Noted astrophysicist, K3.14159 has been searching for planet Earth for well over a year. While that project is abust, he has managed to turn the world of cosmology upside down with a pi squared magnitude wardino source. From the Pi Center for Astronomical Research and Documentation (PICARD), he recently announced discovery of a unique object modestly dubbed the Austin Super Nova. 'This isn't some numerological quirk,' he noted to no one in particular.

    K3.14159 works a lost and found.

'We were conducting a routine documentation review and, as usual, I was humoring Dr. e to get a favorable report. Hewas perseverating over a rather sloppy requirements anaysis supporting some ill-conceived plan to procure a telescope. With the buzz he had going ... I couldn't really follow much of it so I just monitored the audit as a background process and went back to my data analysis. I almost missed it with all the jabbering but there it was - a clear wardino peak at 12 MeV.

e, self proclaimed systems engineer and documentation specialist, quickly grasped the technical significance of the find. 'I 'specially liked the cool certificate thing,' he remarked insightfully, 'and the free Merlot was OK too, though I prefer a Pinot Noir'.

    Wardinos abound in Auriga.

Quantatative photometric measurements indicate a wardino flux magnitude 9.86960 +/- 00005, equal to pi squared within experimental error. While K3.14159's discovery boarders on the bizarre, senior opponentologist and general pain in the ass Chip Christians is nonplused. 'It's not really a super nova, it's just an average looking star in an ordinary region of the cosmos some distance from Earth. Betelgurse it isn't', he bemused.

But Austin is characteristically smug and vows to continue his personal favorite, the search for Earth. 'On next year's tour we'll hit pay dirt', he boasts. And Chip, he couldn't find his name on a bottle of Snappy's.'




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