoninus Pius, setting him up to become future emperor.

Feb 24th: Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar (our current calendar) on this date in 1582.

Feb 23: День защитника Отечества (Defender of the Fatherland), Russian holiday celebrating people serving in (or veterans of) the military.

Feb 22nd: Galileo’s Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems is published on this date in 1632.

I say: “Hey, the NAACP chose a woman to be president”… and without missing a beat Christy Jedigoddess says “And a black one too”… failing to notice that I had said NAACP.

The element with the atomic number 112 has been officially named Copernicium (Cn) - Previously known as Ununbium (Uub)

Feb 21st: The first self-propelling steam train makes its first run near Merthyr Tydfil in south Wales on this date in 1804.

Feb 20th: In 1943 the American movie studios agreed to allow the Office of War Information to censor American movies.

Possible snow all day Tuesday.

Feb 19th: In 1600 the Peruvian stratovolcano Huaynaputina erupted. It is the most violent volcanic eruption recorded in South America.

Feb 18th: On this date in 1930 Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto while studying photographs he had taken in January of that year.