Hold onto your socks, kids! This news could quite possibly rock them completely off! Even if you have some of those tube socks that go all the way up to the knee. Fully. Knocked. Off.
And if you're wearing ankle socks, then I wouldn't even bother looking for them. They'll be out of orbit. We'll find them on Mars in about 300 years.
Are you ready for the news?!
I bought socks.
Okay, so I was being a little dramatic, but I was going for a whole sock theme. I really wanted to talk about socks because the socks I bought came in a re-sealable bag. Like a ziploc freezer bag. Except for socks. Which I wouldn't regularly put in the freezer to keep fresh.
Maybe you do. I can't imagine the NEED for a ziploc top for my socks. I suppose it would keep them from being knocked off, but only if properly stored and zip-locked.
What the heck is that zip thing really called, anyway? It's not really a zipper. It's definitely not velcro. It's a thin strip of plastic being pushed into another piece of plastic.
Hold on...I gotta look this up...
Okay, I can't find anything except interlocking curvilinear grooves, but that sounds more like a bunch of mathematicians breakdancing.
Which actually sounds pretty entertaining.
I'm off to put on some new socks.
Enjoy!
-DJ
Showing posts with label math. Show all posts
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Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
have a slice of pi
Tomorrow is Pi Day. Get it? It's 3/14? Yeah. Math geeks LOVE this. Actually, physicists love it too because it's Albert Einstein's birthday. Pretty spooky, right!?
I suppose it is not an international holiday. Why? Well, other countries do their dates differently. Actually, they do it in a normal way, WE do it differently. They put the day/month/year but we do month/day/year. Day/month/year seems to make more sense, doesn't it? I mean, it goes in order of changes. Oh well...it'll go up there with my love of the metric system. (I found out that the U.S., Myanmar and Liberia are the only three places on earth that DO NOT use metric.)
So, we can call our Liberian friends and celebrate Pi Day. Unless there is a 31st of April. Hold on...
...
I just looked at the calendar. There is no 31/4.
How can you celebrate Pi Day? By eating pie, of course! The Exploratorium in San Francisco will be having pie (with fruit fillings) and pizza pie! They will also be writing poetry about Pi. And having a geeky time shouting out the numbers 3.14 blah, blah, blah.
How can you celebrate? Shout out "Sweet Pi!" at 1:59 tomorrow. (Get it? 3/14 at 1:159? Pi is 3.14159. Those math geeks are a clever bunch, aren't they?)
If you know anybody who loves math, humor them. This is like their Mardi Gras. I'm not kidding. They have beads and everything. Unfortunately, if you catch some beads, then you have to "show your pi." That only means that you recite pi to whatever place you can remember. Some people memorized, like, hundreds of places. They usually miss pie time.
It may sound irrational, but...oh forget it...I just wanted to get that joke in there.
I'm off to get some cherry pi.
Enjoy!
-DJ
I suppose it is not an international holiday. Why? Well, other countries do their dates differently. Actually, they do it in a normal way, WE do it differently. They put the day/month/year but we do month/day/year. Day/month/year seems to make more sense, doesn't it? I mean, it goes in order of changes. Oh well...it'll go up there with my love of the metric system. (I found out that the U.S., Myanmar and Liberia are the only three places on earth that DO NOT use metric.)
So, we can call our Liberian friends and celebrate Pi Day. Unless there is a 31st of April. Hold on...
...
I just looked at the calendar. There is no 31/4.
How can you celebrate Pi Day? By eating pie, of course! The Exploratorium in San Francisco will be having pie (with fruit fillings) and pizza pie! They will also be writing poetry about Pi. And having a geeky time shouting out the numbers 3.14 blah, blah, blah.
How can you celebrate? Shout out "Sweet Pi!" at 1:59 tomorrow. (Get it? 3/14 at 1:159? Pi is 3.14159. Those math geeks are a clever bunch, aren't they?)
If you know anybody who loves math, humor them. This is like their Mardi Gras. I'm not kidding. They have beads and everything. Unfortunately, if you catch some beads, then you have to "show your pi." That only means that you recite pi to whatever place you can remember. Some people memorized, like, hundreds of places. They usually miss pie time.
It may sound irrational, but...oh forget it...I just wanted to get that joke in there.
I'm off to get some cherry pi.
Enjoy!
-DJ
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