This time they’ve gone too far.
On Thursday, 10 Republican members of the U.S. House of Representatives voted against an official (but non-binding) resolution declaring today, March 14, 2009 (3/14/09) as Pi day.
You can read the whole sad story here.
Screwing up the world economy is one thing, but really. This is just a travesty.
It’s nothing more than a Luddite knee-capping of a noble attempt to bring an awareness of Math to the Masses.
What do we expect though, from the crowd that gave us eight years of anti-science medievalism and Sarah Palin?
Never mind. It’ll always be Pi day in our hearts.
3 comments:
Except of course that it's only Pi day to those weirdo countries that put the month before the date.
mm/dd/yyyy just doesn't make sense in my book. i'm happy with dd/mm/yyyy or yyyy//mm/dd as at least they are both progressive (and the latter is handy for sorting).
So for a true pi day, we'd need a 14th month (3/14) a 31st of april (31/4) or, even better we just wait for a bit over a thousand years for the 9th of May, 3141. (3141/5/9)
I actually prefer the idea of Pi day as 4 January, which contains the moment when we're exactly Pi days through the year.
The moment occurs at about 3.23 in the morning though, so I probably won't be up.
How did the Republicans ess uo the economy? It was a Democrat controlled congress. and blamign Bush would show a great deal of ignorance since his administration warned of this six years earlier. Remember, Congress, not the president, actually regulates these affairs.
it was more Nancy Pelosi than Bush. ( and Obama can't fix it either, for the same reason.)
That said, Pi day is just silly to begin with. What else needs a day? Hypotinus day? Why not Relativity Day? Thee things may be improtant, but I dont htink they deserve a specal day of recognition.
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