from the seattle cacophony yahoo group, this interesting post by pox:

Just wanted to mention that March 14th (3/14) is Pi Day, and for yet another year it will go officially unrecognized at the State and Federal levels.

I’m sure we’re all outraged by the public’s complacence, and the MSM’s refusal to cover pi and other circle-related issues. Someone needs to take a stand. If not now, when? If not we or us, then who or whom?

Imagine hundreds of vampires with hula-hoops, marching through Westlake with round signs, distributing Smartees and old hubcaps, getting our vital message to the people, refusing to let Americans ignore the relationship between diameter and circumference any longer!

If there’s a nearby synagogue, we could just combine our march with the celebration of Purim, which is the same day. I’m sure the Jews won’t mind. I hear they respect geometry as much as anyone.

Ethos. Civics. Math. Yeah.

to which i responded:

i thought Pi Day was 22 july (22/7)…

to which pox responded back:

Heretic.

so now i’m a heretic in the cacophony group… i can’t decide whether that’s a good thing or not…