Happy Pi Day!  Math nerds around the world woke up this morning with an extra spring in their step and new batteries in their graphing calculators.  I hope your celebrations are lively, safe, and directly proportional to the ratio of your circumference to your diameter.

Incidentally, I was recently invited to a Sudoku event--not because of my wit or my charm. No, I was invited simply for the reason that I'm a closet math dork.  A friend of mine has identified herself as a "sudoku fiend," and I'm not sure if I can associate myself with that kind of unbridled passion.  Therefore, I may or may not attend; especially because I don't really play Sudoku that much. Of course, the last math dork event I attended was dedicated to knots and whether or not a particular knot formation had a solution (i.e. it could be untied in a certain number of moves....or something).  And I haven't been tying any knots lately, either. 

My only real experience with Sudoku involves:
1) a friend of mine who is (or at least was) obsessed;
2) the puzzles in airline magazines;
3) the electronic version on my Blackberry.

My best time on my Blackberry is 5 minutes 20 seconds to solve.  My average time is somewhere south of 8 minutes per puzzle.  I hope this paragraph somehow nets me a really hot chick.  Did I happen to mention the math seminar on knot theory?

t > t0*

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By the way:  we can also celebrate whomever it was that (this morning) became the 2000th view of my blog.  Kudos, friend.  Inane drivel has never been so well received--or so poorly reviewed.

* This is how a mathematician says "later."  Of course, I didn't think of this myself.