I may be the only person on the Internet who, despite its namesake, finds “Pi Day” on March 14th completely irrational. Here’s why: It’s completely arbitrary. Only we in the U.S. write the date with the month before the day and year like mm/dd/yy. This violates everything sacred about significance in number systems. Normally, digits are ordered from most- to least-significant left to right or least- to most-significance. So, Pi Day including the year actually wouldn’t occur until 3141/59/27 or 31/41/5927, neither of which are real dates anyway. Therefore, Pi Day doesn’t actually exist. I propose a rational alternative definition of Pi Day to be July 22nd (22/7) of every year. Besides, red raspberries are in season in July and not in March so I can enjoy my favorite pie.
Archive for March, 2015
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March 13th, 2015Pictures from KH8 (second trip)
March 1st, 2015I made another trip to American Sa’moa (KH8 for the radio amateurs in the audience) to deploy instrumentation. It was a tight timeframe but the instruments seem to work and I managed to make a few ham radio contacts as well.
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