Cruise this list of origami models and fold (or knit) away to rousing choruses of “Happy Birthday Albert Einstein”. Alternatively, look at some origami tessellations (beautiful).
Today is definitely one day of the year that I observe by appreciating your patience and willingness to put up with me.
You’re talking to someone who nearly got a golden spiral tattoo a couple years back; is phi as nerdy as pi?? According to that quiz though, I’m only 49% nerdy. Hmm…
Darby
March 15th, 2007
8:06 AM
So that’s why my daughter had pie in math yesterday! (She’s in 7th grade and just learning about pi…. thank goodness she’s better at math than I ever was… although I did make it through Calc II in college, which of course I use all the time now : )
La BellaDonna
March 15th, 2007
10:08 AM
Oh, how I regret letting the sweatshirt with pi and The Brain (of Pinky and The Brain fame – two laboratory mice who want to take over the world) on it get away from me! I coveted it for my brother.
And what is this “put up with” you talk about? We like you the way you are, remember?
I took the AQ test. I was … a trifle surprised to find out that I scored a 41. Now I feel gypped; I feel as if I managed to accumulate most, if not all the disadvantages, with none of the talents. :(
Lisa
March 15th, 2007
10:38 AM
Consider me a nerd…test or no test. I’ve been celebrating Pi Day every year since college, where we convinced our math/computer science professors to let us eat pie during class. My husband teaches Algebra I and is passing on the “tradition” to his students.
Alissa
March 15th, 2007
3:07 PM
Here’s a story in our local paper today about a sixth grader who won her school’s pi day contest by reciting the first 801 digits of pi! She won a night w/out math homework (for the first 40 digits) a free lunch (for the first 100 digits) and successfully defended her title as the Pi Queen of Harbor Day School! (There’s a video link attached to the on-line story…)
Me? 96% nerd … and that’s with having never had math higher than Caculus.
Kathleen, feel free to delete this is you feel it’s gratuitous advertising … but when I wear my GOAT hat I designed a bunch of Pi Day and scientist’s birthday images for t-shirts and other miscellany. They’re on sale at: http://www.zazzle.com/CartesianBear*
And my whole family are nerds … my kids sing Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements Song”, and my son’s favorite bed time reading at age 2 was “My First Book of Numbers” (Kindergarten math).
[...] I had another entry planned for today but a link to a video of how baseballs are made that Gini Cornila sent is too perfect to pass up on Pi Day. Yes it’s Pi Day, a day of nerd festivities. If you planned ahead, you’re having pie (I didn’t plan ahead and wish I had a pie). If you didn’t and need a substitute activity, you can take some brainiac quizzes instead. [...]
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10 Responses to “Pi Day!”
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March 14th, 2007
2:22 PM
We are a household of geeks. We made banana pi to celebrate.
Frank is a surveying engineer and self proclaimed math geek. My kid already seems to enjoy numbers be sane, simple and elegant.
And having a 5 year old recognize pi is priceless. LOL, comprehension can come later.
March 14th, 2007
3:06 PM
I didn’t know. I did know about Mole day.
March 14th, 2007
9:26 PM
You’re talking to someone who nearly got a golden spiral tattoo a couple years back; is phi as nerdy as pi?? According to that quiz though, I’m only 49% nerdy. Hmm…
March 15th, 2007
8:06 AM
So that’s why my daughter had pie in math yesterday! (She’s in 7th grade and just learning about pi…. thank goodness she’s better at math than I ever was… although I did make it through Calc II in college, which of course I use all the time now : )
March 15th, 2007
10:08 AM
Oh, how I regret letting the sweatshirt with pi and The Brain (of Pinky and The Brain fame – two laboratory mice who want to take over the world) on it get away from me! I coveted it for my brother.
And what is this “put up with” you talk about? We like you the way you are, remember?
I took the AQ test. I was … a trifle surprised to find out that I scored a 41. Now I feel gypped; I feel as if I managed to accumulate most, if not all the disadvantages, with none of the talents. :(
March 15th, 2007
10:38 AM
Consider me a nerd…test or no test. I’ve been celebrating Pi Day every year since college, where we convinced our math/computer science professors to let us eat pie during class. My husband teaches Algebra I and is passing on the “tradition” to his students.
March 15th, 2007
3:07 PM
Here’s a story in our local paper today about a sixth grader who won her school’s pi day contest by reciting the first 801 digits of pi! She won a night w/out math homework (for the first 40 digits) a free lunch (for the first 100 digits) and successfully defended her title as the Pi Queen of Harbor Day School! (There’s a video link attached to the on-line story…)
March 19th, 2008
5:19 PM
32, 97%, J.L. Doob’s Measure Theory. Thanks :-).
October 18th, 2009
3:10 PM
Me? 96% nerd … and that’s with having never had math higher than Caculus.
Kathleen, feel free to delete this is you feel it’s gratuitous advertising … but when I wear my GOAT hat I designed a bunch of Pi Day and scientist’s birthday images for t-shirts and other miscellany. They’re on sale at: http://www.zazzle.com/CartesianBear*
And my whole family are nerds … my kids sing Tom Lehrer’s “The Elements Song”, and my son’s favorite bed time reading at age 2 was “My First Book of Numbers” (Kindergarten math).
March 14th, 2012
2:53 PM
[...] I had another entry planned for today but a link to a video of how baseballs are made that Gini Cornila sent is too perfect to pass up on Pi Day. Yes it’s Pi Day, a day of nerd festivities. If you planned ahead, you’re having pie (I didn’t plan ahead and wish I had a pie). If you didn’t and need a substitute activity, you can take some brainiac quizzes instead. [...]