Everyone’s powers receive a polysyllabic name and a description, and one of my favorites, a restaurant critic who is a main character in the Chew saga, served as a bit of a personal inspiration. John Layman introduced the character in Chew #3: “Amelia Mintz is a saboscrivner. That mea...
The battlefield is psychological.The goal is not just to control speech, but to manipulatehow people process reality itself. When an individualawakens to deception and resists indoctrination, they enter astate of cognitive warfare, often without realizing it. Their enemy is no longer just an exter...
The second boss is the Elder. This time I managed to stay alive for the group’s first kill! That’s as far as I got in the game, but I had a lot of fun. I’d like to return to it and play it slowly, at my own pace. ...
A floating skimmer weir is a gate that keeps surface debris the skimmer collects from going back into the pool when the pump’s off. It also regulates the amount of water entering the skimmer when the pump is running and helps trap the debris it collects. How Do Pool Skimmers Work? Pool...
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Many scupper designs include some form of conductor head — the structure where water or some other type of fluid is collected — and a weir or spout — the passage through or over which the fluid flows and is transmitted to a lower level. Scuppers can be massive structures, such as the ...
A road that is raised, as to be above water, marshland etc. Noun ▲ A long artificial mound of earth, typically built to hold back water “After heavy rainfall, the swollen river threatened to breach the sturdydikeprotecting the nearby village.” ...
WHAT WE HAVE HERE: A FAILURE TO COMMUNICATE It is the {weirder; weirdest; weird} thing. There are more ways than ever to communicate with people, yet it sometimes seems like it is more difficult to connect — and stay {connecting; connected; to connect} — with anyone. Should you {sh...
Still, this is not AmazFit’s first BBQ. And each time they release a watch they get closer and closer to being a premium competitor, but at a budget price. In effect, AmazFit is kinda like COROS, before COROS grew up and started spending time on new feature development, instead of jus...
Not frilly; a well-stocked museum that mostly lets its specimens speak for themselves. Sauriermuseum (Aathal) specimen of Plateosaurus: sculpt/cast. A very good, big skeleton of this common dinosaur, rearing up. Rear view of same. Real bones of same; vertebrae and pelvic (this is the “...