The Waffle people have a special Waffle in honor of Pi Day, and they link to the Nerdle people for special Pi Day games.
March 14 (3.14) is Pi Day!
March 14 marks Pi Day, an annual celebration of the mathematical sign pi. Founded in 1988 by physicist Larry Shaw, March 14 was selected because the numerical date (3.14) represents the first three digits of pi, and it also happens to be Albert Einstein’s birthday.
To celebrate, we have some special nerdle and other challenges for you…
Anything else happening in honor of Pi Day?
Update: anyone have any good games besides Wordle, Waffle, Quordle, and Absurdle?
Alison Rose
There’s also Phoodle, where all the words are food or cooking related.
Baud
In Europe, 3.14 means the third day of the 14th month. So they can’t have π day.
Baud
I’m an e man myself.
Alison Rose
@Baud: Yeah, but most of them have national health care, so it balances out.
WaterGirl
@Baud: ??
Baud
@WaterGirl:
e
Alison Rose
This isn’t about pie or pi or word games, but it’s an open thread and I feel like it’s my duty to make sure as many people as possibly see Simone Ashley’s pics from the Vanity Fair Oscars party because HELLOOOOOO NURSE. Sweet Lord almighty. Be sure to click through all three pics because her cheekbones in the close-up are nearly a felony. Now I wanna rewatch season 2 of Bridgerton again. For the fourth time.
Anyway
@Alison Rose:
Ha – Got my first one in 2 tries!
Alison Rose
@Anyway: Nice! Or should I say, sweet! :P
Timill
@Baud: Gets to be 22/7 in Yurrp.
Old School
I’ve tried Squaredle a few times since Waffle linked to them a while back. It’s more Boggle-ish and I’ve never been that big of a fan/that good at Boggle.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
Today is also 314 Day, as in area code 314, which covers St. Louis. St. Louisians celebrate the things (especially food) that are unique to the city, such as St. Louis style pizza, toasted ravioli, Fitz’s soda, Red Hot Riplets chips, etc.
MattF
If you’re looking for small puzzle games, Simon Tatham’s portable puzzles are a canonical collection. They’ve been recompiled for just about every kind of system (including iPhone and iPad) and are immense wastes of time for anyone who likes puzzles.
WaterGirl
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: That’s fun!
Paul in KY
I just watched the former sovereign citizen ™ Chase Allen get himself offed in Utah. Sounds like he was brainwashed by his nutso mother. Man, they are some fools. One less of them now.
Paul in KY
@Baud: If they had ever adopted the Paulorian calendar, they’d have that 14th month. I told them this was one of it’s advantages….
Janus Daniels
https://semantle.com/
UncleEbeneezer
@Alison Rose: Wowza!! Thank you for that :). She is also really great on Sex Education, which is imo, one of the best and most over-looked series streaming nowadays. For tremendous laughs and loads emotionally moving moments without overly wholesome or too precious about it.
Sandia Blanca
Worldle.teuteuf.fr is a geography game that’s fun. (Also has a states version and a photographic geography puzzle.)
WaterGirl
@Janus Daniels: I’ll try it!
Alison Rose
@UncleEbeneezer: I really need to start watching that.
UncleEbeneezer
@Alison Rose: It is SO GOOD! And it has a really positive depiction of LGBTQ+ youth and the challenges of exploring their identities. If you are a softie like us, get your Kleenex ready, because it’s definitely one of those shows that can make you weep almost every episode, without being quite so This-Is-Us manipulative about it. Really amazing show and just loaded with talented cast.
Gwangung
@Alison Rose: Holy….
That’s a reminder that I’m not dead….certainly not down there.
WaterGirl
@Gwangung: hahaha
With a comment like that, I can see why you would be disguising yourself with a capital G. :-)
The Kropenhagen Interpretation
So I’ve been seeing someone new lately. I was discussing my history with my friends and migrating between friend groups. I told him about how my former bestie threatened to kill me because I was voting for Biden. His response:
I think I like this guy.
James E Powell
I play hurdle, which is a four stage wordle.
Albatrossity
Squareword and Phrazle are both fun
Roger Moore
@Sandia Blanca:
I was also going to mention Worldle. Like Wordle, it has tools that let you change the difficulty level. For example, you can have the outline of the country randomly rotated, or you can have no picture to work from at all.
AM in NC
I have had fun with Globle – it has helped me learn countries in Africa and Central Europe and also better visualize distances on a map.
Gwangung
@WaterGirl: My laptop’s in the shop for a bit, so my other devices are filling in, and capitalization aren’t their styles….
But, yes, you can tell my inhibitions are going down as I get older (I’ve asked some of my acquaintances to call me “Uncle” just to remind me….)
BruceFromOhio
@Baud: delta t
Mmmmm. Pi. May the whipped cream be ever on your circumference.
HumboldtBlue
Biden reveals Jimmy Carter asked him to deliver his eulogy
WaterGirl
@James E Powell: From the instructions, I don’t quite understand how to play.
I got the first word in 4 tries, and it works just like Wordle except the colors are bright and happy.
Then I am prompted for a second word. I got that one in 4 or 5, then it said the next word comes after the advertisement, but I have an ad blocker, so then it seems to stop dead and the game never goes on.
That sucks. Not willing to watch an ad in order to play.
edit: After while, I went back and refreshed the page. It let me pick up where I left off. I still don’t get what happens at the end, but I imagine it will be clear when I see it. There is now another ad after word 4, I think, maybe it will let me pick up where I left off if I refresh again.
NotMax
Prefer to think of it as Ides of March Eve.
Time to sneak in that last minute dagger shopping.
:)
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Layer8Problem
@Baud, @WaterGirl:
Yeah, e day happens every February 71st or 72nd.
CaseyL
@Paul in KY: Holy cow, what a nitwit. Hope he hadn’t reproduced yet.
WaterGirl
@Layer8Problem: That flew right over my head.
Math Guy
Pi is my middle name.
NotMax
@Baud
The cat’s out of the bag — you’re Alec Tronn!
NotMax
@Math Guy
Last name Alamode?
:)
BruceFromOhio
@The Kropenhagen Interpretation:
ooh, good response
Layer8Problem
@WaterGirl: Sorry. e is approximately equal to 2.71828, hence the ridiculous day. If you want to get seriously freaky, try ei𝞹+1 = 0, Euler’s Identity, which ties up e and 𝞹 nicely. McIrvin could probably expand on that one.
ETA: and try as I might I cannot get the superscript tag to work for the “i𝞹” part of that equation, no matter how pretty it looks in the visual tab of the Update Comment editor. Phooey.
Anoniminous
@Alison Rose:
When I see cheekbones like that I wonder if the person, like Audrey Hepburn, was severely malnourished/border-line starved during their childhood.
(And, yes: I’m a load of fun at parties!)
GYK
Since PI is 3.1415… , ’round here we call both the 14th AND 15th PI day.
Cheers
Math Guy
@NotMax: Just Guy.
Betty Cracker
@HumboldtBlue:
Yikes, he’s right; he probably shouldn’t have said that, though the Carters are super gracious people, so they won’t mind. It’s a huge honor in any case.
Was talking to some friends about eulogies this weekend because someone we know has to do one soon. I did my mom’s eulogy and hope to never have to do another.
Matt McIrvin
Well, last night I helped my kid work out some trigonometric identities. Plenty of pi in there.
justawriter
In what may be good news (I will let the better informed be the judge) The North Dakota Attorney General seems to have cracked down on one of those religious health membership schemes and prohibiting it from advertising itself as health insurance.
JoyceH
@Betty Cracker:
Maybe it’s mean-spirited of me, but the other day it occurred to me – I hope they hurry up and indict and try Trump and get him thoroughly disgraced, because I’m afraid if he kicks the bucket before that, there will be those who feel compelled to give the old horror a state funeral.
Matt McIrvin
@Layer8Problem: It’s the flashy advertisement for the really important fact, which is that raising e to the power of an imaginary number gives you a result that goes around in a circle, and therefore makes trig functions.
Here’s a series of YouTube videos by the excellent Australian math teacher Eddie Woo in which he climbs the mountain of deriving it almost from first principles (the one bit he glosses over is how to derive a Taylor series, since it’s a little beyond these students, but he convinces you it works). I love the fact that when he gets to the culmination, the students are actually shouting in disbelief and amazement:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Y2eIPCg7uc&list=PLHZZ0otaqNsWV01h2ZssT17Tj8fbtLiuM
hueyplong
@JoyceH: Maybe it’s mean-spirited of me, but the other day it occurred to me that it would be fun to spread a rumor that DeSantis gave the prosecutors info about Trump.
No need to ID any specific prosecutors. No need to ID any specific info.
Just make him deny it.
Alison Rose
@Anoniminous: LOL sometimes it’s just good genes, my friend.
Steve in the ATL
@Baud: April 31. Duh.
Splitting Image
@AM in NC:
I discovered that I am absolutely abysmal at recognizing all of those little island nations out there.
Pretty bad at former Soviet republics, too, underscoring how out-of-date my geographic knowledge is. At least I can recognize Rupert’s Land and the Electorate of Hannover if they ever come up.
RevRick
@Baud: I’m an h guy, myself, and if I want to have some pi with it, I go for h bar.
Roger MacGuffin
@HumboldtBlue:
What else would you expect from a human gaffe machine like Joe Biden?
Paul in KY
@CaseyL: You read up on these nuts and it’s like they are cosplaying pioneer D & D. If they put an apostrophe in their name, then they can evade anything directed at the non-apostrophed name & if flag in courtroom has a gold fringe, that means the court can only hear maritime law stuff. And ‘traveling’ down a road (in any kind of vehicle) is different from whatever. Complete nonsense!!!
Pretty sure young Chase hadn’t corralled him a fine subservient wife yet. I hope not anyway.
RevRick
@GYK: That’s 2pi, or second helpings in the vernacular.
Matt Smith
Is nobody sharing favorite pie recipes? I showed up today expecting pie recipes.
Gravenstone
@Matt Smith: My company bought pies for us. Does that count?
gene108
@Anoniminous:
I looked up Simone Ashly. Her Wikipedia page says she was born and raised in the U.K., and didn’t spend her adolescent years in the Nazi occupied Netherlands, like Audrey Hepburn.
So I doubt malnutrition was a problem.
Roger Moore
@RevRick:
h and ħ are physical constants, not mathematical constants.
Matt McIrvin
@RevRick: I can’t believe I ate the whole 2pi.
Layer8Problem
@HumboldtBlue: Ha! I knew I wasn’t going to get out of Pi Day without pieing somebody! (Not you, HumboldtBlue).
Paul in KY
@Betty Cracker: I think Pres. Carter has full knowledge that he will soon die and that there will be a service associated with that.
Baud
@Paul in KY:
“Hospice? I thought this was a hostel!”
Paul in KY
@justawriter: Boy, he/she is going to lose some stupid whackjob votes.
Barbara
For the lawyers reading here. I have been following Proud Boys seditious conspiracy trial live tweeting by Roger Parloff, and Enrique Tarrio’s lawyer just posed the following “question” to the lead testifying FBI agent: “you’ve taken multiple trainings in how to testify in court. that’s why you’re doing so well, correct.”
Naturally, the objection was sustained. Still, it’s like telling the jury that a witness against testifying against your client is good and credible!. What the heck?
Roger Moore
@Matt Smith:
An oldie but a goody:
π = 4 – 4/3 + 4/5 – 4/7 + 4/9 – 4/11 + 4/13 …
Cameron
@JoyceH: I got no problem if he gets a state funeral, as long as it’s some other state.
Paul in KY
@Roger MacGuffin: He sure gaffed a bloated orange crook back in 2020!
Layer8Problem
@Roger Moore: Well, since we’re on to physical constants let’s go straight to the fine-structure constant, about which Richard Feynman said “Immediately you would like to know where this number for a coupling comes from: is it related to pi or perhaps to the base of natural logarithms? Nobody knows. It’s one of the greatest damn mysteries of physics: a magic number that comes to us with no understanding by humans.” The things one reads in Wikipedia on one’s cell phone when struck with the goddamn insomnia . . .
Baud
@Roger Moore:
Infinite series are nuts.
Paul in KY
@Baud: The drugs here are free, right?
hueyplong
@Barbara: It sure sounds like a Hail Mary. The lawyer is apparently hoping there is an idiot/conspiracy theorist on the jury to whom he can argue that testimony that is “too good” or otherwise uncontradicted must be made up.
There will be general jury instructions that contradict such an absurd position.
What we’ve seen over the last couple of years is that it’s in the legal arena that Trumpers clearly aren’t sending their best. Sadly, when they’re on the Supreme Court, there is little to be done about it.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
Infinite series actually make perfect sense once you really grasp the concept of limits. I would say that infinity in general makes a lot more sense once you grasp the concept of limits.
Jeffg166
Royal Game of Ur.
How to play: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZskjLq040I
play online: https://royalur.net
Baud
Congrats to another blue state.
oatler
With all this brouhaha, will no one think of the crypto-nerds?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/11/usd-coin-depeg-silicon-valley-bank-collapse
Baud
@oatler:
Crypto backed by dollars. Every libertarian’s dream.
Matt McIrvin
@Roger Moore: Many series and other ways to calculate digits of pi are listed here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximations_of_%CF%80
That one is attributed to Leibniz, was apparently actually first discovered by Madhava in the 1300s–it works, but it converges really slowly. Some of the 20th-century ones are astoundingly efficient.
Layer8Problem
@Baud: When visiting my late mom three weeks after getting her into a nursing home for dementia, she mentions to me in the cafeteria “I’m ready to leave this hotel, but at least the restaurant is pretty good.”
RevRick
@Roger Moore: oh, phi on that!
Abnormal Hiker
@Steve in the ATL: Isnt that 10pi day?
Rachel Bakes
Globle is a daily challenge for me and has been for more than a year. Just learned about Chrono where you’re putting historical events in chronological order. Did Actorle for a while but eventually lost interest-and reached the point where I had no idea who these people were; fun for a while though.
RevRick
@Matt McIrvin: is 2pac a good or bad rapper?
Betty Cracker
@Paul in KY: No shit, but it’s not something people usually talk about publicly in advance, as Biden realized in the moment.
@JoyceH: If it were up to me, the orange sack of liposuction clinic medical waste would be expunged from history altogether, but we probably won’t get that lucky, regardless of any indictments. I vaguely remember Nixon’s funeral, and IIRC, there was a big to-do over that crook.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Probably shouldn’t have, but… isn’t it pretty standard for a sitting POTUS to give those eulogies? The Bush family had an out. And if gossip is to be believed, Biden is the possibility Carter has had the warmest feelings for.
With all my usual caveats about McCain, I don’t think there was a lot of personal warmth between him and BHO, and that eulogy request was one more Fuck You from an irascible old coot who knew how to hate, and hated trump (and TIL I learned irascible has one “r”)
RevRick
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: that’s just sad.
RevRick
My local paper, in addition to the usual crosswords, sudoku, and cryptoquote runs the Word Game. They give you a word and the challenge is to find as many words of four or more letters you can find (with certain exceptions). For instance, today’s word is unicorns, and the challenge is to find at least 24 words.
Steve in the ATL
@Abnormal Hiker: not for the innumerate!
prostratedragon
@Layer8Problem: e^iπ?
Matt McIrvin
For a few years there was a fashion among geek YouTubers to insist that 2*pi (6.28…), the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its radius, really should have been the constant that got the name. They would call that “tau” and advocate rewriting everything in terms of tau rather than pi.
I do see where they’re coming from, for a variety of reasons, but honestly it’s not that big a deal.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
Multiplying by 2 seems like one of the easier things to do in math.
prostratedragon
Big day for birthdays, in addition to Dr. Albert: Billy Crystal …
WaterGirl
@hueyplong: ooh, I would be willing to play that game!
I wonder if a post title of “Breaking! Rumors Fly that DeSantis supplies prosecutors with information about Trump”
Or perhaps the tried and true:
“Did DeSantis supplies prosecutors with information about Trump?”
Just asking a question!
edit: That might provide good feedback on whether BJ posts influence discussions on the internet. :-)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Biden giving his some of his best quasi-eulogy tribute to the victims of the Half Moon Bay shooting as blog
and he’s done
Roger Moore
@RevRick:
That sounds interesting. I’ve gotten fairly heavily into Wordscapes, a mobile game with a similar premise. You’re given a set of letters and a (sparse) crossword, and you’re supposed to find the words that fill in the crossword by using the letters. You get a bonus for finding real words beyond those in the crossword. Both games are similar to Boggle, though Boggle is more random, so there’s no guarantee of how many words you’ll be able to find.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
What’s the frequency, Kenneth>?
Math Guy
@Baud: Especially in fields of characteristic 2.
WaterGirl
@Paul in KY:
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@RevRick: You can hate, but STL is still great!
prostratedragon
… Larry “Grandmama” Johnson …
(This Grandmama compendium includes a storytime.)
WaterGirl
@Baud: Power-hungry asshole bosses are going to be pissed off at their slightly-reduced ability to intimidate and employees.
It’s such a relief to have Pritzker after the awful guy whose name I couldn’t even bring myself to say out loud.
Barbara
@RevRick: There is an online version of this game called Spellbound, where you have seven letter words and type in words with three letters or more. The letters are scrambled so you have to guess the longest word as well, and sometimes there are more than one: enurets = tenures, tureens, neuters. It gets kind of repetitive, but it definitely enhances your typing skills and clears external stimuli from your head.
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Good question — I don’t know what the standard practice is. I gather the Carters and Bidens are pretty tight, so in this case, it makes all kinds of sense, but it wouldn’t always! Agree about McCain asking Obama to deliver the eulogy — it was a giant fuck you to Trump. Good for McCain!
I wonder which Republican will be asked to eulogize Trump? Pence and DeSantis are out, obviously, and I’m not sure Himself would consider obsequious worms like Graham or any of the House crazies to be high-status enough. Depending on what happens next year, his survivors might have to just take whoever is on offer. Or wrap the old coot in a contractor bag and bury him next to a putting green.
Geminid
@Roger Moore: People are really different when it comes to games. Some people love playing games like you describe, but to me they’re like a form of enhanced interrogation. I’d rather play Chutes and Ladders, or Parcheesi.
smith
@Betty Cracker: Ship him to Moscow and let Vova do it.
Abnormal Hiker
@Steve in the ATL: I just realized that must be the reason for the big celebration the day after April 30.
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: When Trump dies, I’m gonna try to make some money off of bumperstickers:
cain
Twitter is filled with #JimmyCarter stuff and I am getting misty-eyed.
Of course, right wing “Christian” twitter is of course mocking the man. These people think he’s a complete failure – that they hate this man shows where they are. I hope on their road to perdition that they fall over and get run over by an errant flock of running penguins.
ETA – #111 – this comment is worth it – manifest y’alls
cain
@Geminid: He’s coming back when John Kennedy Jr comes back
prostratedragon
… Steph Curry, here doing what he’s famous for 😉 …
Dangerman
Pi day?
Strikes a chord, indeed.
Mike E
Fun Zoom parody (Boston Mass 02134!) feel free to sing along if you know the lyrics/digits!
Dangerman
Junior.
Melania will wear something hideous (and a shit eating grin under the veil).
prostratedragon
… Simone Biles …
Math Guy
@Dangerman: And on the back it will say “I really don’t care – do you?”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Betty Cracker: He’ll pre-record his own, if he acknowledges his own mortality.
otherwise, Vanky, in something slinky and low cut from the Ginger Grant collection
Jim, Foolish Literalist
trump’s deathbed reply: “Who?”
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Dangerman:
and she’ll plagiarize a famous eulogy and deliver it in broken english
JPL
Publix sold small key lime pies for $3.14, which I thought was cute idea Yes I purchased one, and after a few bites tossed. Cute doesn’t necessarily mean good.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Dump’s eulogy will be delivered by Mayor McCheese
EntroPi
So, since this is an open thread…
Does it count as good or bad news when your former therapist is sentenced to prison?
Roger Moore
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I don’t know that he does, or if he really cares what happens after he dies.
zeecube
@Betty Cracker: I’m guessing TFG already made a VHS tape of he giving his own eulogy with at least 1 reference to big men with tears in their eyes, marked as “top secret” just for kicks, stored in some unlabled box in his office.
Betty Cracker
@JPL: Yeah, their bakery isn’t half bad, but the key lime pies are meh. When it comes to key lime pies, it’s rarely worth the calories if it’s not homemade.
WaterGirl
@EntroPi: Wow.
prostratedragon
@EntroPi: Well, it was good to have an impression of Hannibal Lechter erased from my mind by the article, as I see she wasn’t that kind of therapist nor an actual murderer. Also good that her next turn down that spiral has been at least delayed; that’s a weird thing to do, especially for someone working with genuine veterans.
AlaskaReader
I like pi day and always observe the tradition – pie
I also observe Tau day, (6-28), with twice the pie.
τ = C/r = 6.283185…
Leslie
@Janus Daniels: That’s going to be my new favorite time-guzzler.
I like Octordle and Sedecordle.
EntroPi
@prostratedragon: Sometimes I feel like my entire life is guided by a series of odd events. I was fortunate enough to graduate college into the dot-com boom and help some friends start a company, I was unfortunate enough to be walking downtown in NY in time to watch a plane do its damage, and now these sorts of “interesting” events show up.
I live 1 block away from where our current Secretary of Commerce used to live ( I played Frisbee with her!), but 2 blocks in the other direction is a playground that has shootings a couple of times a year.
Life is strange.
Cameron
@Betty Cracker: Ship him to East Palestine. He made that town everything that it is.
Noah Brand
My wife and I made a point of getting married on Pi Day so that we’d always remember our anniversary, and have a good idea of what to eat to celebrate. This year I’m not up to cooking, so we’re going to be having this beauty from a local bakery: https://www.laurettajeans.com/bakesale-pies/ylwlfhbpyyr36jld6h9uycv9scfh1f
prostratedragon
@EntroPi: You saw that, eh? I always thought the old plaza there was one of the eeriest places I’ve ever been, like you could hear things. Maybe it’s the mineral composition of the island.
… Casey Jones, railroad engineer …
Timill
@Leslie: https://duotrigordle.com/ has added a setting to hide completed boards. So I have it set to 8 boards across, and as I solve them new ones appear at the right-hand side…
Cameron
It was a solemn moment indeed. As America’s Mayor Rudy Giuliani delivered a semi-sincere eulogy, the carcass of the 45th President of the United States was lowered into the composting pit at Four Seasons Landscaping….
JPL
@Noah Brand: Happy Anniversary. You should let us know if it’s as good as it looks.
EntroPi
@prostratedragon: Yep, on the walk down to NYU. It’s not just the moment that sits in your brain, but the days/weeks after with everything being weird everywhere you went.
WaterGirl
@Noah Brand: That looks yummy, Is that whipped cream on top?
Layer8Problem
@prostratedragon:
Yeah, that’s what I meant. I should have stuck to plain text.
Leslie
@Timill: Ooh, nifty. Thanks!
catclub
@Matt McIrvin:
Have you watched any of the youtube videos on vector algebra? They told me it makes maxwells equations extremely simple. I think I have been introduced to them too late to really absorb. Since nobody will be forcing me to use it.
prostratedragon
@EntroPi: I can try to imagine. It was strange enough for a few days where I was by then.
EntroPi
@prostratedragon: …and if you want to add to weird… I may not be on IMDB, but I am portrayed by an actor:
https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3335453/
I was asked, but did not consent, to be interviewed for that series. I can barely leave the house, don’t know what they were thinking asking me,
Paul in KY
@Betty Cracker: I figured that would be your response. LOL!!! Regular people who are not ancient, sure. Someone who knows there will be a public this n that when he dies, maybe more leeway, IMO.
When they are complaining about piddly stuff like that, you got em on the run.
Paul in KY
@WaterGirl: I always like (hate) the Just Asking Questions type. Makes me grit my teeth more when directed unjustly at one of my peeps.
Paul in KY
@WaterGirl: My bad.
karen marie
@hueyplong: No, there’s not.
Unless you have one to show. I’ve not seen anything like what you suggest in almost 40 years of transcribing criminal trials.
RevRick
@Barbara: interesting! I’ll check it out.
Paul in KY
@Geminid: It’s funny, I will say that. I just think (with all his warts) that Elvis was a way, way, way better person than TFG and I am sad to see him in the same sentence as that greasy, traitorous globule.
I wasn’t a big Elvis fan, but he died my Freshman year and there was this dude from Eastern KY, who was a huge Elvis fan. About every 2 or 3 days for weeks, he would get up on a table in the cafeteria and belt out an Elvis hit acapella. Everyone would clap and no one would jeer him, as this was genuine grief. I wonder what became of him?
Paul in KY
@Dangerman: If he lives another 5 or 6 years (ick), maybe Barrron will get the gig?
Paul in KY
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That’s a good idea. Probably be right. I hope to see it soon (but not too soon, as I need him to squish DeSatanis).
karen marie
@Noah Brand: Nice pie! Gorgeous pie!
Many happy returns of the day to you and your wife.
Geminid
@Paul in KY: Elvis Presley was indeed a much better person than Trump. I was thinking more in mythological terms. And I guess a little sarcastically too.
Paul in KY
@Geminid: I know. It is funny!! Sorry to dump on it.
jonas
@Baud: Lousy Smarch weather!
lowtechcyclist
@Roger Moore:
But man, that sucker takes forever to converge!
(OK, every converging infinite series takes forever to converge, but this one does do it really really slowly, even by the standards of other infinite sums.)
jonas
“So all the entered evidence and witness testimony seem to point toward my client’s guilt. How very conveeeeeeenient!”
lowtechcyclist
@Baud:
I’m more of an ε guy, myself. (Even used it in the morning thread, as in ‘let ε > 0’, before I knew we’d be getting all geeky in this one.)
My wife made me a mincemeat pie for π day. It’s delicious. :-)
Sandia Blanca
@Roger Moore: I didn’t realize that, but apparently my game-savvy husband did. Thanks for the info!
planetjanet
Curses to whoever suggested semantle. I am trapped in this game and can’t get out.
Cathie from Canada
Regarding games — there is also “Canuckle”, where all of the words relate to Canada in some way:
https://www.canucklegame.ca/
Regarding pie — I published several of my favorite pie recipes on my Cathie Cooks blog today:
https://cathiecooking.blogspot.com/2023/03/its-pie-day.html