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m00n

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Mar 14, 2006 23:02

Well, I had originally planned to make some elaborately nerdy post about today's date, but the day (a good day!) was far too full of events to allow for any kind of post at all, and I couldn't let the day go by without giving at least some kind of acknowledgment, so without further ado...

Happy π day, everyone!

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belacane March 15 2006, 14:42:12 UTC

and happy birthday to albert einstein.....

I suppose it'll be even more of a big deal in 2015?

solange March 15 2006, 19:24:30 UTC

I'm gonna party like it's 1592, personally.

m00n March 15 2006, 23:30:19 UTC

I was secretly really hoping someone would comment and say that. I had a feeling that it would be you. :-)

solange March 16 2006, 08:48:21 UTC

Heh, yeah. Next time you don't have time to meet your nerdiness quota just give me a call, I'll cover for you.

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nevers March 15 2006, 14:57:11 UTC

yay, you're the only other person on my flist who posted about it.
you chose a very nice font to display pi in! or is it just tnr? anyway, pretty pi :).

m00n March 15 2006, 23:17:28 UTC

It's TNR, but I did have to pick it by hand because you never know what people will be displaying things in, and my little entry previewer wanted to display it in Arial, which makes it look like this:

π

and I thought that was pretty lame. I was thinking of putting my post on top of a background image with thousands of digits of π written in very faint gray text above a transparent background, but I didn't really have time to put that together and it would probably have looked funny on everyone else's friends page anyway.

nevers March 15 2006, 23:35:21 UTC

yeah, the π in the subject line of my entry is very ugly, but i didn't have time to put anything nicer together, either.

m00n March 16 2006, 00:58:59 UTC

Yep. The really pretty parts of the π are the serifs and your journal font is a sans-serif font, as is mine. Furthermore, you can't change the display font of the subject. Oh well!

quintic March 15 2006, 15:23:07 UTC

Mmmmm, pi.

m00n March 15 2006, 23:28:36 UTC

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solange March 16 2006, 01:08:39 UTC

Nice icon, yo. It makes me think there should be a joke that starts, "How many monkeys does it take to prove the continuum hypothesis?" I don't know what the punchline would be. Although maybe the undecidability of the punchline is part of the joke.

m00n March 16 2006, 01:10:09 UTC

A: "munch"

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