March 2011 “Happy Birthday!” Thread

Known Muser birthdays and “K Days” this month*:

03-01 Nighthawk’s birthday (1996 – actually February 29!)
03-01 Cat’s Meow’s birthday (1995 – orange)
03-02 Jadestone’s 7K Day
03-04 emmatheduck’s birthday (1993 – carroty)
03-04 bubbles’s birthday (year? – teal)
03-07 bluefire27’s 5K Day
03-23 MontgomeryGurl’s birthday (1991 – blue, sky or light)
03-23 Daisy*chain’s birthday (YEAR? COLOR?)
03-23 Optimatum’s birthday (1996)
03-24 Goldendoodle’s 6K Day
03-26 Shadowkat’s birthday (1991 – black, purple, and silver)
03-26 Clare de Lune’s birthday (1996 – robin’s egg blue, lime green, and chocolate)
03-27 ~Cskia’s birthday (1996 – red, white, blue, black)
03-27 Kokopelli #13’s 6K Day
03-29 Luna the Lovely’s birthday (1990 – pink + light blue)
03-29 Silver Lining’s 5K Day
03-29 Red-tailed HAWK’s 6K Day
03-30 gradster’s birthday (1993)
03-31 The Skipper Nancy’s 7K Day

You turn 5,000 days old this month if you were born between June 23 and July 23, 1997.
You turn 6,000 days old this month if you were born between September 27 and October 27, 1994.
You turn 7,000 days old this month if you were born between January 1 and January 31, 1992.

*Note: Listed MBers who have been inactive for several months won’t appear on next year’s birthday calendar unless they show up again.

Unintended Pun’s Croatian Song

This seems to be getting lost on the Music thread, so we’re reposting it here.

Here’s what UP (a.k.a. Karin) says about it:

This is Niska Banja, a Croatian song. The bug/prim player/other singer is my friend Angela.

Verses:
Niska Banja-both singers
Croatian 10-Angela
Spanish 10-Both
Russian 10-Karin (UP)
Niska Banja- Both

Many different versions of the lyrics exist, and translations are easy to find online. Basically, it’s about the wild times young men have at a Serbian hot-springs resort called Niska Banja (pronounced “Neeshka Bahnya”) — drinking, dancing, wenching, the usual guy stuff.

Farewell to Pi?

A physicist named Michael Hartl wants us all to scrap pi and instead use a mathematical constant he calls tau, which is equal to two times pi. (It’s the circumference of a circle divided by the radius instead of the diameter.)

Tau makes a lot of formulas neater. For example, when you’re describing counterclockwise rotations on a unit circle, does anybody really understand why 180 degrees should be equal to pi? But a full 360-degree revolution equal to tau — that makes sense.

Anyway, we’re semi-convinced, so we’re adding Tau Day to the MuseBlog calendar on June 28. Now somebody has to invent something tasty called a “tau” for us to eat then.