Topic: Just Not Into Pi Day

[OldSchool_IsCool]

Happy March 14th Everyone!

I'm sure many of you have been greeted or have greeted others with "Happy Pi Day!" today. Perhaps you have taken advantage of businesses offering a free slice of pizza pie or coffee on the house with the purchase of a serving of apple pie. Well you can just take your nerdy winks and smiles of superior intelligence elsewhere, I'm just not into it!

I mean, how can we support a fake holiday for Pi when there is no similarly fake holiday for Avogadro's Number? Yes, 3.14 is a big deal. Without it, how would Science Fiction movies let their audiences know that the radio signal just received from the Vega Cluster came from an intelligent source? But is the number of molecules in a gram molecular weight of EACH and EVERY substance in the universe any less important? Granted, Avogadro's number is HUGE (6.02 x10^23), but at least it has an end. With Pi, you can NEVER get to the bottom of it! I bristle at the blatant favoritism of Mathematicians over Chemists! It not right that we should support a ginned up holiday created for the sole benefit of Big Pastry!

If you want me to celebrate Pi Day, then you MUST join me in celebrating June 2nd as  Avogadro's Number Day! That should make the executives in the Guacamole Industrial Complex happy!

If there is misdirected outrage anywhere in the world, COUNT ME IN!

[Sigop]

I'm with you, OldSchool.  Where would Pi be without Archimedes?

[OldSchool_IsCool]

I'm with you, OldSchool.  Where would Pi be without Archimedes?

Pfft! Archimedes, what a HACK!  All this talk of a “leaver large enough to lift the world”!  It doesn’t take a mental heavyweight to know that, once you build such a leaver, that you will have exhausted all of the Earth’s raw materials and that there would be no world left to be lifted!  Beside, what are you going to use as a fulcrum, the MOON?

Yeah, a real GENIOUS there!

[Yamahawk]

I'm with you, OldSchool.  Where would Pi be without Archimedes?

Pfft! Archimedes, what a HACK!  All this talk of a “leaver large enough to lift the world”!  It doesn’t take a mental heavyweight to know that, once you build such a leaver, that you will have exhausted all of the Earth’s raw materials and that there would be no world left to be lifted!  Beside, what are you going to use as a fulcrum, the MOON?

Yeah, a real GENIOUS there!

..and what about Phonics... we need more of that, evidently.
Charlie

[OldSchool_IsCool]

Good point Charlie, just why is funetics speld that way NEway?

[Yamahawk]

I could never phigure that out, myself lol
Charlie

[Duke McDukiedook]

I will celebrate Avogadro's day if you celebrate natural logarithm day with me - 2-17.

[Yamahawk]

The only problem I see with that, is I have never seen a Log with Rhythm... they all fall down.
Charlie

[Steve F]

I once heard that Al Gore has rhythm.........

[Yamahawk]

I once heard that Al Gore has rhythm.........

Yeah, he does have rhythm, but no rhyme or reason lol... "He did the Mash.. He did the Monster Mash..."
Charlie

[MikeSimon]

All the time during High School (Germany) and University I could not shake the feeling that they tried desperately to turn Math into a science.
While I accepted Physics and Chemistry as real sciences, Math eluded me as far as that was concerned. I still remember the math prof writing endless formulas on the chalkboard and we students desperately tried to keep up copying them into our notebooks before they were erased to make more room for more formulas.

[Scott S]

 Really? Ya'll just didn't celebrate it with the right person.