Happy Pi Day!

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First, I want to wish everyone a very Happy Pi Day! Go forth and celebrate mathematics wherever you find it. (I am bringing pie to my Calc class today, which will hopefully encourage them to speak up. They are a very quiet group of students.)

Also, 7veilsphaedra posted electronically generated haiku, and she got me hooked. These don't hang together like Phae's

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[7veilsphaedra]

Ooh, I like your haiku very much. One and three are quite tidy. Number two is In Vino Veritas in a nutshell.

Happy Pi day to you too. That explains the mysterious e-card which Hannah sent me this morning, "If we were floating in a life-raft, I wouldn't be Pi." I thought she'd gone barking.

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She might have gone barking, but not for referring to Pi today. Though I might be going barking as well. I seem to be missing the joke in what she sent you. Oh well.

I liked the haiku too. Thanks for posting them!

[7veilsphaedra]

Do you remember how I wanted to send you a Christmas present of some of my favourite music recordings? It never happened because, firstly, I bought DVD discs instead of CDs *whacks forehead*, and secondly, I don't know how to burn the stupid things in either case.

Well, slowly, slowly, slowly, like the silly tortoise, I'm getting a smidgeon of an iota of a hang of this technology thing, and I just learned how to upload music files directly onto sendspace. So, the music I promised you can be found by clicking on these following links. *Crosses fingers in hopes that they work*

Kiri Te Kanawa, Handel, Let The Bright Seraphim

J. S. Bach, 16 Cantata No. 314 Tönet, ihr Pauken! Erschallet, Trompeten! Leipzig University Chorus, New Leipzig Bach Collegium Musicum

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Thank you! This may be a stupid question, but how do I get to them? Do I need to sign up for Sendspace to get access?

Thanks also for clarifying the joke. I haven't read "The Life of Pi" yet, or maybe I would have figured it out.

[7veilsphaedra]

No need to sign up for Sendspace(although if you want to send big files, it's useful.) All you need to do is scroll down past all the ads to the place where you see the blinking orange arrow which points to a link in tiny blue letters, and you click on that.

BTW, I haven't 'zipped' these files up, whatever that means, so I don't know how it works for someone to receive them. I've just been instructed to download WinRAR shareware in order to manage this since Windows Media Player doesn't have these useful sorts of functions.

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I did manage to download the music, and it was lovely. Thank you very much for sending it!

[7veilsphaedra]

Cheers! Glad it finally worked.

[7veilsphaedra]

I forgot to ask if you could please let me know if it works once you've downloaded it? --- Or even if you can download it?

[7veilsphaedra]

Oh, regarding my sister's joke, turns out she was refering to The Life of Pi by Jann Martel. (I had to ask.) As jokes go, she admitted it was pretty lame.