If you have a look at the sidebar, you'll see that even the internet is presently bored! Here is what PI residents do when they go bonkers.
PI stands for... Probably Improbable, Politically Incorrect, Potentially Insane, Preon Infected, Problems Included, Proudly Ignorant, Promising Insults, Positively Irrational, Presently Insignificant, Philosophical Illusions, Physics Inside
Contributed submissions:
Promoting Ideas, Prain Included, Pump It, Plotting Infinity, Position Independent, Pissing Ion, Perfectly Intolerant, Protecting Insanity, Post Inflation, Plutonium Injection, Pain Intensifier, Premature Interruption, Positive Impact, Private Intrusion
And here is what Wikipedia had to add, see PI (disambiguation):
Primitive Instinct (sometimes), Public Intoxication (definitly), People's Initiative (more than useful), Principal Investigator (haven't seen one), Primary Immunodeficiency (not yet), Predictive Index (none), Provider Independent (that's what I dream of), Pass Interference (my job), Programmed Instruction (absent)
My apologies to the whole public outreach department. I expect a sentence of 4 months snow.
See also: 3.141592653589793238462...
Physically Impossible
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Precisely Imprecise
People Indoctrinator
Pinhead Institution
Peabrain (P-Brane?) Inventors
Popperian Induction
Pick-an Idiot
Purple Indigo
*lol* Not bad, you got the rules of the game. If you can type 100+ letters/minute on the BlackBerry, you qualify to be picked...
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Powerful Idea
Probe Infinite
Probe Infinitesimal
Parley Infinitum?
Pettifoggers Incorporated
Profound Insights
Profound Insights... Indeed. I'm having the profound insight that I am out of Coke. Gotta go catch some, have fun. - B.
ReplyDeleteI must be possibly ill for coming up with Public Intrigued by Playful Intellects Proposing Interpretations of Pi Insignia on the Public Internet.
ReplyDeleteI should take the weekend off. Enjoy your Coke, (Pepsi Impersonator).
Please indulge, I now have a peripatetic insect in my pate integument (i.e., a bee in my bonnet) I came here just to partially improve the piffling idea previously inscripted by replacing "Pi Insignia" with "Perimeter Initials".
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Proactive Idiocracy
ReplyDeletePresently, I Publish Irrelevant Papers In Peer-reviewed International Print-journals?
ReplyDeleteHi Arun,
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I finally get some of my 'E's!
Hi anonymous,
Possibly Inside-knowledge?
- B.
Pretty Inspirational
ReplyDeleteor Possibly Innane
seems it depends wholly on the point of view of observer
Arun, Profound Insights
Pepsi Impersonator - lol!
and I always thought Coke was the Real Thing
Persiflage Incredible!
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ReplyDeleteduring a round of post-doc applications I had to ask one of my referees (a prominent physicist) if he had already sent out the letters of recommendation and I reminded him that for PI the application procedure was online.
ReplyDeleteHe replied to me that so far he had not been successful with the web forms of the "Periferal Institute".
I would expect misspelling the institution's name does not directly increase you chances there but judging from what I see in the applications to our new TMP program this point of view is not very wide spread...
Robert, this is too funny :-) Btw, congrats on your paper, B.
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