Final Transit: Priyank's personal journal
  • Home ·
  • Blog ·
  • Archives ·
  • Photos ·
  • About ·
  • Contact ·
  • Subscribe
Mar '09
14

And then we bake a pie

As if Square Root day was not enough, we celebrated Pi (π) day today. March 14 (i.e. 3.14)! I baked a blueberry pie because it was the easiest.

Blueberry Pie
Blueberry pie. With mysterious signs on it.

If the mathematician in you is particular about his numbers, celebrate Pi day on March 14 at 1:59 am. Because

π = 3.14159

(Please, lets not count seconds)

I respected the mathematician in me and this post will be published at 1:59 am.

Blueberry pie
Blueberry pie

It was the first time I was baking a pie and it was such a disaster. First, I took it out of the oven because it ‘looked’ okay. After cooling, I cut it, only to discover that it was not ready yet. How lame, it tasted too doughy. I put it back in the oven hoping to salvage some, but, you know, it ended up being mediocre. I still ate it because I am capable of eating any baked dessert! :)

Thanks Odzer for participating even when it was a crazy time in Chandigarh, and Jeruen be ready, spring break will be over soon!

Updates:
March 16: Gopinath wrote a humorous post and even calculated his IQ. Sorry to say Gopinath, but you get a zero in that calculation!
March 16: Mavin, in a unique approach, started reading the book called ‘Life of Pi.’

With no promises of being saner,
Priyank.

¶ Blogged by Priyank Thatte | Tags: Geek, Humor, Interesting

Trackback / Comments { 43 } →
Not comfortable to comment? Send me a personal message instead!
Mar '09
6

Square Root Day

√ √ √
When you are with someone as geeky as you… You do weird things, like celebrating Square Root Day!

This unofficial holiday comes but nine times a century. The numbers of the calendar align in special way. dd and mm are each the square-roots of yy. We recently had a square root day: March3, 2009.
3×3=9, √9=3

03-03-09

√ √ √
Square Root Day
Square Roots, ginger and radish, very original isn’t it!

So, how did we celebrate the Square Root day? We celebrated it by eating roots – radish and ginger. Cut in shapes with square cross-sections, creating Square Roots! :)
√ √ √

- – -
Footnotes: Since many of you won’t notice, let me bring to your attention:
- There are 3 paragraphs in this post,
- Each sentence in this post has 9 words,
- There are 9 sentences,
- A group of 3 square root symbols appear thrice,
- The third root in the picture above is actually a potato. It is dedicated to all the people who argue that potato is a root.

Update:
The next mathematically significant day is the Pi (π) day: 3.14 (March 14). I am going to bake (guess what) a pie! :) This is a strange tag, but I am tagging Odzer to bake a pie, Jeruen and Rambodoc to either bake or buy one, Paul to share a memorable pie story and Gopinath to write a humorous post about people doing weird things. Who else wants to participate? More the merrier! Remember guys, March 14th!

¶ Blogged by Priyank Thatte | Tags: Geek, Humor, Interesting

Trackback / Comments { 44 } →
Not comfortable to comment? Send me a personal message instead!
 

    • Search

    • Tag Cloud

      Arts Bike blogging Books Canada Current Dream Entertainment Family Festivals Food Friends General Himalayas Home Humor India Internet Life Marathi MBA Memories Movies Mumbai Music Nature Office People Personal Recipe Religion Review Russia Sarcasm Sitar Society Spirituality Stories Tag Time Toronto Trek University Weather Website
    • Subscribe

      • Subscribe
    • Top Posts

      • Please don't wear earphones
      • Where is my backpack?
      • Wearing socks and setting standards
      • Talent and the Tool
      • A buck, a busker
      • The Blue Chatur
      • Love story of a 9 year old
      • The Bagel Story
      • You made my day
    • Notes from the road


      My Travel Blog
      bhutan Bhutan: Mystic Druk Yul
      canada Canada: Toronto Tuesday
      israel Israel: Scrolls from the Holy Land
      peru Peru: Andean Explorations
      russia Russia: Travel stories
    • Photo Gallery

      Index
      :: Bhutan :: Canada :: Israel :: Peru
    • Blogmates

      • Amit’s Mashed Musings
      • Anna’s Only Photo
      • Bob’s Blackholes and Astro stuff
      • Gauri’s Photostream
      • Gopinath’s Artickles
      • Linguist in Waiting’s Memoirs
      • Mahendra's An Unquiet Mind
      • Mavin’s Voice
      • Nita’s View of India
      • Odzer’s blog
      • Paul’s Cafe Philos
      • Prax’s Tech and Trek
      • Prerna’s I love life…
      • Rambodoc’s Twists
      • Trisha’s Rolling
  • From my Travel Blog

    • Toronto Tuesday 02.10: Murals
    • Photo Friday 01.08: Colca Canyon
    • Toronto Tuesday 02.09: Seasons
    • Photo Friday 01.07: Terraces of the Bahá’í Faith
    • Toronto Tuesday 02.08: Port Credit
    • Photo Friday 01.06: Golden Temple
    • Toronto Tuesday 02.07: Streetcar tracks
  • Recent Posts

    • Day # -68 Training regime
    • Day # -78 Gone on a vacation
    • Day # -80 Running outdoors
    • Day # -81 8K
    • Day # -82 Gym revisited
    • Day #-87 Rest
    • Day #-88 Gym
  • Recent Comments

    • shooting star on
      Three years in Toronto
    • shooting star on
      Day # -68 Training regime
    • shooting star on
      Day # -80 Running outdoors
    • Anna on
      Day # -68 Training regime
    • Anna on
      Day #-91 Marathon
    • Anna on
      Day # -80 Running outdoors
    • Himanshu on
      Day # -68 Training regime
    • Linguist-in-Waiting on
      Day # -68 Training regime
    • Zhu on
      Day # -68 Training regime
    • Amod on
      About Priyank and Priyank.com
©   C o p y r i g h t   I n f o r m a t i o n :

All content on this website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 License. All images are mine (unless stated otherwise) and you may not steal or leech them off my server.

In simple words: Content from this website may be copied or modified for non-commercial purposes as long as it is appropriately attributed to me. If you require a picture for personal or commercial use, please send me a note.

Archives · Photo Gallery · About · Contact · Subscribe ∞

Created and designed by Priyank Thatte. [ Travel Blog . Sitemap ]