We left the club about 2:00 A.M., and to Bryan's total shock and joy, Troy offered to let him drive the Mustang. What a great present for Bryan! I was...a little surprised when Pattie got in the front seat with him, and literally pushed me into the backseat. But I was frankly tipsy and excited enough not to worry overly about it. Besides, I didn't think it would be all that bad to be sitting beside Troy and Aaron...Aaron, especially. I would make it all part of the fantasy that I would tell Bryan. We used 22/7ths in grade school and 3.14 in High School and everyone seemed pleased with the results. Faustus Mortal: If you have a calculator, press the ‘pi’ key. If you get the expected number, you are 95% certain that the calculator is working property. To double check, try Exp(1) = 2.718281828. Taunus Trumbo: So you think some of your approximations are correct? Faustus Mortal: Possibly. One philosophically correct point is mass defect and mass excess. I base mine on the. Jake had parked halfway up the trail leading up the mountain, partially blocking it. A black sedan was parked behind him.“Frank,” Tanya called out, examining the sedan.Frank turned around, hearing the alarm in Tanya’s voice. “What is it?”“We need to be very careful,” she said. “This is a government car. This means they’re ahead of us, now.”“They must have followed Jake,” Frank said. “Detective Mike told me people would be watching us.”“Maybe we should wait here,” Tanya suggested, “and see who. I had Scarpia's example before me if I was in any doubt. He questions Cavaradossi, the tenor, briefly about information that he, Scarpia, wants, and when Cavaradossi won't answer immediately puts him to horrific torture. Sure, that was just grand opera, but it was verismo opera—meant to parallel the truth—and the scenario was pretty readily accepted as realistic. And with about half the country already supporting torture as an acceptable means of extracting information from suspected—only.