SILICON VALLEY (Just Laugh) – Today may just be another Wednesday for 85.9% of the general population, but for those of us who actually paid attention in Advanced Geometric Shapes 302 today is a day to be honored as more than just the 128th birthday of Albert Einstein…
“It’s like these geeks just all came out of the woodwork,” reported James Albert, a baker and part-owner of Smith’s Delights at 14th Street and Baltimore. “We’ve been cranking out pies just as fast as we can bake ‘em, in every size and flavor! I still really don’t understand why – I guess it’s some goofy math bit. All I know is that after business today, I wish that every day were March 14th…”
Tape-rimmed glasses and pocket protectors stormed bakeries across the world in troves today in search of the perfect dessert to help commemorate Pi Day – March 14th, or 3/14. Mathematicians and scientists better know pi as 3.141592653589793…it being the ratio of a circle’s circumference to its diameter, and its infinite sequence has fascinated those who prefer research and the scientific method to getting laid for centuries. While those with entirely too much free time on their hands have used computer programs to calculate pi to over one trillion decimal places - an act that took approximately 400 supercomputers, 7000 cans of Mountain Dew, and enough Doritos-brand tortilla chips to fill four Honda Civics to the brim – most of us laymen know it, if at all, as simply 3.14.
Analysts from the Society for Baking and Advanced Pastry Design cite that although there are still several more hours left in the day to calculate sales, numbers currently show International Pi Day 2007 as ranking more sales of apple, blueberry and other varieties of pie than both Thanksgiving and Christmas combined. And while not all of us may truly understand the vast amazing-ness that such an irrational figure stands for, one common thought still connects the geeks and the rest of us – pie is delicious.
If anyone needs this reporter, he’ll be fighting off dark ogres in the Canyon of Oksana with his level 12 elf paladin, enjoying a hot slice of Mom’s boysenberry between rounds.
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