“¡ <3 teh π,” says Jmo. And her mom echoes the emotion. Who knew 3/14 was pi day? The MIT geekery were aware of course. And it is old Albert Einstein’s birthday, so one assumes his temporally dislocated housemate knew… just a minnit, I’ll run check. Absence of blog post content does not in this case imply lack of knowledge, I think. But surprisingly there is no pi post at Betsy’s.
Today at 1:59, Beth and her co-workers had pie. (3.14159, get it?)
And in San Francisco, there seems to be some kind of pizza π celebration underway at the Exploratorium.
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Betsy Devine 03.14.07 at 9:50
Hi Frank–thanks for reminding me, I ran out and got Uncle Albert some late birthday roses. I think he looked a little bit teary-eyed when I showed up so…
Hope you and he will join me over at my *new* blog house. Lots of room, not even any cat hair on the furniture yet. So please swap your blogroll to my new address, ok?
Jmo 03.15.07 at 4:04
3/14 is pie day — although in the UK we’re a backwards sort and have it as 14/3 — which is obviously a nod for people from R-2-L reading countries to join in on pi day as a unified international force of joy and wonderness.
But oh man, it might be 3/15 for me now so so maybe I need to watch my friends pretty carefully when we go get pizza.
Frank Paynter 03.15.07 at 6:49
Whoa! The Pides of March!
Stu Savory 03.15.07 at 10:50
I did a PI poem for you americans, Frank
Dean Landsman 03.15.07 at 6:40
What, no mention that it was my birthday, too? I share this day with Einstein, Quincy Jones, Billy Crystal, Michael Caine and also the anniversary of Eli Whitney’s patenting of the cotton gin (3/14/1794).
A High School out on the Oysland of Lawnge (somewhere near NYC) celebrates Pi Day each year. Turns out my old Biology teacher from HS started this tradition as a Math teacher in her later life.
As fate would have it, during our dinner celebration of the day, Pi were triangular, as Susan ordered SUGAR FREE apple pie and I had SUGAR FREE cheesecake.
That pie (and cake) are not square.
Frank Paynter 03.15.07 at 9:08
Yeah, but I think you were leaving this comment about the same time as I was posting my belated greetings after reading your blog! Happy Pi day birthday Dean.