1 Jun 4705 - Trained Attack Breakfast

Apparently, there was some confusion about my most recent article below, and the scientastic terms contained therein. So starting with the transition phase after the list, where the article completely becomes a pastiche, I'll list the terms I used and whether they are real or not, and what they mean.

Hors - An actual word. He's a minor member of a slavic mythological pantheon, the demigod or god of the winter sky.
Hot bodies - Usually, heat-transfer physicists call these "dark bodies" or "an ideal black body radiator."
Lidmahids - Totally made up, but fun to say word that I use later on. Completely meaningless word based on the acronym in the sentence.
Translational space - a dog linear algebra term. Really a big word for some kind of action performed on a graph, like squishing or warping.
Megatheory - a made-up, fun sounding word.
Sub-spatio-homogenic - Sub for below, spatio for space or region, and homogenic for that Bjork album by the same name. The word is similar to homogeneous, which means "evenly mixed" or "all the same throughout."
Subspace - Sometimes this word has meaning. Here it really doesn't.
Pathological - Occurring contrary to logic or reason. Acting unexpectedly.
Stochastic - Random. Usually the kind of random that comes from chaos math.
Unifying theories - Physical theories that try to relate fundamental forces with each other, the ultimate goal being to find the link between all of them, whether or not it exists.
Cosmological constantitians - Made-up word that means "people who study universal cosmological constants."
Picophysicists - Very small physicists, on the order of a centimeter or so.
Fixed point locators - Centers.
Eigenvalues - A real word. Useful results of matrix calculations.
Densitometric - Made-up word for "with regards to density."

Even without the big payoff at the end, there's a lot of one-liners and tongue-in-cheek tucked away in that little shaggy dog. Or just say lidmahid to your friends.

For today, I pose a thought experiment about breakfast.
I am a breakfast mage of sorts. When I food shop, I always procure breakfast foods: bagels, spread for bagels and toast, eggs, bacon, pancake ingredients, cereal, milk. And yet, I am a nightowl to be sure. I drink coffee preferably starting at 10PM and working my way into the night, as I came into the habit of doing at the local coffee shop in downtown Roanoke. I'm used to doing all my meaningful work when the sun is down. There's not a lot of time in this schedule for breakfast.
Now, I have no problem with, say, eating my breakfast at 3 or 4 in the afternoon. It's just a little weird is all, and maybe unsettling for others to come home to the smell of bacon. One way or another there's just no time for me to awaken, cook and eat, and then go to work. In theory, sure. In practice...I'm not getting up for that.

What is a breakfast mage to do? Eat in reverse.

First meal of the day is whatever is handy, usually something sweet. Then I prepare something more substantial, and as my dinners resemble my lunches anyway, we'll call it dinner. Lunch comes later when I no longer want to put as much effort into the meal, and finally at midnight or so, I'm ready for my breakfast, the most important meal of the day. Nutritional theory holds that it is healthier to eat less as you go on in the day, that is, your first meal should be your grandest and so on down. I don't know how well I keep to that. In fact I know there have been days when I awaken an hour or so into my sleep, prepare and eat a meal, and go back to sleep.

And now that I think about it, eating in reverse sounds dire and awful.
Cursed double-counter-anti-reverse-un-logic strikes again. My old semi-quasi-pseudo-foil-arch nemesis.

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