As we've had nice weather for the second day in a row, I decided to bike to school today. It seems to take about half as long as walking (around 25 minutes, give or take a few depending on traffic lights) which is an improvement in the commute time. But whew! I feel like I'm out of shape. Though I've been walking a lot so I'm not really all that out of shape, at least for the purposes of walking, but biking is a lot more intensive and uses the muscles differently, and I'm just not used to that, seeing as it's been around one and a half years since I last rode my bike. (Meant to get out some last summer, but it just never happened.) And now I'm all sweaty.
Anyway, seems like biking to school will be quite feasible and will save some time, so I'll probably be doing that from now on, as long as the weather is agreeable. Note to self: remember to take deoderant with me next time.
Freak Out,
-TFitC
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Friday, March 13, 2009
The Pi is a Lie
Today in the Math Faculty it is "Pi Day" - well, actually, tomorrow is technically Pi Day (Mar 14, ie, 03/14), but as that's a Saturday, today is the customary Pi Day event - pseudo-Pi Day, if you will. Just what is Pi Day? It is a day when MathSoc hands out free slices of pie, hence Pi Day. (Yes, yes, different kinds of pie, but the edible kind is so much tastier.) This fine tradition actually started back when I was still an undergrad and, obviously, it is still continuing. The story I recall about its inception was that some tech company (I forget which, but there probably aren't too many candidates) gave basically gave MathSoc some money and said "Here, have an event!" And so, Pi Day was born.
Granted, that may have just been hearsay, even back then, but regardless, pie is good, especially free pie (even if it is pseudo-pi). Today's line was long, but it moved fairly quickly and there was plenty of pie for all, and I scored myself a slice of rhubarb pie. Yum! In fact, I had nearly forgotten that it would probably be Pi Day today, but just happened to see a sign on my way back from the weekly TA marking meeting.
Freak Out,
-TFitC
Granted, that may have just been hearsay, even back then, but regardless, pie is good, especially free pie (even if it is pseudo-pi). Today's line was long, but it moved fairly quickly and there was plenty of pie for all, and I scored myself a slice of rhubarb pie. Yum! In fact, I had nearly forgotten that it would probably be Pi Day today, but just happened to see a sign on my way back from the weekly TA marking meeting.
Freak Out,
-TFitC
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