March 16

[Zeke]

Blast! I had a terrific idea for Pi Day this year (as people who read my LJ (http://commodore-zeke.livejournal.com/) know), but I was too busy on the day itself to prepare it. It's too good an idea to waste on a late update, so I'll have to save it for next year.


As a substitute, I'll re-link you to what I did last year, The Top 10 Pi Day Activities of Enterprise Characters (../top10/69.html). (5MV pi/pi Years Ago?) In addition, here are two "seasonal" links: last week's cartoon (http://angryflower.com/danger.html) at Bob the Angry Flower (a frequent source of good math jokes, but I digress) and A Steep Price For Pie (http://www.teamspecialolympics.com/?sec=archive&auth=Blurbs&blurb=spfp&cid=blurbs/00001-spfp.gif), a subcomic of Team Special Olympics.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

On the plus side, this is topic #314 in the News category.

[Zeke]

Good LORD! This makes it all worthwhile!

...No, wait. It would have been topic 314 anyway.

But still! Damn!

[Sa'ar Chasm]

This is the type of coincidence you can't plan.

[Derek]

(5MV pi/pi Years Ago?) In addition, here are two "seasonal" links: last week's cartoon (http://angryflower.com/danger.html) at Bob the Angry Flower (a frequent source of good math jokes, but I digress) and A Steep Price For Pie (http://www.teamspecialolympics.com/?sec=archive&auth=Blurbs&blurb=spfp&cid=blurbs/00001-spfp.gif), a subcomic of Team Special Olympics.
Are these Pi jokes? Or just pie jokes?

Either way, I'm afraid I don't really get either of them.

[e of pi]

Same here. The list was good, though.

[Zeke]

They're "just" pie jokes. A Steep Price For Pie is a whole series -- there are seven strips so far, so if you don't like the first one, try the others. There are other subcomics, too; An Inappropriate Time For Ham and What a Scoop! are hilarious. The idea in each case, as I see it, is that he picked a title and then wrote cartoons to fit it.

As for Bob the Angry Flower, that's an acquired taste. There's basically no continuity between strips, so you're not missing any context. I can recommend a passel of individual Bob strips I love, but a better idea is to poke around the archives. (Don't just read recent strips... for the last two years or so, Bob has been almost incessantly political. I put up with it because I'm already a fan, but the political stuff won't make you one.)

[Zeke]

March 17

Happy St. Patrick's Day! I couldn't really do an update this time, but that's okay, because last year we did enough St. Patrick's Day for about three years. Instead, I'm going to listen to The Corrs' latest album, Home, which is almost entirely traditional Irish stuff. You should too.

I hope to resume nontrivial updates this weekend. (Tomorrow, after all, is a good chance to hit the hangover demographic.) Meanwhile, if you're desperate for something Irish, you could always read the Fair Haven scene (with surprise guest star) in "Light Unseen (http://www.fiveminute.net/features/lightunseen.html)," one of my VS9 episodes. I'm rather proud of it.

[richardson]

Ah, dsokdpaches....


And, of course, one of the ultimate lines:


"Are you out of your vulcan mind!? What? The doctor told me to say it the instance you suggested anything involving mind-melds."

[Zeke]

Not dead. Update when I get home. May the way of the hero lead to the Triforce.

[Lostoyannaya]

You sound tired. Take you time!

~~Lostoyannaya :wink:

[e of pi]

Glad that the polar bear repellant works. :wink:

EDIT: And thanks for fixing my avatar problem.

[Chancellor Valium]

Also not dead :)

3. T'Pol: Nothing -- the Vulcan Science Directorate has concluded that pi is irrational
:mrgreen:

[Zeke]

Oh crap.

I have no idea what my brilliant Pi Day idea last year was.

[AKAArzosah]

In your LJ you said you were working on it, so do you have something written down somewhere?

[Zeke]

Nope. I'm just gonna have to try and figure it out again.

[AKAArzosah]

You know, if you hadn't revived this thread, I doubt anyone would have noticed... quick, hide the evidence! I won't tell anyone... maybe... if the money's right.

[mudshark]

Mmmm... pi...

[ijdgaf]

Crap. I really hope you didn't tell me about it, because I vaguely remember that you might have but have no earthly idea what it might've been.

[Zeke]

Well, I haven't remembered my Pi Day idea from last year, but I do have a cool new one. Hope I have time to execute it today.

[PointyHairedJedi]

Killing it now is the only option, eh?

[Nate the Great]

Well, you could always ask the guys at All Too Flat to allow you to play their Pi Song in the background of the site all day. And you could replace the main page wallpaper with that great pi pie.

[Zeke]

Well, I was too busy yesterday (I got to explain the wonders of pi to an equally wondrous girl I've met), but this new idea is way too much fun, so I'll still be doing it.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

(I got to explain the wonders of pi to an equally wondrous girl I've met)

That went well, then?

[Zeke]

Not exactly. It's complicated.

[ijdgaf]

Huh. The adjective pun I was expecting was "irrational".

[Zeke]

Heh, I made that joke during the Pi Day festivities. She nearly hit me. It was worth it.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

You and your puns do have that effect on people, yes.

[PointyHairedJedi]

My irony dectectors nearly went off the scale just then!

[mudshark]

Better check for irony filings in the bottoms of your meters, then.

[Sa'ar Chasm]

That wasn't irony. His puns really do have that effect on people.

*brandishes pool cue*

[PointyHairedJedi]

And of course you've never engendered such feelings in others, Sa'ar. ;)

Better check for irony filings in the bottoms of your meters, then.
You'll be hearing from my lawyer. I'm IN PAIN now, dammit.

[mudshark]

My work here is done; I'm needed elsewhere now. I'm needed wherever outlaws rule the West; wherever innocent women and children are afraid to walk the streets; wherever a man cannot live in simple dignity; wherever a people cry out for justice.

[Nate the Great]

Oh, great, now you got the Hercules opening narration stuck in my head. I hope you're happy.

[mudshark]

I did?

(That's pretty good, I guess, considering I've never even seen it.)

[Nate the Great]

What a shame. Even Jim Wright is a Xena and Hercules fan.

[evay]

bump?

Hey Zeke, anything ∏lanned?

[Nate the Great]

Yeah, at least put up the pi pie as the wallpaper on the main site!

[PointyHairedJedi]

Mmmm, pie.



It needed to be said.

[Zeke]

Hate to say it, but I now have no idea what I thought of last year or the year before. I do have something else I'm working on, but it may be a little late.