Celebrate Calendar Geekiness

Skippy brings us news of another holiday excuse to party.

today is one of five days this century when we get to celebrate one of the most visual concepts in math -- square root day:

"square root day" is a funny holiday celebrated on dates where the day and month are both the square root of the last two digits of the year.

"square root day" only happens nine times during a century. the last one was five years ago, february 2, 2004. the next one is seven years away and will happen april 4, 2016. the final square root day of the 21st century will occur on september 9, 2081...

ron gordon, a redwood city, california high school teacher, first created the day for 9/9/81. ron gordon sends news releases to world media organizations.

"these days are like calendar comets, you wait and wait and wait for them, then they brighten up your day - and poof - they're gone," said ron gordon.

his daughter has set up a facebook page for people to share ideas on how to celebrate the day.

link for facebook group;

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?sid=2ec0bf27af0f48db95915e01ef9b06e8&gid=53624283910

personally, we're taking our car in to get fixed on differential day.