Allan Quatermain (Allan Quatermain, #2)
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Review:Found this thanks to the Victorian Hugos series at io9.com |
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Review:Found this thanks to the Victorian Hugos series at io9.com |
'Thinner,' the old Gypsy man with the rotting nose whispers...
—Richard Bachman (Stephen King)
I was not always fat. I used to be really, really thin. So thin that when I was 16, my motherforced me to eat. I was 1.75 and weighted about 65 kilos when I finished highschool. So thin I used M sized shirts until I was 25.
That has, as those who know me can agree with, changed quite a bit. I broke the 100kg bareer 10 years ago or so, and reached 123.5Kg earlier this week. Also, I am not 3.5 meters tall, so I am close to having doubled my weight and body mass in these 25 years.
That is not a good thing. It's such a bad thing, that my doctor has explained to me that if I don't lose a lot of weight soonish, I am going to fucking go and die. Not next week, not next year, but not in 40 years either.
Since my weight started going up while I was in college and my dad was sick, I always blamed some anxiety problem, eating crap, a sedentary lifestyle, the usual suspects.
So, I got some tests done. Turns out I was more or less right. The "more" is because I do have to stop eating crap, and I need to exercise more. The "less" is because I have (among other things) hyperinsulinemia. Wanna guess what are the most visible symptom of that?
High blood pressure (on medication since 5 years ago)
Increased VLDL (diagnosed 2 years ago)
Lethargy (fuck yes)
Weight gain (double fuck yes)
And what does weight gain of this kind do to you? A lot of other bad things.
Since tuesday I am on a very specific diet, and taking a drug to reduce my insulin production (Metformin). I am feeling active, and have lost 3 kilos in 4 days (yes, I know that is not a sustainable rate and will plateau).
My feet stopped swelling.
I am not hungry all day.
I am walking 30 minutes, twice a day.
I want to code.
I feel good. I have felt better, when I started taking BP meds, I have felt worse when my liver function decreased, I have felt very bad, when my BP spiked, but good? I have not felt good in a very, very long time.
This may not be the drug or the diet. Maybe it's placebo effect. Maybe it's something else. On the other hand, I have decided that my life is too sweet to drop dead right now. So, let's see how this goes.
In 1003, Erik the Red died after having ruled Greenland. Which of course, was a bad idea, color-combination-wise.
Article 1003 at piachepiu.com.ar
Also a bad idea was decree 1003/89 which pardoned every "subversive" or "terrorist", including those dead or disappeared. This is after decree 1002, that pardons those who killed or disappeared them, of course.
Much milder is decree 1003/98 which gives an award to Roberto DeVicenzo. I wrote a program called devicenzo, BTW.
Car 1003 of the 56 bus.
Bug #1003 in launchpad is about launchpad, the title is "projects +search page 404" and the description is "Page not found Page not found". It's fixed.
If you search for 1003 in Google Maps, it gives you one result, in Latvia.
But Bing gives you another place, in Lausanne.
1003 days ago, it was september 15th, 2002, the day of my 31st birthday.
USS Albatross, SP-1003
Page 1003 of Gray's anatomy is about the development of the eye and contains a drawing of "the eye of an eighteen days’ embryo rabbit.".
"1003 Rabbit Skins Snap Bib" (scary!)
Page 1003 of "Familiar Quotations, 10th ed of 1919" says "We are dancing on a volcano.", attributed to the Comte de Salvandy. Alto del Zapote, in Cuba is 1003 meters tall, but is not a volcano at all.
NGC 1003, a diffuse spiral galaxy in Perseus.
Oh, and this blog has 1003 posts.
Turns out there was a major, show stopper bug in rst2pdf 0.90: sphinx support was absolutely broken. Not broken as in buggy, broken as in it had syntax errors.
So, 0.91 is now released, and only broken in the traditional sense. Enjoy!
Yes, after many moons, it's out. Here is the (as usual) incomplete changelog:
Added raw HTML support, by Dimitri Christodoulou
Fixed Issue 422: Having no .afm files made font lookup slow.
Fixed Issue 411: Sometimes the windows registry has the font's abspath.
Fixed Issue 430: Using --config option caused other options to be ignored (by charles at cstanhope dot com)
Fixed Issue 436: Add pdf_style_path to sphinx (by tyler@datastax.com)
Fixed Issue 428: page numbers logged as errors
Added support for many pygments options in code-block (by Joaquin Sorianello)
Implemented Issue 404: plantuml support
Issue 399: support sphinx's template path option
Fixed Issue 406: calls to the wrong logging function
Implemented Issue 391: New --section-header-depth option.
Fixed Issue 390: the --config option was ignored.
Added support for many pygments options in code-block (by Joaquin Sorianello)
Fixed Issue 379: Wrong style applied to paragraphs in definitions.
Fixed Issue 378: Multiline :address: were shown collapsed.
Implemented Issue 11: FrameBreak (and conditional FrameBreak)
The description of frames in page templates was just wrong.
Fixed Issue 374: in some cases, literal blocks were split inside a page, or the pagebreak came too early.
Fixed Issue 370: warning about sphinx.addnodes.highlightlang not being handled removed.
Fixed Issue 369: crash in hyphenator when specifying "en" as a language.
Compatibility fix to Sphinx 0.6.x (For python 2.7 docs)
This release did not focus on Sphinx bugs, so those are probably still there. Hopefully the next round is attacking those.