The rain is back! And Happy Pi Day!
By The Horse
@TheHorse (218818)
Walnut Creek, California
March 14, 2021 9:42pm CST
I can't believe I almost missed Pi Day! Pi Day, of course, celebrates 3/14, or 3.14, if you prefer, the approximate value of pi. Pi, as we all remember from High School days, is the value you multiply the width of a circle by to obtain its circumference.
I was a "stoner" in high school days, and only have pi memorized to a few digits: 3.141592654, but I am sure that those who were better students in their younger days will have it memorized to 20 digits and more.
Many celebrate pi day by eating apple pi, or whatever their favorite might be. I, as a boor and heathen, mostly ate leftover corned beef and cabbage today.
It's raining outside, so I will listen to the gentle sound and perhaps play some guitar along with it. How are you celebrating Pi Day?
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@marguicha (222994)
• Chile
15 Mar 21
I learned 3.1416. But I never thought that I was a bad student. I memorized poems and still know them.
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@marguicha (222994)
• Chile
15 Mar 21
@TheHorse I don´t know that one. I learnt poems in Spanish. I learnt a few poems in English later on in life like The Raven and Hamlet´s soliloquy.
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@TheHorse (218818)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Mar 21
@marguicha Can you present a few lines? There are some poems that stick in my head. And one that I set to music while pooping in Iowa. It was a cold Winter night. But my heater was working. The poem was called Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. It was by Robert Frost.
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
15 Mar 21
Happy PI day! Just usual things. Rain stopped, so went to do laundry at laundry at laundry room. Made stew for dinner.
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@TheHorse (218818)
• Walnut Creek, California
16 Mar 21
@oahuwriter Sounds good. Hmm. Maybe I'll eat some chicken noodle soup before I crash.
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@oahuwriter (26777)
• United States
16 Mar 21
@TheHorse
Ok, tomorrow then. I'm taking a break from it, today. Eating Udon, a Japanese noodles dish this evening.
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@BarBaraPrz (47308)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
15 Mar 21
Yeah, I didn't realize it until late in the day.
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@BarBaraPrz (47308)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
15 Mar 21
@TheHorse How could you forget?
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@TheHorse (218818)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Mar 21
@BarBaraPrz As an act of atonement, maybe I'll learn Pi out to a few more digits.
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@toniganzon (72281)
• Philippines
15 Mar 21
We never celebrate Pi day here but it’s the same day i gave birth to my son.
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@xander6464 (44241)
• Wapello, Iowa
15 Mar 21
I love corned beef and cabbage. Especially this close to St. Patrick's Day.
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@xander6464 (44241)
• Wapello, Iowa
15 Mar 21
@TheHorse Those are the Leftovers Of The Gods.
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@TheHorse (218818)
• Walnut Creek, California
15 Mar 21
@xander6464 They really are. I treated it as delicious soup and had Irish....I mean French...bread on the side.
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@LadyDuck (471500)
• Switzerland
15 Mar 21
We do not celebrate Pi Day because we write the dates in a different way and yesterday it was 14.3.2021...
I always hated math, I still remember all poems I studied in school, but I can only remember that Pi Greek is 3.14159, my husband surely knows a lot more digits.
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@wolfgirl569 (106226)
• Marion, Ohio
15 Mar 21
I didnt know it was pi day. If I had I would have made some apple crisp at least
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@LindaOHio (178568)
• United States
15 Mar 21
I didn't realize that Pi day was yesterday; but I did have a piece of lemon meringue pie.
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@isweartokira (3460)
• United States
15 Mar 21
I didn't have any pie on pi day, but I have an apple pie scented candle that I can light. does that count?
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
15 Mar 21
Happy pi day a day late!
i completely forgot to get pi yesterday. So I did 3 jumping jacks 14 times instead!
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@DocAndersen (54402)
• United States
15 Mar 21
@TheHorse i thought so! normally we have chocolate pudding pi with whipped cream, cut into really small pieces but I forgot!
@moffittjc (121582)
• Gainesville, Florida
15 Mar 21
At work, we usually have a pie baking contest to celebrate Pi Day. However, with the day falling on a weekend, there was no pie baking contest this year. Which is perfectly okay with me, since I've been out sick with Covid anyway.
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@moffittjc (121582)
• Gainesville, Florida
15 Mar 21
@TheHorse I do feel like I'm a little better today than I was yesterday. Nothing hugely noticeable, but I sense that I'm a tad bit better today than yesterday.