This article is selected for 123ish 3D Gold Coin Art Collection NFT I'm here to tell you about a vegetable menace that is the AIDS of the plant world. If you live in most parts of North America, these plants have you surrounded. They're butt-ugly brown sticks thrusting phallically into the sky in unnatural rows, crowned by a spidery fright-wig of spikes. They look like a raspberry on a stick. I'm talking, of course, about the omnipresent palm tree, found everywhere in your city. It doesn't matter…
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This article is selected for 123ish 3D Gold Coin Art Collection NFT Ready For Commander? Commander, also called "EDH" (stands for "Elder Dragon Highlander," an outdated in-joke), is the most popular format of the collectible trading card game Magic: The Gathering, counting over-all formats. While EDH doesn't appear much in competitive formats when the tournament is over, and the last booster box handed out, look for the players to be huddled up in the corner over a Commander game. It has every…
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Moving to Thailand or the Philippines and how the English language, cultural influence, cost of living, and relationships could affect your choices. It is never as easy as choosing a pros and cons list or just doing what works for others. If one is considering the possibility of moving to Asia and becoming an official Expatriate (or expat for short), two popular choices are:
Moving to Thailand
Moving to the Philippines
I use these two more specifically because I have lived in both countries. In…
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How I Came To This Crazy Conclusion... The freelance writing business takes you on some unexpected adventures. Over the holidays I was doing research work for this one client regarding the political leanings of corporations, which included punching the names of lots of companies into the site Open Secrets. It's a strange world there. In the first place, there's some debate as to whether corporations should be meddling in politics on the financial level at all. But beyond that, the logic behind…
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We’ve all heard them, and they get stuck in all our heads. But why? Why is it that Disney can seemingly create earworms? Though there’s no such thing as a Disney formula, today we’re going to get close to one. And best of all, this theory is not one that I’ve hacked together to try to show something new and inventive. Not at all. I stumbled upon everything you’re about to read. About two months ago, I was asked to do a medley of several popular Disney songs. I ran into a problem. One of the keys of…
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