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Frosting on Your Pi
Just in time for a chilly weekend, π Day is a great time to bake your favorite pie. They say πr², but no, 🥧 are round…
π Radius 🥧
Nature is an infinite sphere whose center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere. ~Blaise Pascal, Pensées
With Wednesday as the center of the week and Saturday as the edge of its never-ending circle, we’ve traversed a radius to arrive at today.
Yes, I imagine your head is spinning at how deep that was…
Or maybe your head is spinning at how I’m trying to baffle you with BS.
I don’t know. It’s not easy to riff on mathematics. Give me a break.
The important thing is that it’s Saturday.
The important thing about it being Saturday is that I am at liberty to continue writing from waking to sleeping.
That’s exactly how I like it. So, sue me.
Since it’s π/🥧 day, I get to have something tasty whenever I take a break from writing.
🥧 Diameter π
Calculating Pi with Real Pies – Numberphile
And what kind of pie would I want if one was available?
There is literally no wrong sort of pie, but if I had my druthers…
How to Make Glazed Apple Cream Pie | Dessert Recipes | Allrecipes.com
I mean, how can you go wrong with pie that comes frosted?
Actually, I prefer mine with raisins and extra cinnamon in the apple filling, but the important thing is that there’s frosting on top.
Gotta have frosting on your pie, my friends.
π Circumference 🥧
The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Circles (1841)
The Sentinels Chronicle is ultimately circular. I start with the status quo and I end on the new status quo, 13 years later.
It also reflects the previous 13 years during which the superhero team is institutionally constrained by an incident that would probably be a throwaway in the MCU or DCEU.
The Sentinels were founded in May of 1992 after years of planning, negotiating, coordinating and integrating with the Empire City Police Department (ECPD).
By July of 1992, their comic book style antics crossed a line nobody was willing to deal with.
It isn’t until 2005, when a new superhero powers up, that they get another chance to live up to the vision upon which they were founded.
Naturally, since this is a story, this inciting incident kicks off all kinds of crazy drama.
That story is not a basic Freytag’s Pyramid, standalone, once and done sort of story.
This is long-form, heavily interwoven, citywide, comprehensive narrative.
Things overlap, sometimes frequently and sometimes obliquely.
Ultimately, it all comes back around to a new status quo.
In the grand arc of this interpretation of the Hero’s Journey, I pass through the four “Ages of Comic Books” (Gold, Silver, Bronze, Modern).
In the sweep of these four ages within the circle of the Hero’s Journey structure, the “Special World” or “Dark World” at the bottom half of the circle is represented by the Silver and Bronze Ages.
These comprise the Chaos War and that’s an entire topic in itself.
I’m still working my way through the Golden Age on the downward arc to the Chaos War.
Like the original Golden Age of Comic Books, the superheroes are few and fairly limited in power.
They’re remarkable among normal people, but they are merely harbingers of the madness to come.
I’ve only completed a sliver of the whole pie so far, but I’m here for the whole trip from normal to new normal.
Hopefully, you’ll love it once it’s fresh from the oven.
That’s all for today. See you back on Wednesday for 🎩👨🏻🦰☘️…