When someone asks you, "A penny for your thoughts" and you put your two cents in . . what happens to the other penny?



Thursday, March 13, 2008

HAPPY PI DAY!


As you may or may not be aware, tomorrow, March 14th, is Pi Day. For those less enthusiastic in the science realm, a little explanation: The date tomorrow: 3/14.
Pi: 3.14.

Last year a professor and I started a department-wide celebration. I made flyers. We were going to celebrate Pi Day with STYLE!
I went down to Village Inn (called in an order in advance) and picked up 40 pies of all assortments. We had a big party in our conference room starting at noon and going till 1:59 (Pi is 3.14159). Well, sadly enough, within 35 minutes every last crumb of pie had disappeared and we still had an hour to celebrate!
(never underestimate the power of a starving student)
One of our newer and quite eccentric faculty members had made up a Pi song. Well, it's basically singing the numbers of Pi to 30 decimal places, to the tune of "America" from West Side Story. What a riot!!
THIS year, we are out-doing ourselves. We are not limiting the bounds of Pi Day to just dessert pies. Oh no. Along with 40 dessert pies we are also ordering 35 pizza pies. WHAT A PARTY! So tomorrow, we will celebrate with all our Nerd Pride. Perhaps some pictures will be posted later...

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Blog tag?

I guess I got tagged... ? Who knows what that is. I'm SO not blog-savvy. Oh well. Here goes.
  • Link to the person that tagged you.
  • Post the rules on your blog.
  • Share 6 non-important things/habits/quirks about yourself.
  • Tag 6 random people at the end of your post by linking to their blogs.
  • Let each person know they have been tagged by leaving a comment on their website.
1. I have a built-in mood-detector to let you know how I'm feeling. It is completely uncontrolable, but I have a ginormous birthmark on my forehead. When I am stressed or frustrated it turns bright red. When I am cold it turns purple.
2. Last Thursday I literally had to lay down on my bed to get my jeans zipped up. Watch out Belize, here I come. :-(
3. Compared to all other Sudoku sites in the Universe, I find the USAToday Online's Sudoku the best. Although it's electronic, it has a feature to let you annotate numbers of possible answers in the boxes. MMMMmmmm.
4. Perhaps one of the stupidest things I hear people say, and is my greatest grammatical petpeeve, is when people say "I could care less". What they really mean to say is "I couldN'T care less". If you tell someone that there are other things you DO care less about than what they're talking about, isn't that a compliment?
5. I will not be tagging 6 other people. Not only do I not know 6 people with blogs, but I am also an advocate for The Stop to Chain-Mail or Bulk E-mails.
Yes, for all you pathetic people that forward on e-mails with pictures of babies dressed up like flowers with life-motivating stories and slogans, the buck stops here.
6. Every night since 9-11 I have watched Sabrina (the newer version with Harrison Ford) while going to sleep. When you quote a movie, people say something about "Oh, seen this movie a couple times before?" and everyone has a quick laugh.
No, in all reality, I have infact seen this movie nearing 1,000 times.

Am i done yet??