3.14159265

Once again, it's π day, and the best way to celebrate π day is with this brilliant video from my pal Chris Hardwick:


And if that's not enough for you, please enjoy this classic WWdN π day rerun:

This morning over breakfast, I said to my wife, "Happy π day!"

"Happy pie day? What the hell are you talking about?"

"No, not 'pie'," I said. "'π'."

"Not 'pie,' but 'pie.'" She was clearly not amused. "Isn't it a little early to be drinking?"

"Anne, look at the date on the calendar."

"Yes it's march 14th, and you're going to watch WrestleMania dos equis* with your brother." She frowned. "Are you trying to tell me that you're taking a pie to Jeremy's house? Because if you expect me to make you a pie . . ."

"No, I don't expect you to make me a pie." I said, well into that area where you've explained the joke so much, it's never going to be funny.

"Today is March fourteenth. That makes it 3.14 on the calendar. 3.14 is also known as π."

She blinked a few times.

"Oh. It's π day."

"Yes!" I said. "And at 1:59 pm, it will be even more π day. Isn't that cool!?"

She took a long, thoughtful drink from her coffee mug, carefully set it down and said, "You are such a nerd."

*It's actually Wrestlemania XX, as in Wrestlemania Twenty, but we've been cracking ourselves up by calling it Wrestlemania dos equis all week.

Happy March 14, everyone. May you know the area of every circle you encounter today.

Comments

[Joel]

It's also Einstein's b-day.

The building I live in had "pie day" at 1:59, am of course.. pm is really 13:59, not the same at all.

We celebrated by eating pies. I have to explaine the significance to nearly everybody I know.

[Lex]

Technically 1:59am is 01:59, so you could celebrate at 15:92.65 (16:33.05).

This is why we should implement a metric time system.

- Lex

[Sally J]

Oh, man. That robot pi song got stuck in my head and started making me a little nutty because I don't know any of the pi numbers beyond 3.14. So I scoured the internets (and by scour I mean I typed "pi" into the search box on blinx) and found this little gem: http://www.glumbert.com/media/applepi

"This is the greatest and most humble rap you will ever hear."

Now for some pie...

P.S. Is there a code for the symbol for pi?

P.P.S. You're writing your own geek.tv show, right?

[Pustulio]

Today is also Steak and BJ day. Though if Anne balked at the idea of making you a pie...

[beelkay]

Isn't it funny how you can explain a joke too much and it isn't funny, but if you explain to someone else how you had to explain the joke it's funny again? Cuz that was funny.
B :0)

[hkdkat]

This morning my bf told me that it was pi day. I said as in apple or 3.14159 and he said that and smiled. Thank goodness he truly appreciates that I'm just enough of a geek to get it!

[Nita]

A Zoom knockoff! That had to be for all y'all growin' up in da 80s...

[head.fairy]

This may be the first time I have had a good reason to think the English date order MAY be faulty. I wanna celebrate π day...

[Kenyon]

It's also white day in Japan. But clearly we're 8 years away from full on pie day:

3/14/15

[Samurai Avon Lady]

I've been looking forward to pi day for about a month, now. I had all these plans to make a pie... perhaps a pi-pie... but alas! The best I could come up with was swapping out the binary scarf in my knitting bag with the pi scarf that I just started a couple of weeks ago.

I did make a blog post at 1:59, though. (;

[ArchaicDome]

I didn't even think about pi day. I usually celebrate mole days, though, since I'm a microbiologist. (June 22 and October 23- 6.22x10[23])

[Rilmoigan]

Toward the end, I rather expected some sort of wry Douglas Adams-esque type of narration. Just seemed to fit.

[HokieGeek]

Wow... just... wow. Way too early for this.

[LaurenC]

I'm with head.fairy. I'm all the way down here in oz...and not only am I now a day late (or 2 if you count that its now after midnight into the 16th) but the Aussie date system is the same....and therefore totally bites. No Pie day for us.
However while I was uploading my latest 365 days portrait to Flickr I realised some guy had posted his own tribute
http://flickr.com/photos/buildscharacter/422010786/in/pool-365days/

which would have gone over my head had I not read your blog 5 minutes previous.

cheers.
http://flickr.com/photos/out-of-my-mind/

[nonobjective]

I'm glad to see i'm not the only totally awesome geek out there celebrating Pi Day (i don't know the fancy unicode keystroke or whatever)

cheers!
http://www.nonobjective.com/2007/03/15/pi-314/

[Blaze Miskulin]

You missed Pie Day by a month and a half. It's on January 23rd.

Hmm... Mole Day, Pie Day and Pi Day are all within 5 months of each other... doesn't that make the calendar lopsided?

[daryl]

My wife and I chose pi day to get married, so we celebrate every year.

[Cherikooka]

Sheesh, I've been working so much, I totally skipped over Pi day. I just lost nerd points. Ugh.

[Peter]

I'm afraid I'm another Aussie for whom the date display protocol made this one hard to see coming! But I did like the 1.59pm thing :)

I guess this is on the same principle as Star Wars appreciation day on the fourth of May!

[Owen Blacker]

Love it, though the "And at 1:59 pm, it will be even more π day. Isn't that cool!?" totally made it.

We didn't get to celebrate it here. I'll use our day/month/year date order as some kind of feeble excuse. I did change my MSN handle for the day, though…