Tuesday, March 13. 2007

an example of my faulty memory

All morning I’ve been trying to remember this show my parents used to watch when I was a kid. I don’t really recall much about it, other than the title having something to do with the number pi, and that the main character was some sort of ladies-man / freelance-mathematician who traveled around Hawaii solving complex equations or somesuch.

Now that I think about it, I’m guessing he must’ve been pretty successful in both fields… he drove around in a Ferrari and had a bad-ass moustache.

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2007-03-13 19:53
marcus132 said:

I’m pretty sure the show you’re thinking of is Hawaii Three-14.

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2007-03-14 11:04
RT Cunningham said:

marcus132 was trying to be cute. It didn’t work. The show you’re thinking about is, of course, Magnum PI, with Tom Selleck.

#2 (Reply)
2007-03-14 11:39
jer said:

Actually, we were both trying to be cute :)

PI != pi

:)

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2007-03-14 18:07
marcus132 said:

I may not be cute but at least I got the joke. ;-)

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2007-03-14 11:42
RT Cunningham said:

In cahoots? Well, shut your pi hole then! :-)

#3 (Reply)
2007-03-14 11:47
RT Cunningham said:

Actually, I should have caught both references to math. It’s 2:45 am here. I am a rock, I am an island.

#4 (Reply)
2007-03-14 11:56
jer said:

If you’d only waited 29 minutes before posting, it could have been 3:14 am…

So: up early or late?

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2007-03-14 12:14
RT Cunningham said:

Late, as usual. There’s a good reason for me being up so late, but I can’t disclose it. I’ve been doing it for days and it takes it’s toll after a while.

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2007-03-14 12:22
jer said:

I just realized… If I had waited a few hours, it would have been posted on 3/14

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