Jim over the Velvet Blog (your source for spontaneous combustion vietnamese meatballs) made a joke of the fact that today is Pi Day (since it's March 14th, which would be written "3.14" - the value of pi - if anyone actually wrote dates like that).
He pretty much implied that only the nerdiest of nerds would celebrate such a nerdy holiday, but it was too late - he had mentioned pies. The idea was instantly and quite firmly planted in my brain.
So I stopped at the Ac-a-me on the way home and we celebrated Pi(e) Day. Except for the four-year-old who didn't want any pie! (I might just do a DNA test on him tomorrow).
Celebrating Pi(e) Day not nerdy enough for you? Fine, how about this?
That's right, it's pie squared! Ha!
I'd give that joke a 9.8696044.
Lemon meringue?
Posted by: yoko | 2007.03.14 at 10:33 PM
Yeah, not what I would normally go for, but the only other choices were pumpkin(?!?) and coconut. If I had planned better I would have stopped at Le Bus.
Posted by: Mark | 2007.03.15 at 08:14 AM
T-day tradition be damned--pumpkin just doesn't belong in pie. Bleh.
Posted by: Jim Donahue | 2007.03.15 at 08:41 AM
Pi(e) squared?
You make me sad.
Posted by: TwoBusy | 2007.03.15 at 09:53 AM
This marks me as the profound nerd-girl that we all already know I am....
But your celebration made me laugh---even and especially the "pie squared"!
Posted by: Sherri W. | 2007.03.15 at 05:03 PM
I caught a story about Pi Day on All Things Considered the other day. They had the guy from Upper Darby who's the world record holder for Pi recitation. Apparently he (only) made it to the 12,887th digit...
Posted by: howard | 2007.03.16 at 06:53 AM
Oh yeah, I meant to leave this link for you. It's got audio and everything.
Posted by: howard | 2007.03.16 at 06:57 AM