And, of course, for the perfect Pi Day experience, everyone should try to eat pie at exactly one minute to 2:00pm this afternoon.

Jesse, we use RefWorks on campus and at work, and it is really wonderful. I love it. Definately see if your school has something like that available through the library.

Has anyone here used brainstorming software?

I'd forgotten about it until just now, but my dad actually helped design one of the earliest GUI brainstorming programs. He and a friend of his wrote a program for the earliest Macs called "The Learning Tool," which was an early precursor to those brainstorming type of programs.

Pi Day!

My friend Gary wrote a great song titled "Sweet as Pi." It's all about his favorite scientific numbers (he was a physics major).

Let's see how much I can remember off the top of my head.

I saw a number
written on a wall
It's not the kind of number
that you call
It seemed to me it was
sweeter than pi
In fact it was 3.14159

Then there's a whole thing about: "Now Newtons are Jules over meters / I like Hertz and Watts and radions more than liters"

My favorite section went: "Now Pascal / you rascal / you're as green as a lawn's tent / 'cuz you're not nearly as cool as / Maxwell Planck and his constant."

There's something about Avogadro and Moh's too.

Note: all errors in formulation mine.

ita, I have this, which I love: [link] but I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for.

They had apple pie for sale in the cafeteria, but my department was handing out free cake for the company to celebrate the 70th birthday of the Federal Register (the federal government's daily updates of all proposed and final regulations, it's probably the most-used resource by the legal writers at my company).

Sorry, pi(e), you lose out to free cake.

That's the sort of software I was thinking of, vw, except for adults. I've never used it, and wonder about its worth.

I use it for my papers and big projects. I find it really helpful. I even used it to mind-map my "book." I've found it entirely worthwhile, but then again, I'm weird with this kind of stuff. I like doing the pre-writing and stuff.

Emily actually just installed it on her computer too, but I think that was for teaching purposes.

I actually have the bibliography typed up already -- had to hand it in yesterday. Now I need to get the useful stuff out of the books and stuff and into the paper. Which I have yet to start writing. So it's less about the citation and more about the two good quotes I'm going to want to use, once I find them.