Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fairytale
Jun. 11th, 2025 11:25 am![[syndicated profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/feed.png){kind=small}
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Fortunately it was one of those sexy romance novels, so they didn't need the man's head for the cover.
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megafauna
Jun. 11th, 2025 07:09 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
prettygoodwordmegafauna (MEG-uh-faw-nuh) - n., large animals, esp. relatively large for a particular region, period, or habitat; (outdated) animals large enough to be seen with the unaided eye.
Ancient Greek mégas meant great/large/mighty, cognate with Latin magnus and English much, is the source of today's prefix, which got a popularity boost for being used in the metric system to mean a million-x unit (though the scaling is modified to 220 in computing contexts). The most recent ice ages were known for animals that were larger than their modern counterparts, which is the most common use for megafauna that I meet. The term was coined in 1876 by Alfred Russel Wallace, though it was not commonly used until the 1920s. Other words with mega- include megaton ("a million tons") and megabrew ("large-batch beer").
---L.
Ancient Greek mégas meant great/large/mighty, cognate with Latin magnus and English much, is the source of today's prefix, which got a popularity boost for being used in the metric system to mean a million-x unit (though the scaling is modified to 220 in computing contexts). The most recent ice ages were known for animals that were larger than their modern counterparts, which is the most common use for megafauna that I meet. The term was coined in 1876 by Alfred Russel Wallace, though it was not commonly used until the 1920s. Other words with mega- include megaton ("a million tons") and megabrew ("large-batch beer").
---L.
I Nuzlocked Pokémon Platinum (And Survived)
Jun. 11th, 2025 08:44 amdoreygAs promised, an account of my (sort of) Nuzlocke of Pokémon Platinum! I feel a little strange skipping to gen 4 to do a Nuzlocke, but I replayed gen 3 significantly more recently so felt like this would feel a bit fresher and thus more enjoyable.
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So, what’s next gaming wise? I picked up Master Detective Archives: Rain Code a few months back, and am very excited to finally get into it. I cannot wait to want to put these weird, slightly dysfunctional teens into age inappropriate situations. :D
I’ll be playing it a lot more slowly (probably just at the weekends), as I won’t be able to binge it over a holiday like I did all three Danganronpa games, but life finds a way. Especially when weird teens are involved.
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So, what’s next gaming wise? I picked up Master Detective Archives: Rain Code a few months back, and am very excited to finally get into it. I cannot wait to want to put these weird, slightly dysfunctional teens into age inappropriate situations. :D
I’ll be playing it a lot more slowly (probably just at the weekends), as I won’t be able to binge it over a holiday like I did all three Danganronpa games, but life finds a way. Especially when weird teens are involved.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knowledge
Jun. 10th, 2025 11:25 amsmbc_comics_feed
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You're saying, hey, the last panel has a nonsensical perspective. Well, perspective is part of the post-Eden fallen world.
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hyperspace
Jun. 10th, 2025 06:48 amprettygoodwordhyperspace (HAI-per-spays) - n., (math.) a Euclidean space of more than three dimensions; (science fiction) a notional space orthogonal to the usual dimensions of space-time often used for faster-than-light travel.
The mathematical term came first, coined in 1867 when mathematicians were first working through concepts of n-dimensional topology. Using higher dimensions as a shortcut emerged as a concept in the late 1920s, in stories by Kirk Meadowcroft and John Campbell (hyper-drive, a mechanism for traveling through hyperspace, was coined in 1941). The prefix hyper- (from Ancient Greek hupér, over) can many anything from over/above and beyond to excessive and intensely as well as huge/giant -- several meanings apply here, but "extra" more or less encompasses all of them. Other words with hyper- include hyperactive ("excessively active") and hypertext ("text that is beyond [the current text]").
---L.
The mathematical term came first, coined in 1867 when mathematicians were first working through concepts of n-dimensional topology. Using higher dimensions as a shortcut emerged as a concept in the late 1920s, in stories by Kirk Meadowcroft and John Campbell (hyper-drive, a mechanism for traveling through hyperspace, was coined in 1941). The prefix hyper- (from Ancient Greek hupér, over) can many anything from over/above and beyond to excessive and intensely as well as huge/giant -- several meanings apply here, but "extra" more or less encompasses all of them. Other words with hyper- include hyperactive ("excessively active") and hypertext ("text that is beyond [the current text]").
---L.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cave
Jun. 9th, 2025 11:25 amsmbc_comics_feed
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Would you rather sit with friends watching shadows on the bigscreen or spending your time arguing with Plato about whether poetry should be legal?
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macrocosm
Jun. 9th, 2025 07:26 amprettygoodwordAnother theme week -- following on 'all' prefixes with 'large' prefixes, and following on the universe with the:
macrocosm (MAK-ruh-koz-uhm) - n., the universe considered as a whole; the total or entire complex structure of something; a complex structure, such as a society, considered as a single entity that contains numerous similar, smaller-scale structures.
Coined in Medieval Latin (and taken into English via French around 1600) from Ancient Greek roots makrós, large/long/far + kósmos, the universe -- which sounds like a redundancy: The universe already contains all, so why additionally specify that it's large? That last sense is the key one, as philosophers needed words for the concepts of macrocosm and microcosm, that the whole is reflected in its parts -- that as on earth so in heaven, and that there's correspondences between, for example, the human body and the heavens:
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This is a very common concept in ancient philosophies worldwide, including Ancient Greece, and theorizing about it continued in the European Middle Ages and Renaissance. Other words with macro- include macrobiotic ("prolonging life") and macrometer ("large/long measurement"). (I was going to use macron, but that's not a prefix but rather noun use of the neuter of makrós, and not prefixing anything.)
---L.
macrocosm (MAK-ruh-koz-uhm) - n., the universe considered as a whole; the total or entire complex structure of something; a complex structure, such as a society, considered as a single entity that contains numerous similar, smaller-scale structures.
Coined in Medieval Latin (and taken into English via French around 1600) from Ancient Greek roots makrós, large/long/far + kósmos, the universe -- which sounds like a redundancy: The universe already contains all, so why additionally specify that it's large? That last sense is the key one, as philosophers needed words for the concepts of macrocosm and microcosm, that the whole is reflected in its parts -- that as on earth so in heaven, and that there's correspondences between, for example, the human body and the heavens:
Thanks, WikiMedia!
This is a very common concept in ancient philosophies worldwide, including Ancient Greece, and theorizing about it continued in the European Middle Ages and Renaissance. Other words with macro- include macrobiotic ("prolonging life") and macrometer ("large/long measurement"). (I was going to use macron, but that's not a prefix but rather noun use of the neuter of makrós, and not prefixing anything.)
---L.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Phenom
Jun. 8th, 2025 11:50 amsmbc_comics_feed
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The only problem is that if someone disproves existence, all your fake compliments become void.
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What I'm Reading 2025 - 51-75
Jun. 8th, 2025 11:29 amdoreygWe are back from our holiday!! An absolutely radiant and amazing week, just the best time spent in the best company (my husband!!!! <333) with no drawbacks whatsoever. We got five days worth of ice cream, we got to sit on the beach, we went bowling, we went for a shopping spree around an absolutely tiny town centre, we got cream tea, we went to so many other amazing restaurants, we went on a mini CRUISE... Oh, it was just perfect. Reminds you of how utterly glorious life can be.
The only downside is that now I'm a little anxious because it's over. :( But that's the unfortunate way with mental health, innit? It comes and it goes. You've just kinda gotta accept that, and flop in bed with a nice book until it happily fucks off again. And remember the beach!!
Anyway, here is a reading post to go along with the philosophical babble! It was ready for the end of May, but I was lazy. XD
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The only downside is that now I'm a little anxious because it's over. :( But that's the unfortunate way with mental health, innit? It comes and it goes. You've just kinda gotta accept that, and flop in bed with a nice book until it happily fucks off again. And remember the beach!!
Anyway, here is a reading post to go along with the philosophical babble! It was ready for the end of May, but I was lazy. XD
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Biology
Jun. 7th, 2025 06:44 pmsmbc_comics_feed
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The explanation of the Fermi Paradox is no beings who practice internal fertilization are to be invited to the galactic party.
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CD Player Adventure
Jun. 7th, 2025 06:08 pmjellyfishloverI've been doing some belated spring cleaning lately, and while dragging out all the craft supplies to see if there's anything to donate I decided, hey, I'll be sitting around the same area for a while, let me also drag out the CD player so I can listen to something in the background! Unfortunately said CD player has been finicky for the last several years and may or may not have come in contact with a falling book earlier on in my cleaning adventures and thus did not want to actually play anything. The power worked, it would just skip to the end of the disk and any attempt to skip back was fruitless. It did, for some reason, play one disk out of the several I tried, because it's a fan of Ace of Base I guess? But then the play/pause and stop buttons didn't work. Pain.
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my tastes are as predictable as death and taxes
Jun. 6th, 2025 09:54 pmstardust_rifleMe: So, I’ve started watching Kowloon Generic Romance-
The Voices In My Head: So, let me guess, your favorite character is the intersex genderqueer with full body tattoos and a snake’s tongue who wants to get revenge on his rich father and whose sexual practices can be summed up in this Tumblr post?
Me: Aww, how’d you know?
The Voices In My Head: So, let me guess, your favorite character is the intersex genderqueer with full body tattoos and a snake’s tongue who wants to get revenge on his rich father and whose sexual practices can be summed up in this Tumblr post?
Me: Aww, how’d you know?
universe
Jun. 6th, 2025 07:46 amprettygoodworduniverse (YOO-nuh-vurs) - n., all of spacetime and all it contains; a hypothetical spacetime-and-contents that supposed to exist simultaneously with but different from this universe; whole world in the sense of perspective or social setting, a sphere of interest, activity, or understanding.
And other extended meanings, including a set of stories/films/etc. that share a continuity. Dates to a little before 1400 (insert Chaucer citation), Middle English form identical to Modern English, from either Old French univers or Italian universo, from Latin ūniversum, all things/as a whole/the universe, noun use of the neuter of ūniversus, all together/whole, literally "turned into one," from uni-, combining form of unus, one + versus turned (perfect passive participle of vertō, to turn). Other words with uni- include uniform ("having one form/shape") and unibrow ("having one [eye]brow").
And that wraps up a week of all prefixes -- er, 'all' prefixes.
---L.
And other extended meanings, including a set of stories/films/etc. that share a continuity. Dates to a little before 1400 (insert Chaucer citation), Middle English form identical to Modern English, from either Old French univers or Italian universo, from Latin ūniversum, all things/as a whole/the universe, noun use of the neuter of ūniversus, all together/whole, literally "turned into one," from uni-, combining form of unus, one + versus turned (perfect passive participle of vertō, to turn). Other words with uni- include uniform ("having one form/shape") and unibrow ("having one [eye]brow").
And that wraps up a week of all prefixes -- er, 'all' prefixes.
---L.