Inverse Relationship Between Happiness and How Much I Post

I have decided that the number of times someone posts a status update to facebook or updates his/her blog is inversely proportional to his/her contentment with life.  I have gone back and looked at my data since November and made a chart of this. I probably should categorize the posts as some of them actually probably have a positive correlation to happiness, but in general, more posts means less happiness. I apparently rated 3 weeks as a 10 in happiness - 2 during the production of Traditions and one in January when I was uber-excited about my new friend Dana. And the 2 weeks rated a 2 were the first week of January which is always gloomy and during the Reno tournament.

My thinking is that writing is a relatively harmless way to release anger and resentment. So, when one writes more, it is likely because he has some anger he wants to let out. When one is happy, he is probably busy and probably gets enough time sharing the joys with actual friends, so there's less of a desire to broadcast it to the world (or at least the part of the world that sees one's posts). Of course, if this starts getting to be a money-making thing, I don't think this theory would apply.

3.14159

Happy Pi Day! Of all the holidays celebrated on the 14^th of a month, Pi Day is the best. What is so special about pi day? If you’re reading this, I expect you are well aware of the great significance of pi, but in case you’re not mathematically inclined, it is 3.14159..., which happens to be the ratio between the circumference and the diameter of a circle. Is pi where pie the dessert got its name or is it the other way around? Or is it just a coincidence? Hmm.


For any literature enthusiasts who are mathematically challenged who might be reading this, perhaps the first thing you think about when you see “Pi” is Piscine Molitor Patel, the protagonist in Canadian author Martel Yann’s book “Life of Pi”. This does happen to be among my favorite books, but it has nothing to do with 3.14 or the pie dessert. It’s about an Indian boy, who happens to be named after a pool surviving 227 days on a lifeboat. He and his family were in the process of moving from India to Canada.