*(That’s 3/14 in USA date format, for those who write it the other way around.)
This photo from the employee lounge on Robert’s floor at Science magazine shows why geek-rich environments are great places to work.
Where will you be at 1:59?
Happy Pi Day*, Everybody!
I hope pie will be served at this office party…
I strongly suspect that it will be. I’ll do my best to keep mine on the table, but it might not be easy given my history.
Goggles only heighten your already-remarked-upon resemblance to Chris Ferguson.
Speaking of astronauts, last night I went to hear the Irish folk band the Chieftains performing at the Kennedy Center. In a special guest appearance, Cady Coleman came out and accompanied a couple of numbers on her flute. She described how she had borrowed a flute and a tin whistle from the band to take with her on a six-month stint on board the International Space Station. “When I gave them back, they had traveled 93 million miles,” she said. I was so busy mentally checking that figure that I didn’t even listen to their next tune.
As it happens, it was. I counted about eight different types — all terrestrial, none aerial. Oh, well, one can’t have everything.
Now THERE’S a pleasant meaning for GREs.
I was acting with a group from my theater class. We were doing a Traveling Scene; a play of the story of Echo and Narcissus. I believe that at that particular time, we were performing in my Latin 4 class.
I won second place in a memorization contest at my school’s math club’s pi party! I knew one hunded forty digits. My opponent knew three hundred and fourteen.
My school had a pi party! I memorized 68 digits! And ate two slices of pie! And that’s why I’m so hyper!
I had a free period, and I was doing math homework. It was trigonometry, so that did involve pi’s.