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A publisher, articles and ancient history
Well, it looks like I've found a publisher for my Jim Cairns study. Otford Press seem to be enthusiastic and - best of all appropriate. Meanwhile, New Politics have accepted my review of Strangio's biography of Cairns.
This Wednesday between 6pm and 7pm I'm being interviews on a RMIT student radio session (90.7fm) as the founder of Labor for Refugees. Be prepared to pitch me some difficult questions ;-)
Have been html-ising some ancient history, including an article on Magic in Roleplaying and Reality, which I wrote in 1996 for Mimesis and Reflection on the Death of Superman, which was published in Green Left Weekly in 1993. As I said, ancient history. Hopefully I'll manage to collate most of the things I've written this year in a single place!
Greylock alerted me to
this BBC article on luxuries versus necessities. The following table says it all really.
Luxuries
Make-up: $18bn
Perfumes: $15bn
Ocean cruises: $14bn
Ice-cream in Europe: $11 bn
Needs
Eliminate hunger: $19bn
Reproductive health care for all women: $12bn
Clean water for all: $10bn
Universal literacy: $5bn
The rest of the week has consisted of plodding away on my Data Security subchapter of my thesis and coding for the Tetum-Bahasa-Portuguese-English translation programme. Coding for Sesami.org is finished and ConnectIE are happy with the result. If anyone else needs a very motivated and skilled IT generalist for the short or long term you know where to find me.
Spent the weekend being quite sociable - dinner on Friday night with some friends of severina_242, some senior East Timor and military people on Saturday and Sunday all-singing and all-dancing Iranians. Whilst each event was individually very pleasant, it has also reminded me how much I really enjoy my own company - and how little of that I get.
My diet starts today. No, I'm serious. I returned from East Timor slightly thinner than usual - probably clocking in at 84kg. Now, three months back and with the festive season, I'm about 95kg. With a height of around 181 cm, this does put me in the "overweight" range and with a BMI of about 28-29 - which is far too high. Fortunately I'm one of those people who loses/gains weight quite quickly. A few weeks on a diet of complex carbohydrates, pure protein, skim milk, vitamin supplements and cycling should see me return to the more healthly level.
Je-sus. I just checked the BBC BMI site. It reckons that I should go down to about 76kg... I haven't weighed that much since, ummm, 1988... Oh well, here goes...
Update
An interesting experiment. Friend_Whoring. Join.
This Wednesday between 6pm and 7pm I'm being interviews on a RMIT student radio session (90.7fm) as the founder of Labor for Refugees. Be prepared to pitch me some difficult questions ;-)
Have been html-ising some ancient history, including an article on Magic in Roleplaying and Reality, which I wrote in 1996 for Mimesis and Reflection on the Death of Superman, which was published in Green Left Weekly in 1993. As I said, ancient history. Hopefully I'll manage to collate most of the things I've written this year in a single place!
Greylock alerted me to
this BBC article on luxuries versus necessities. The following table says it all really.
Luxuries
Make-up: $18bn
Perfumes: $15bn
Ocean cruises: $14bn
Ice-cream in Europe: $11 bn
Needs
Eliminate hunger: $19bn
Reproductive health care for all women: $12bn
Clean water for all: $10bn
Universal literacy: $5bn
The rest of the week has consisted of plodding away on my Data Security subchapter of my thesis and coding for the Tetum-Bahasa-Portuguese-English translation programme. Coding for Sesami.org is finished and ConnectIE are happy with the result. If anyone else needs a very motivated and skilled IT generalist for the short or long term you know where to find me.
Spent the weekend being quite sociable - dinner on Friday night with some friends of severina_242, some senior East Timor and military people on Saturday and Sunday all-singing and all-dancing Iranians. Whilst each event was individually very pleasant, it has also reminded me how much I really enjoy my own company - and how little of that I get.
My diet starts today. No, I'm serious. I returned from East Timor slightly thinner than usual - probably clocking in at 84kg. Now, three months back and with the festive season, I'm about 95kg. With a height of around 181 cm, this does put me in the "overweight" range and with a BMI of about 28-29 - which is far too high. Fortunately I'm one of those people who loses/gains weight quite quickly. A few weeks on a diet of complex carbohydrates, pure protein, skim milk, vitamin supplements and cycling should see me return to the more healthly level.
Je-sus. I just checked the BBC BMI site. It reckons that I should go down to about 76kg... I haven't weighed that much since, ummm, 1988... Oh well, here goes...
Update
An interesting experiment. Friend_Whoring. Join.
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that luxuries thing is mind boggling, the essentials are so inexpensive compared to all the other rubbish we waste our money on
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About 6 years ago, the numbers were adjusted by the US Health Department for no adequately explained reason, making a large number of people who had previously been in the high end of OK, overweight overnight.
Most professional athletes who are not gymnsts or dancers fall into the seriously obese weight ranges because muscle weighs more than fat.
It doesn't take into account bone density, % of body fat, muscle density, resting heart rate, blood pressure or a myriad of other factor which are far more important than the BMI.
The most important thing is NOT what you weigh, but are you fit and healthy. Are you exercising regularly, are you eating a BALANCED diet with foods from all the major food groups, are you sleeping enough, do you drink enough water.
The BMI tables are perhaps the single worst addition to the 'science' of personal health ever invented. The Aitkins & Scarsdale diets would be close behind it.
Do yourself a favour and ignore them.
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I probably will largely ignore it, although I do note that the standards acknowledge its own problems at:
http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/923520512.html
About eighteen months ago I had quite a good musculture. This is not the case now. So I suppose if I aim at improving and not be too fussed about weight per se it would be best. In fact, I'd quite happily stay at 96kg if I was mostly muscle....
Ahh, back on that bike I reckon..
And a word from the land of gay porn
For those my height (183cm), a sample of 61 gay porn stars had an average weight of 82kg (BMI 24.5) But they ranged from 70kg (20.0 BMI) to 95kg (28.4 BMI).
So, I figure, at best a rough indicator.
Re: And a word from the land of gay porn
Maybe this is a career option....
Re: And a word from the land of gay porn
Plenty of gay porn actors aren't gay. It's a weird business.
I know of one who is married, whose wife cooks for the actors and filming crew. Apparently, she quite likes watching hubby get fucked by guys. One gathers, however, that if he touched another woman ...
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Very good point indeed, though somehow, I managed to fall in what they say is the healthy range! Don't know how I did that O_o though I should exercise more, definitely!
thanks for your wise words :)
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If you're interested in this sort of thing I recommend publications from the World Watch Institute, who did the research for the above study. http://www.worldwatch.org/
Or, in a less scholarly and more digestable format with a similar orientation, New Internationalist. www.newint.org/
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i twill definitely look into that, thanks for the link hon