{"id":29483,"date":"2016-03-14T22:56:44","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T02:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=29483"},"modified":"2016-03-14T22:56:44","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T02:56:44","slug":"monday-night-approximate-pi-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2016\/03\/14\/monday-night-approximate-pi-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Monday night &#8211; Approximate Pi Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is approximate pi day 3.14.16 (if you round up). Lots of things happened today.:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ibm started giving out free Raspberry Pi&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www-01.ibm.com\/marketing\/iwm\/dre\/signup?source=ibm-analytics&amp;S_PKG=ov46626&amp;S_TACT=C31403HW&amp;dynform=21421\" target=\"_blank\">if you sign up for a test drive of Watson IoT Platform<\/a><\/li>\n<li>MIT sent out its student accept letters<\/li>\n<li>IBM HAD A PI DAY POT LUCK<\/li>\n<li>Generator had a members meeting<\/li>\n<li>VOmit (Vermont&#8217;s own MIT Club) had an officers meeting<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All in order to celebrate the most important constant in the world :<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I went tot eh Pi day IBM bash.. brought bought a store bought pizza.. a faux aux, I know.. but it was good !<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-11.50.08.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-11.50.15.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-11.50.05.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-11.50.19.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-11.50.21.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>there was even a contest for reciting the digits of pi.. .i came in fifth \ud83d\ude41\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-11.59.29.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>i also got my selfie camera fixed today.. yay.. <img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-13.03.38.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>but somehow got stuck midday in a bunch of calls. I spent 3 hours working in my car in the rain because I couldn&#8217;t get off the computer long enough to drive home ..\u00a0<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-16.09.23.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>but..t hat allowed me to go tot he very good Generator members meeting<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-17.35.20.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-17.36.28.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-17.53.55.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-18.08.08.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-18.08.17.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>from there I headed over to the VOMIT (Vermonts own MIT club officers meeting graciously hosted by Jeff and Biz..<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-19.32.09.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>biz and jeff outdid themselves again on pi geekiness (<a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2015\/03\/14\/saturday-night-the-party-of-the-century-happy-pi-day\/\" target=\"_blank\">look at what they did last year !\u00a0<\/a>)<img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-19.32.46.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-20.49.23.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/2016-03-14-20.52.17.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Biz shared this very cool piano piece which has the digit of pi encoded in it !\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/m.wimp.com\/songpi\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/m.wimp.com\/songpi\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeff took this picture of our meeting.. appropriately circular<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG_2312-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Hope you too had a well rounded Pi day<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>nite all, nite sam<\/p>\n<p>-me<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is approximate pi day 3.14.16 (if you round up). Lots of things happened today.: Ibm started giving out free Raspberry Pi&#8217;s if you sign up for a test drive of Watson IoT Platform MIT sent out its student accept letters IBM HAD A PI DAY POT LUCK Generator had a members meeting VOmit (Vermont&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2016\/03\/14\/monday-night-approximate-pi-day\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Monday night &#8211; Approximate Pi Day<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29510,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29483\/revisions\/29510"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}