Fire, Water, Burn.

I arrived at my friends hotel early yesterday to the sound of fire alarms. The building opposite my friends hotel was being evacuated and police had just arrived on scene. When going down the hill, I noticed large flames coming out of the side of the building

Fire crews were not far away and roads and footpaths were progressively being blocked off as emergency services needed more room on the relatively narrow street.

 Emergency services did their building walkthroughs and checks. The event was over in about half an hour. I waited for my friend in front of a temporary barrier manned by a police officer and listened to some of the silly questions passer by's asked. "Did someone Die?" asked one lady, "Can I run back into the building and get my phone" asked another. others tried to barge through barriers, some succeeded. In all, emergency services handled the incident well, people disappoint me though.

May I have a large container of coffee

Today is March 14. Or 14.3. or, in the US, its 3.14, which is con incidentally a decimal representation of Pi.This it is International Pi Day.

Pi is a number so irrational that you can celebrate it twice. 22/7 is a pretty close fractional approximation, so some can celebrate it on July 22. I much like 355/113 as it is easy to remember (just split 113355 and reverse the values) and very close to accurate. Even this post subject is a decimal Mnemonic.

Calculators have probably spoiled a bit of the fun people have remembering Pi, but that doesn't mean you can't have a little bit of fun a couple of time a year.