Celebrating the day, yesterday

[celticdragonfly]

So yesterday, as many noted, was Pi Day. We had caramel apple pie, a la mode.

Dryers has too many flavors of vanilla. There I was in the store, trying to remember which was Karl's favorite. The no-sugar-added, fat-free, with Splenda! one was clearly wrong. But... vanilla, french vanilla, vanilla bean, double vanilla? Fortunately I got it right. (French vanilla, if anybody wanted to know)

It was also Einstein's birthday. We celebrated this by digging out the Fire in the Sky tape from Jordin Kare and playing the Unified Field Theory song. I'm glad Karl was willing to hunt for it. Jordin Kare needs to put out a filk songbook of his stuff! Miles was over, and got introduced to Jordin Kare, we also played him Bloody Bastards and The Designer and The Engineer. Then I got a blank look to a remark and realized he didn't know Kipling's The Female of the Species, and I figured the simplest way to introduce him to that poem was to play Leslie Fish's version that she set to music.

A good evening. Progress was also made on household stuff, I may post on that, but after breakfast.

Comments

[shadefell.livejournal.com]

We had chicken pot pie for dinner and turtle pie for dessert.

Mmm, Pi Day.

[joyeuse13.livejournal.com]

Darn, I missed it. No pie, at any rate. I made veal, though, does that count?

(Well, I didn't *make* the veal; I just cooked it. Presumeably god or whoever actually *made* it.)

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

Well, this year is the 300th anniversary of the Greek letter "pi" first being used for that mathematical constant - so I'd say you can celebrate it with pie today or anytime soon!

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Nothing to do with pi, but it sounds like Miles is well on his way to corruption.

[msminlr.livejournal.com]

Does he know he has a namesake in Lois McMaster Bujold's books?
There are filks about Miles, too.
Several were posted in a GaFilk songbook when Lois was the Super Secret Guest a couple of years back, and there are several on one of Echo's Children's CD's. "Dancing World", I think.

[celticdragonfly.livejournal.com]

OH yes he does. The day I met him I looked uuuuup and said "aren't you awfully tall for a Miles?" and got a blank look. I Knew Then What I Must Do. It took ages to get him hooked on the books, until I figured out the way to do it was give him ebooks. I've sent him various Bujold filk. One of these days I'm going to get him to a filk and we'll do Butterbug Blues for him.