Celebrating Pi day is completely irrational. (I bet you only heard that 1000 times)
For one thing, July 22 is just as logical a day to celebrate it.
For another, I'm sure you mathematic-y guys have other 'significant' sequences that you could celebrate just about every other day. How about square root of 2 day, you could celebrate that on January 41.
Crud. Well maybe not that one.
Anyway, speaking as someone coming from a completely different field, I think it's pretty ridiculous. I mean, when was the last time you saw a bunch of geographers pick a natural phenomena and make a holiday out of it? You know, something completely arbitrary like when the annual cycle reaches it's extremes. We could get naked and dance around a campfire, or balance eggs on their ends, or even put trees in our houses and pretend we aren't participating in ancient pagan rituals.
I was thinking about this, and I think that Pi day is cool, in part, because of its commonplaceness. Fewer people would get e day, for instance.
On the other hand, I just had people over to celebrate Daylight Saving Time, and I've been experimenting with other holidays. Maybe Pi day is a gateway holiday?!
Yeah, but Pi day isn't nearly as logical as celebrating the eruption of Mt. Mazama, or the 1,000,000,000 year anniversary of the end of the Mesoproterozic era next August 8. It's more like celebrating Corundum day on the ninth of every month.
Not that we don't need a good Corundum day every now and again. Mmmm, I miss Mom's Corundum brownies.
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On the other hand, people made pies to bring in. There was rhubarb pie, even.
I decided to be different and take roughly spherical foods.
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(I bet you only heard that 1000 times)
For one thing, July 22 is just as logical a day to celebrate it.
For another, I'm sure you mathematic-y guys have other 'significant' sequences that you could celebrate just about every other day. How about square root of 2 day, you could celebrate that on January 41.
Crud. Well maybe not that one.
Anyway, speaking as someone coming from a completely different field, I think it's pretty ridiculous. I mean, when was the last time you saw a bunch of geographers pick a natural phenomena and make a holiday out of it? You know, something completely arbitrary like when the annual cycle reaches it's extremes. We could get naked and dance around a campfire, or balance eggs on their ends, or even put trees in our houses and pretend we aren't participating in ancient pagan rituals.
Double crud.
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On the other hand, I just had people over to celebrate Daylight Saving Time, and I've been experimenting with other holidays. Maybe Pi day is a gateway holiday?!
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Not that we don't need a good Corundum day every now and again. Mmmm, I miss Mom's Corundum brownies.
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