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How I Can Afford My Life Of Constant Travel

I’m simply confused as to how it’s possible that I have so far failed to properly explain how I’ve managed to travel/live/work abroad nonstop for 12 years straight (and counting). The questions are still pouring in every single day: How do you do it? How is it possible to travel for so long? Where does the money come from? And while I thoroughly enjoy communicating with readers (I’m being completely serious and encourage you all to continue sending your emails to me as often as you wish), the fact that these very questions are on the minds of so many of you out there has led me to believe that I need to do a better job at providing the answers.

While it’s true that I’ve already written plenty of posts on the matter, clearly all of these posts, even as one collective entity, still fall well short of proving that a life of travel is not some crazy fantasy but a perfectly reasonable and easily attainable lifestyle option instead. So what am I to do? December 25, 1999: March 2000. Songs for When You Need Something to Keep You Going. Tech Support Management. How to Hack Your Brain. The most watched and most highly-rated TED talks at the moment. Tron dance Video - StumbleUpon. Nanotechnology is coming - StumbleUpon. By Ralph C.

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Merkle, Principal Fellow, Zyvex This is the English original of an article translated into German and published in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung of Monday, September 11 2000 on page 55. In the coming decades nanotechnology could make a supercomputer so small it could barely be seen in a light microscope. Fleets of medical nanorobots smaller than a cell could roam our bodies eliminating bacteria, clearing out clogged arteries, and reversing the ravages of old age. Clean factories could eliminate pollution caused by manufacturing. Not long ago, such a forecast would have been ridiculed. At its heart, the coming revolution in manufacturing is a continuation of trends that date back decades and even centuries. JS1k, 1k demo submission - Warp Starfield - JavaScript and HTML5 Canvas demo by Kevin Roast - StumbleUpon. Lies, damned lies and statistics (about TEDTalks) Watch biking and parkour blend into pure awesomeness - The Feed Blog. (CBS) - Do you like when one sport meets another sport and becomes something even better?

Watch biking and parkour blend into pure awesomeness - The Feed Blog

Me, too! So on that note, check out this blend of biking and parkour into pure awesomeness. The amazingly sweet, ultra-extreme video was created by Andrew Dickey while riding around Melbourne in early 2012. Our response to it can be summed up in one word: wow! What did you all think? © 2012 CBS Interactive Inc. Z-Type. - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. The ultimate beginners running program. Mixes and Mashups #1s sounds. 8tracks internet radio - StumbleUpon.

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Bodum Coffee & Tea Maker by Sunny Ting Wai Wong & Yanko Design - StumbleUpon. Coffee Lab The Bodum Coffee & Tea Maker is unlike any I’ve seen before.

Bodum Coffee & Tea Maker by Sunny Ting Wai Wong & Yanko Design - StumbleUpon

A borosilicate glass reservoir & beverage filter are integrated as detachable modules, making the coffee or tea completely spill-proof. The engagement of brewing process is revealed in one central, elegant device. - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. 08.09.09 | by Erik Anderson Whether it’s product branding, package design or projects for ourselves, we’re pleased when we find a solution that’s very effective and creative, while keeping resources to a minimum.

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This idea is very inexpensive idea and it’s a great way to recycle a wine bottle. See how this simple idea inspired this brand and wine bottle design. It’s been a record year for mosquitoes here in Indianapolis, Indiana and I’d been wanting to add some Tiki-esque torches to the patio to combat the little buggers, and add a little ambiance.

- StumbleUpon. Jamaican Banana Fritters - ThatsSoYummy.com - StumbleUpon. There’s a thing in my house that when you have ripe ol bananas either you make banana bread or banana fritters.

Jamaican Banana Fritters - ThatsSoYummy.com - StumbleUpon

These delicious tasty treats can be eaten morning, noon, or night, as a snack or as dessert. These fritters are so easy to make and will satisfy any craving you may have. So if you have a few of these bananas lying around your hose… don’t toss them, put them to GREAT use! Enjoy! Peel and mash the ripe bananas.

Beat egg, sugar, vanilla, cinnamon, and nutmeg. Next, blend egg mixture with mashed bananas. Make sure it is all incorporated. Imp Head Color 1 - StumbleUpon. Ten Stone Tea was a bit of an adventure for me. I had been feeling artistically weighed down with a seemingly endless parade of freelance jobs not to mention my full time, nine to five job. After I finally got a little bit of time for myself I decided that to keep myself fresh and to recharge my batteries I would do a painting just for me.

This is the result. To tell you the God's honest truth I wasn't really sure of what to paint when I started and frankly most of the elements in this painting are stuff I put in on the fly. In the end however everything came together quite nicely and now I have a much stronger appreciation of my subconscious. Good Horror Movies Every Fan Has To See - InfoBarrel - StumbleUpon. If you ask people on the street for some suggestions of a great horror movie, odds are you'd get a wide range of answers.

Good Horror Movies Every Fan Has To See - InfoBarrel - StumbleUpon

You’d get everything from the scariest slasher film to horror comedies and even b-rated horror movies that barely classify for the genre. Because we all have a different capacity for being scared and our own unique reasons for watching horror films, we of course have varying tolerances for gore and suspenseful movies[2]. Storytelling is an art form and the best stories share a hero, his struggles, and the ultimate victory of the hero over the villain.

Great horror movies drag out the suspense until the end[1], sometimes never concluding with victory. The most successful horror franchises are masterful at drawing the suspense to the next movie, where the hero will finally be able to overcome the villain. Laurie McCannas complete list of Photoshop tutorials - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. 11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks. Science comes up with a lot of awesome stuff, and you don't need a Ph.D, a secret lab, or government funding to get your hands on some of the coolest discoveries.

11 cheap gifts guaranteed to impress science geeks

We've got a list of 11 mostly affordable gifts that are guaranteed to blow your mind, whether or not you're a science geek. Click on any image to see it enlarged. 1. Aerogel Also known as frozen smoke, Aerogel is the world's lowest density solid, clocking in at 96% air. Aerogel isn't just neat, it's useful. Neonflames - StumbleUpon. Foodgawker - StumbleUpon. The 48 Laws of Power - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - StumbleUpon. Background[edit] Greene initially formulated some of the ideas in The 48 Laws of Power while working as a writer in Hollywood and concluding that today's power elite shared similar traits with powerful figures throughout history.[5] In 1995, Greene worked as a writer at Fabrica, an art and media school, and met a book packager named Joost Elffers.[4][8] Greene pitched a book about power to Elffers and six months later, Elffers requested that Greene write a treatment.[4] Although Greene was unhappy in his current job, he was comfortable and saw the time needed to write a proper book proposal as too risky.[10] However, at the time Greene was rereading his favorite biography about Julius Caesar and took inspiration from Caesar's decision to cross the Rubicon River and fight Pompey, thus inciting the Great Roman Civil War.[10] Greene would follow Caesar's example and write the treatment, which later became The 48 Laws of Power.[10] He would note this as the turning point of his life.[10]

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10 Best Places to Live for Escaping World Conflict. Where would you be the safest if World War 3 broke out tomorrow?

10 Best Places to Live for Escaping World Conflict

Perhaps it’s a grim subject, but safety and distance from world conflict can be a motivating factor in your choice to expatriate. At the very least, conflict around the world can weigh heavy on the soul, and it’s nice to know there are some places still left in the world where you might be left in peace. Thus, we’ve assembled a list of the 10 best places to live if you want to escape world conflict. 10. Switzerland Switzerland’s long history of neutrality and its tucked away location among the valleys of the Alps still make it a safe bet, even despite having a high number of bordering nations. 9. Challenged cartoon by Stuart McMillen - Recombinant Records - StumbleUpon. Collected Quotes from Albert Einstein - StumbleUpon. [Note: This list of Einstein quotes was being forwarded around the Internet in e-mail, so I decided to put it on my web page.

I'm afraid I can't vouch for its authenticity, tell you where it came from, who compiled the list, who Kevin Harris is, or anything like that. Still, the quotes are interesting and enlightening.] "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. Awesome pictures from around the world. Someone sent me these in a chain email, it was horribly formatted. I also do not know who made the comments, or how accurate they are. I take zero credit in the pictures, I just wanted to compile them nicely for all to see. The world’s highest chained carousel, located in Vienna, the height of 117 meters.

How To Cook Like Your Grandmother - StumbleUpon. I’ve tried lots of brownie recipes: Boxes, scratch, frosted, plain, nuts, chips, fudge … Each of them has something to like, but depending on my mood I might want a change of pace. Not any more. My wife found this recipe, and it’s perfect. I’m done looking. This is the brownie recipe that I’ll use from now on. Ingredients 1½ cups sugar ¾ cup flour ¾ cup cocoa powder (see note below) 3 eggs ¾ cup butter, melted ½ teaspoon salt (if using unsalted butter) ¾ cup semi-sweet chocolate chips (see note below) Directions. Relativity - StumbleUpon. TrickedOutTimeline - Create the coolest Facebook Timelines, Cover Photos and Profile Photos, and wow your friends! - StumbleUpon. Inspirit, Wisdom, Strange Quotes. The 25 Best High-Tech Pranks - StumbleUpon. Everyone loves a good laugh, and in the age of electronics, high-tech hijinks are just waiting to be pulled off.

So snuggle up to your screen and get ready to unleash all sorts of shenanigans as we present the 25 best high-tech pranks known to man. Our apologies in advance to your friends and co-workers. 1. The Restart Remap We start with one sure to throw off even the most advanced Windows user. 2. While we’re on the topic of system startups, the Windows Startup folder is a fantastic place for fun. 3.

A classic computer prank never goes out of style. 4. Untitled Document - StumbleUpon. Random funny pictures - StumbleUpon. 10 Weird and Mysterious Places on Earth - StumbleUpon. Digg 1. Photoshop Crash Course. 20 Ways To Maintain A Healthy Level of Insanity - StumbleUpon. The Town With No Roads - StumbleUpon. Stripes - StumbleUpon. How to turn "water" into marbles.

Frou Frou - Let Go. City with Superfast Internet Invites Innovators to Play. Citizens in Chattanooga, Tennessee, have access to one-gigabit-per-second Internet—that’s 100 times the U.S. national average, and fast enough to download a two-hour movie in about five seconds. The only question is: what to do with it? The city is hoping a contest with $300,000 in prize money will help answer that question. Entrants are invited to come up with clever ways of making use of the city’s blisteringly fast Internet, which was installed in late 2010 with a $111 million U.S. 2720 - Explosm.net - StumbleUpon. The drawings of Leonardo da Vinci - StumbleUpon. Was It Luck Or Skill&Video. How To Build A Fireball You Can Hold&Video - StumbleUpon. Auditorium - Index. Musicovery. Ten more games that will make you think about life - StumbleUpon. Life, eh? It's all a bit mad really, isn't it? Here we are, the products of millions of years of chance chemical and biological reactions, wandering around on a dying rock as it spins through the vast, indifferent universe with nought but the knowledge of our own inevitable oblivion for company.

A sobering thought. - StumbleUpon. Binary - its digitalicious! - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. Harry Potters World Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine - Science - StumbleUpon. How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. Forked from: [Stardust] KiraKira Waypoints - wonderfl build flash online - StumbleUpon. Amazing Places To Experience Around the Globe (Part 3) - StumbleUpon. The Size Of Our World - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. Abandoned Yugoslavian Monuments by Jan Kempenaers. Abandoned Yugoslavian Monuments by Jan Kempenaers While Yugoslavia has long since dissolved, abandoned monuments remain that recall the nation’s glory in the second world war.

Photographer Jan Kempenaers has traveled throughout the Balkans to photograph these wild, strange structures that have lost much of their cultural relevance. In various states of disrepair, these monuments (some buildings, other sculptures) represent an era of modern and brutalist architecture that defined this time period in the socialist East. Today, they appear alien, odd and empty, stark reminders of a struggle long since forgotten by a nation that no longer exists. A coffee table book with the full collection of Kempenaers photographs and commentary is available on Amazon for $42. Lists of Note: 10 Commandments for Con Men. - StumbleUpon. The Art of Manliness - StumbleUpon. Fun fun fun fun - clikr - StumbleUpon. JackThreads.

8 oz. Stainless Steel Flask with Fleur de lys Design Embossed. Къщата на хобитите в Уелс - StumbleUpon. URGENT: Computer Backup Required Matt Folson - Microsoft Specialist Your computer has become slow, unresponsive, displaying errors, or has started experiencing other issues. These issues are often caused by Viruses, Malware, or improper maintenance of your system.

Malware and Viruses can cause program lock-ups and crashes, unwanted pop-ups and ads, slow PC performance, system freezes, start-up and shutdown problems, error messages, and total system failure. To ensure your personal and financial information is not destroyed by Malware, Viruses, or other issues, it is highly recommended that you run a free PC backup program to save and protect your system. If you need support I can help you! Matt is now offline. Click and create a free account with MyPCBackup.com. ThisIsWhyImBroke.com - StumbleUpon. What is causing the waves in California to glow? It looks like something from the movie "Avatar": ocean waters that light up like neon glow sticks when they splash. Beaches across southern California have recently been alight with eerie, glowing waves. 10 things science (and Buddhism) says will make you happy. I’m a science geek as well as a Buddhist geek, and recently when I was leading a retreat on how to bring more joy into our lives I found myself making a lot of references to an article published in Yes magazine, which touched on ten things that have been shown by science to make us happier.

It seemed natural to draw upon the article because so much of the research that was described resonated with Buddhist teachings. So I thought it would be interesting to take the main points of the article and flesh them out with a little Buddhism. Psychology studies relevant to everyday life from PsyBlog - StumbleUpon. - StumbleUpon. National Geographic Photo Contest 2011 - Alan Taylor - In Focus - The Atlantic - StumbleUpon. Filthy Filthy Dubsexxx. 8tracks - StumbleUpon. Drum Kit - StumbleUpon. Looking For New Music? Stop Looking, Start Stumbling! Dont Worry, Im Yours [Remastered] (Jason Mraz vs. Bobby McFerrin vs. Israel Kamakawiwoole) by DJ Dain on SoundCloud - Create, record and share your sounds for free - StumbleUpon.

Party receiver - StumbleUpon. The 5 Weirdest Ways Music Can Mess With the Human Brain. 7 Alternatives to Pandora and Last.FM.