Here’s an interesting one, and one many of us can relate to.  Ugh just getting myself to get to my kitchen to spread peanut butter on toast was hard when I was unemployed.  But true to myself, now that I’m working I’ve also started a literary magazine, volunteer at my meditation centre, and volunteer at [...]

Today marks one week since I decided to become a vegetarian – again. For those of you who don’t know, I was a lacto-ovo vegetarian for about half my life, from 13 to 28. The switch to eating meat was a fairly gradual one, started by the clichéd villain: bacon. I’ve tried all kinds of [...]

And while we’re on the topic of Pi, 5 airplanes in San Francisco write the first 1000 digits of Pi.  People are confused… and really mad at numbers that are seemingly random. And Fifteen Furlongs gives meaning to really large and really small numbers.  Like the 44TB of disk needed to do the Pi computation?  [...]

So I’m sure all of you know that people from other countries don’t necessarily count the 7 continents that us North Americans do.  But in a recent argument with a friend we realized that neither of us could win since we don’t actually know what these foreigners do count, and why?  So I did some [...]

You’re the son of the God Shiva and the Goddess Parvathi.  You’ve never met your dad before because he went off to battle when Parvathi was pregnant with you.  She named you Ganesha and brought you up to be the man of the house.  One day she says to you “Hey Ganesha, I’m going to [...]