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And don’t give me any of that 22/7 crap either.

Happy Pi Day!!

March 14 = 3.14

“Pi Day is celebrated in a variety of ways. Parties or other observances may be held by mathematics departments in educational institutions. Math or science clubs might gather to consider the role that the number ? has played in their lives and to imagine the world without ?. During such an event, pi celebrants may devise alternative values for ?, eat pie, play piñata, drink Piña Colada, eat pineapple, listen to the song “Pi” by Kate Bush, or watch Pi. The shape of the pie is sometimes square, due to the pronunciation of the equation for the surface area bounded by a circle = ?r2, i.e. “pie are squared.”

The “ultimate” pi moment[1] occurred on March 14, 1592, at 6:53 AM and 58 seconds. When written in American-style date format, this is 3/14/1592 6:53.58, which corresponds to the value of pi to twelve digits: 3.14159265358. However, considering this was well before any kind of standardized world time had been established, and the general public had no concept of ?, the occurrence likely went unnoticed[2].”

3.14159265358

Also note the Albert Einstein was smart enough to be born on Pi day.

My dad was also smart enought to be born today! Nice work Dad, and happy birthday!

Hmm. A little embarassing that I have not posted anything in a week while Tim here is on a roll with his Musical Tuesdays.. but so many things are going on.. and I have not had time to find the juicy news you all require..

Maybe I need to introduce some kind of architectural Wednesdays.. or Thursdays for that matter.

One thing I can say is that Mika Soma – a fine arts student over at Otis College of Art and Design, has joined me this semester as the official Rise Industries Intern. She has been helping out with wrapping up a big digital mural project I am working on (more later…) and we are currently putting together a magazine/art book that we hope to put out in several weeks. Its tentatively called Not Bad, and will deal with art/writing/photos/rememberances of Where We are From.. and Where We are. Places or environments lived in so to speak. Thats a loose idea though..

So – consider this a call for submissions.. if you have ideas for anything that can be printed (its going to be either color or black and white folded 11×17 format I think) and deals with your past or your current environment… drop me an email with an idea and we can talk.

Send to jquinn at rise-ind.com

Hey man, I have hockey players in the family too – crazy.

Check out Manon Rheaume – some sort of cousin/relation on my Mom’s side of the family (from back in Canada).

Congrats to Ethan, er, State Shirt! He won the Songfight match for Bitter Orange (see post below). So, now if you have not heard it yet, go to Songfight and check it out – its good stuff.

ps. Ethan, we should do one soon… either that or I will just have to enter into competition with you (and lose).

I spent all day Sunday writing and recording a song for one of the latest SongFights. SongFight is a site where song titles are given, and you write/record a song in a week. Post it on the site, and people vote for the best. I entered the “Bitter Orange” fight. I waited until the last day to even start writing… so I ended up spending the entire day in the studio. Didn’t even stop for a beer break. So click on over to SongFight, listen to the songs and vote for the best. If you don’t vote for me that’s okay, but I may not send you a valentine this year.

>>>>>>>>>>>>>> SongFight!

“…spending on public relations contracts rose rapidly under the Bush administration…”

>>> your tax $$ at work

Recently, I completed sound design work for two websites designed by Yuju Yeo (one on her own, one with Osborn). They are for two different eye-wear lines from The Lens Work company. So, turn up your speakers, and check them out:

T2 Eyewear

Minima

*all sounds for the Minima site are made on my trusy Gibson Les Paul electric guitar.

this made me laugh, which i needed, because i broke my collarbone over the weeknd… no AIR updates for a time… Google moon – click on the more info button, it just keeps going…

Jack Bauer’s Friendster profile.

[for those, like me, who are rabid fans of 24]