Easy as 3.14159
It's Pi Day! So start the whipped cream fight? A wacky Children's Museum duel
Let the Pie Fighting begin!Photo by Steven Thomson
The lineup for Pi Day at the Children's Museum of Houston.Photo by Steven Thomson
It's a shaving cream wonderland!Photo by Steven Thomson
Who will win the Pie Fight?Photo by Steven Thomson
Scores of children (and children at heart) arrived at the Children's Museum of Houston's playground on a drizzly Monday to commemorate March 14 (3/14), also known as Pi Day, with a rambunctious pie-throwing contest. Pi Day honors the mathematical constant Pi (π), which begins with the digits 3.14.
At exactly 1:59 p.m. (the digits following 3.14), the pie tossing commenced at the Children's Museum. The two pancho-clad teams, dubbed Shake 'N Bake and The Kool-Aid Jammers, catapulted a seemingly infinite number of "pies" — in reality, paper plates topped with mountains of shaving cream.
"Normally I don't like putting shaving cream on my face," said cream-covered high schooler Chris Edmund during the post pie toss party. "But today? Man, this competition was fun!"
The good-natured duel was a bright spot in what would have otherwise been a gray first day of spring break. Event moderator Keith "Mr. O" Ostfeld reminded attendees that March 14 also marks the birthday of celeb scientist Albert Einstein.
There may have been shouts of joy in the Houston Museum District, but it's not all smiles down in Silicon Valley. In 2010, search engine goliath Google commemorated Pi Day with a glorious math-themed logo. The company's bevy of number-crunching of braniacs are feeling a little miffed this year though, as the Google homepage is sporting its typical blue, red, yellow and green logo.
Search engines aside, how are you celebrating π day?
