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All in fun. Essential for Farmville Farmers. And it goes to a great cause: The Mongol Rally Girls – an extreme adventure with grand fundraising for children in Canada and Mongolia.  More info at the end, but I know you want to read the letter. (It’s printed here in jpeg format. Yup, to prevent cut and [...]

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Yup, ♫ you can check out anytime you like, but you can never leave ♫ 
(not a christmas song, but my theme song for Farmville)
Not fair. Someone lost a reindeer with light bulbs on it’s head and I couldn’t help but save him.  Frickin’ Farmville.  Now I need crystal balls for my Christmas Tree. Sorry to [...]

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If you stop by my Farm, you will land in the outhouse. It’s a break most farmers need anyway. I hope it’s a double seater, cuz my farmer is stuck in there, too.

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It all happened innocently. My intrigue with our addiction to farmville – including my own (which was a bit too brief to be included in a New York Times article.. but it did get me an interview!)..      No. Wait. Stop right there. It was not my addiction to Farmville that got me the interview. It [...]

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Farmvillains, an interesting article in the New York Times by Douglas Quenqua.  You are not alone.  But wait. You already know that because your friends fertilized.  and so have 60+ million other users.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/fashion/29farmville.html?scp=1&sq=farmville&st=cse
ps. I was interviewed for this article, but alas, I’m not in the article. I’m so depressed I might go start up my [...]

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“You can check-out any time you like,
But you can never leave!’

You can, however, leave it dead. 
And isn’t it  hauntingly convenient that the farmer became a ghost.
Farmville  addiction tip: Kill it.  Click, sell. Click, sell. Click, sell. Buy headstones. Done.   (at least until the next time you are drawn into Hotel California Farmville)

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Ah, yes… the coach who understands creatives has inspired me to leave the topiaries, elephants, ugly ducklings and fellow farmvillains. That coach being me. Me  also being a creative being who can easily be distracted, thus sabotaging my own creative projects – even though I attempted to justify being a Farmvillain by my creative play with [...]

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Your farmer can now sit back, drink beer, and do nothing while all the crops are harvested and the pigs truffled.   You, the real person however, become his labourer but at a much much quicker pace.
Notice the exact spot where your farmer lands when you open farmville.  Then trap him/her!  One friend put a nice hedge [...]

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It’s just a little game in Facebook. Pretty much duplicating real lives. Work, get cash, work, get cash, .. oh look, I can buy a mailbox! Oh look, I can grow artichokes!  Work more.  Buy a harvester. It needs gas. Work more. Unlike real life, there isn’t even an option for a passive income.
But alas, I have [...]

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