Enough of that.
Today is March 14th! 3.14.2010!
I discovered 'Pi Day' a couple of years ago, but this is the first time I've actually celebrated it.
Now, I don't like math, but I do like the concept of a math symbol-related holiday. And a reason to eat pi. I mean pie. I also enjoy making pi jokes. (Mathematician: Pi r squared. Baker: NO! Pies are round!)
Well, when we went to the Baltimore Science Center last week (which I will get around to blogging about), we noticed that today would be Pi Day, and they would be doing special events to celebrate.
Both my brother and I decided that we...had...to...go.
So we did. ^^
And it was awesome.
Now, the weather was a bit icky...but we didn't care.
The birds might have, though. They looked kind of miserable.
The birds might have, though. They looked kind of miserable.
My brother signed up for the drawing to get into the pie-eating contest. He didn't get in. Too bad, he would have whomped on those kids! Most of them barely touched their pie, because they didn't want to get their faces dirty.
The science center was doing a lot of cool activities: there were hula hoops (Pi is important in calculating the circumference of circles, of course), pi colouring pages, making pi necklaces (three beads of a colour, then one bead of a different colour, then four beads of a different colour, etc.), reciting as much of pi as you can (Let's see...chocolate, pumpkin, apple...oh, you mean the digits?), stringing pi along the stairwell of the building, one digit at a time, like a number garland:
There was eating pi...at least, Moon Pies.
My favorite, however, was piku and piems.
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Celebrate
Pi
Day with haiku.
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Traditional form:
Five seven five; or Pi form:
Three then one then four.
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Call me the
Pi
Poem Master.
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Feel free to make up
Your own 'piems' for Pi Day.
Does it look like fun?
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The one I made up at the building actually went like this:
The symbol is cool!
As for the food, I think that
Cheesecake is better.
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We did spend some exploring the rest of the science center too. We went to a couple of planetarium shows and played in most of the exhibits. (They wouldn't let us go play in the Kids' Room. My plan of hijacking someone's kid to get an in was nixed by the family. *sigh* Guess I'll have to plot something else.
One thing I found that was really cool was a small area devoted to the IMAX theater. It has lookthrough spots where you can watch the IMAX projector working, which was neat, but I found the display that compared different kinds of film fascinating. The two short, skinny films are VHS and such, while the bottom filmstrip is the IMAX film.
After we got done at the science center, we drove past a really funky looking art museum-thing. (I'll put pictures up in a slideshow soon as I figure out how).
When we got home we had dinner (mm...burgers). Since Stevie was bummed about missing the pie-eating contest...which he won, despite his 20-second handicap! But only by a few seconds...seconds I had lost because I had to stop to breath through my mouth because I'd gotten whipped cream up my nose! My sinuses are still burning. Kids, do not snort whipped cream. It ain't pretty.
Then we had pie. Chocolate cream. Mm.
But we ate it with chopsticks. *shrugs* That's life at our house for ya.
This morning, I actually sent out a message to my crochet group about Pi Day...with some links that I had found. I found an awesome hat to make my brother, as well as an amigurumi pi symbol. I'm thinking birthday presents, maybe?
So, overall Pi Day was much with the fun.
I hope everyone else had a great Pi Day...and if not, there's always next year!
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It's farewell
to
Pi Day this year.
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May next year
be
just as much fun!
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[Slideshow of art museum to be added as soon as possible.]
[Am also working on drafting blog posts for everything from the trips we did in Texas to the move to this point in time.]
[Apologies for the screwed up formatting - I CANNOT get it to stay right.]
1 comment:
I really enjoy haiku.
You do really well!
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