2 thoughts on “Blowing Up the Circle”

1. tau is the mean lifetime of a decaying quantity. Putting a third leg into Greek pi will blow Microcrap Word through the rafters along with Feminazis. If yer gonna diddle pi, start with Planck’s constant h that instead should be h/2pi (except if you want to know how much energy your frequency carries).

   But, no! Go back to Benjamin Franklin who doomed us all by assigning the electron a negative charge, thus pushing current in the opposite direction to that of its carriers. Add a boot to the head to the git who defined the direction of optical rotation to be opposite to that of geometric helicity.

   Throttle the officious jackass who assigned CAS and IUPAC nomenclature so classical trans-configuration is E-configuration and classical cis-configuration is Z-configuration. They did so well overunning Europe and later going to the moon. What happened?

   We lack rigorous characterization of the topology and function of cluelessness.

   Uncle Al is not exactly thrilled about Torx (hexalobular internal driving feature, ISO 10664) screwheads, and perceptably less so about Torx SECURITY screwheads. By driver, use driver, toss stripped driver. There is no screw that a 5 lb baby sledgehammer can’t drive in a pinch – and you only need one.

2. I almost want to see pi replaced by tau, just to force all those folks who have memorized hundreds (or thousands) of digits of pi have to redo their memorizing!

   (Obviously, I’m a very petty person.)

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