002 - Cherry

[deadly_ned]

Happy Pi(e) Day. The day for both food and math enthusiasts to come together in a spirit of unity and baked goods.

Usually I offer a free pie to the person who can recite the most digits of pi but by the looks of some of the people here....that would probably not be a good idea. Only because we would run out of time and the pie would get cold waiting.


There is a definite out-of-whack ratio of supergeniuses here.

Comments

[yeahscience]

Why? How many are there?

[deadly_ned]

It's an endless number with digits leading up to infinity with no distinguishable pattern.

I can manage twenty-five. Twenty-six if you include the decimal.

[yeahscience]

You don't, like, get laid a lot, do you.

[deadly_ned]

Not in the conventional sense of the word.

Which is something I'm not sure I feel comfortable discussing at this...present...time. This is a conversation about pie. not sex. Unless the pie is as good as sex. Some pies are.

[yeahscience]

I thought it was a conversation about being a nerd.

[deadly_ned]

Now it's an insult train.

[hellofist]

There's a day... for pie?

[Sorry Cass has no idea what pi is, she's just interested in the food part of this.]

[deadly_ned]

Yes.

Well, technically for me every day is Pie Day because....I'm a piemaker.

But today is the official day to honor it.

[hellofist]

[But you're not fat like all you eat is pies, how is this possible.]

By... counting fingers? [Digits are fingers right?]

[deadly_ned]

The digits of pi, the mathematical figure that makes it possible to calcuate what's inside and around a circle. Which is a homonym for pie, the food. Which is coincidentally also shaped like a circle.

A delicious circle.

[hellofist]

[That actually makes sense, when she can read his body to fill in the blanks. Well, as much sense as math ever makes to Cass.]

Best kind of circle. Cake is good, too. Did you know... they put pies in cakes?

[megamind]

I have perfect memory and know Pi past the 100,000th place. It'd also take, uh... a very long while to recite.

Like a day.

So, yeah. No pie for pi.

[deadly_ned]

Any practical use of that knowledge disappears somewhere around the 600th digit.

[megamind]

Why do say that?

[deadly_ned]

There isn't anything so precise that you need to divide up to the 90,000th decimal point. You're not even splitting atoms anymore. You're splitting the atoms of atoms of a circle.

[megamind]

All knowledge is power. Even if it's the power to pick up very smart women, okay?

[fancy_pants]

I'm afraid I am not aware of such a holiday.

[deadly_ned]

It's more of a, um. Recent invention. It's picking up in popularity.

Are you more of a math or a pie fan?

[fancy_pants]

Seems an unusual thing to play favorites with but I suppose I would sooner devote a sunday evening to a delicious slice of pie over mathematics.

[deadly_ned]

That was the correct answer. You win a slice. To be picked up at your convenience at the mess hall.

[ichoosefight]

Are you going to make pie anyway? I would totally be on board with mass pie production.

[deadly_ned]

You already are on board. Literally.

And yes. There will be the promise and then the fulfillment of the severely lacking pie quota.

I um.

I don't suppose you'd want to help?

[ichoosefight]

Hey, I could always jump over the side. [ Who knows what would happen to her if she did, but it's an option. ]

Sure, I can help. I've gained a little bit of baking expertise. [ She makes easy bake cookies and brownies. ]

[deadly_ned]

It's a steep drop. Please don't jump. I don't really want to go over and pull you back out again.

You know how to bake?

[ichoosefight]

You should just grab my fiance instead, he can fly.

I know how to follow instructions. That's kind of the same thing, right?