Tag: "Math Geekery"
Happy Pi Day, 2011!
Looking back at my archives, I’ve found that I have celebrated every Pi Day since 2008. I’m not sure what that says about me, save that there can be no doubt that I am a ginormous geek. Still, if you have to celebrate a silly holiday, why not celebrate the one that comes with a [...]
Happy Pi Day, 2010!
Today is March 14, which means that another Pi Day is upon us. Yes, today is the day we all get together around the Pi Day Pie (perfectly round, of course) and celebrate the many uses of everyone’s favorite irrational and transcendental number*. What? You didn’t know that π had many uses? Well, just feast [...]
Science Geeks, Fire Up Your Browsers and Stock Up the Dew!
When I was a kid, I used to love leafing through my Dad’s old collection of Popular Science magazines. He didn’t have quite as many of them as he did National Geographic, but he had more than plenty to keep a curious Science Geek in Training busy for many hours*. I got away from PopSci [...]
Today is a Geek Holiday
This is a special geek alert: today is a Consecutive Integer Day. If you have any friends or co-workers who let out a little squeal at 12:34:56 PM today, just remember the date and know that they will be handy when the zombie apocalypse happens because geeks know stuff like how to distill alcohol and [...]
Happy Pi Day, 2009!
Today is Pi Day and I’m sure you have all sorts of festive activities planned for today. Of course, if you’re one of the authors of a certain Wikipedia page, you might note in a somewhat snotty manner that Pi Day was really March 4th. Pi Day is technically March 4, but observed on March [...]
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