Today was a good day, I think, for finishing a little guy that I’ve been carrying around incomplete for a couple of weeks.
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I'm very excited about the new concrete retaining wall! I was watching them pour it over the cameras while I was out of town
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The custom cushions for the dining room bench seating finally arrived!
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yeah that hot tub filter definitely needed a cleaning
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📗 Want to read Metagaming by Stephanie Boluk, Patrick LeMieux ISBN: 9780816687169
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π Happy ordinal pi day! (314th day of the year)
No, it should not be the US-centric March 14th, which most of the world writes as 14/3 or 14-3.
Science and mathematics are international, without borders, not specific to any one country or culture. As scientists and mathematicians we should seek international-based celebrations that bring us all together around the globe rather than country-specific dates.
The ordinal date (ISO 8601) is the only way to have an international nth day of the year: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_date
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* 88th day: worldwide Piano Day: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piano_Day (blogged https://tantek.com/2024/088/t1/world-piano-day-ordinal-date-iso-8601)
* 256the day: 8-bit day or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day (blogged https://tantek.com/2025/257/t1/happy-8bitday-255-bytes-max)
I suspect there are other such annual worldwide holidays that are pinned to the ordinal date rather than a Gregorian or other non-decimal calendar. Let me know if you have a favorite that you celebrate!
🥧 I haven't made a pie (or picked one up) yet — will have go pick up a slice during a break in this evening’s #w3cTPAC meetings (which are in Japan where it’s already the day after pi day).
Previously:
* https://tantek.com/2022/314/t1/happy-ordinal-pi-day
#piDay #actualPiDay #ordinalDate #ISO8601 #ISOdate
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📗 Want to read Texture and 3D Effects by Amber Hards ISBN: 9780719842382
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I’m traveling but that doesn’t mean I’m not machine knitting!
I am so grateful to Cristina Talpa for her make-a-scarf workshop. Amy found it via the Makery and we thought it seemed too good to pass up.
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Plus, this scarf! I love it! Amy enjoyed posing me on an outing in Berlin today to snap a few photos.
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