Pi Day is Calculated Wrong.

I wrote this as a comment in musicdieu's journal, but I think it should be said to a wider audience:

Pi day is stupid, not because Pi is unworthy of celebration, but because the math is bad. Express Pi in a different notation, or different base, and you end up with a different day.

Instead, consider a year to be a circle (actually, its not-quite elliptical if you look at it as a path traced by the Earth around the Sun, but very close to a circle), because you know, years are cyclical.

So, since Pi radians is half a cycle (for very deep and interesting mathematical reasons). Thus Pi day should be in the exact middle of the year...

Pain.

I finally had a good, solid nights sleep last night for the first time in three or four days. As I found last night that I was having trouble sleeping over anxiety about having trouble sleeping, I turned off my alarm and made my body a promise that it could sleep whenever it wanted, and wake up whenever it wanted, regardless of what it did to my planned schedule. That worked, and I fell asleep shortly thereafter.

The results were that I slept in until 2:00 pm, and awoke with the signs of an oncoming Migraine. I wasn't surprised. Lack of sleep for several days and then sleeping in is the major thing that triggers them in me. I quickly popped two AC&Cs and then drank some strong realcaf coffee. It seems I was fast enough as the pain has leveled out at a plateau well below that of a full-blown migraine. Now, hopefully some more coffee will be enough to kill it all together. Failing that, I'm pretty sure another AC&C will do it.

I'll end up feeling rather delicate all day, and will need to avoid loud noises and sudden movements, but otherwise I think I dodged the bullet.

Syndication Help?

Could someone syndicate the link for mtl_tech_events?  Its:

http://groups.google.com/group/montreal-tech-events/feed/rss_v2_0_msgs.xml

Twirl a Squirrel.

taxlady told me about this innovative anti-squirrel bird feeder some time ago, but I hadn't seen it. Now I have. Introducing the Twirl-a-Squirrel: