Nerd Alert!

Ken AshfordRandom MusingsLeave a Comment

Today — 3/14 — is Pi Day.  (And if you can’t figure out why 3/14 is Pi Day, then you’re not the slightest bit nerdy).

Official Pi Day website here.

USA Today offers several things you can do to celebrate:

Here’s what we found when we searched for things you can do to celebrate Pi Day:
Watch the Pi Song on YouTube. (It’s 3 minutes 14 seconds long.)
Sing of one of these Pi-related songs. This Old Pi is one of our favorites. Sung to the tune of Give a Dog a Bone, it goes: Number pi, Number pi, It’s irrational and so am I, With a 3.1415926, Pi Day is for lunatics!
This site begs you to finish the sentence: "I Love Pi Because…"

If you have a lot of time on your hands, and an unusual desire to impress someone, you can memorize some of the digits in Pi.

To get you started, here are the first 50 digits:

3.1415926535897932384626433832795028841971693993751
05820974944592307816406286208998628034825342117067
98214808651328230664709384460955058223172535940812
84811174502841027019385211055596446229489549303819
64428810975665933446128475648233786783165271201909
14564856692346034861045432664821339360726024914127
37245870066063155881748815209209628292540917153643
67892590360011330530548820466521384146951941511609
43305727036575959195309218611738193261179310511854
80744623799627495673518857527248912279381830119491

Or, if you’re like me, you can ignore the day altogether (except perhaps to blog a little about it).