Step by Step Guide on How to Quit Games on Facebook

So you don't have enough time in the day because you have to feed you crops, harvest your food, complete your missions, serve you cafe, search for treasure and beat your friend's weekly score? It is time to quit those games!

It starts simple enough, just one game someone introduces you to. You play just for fun and enjoy the distraction. 3 weeks later, you are playing every spare minute you have and probably 3 others that you didn't even know existed a month ago. You free time is gone and you find yourself scheduling your meetings around when you next have to harvest crops. You have a choice, either go work on a real farm or a mine and collect real gems or food or quit!

Now that is confirmed here are the step you need to take.

1) TELL YOUR FRIENDS.
Telling everyone other game player out there does a few things, one, it gets it out in the open, from an idea to an event. Two, it keeps your friends for dragging you back in by saying, "I just gave you a great gift and you need to check it out!"

No going back now

2) REMOVE YOUR REMINDERS.
Remove the apps from iPhone, take down the toolbars, pretty much get rid of everything that will beckon do you later to play again.

What will I do while I am on the jon now?

3) SPEND THE FAKE CASH.
You've saved up money in most of the games for a rainy day that never comes. If this sounds like you, spend it. Doesn't matter what. Even buy something for a friend that is still playing. Just spend it all since you won't be coming back. If you have have amassed a huge inventory of items, gift them away, all of them.

Best 25 horseshoes I've ever spent

4) FINISH THE CURRENT TASKS
Most tasks are easy, only take a day or two. For those, or the ones you are almost done, you might as well finish them. This way you will feel more complete when you walk away.

5) BLOCK THE APPS
This is the big one. Facebook gives you a scary, powerful tool called the 'Block' button. Use it and don't look back.

What can I rate a game I hate but can't stop playing?

6) DISTRACT YOURSELF
Go out, see a movie, meet with friends, watch the complete LOST series in one sitting, do whatever it takes to not play for a few weeks. After that you should be free of their death grip on your life.

Chopping down a real tree takes a lot more than 12 energy points

7) REJOICE!
Buy yourself something nice. You earned it.

I am starting this right now. Lets see how it goes...

Short term CEOs

One of the things I have noticed about IPOed companies (companies with stock options) are that they all become short term driven within 3 years. Strong companies that stand the test of time don't think short term, they think things over for the long haul. Unfortunately I have also seen these large companies succum to the short term stratagy when things look bleek or the excutives become either greedy or afraid of their stock holders.


I first noticed this years ago when there was a commercial for a finance company that was investing into a pickle company and they thought it was a good reason to invest because the VP of the pickle company had the great idea of putting in one less pickle per jar which saved the company millions over all. "It is that forward thinking we look for in companies to invest in!" My god, I am no stock trader millionare but come on! You are literally screwing all your customer to save a buck. Sure on paper, it sounds good, make less, sell more but you are pissing off your customers! Who would want to buy from a company that is knowingly screwing you over to make more money. The problem is, everyone is doing it now.

Granola bars used to come in a package of 6, not they mostly have 5. The box is still the same size however. fruits and vegiatbles are larger but they have less nutrients. (studies show that brocolli from 30 years ago had 10x more nutrients than today's brands, even the organic ones!) Even potato chips and icecream bars have more air in the container than actual food! This needs to stop, now.

Sure you will sell more products because people will have to buy more to get the same amount but down the line, but you are sacrificing brand loyalty and they will just by less from you and more from someone else, or just less overall.

The stock holders want more money, but they are also the consumers, if you tell them you are giving less pickles, sure they would buy more stock but they would also buy less pickles...

Floss!

I floss to make my dentist proud.

Toronto Bucket List

Here is a list of places that you need to go to if you live in or near Toronto. (x means I have been there):

1. X CN Tower 
2. X Skydome (aka Rogers Center)
3. Casa Loma
4. Honest Ed's
5. X Toronto Zoo
6. X ROM
7. AGO
8. Ontario Science Center
9. X CBC Building
10. X Air Canada Center
11. X Distillery District
12. X The Beaches (volleyball or fireworks)
13. X bike path along the shore (sunset)
14. X Center Island (summer)
15. X Harbor Front
16. X TIFF building (during the TIFF)
17. X African Lion Safari 
18. X Canada's Wonderland (summer or halloween)
19. X Yorkdale Mall
20. X the EX (races)
21. X Edwards Gardens (spring or fall)
22. X Musik
23. X the Guvernment 
24. X City Hall

Did I miss any?

Things we forgot #2

The pyramids. How did we build them again? Why can't someone build me one right now? Why hasn't someone with money/influence built something like this recently?

Things we forgot #34

http://gizmodo.com/5626765/this-rock+slicing-nanotechnology+packing-super-steel-was-forgotten-250-years-ago

It appears that we (human race) used to make blades that were so sharp they would cut other blades and so well made that they never needed to be sharpened. We have since forgotten how to make these fabled Damascus steel items. Maybe its a cover up from knife stores everywhere?