With the removal of Valentine’s day flowers the profit sheet and chart have been updated. They are below. You’ll also notice that I’ve created a sticky page on the top of my blog that will always host the most current spreadsheet and chart.
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FarmVille Profit Sheet
Feb 14
To-Do List
Feb 13
Saw this pop up when helping friend’s farms. I didn’t know I was completing a list…
Valentines Day Flowers
Feb 3
New Valentines Day Flowers are in Farmville! The Fire & Ice roses blow the doors off everything else profit wise, so get them while they’re available! They take 16 hours to grow and will be here for 11 days. I updated the Google Docs Profit Spreadsheet with the new flowers, so check it out!
Reposted from Chris Sacca’s blog:
- Text “HAITI” to “90999″ to donate $10 to the Red Cross — Our friends at the US State Department, including Katie Stanton (@kateatstate), very quickly put together this number to channel relief contributions directly to first responders who will be on the ground there. I love that our government does things like this. (Update: I am told this only works in the US)
- Text “Yele” to 501501 to donate $5 to Yele Haiti – My good friend Wyclef Jean (@wyclef) created this foundation to permanently improve the lives of the most impoverished in his home country of Haiti. Over the years, the stories I have heard from Wyclef remind me of how hard the living is there. I am humbled by Wyclef’s commitment to the region and the impact Yele Haiti has there every day. Check out more on Yele Haiti.
- Donate to Partners in Health (click here) — PIH (@pih_org) is already on the ground in Haiti and mobilizing their relief efforts. If you have heard of Paul Farmer, this is the organization he co-founded. Working to provide health care and education to the poorest of Haiti, PIH is the real deal.
- Donate to Architecture for Humanity (click here) — Cameron Sinclair (@casinclair) and his non-profit Architecture for Humanity (@archforhumanity) can be found at virtually every developing world disaster site on the planet. These guys are a collection of design and housing geniuses who work tirelessly to provide shelter for the most deserving.
- Donate to charity:water (click here) — If you know me, you know how passionate I am about charity:water (@charitywater) and it’s work to bring clean water to the 1 billion people on the planet who don’t have it. Recently, the organization’s founder, my friend and inspiration Scott Harrison (@scottharrison), traveled to Haiti to commence operations in that country and already thousands of Haitians have clean water to drink. As if the situation wasn’t already bad enough, the need for clean water only intensifies in the aftermath of earthquakes. Every dollar of your support to these guys goes fully and immediately to work in the field. (Update: charity:water wrote a post encouraging you to also help their partners in Haiti.)
- Learn more about Haiti — So often we send token amounts of charity to far-flung developing world destinations. Yet, rarely do we have a sense of what life is like there. Thus, one of the ways I believe you can also respond to a tragedy like this is to commit to learning about Haiti, it’s culture and wonder, as well as its daunting hardships. To that end, I recommend reading Paul Farmer’s book Mountains Beyond Mountains to get a taste of the hard work underway. Also, be sure to watch Ghosts of Cité Soleil. Produced by Wyclef, and starring him as well, this documentary terrifyingly depicts the heavily armed gang leaders in Haiti’s poorest neighborhoods. Meantime, try following the Twitter accounts of the folks mentioned above. Each of us can learn something from them.
Bossy Bottom
Jan 6
One of my favorite videos of late:
Farmville updated to add the new Morning Glory flower today. I have updated the Farmville Profit spreadsheet in Google Docs and have created a new profit chart to include the Morning Glory. Looks like Peas still reign supreme!
My New Toy
Jan 5
More info about this beauty of a phone (1GHz Processor!) at Engadget.
Harvest Time
Nov 6
Farmville is getting ready for Thanksgiving and Autumn by adding acorn squash, pattypan squash, and cranberries. I hope they add a turkey soon! I’ve updated my profit sheet and the chart for profits with the new items. The sheet has been updated to include mastery and, depending on how wide your screen is, it may cut off parts of the sheet. Click here to view the entire sheet in Google Docs.
That’s right! Now you can load your precious white, pink, and brown cows into a special building that will, with one click, harvest all their milk. I guess, like women who work together for a long time, it gets all their cycles synchronized to milk at once. This is to be the first of many functional buildings. I suspect the next will be for chickens and another possibly for the piggies? At least it doesn’t run on the single fuel tank that powers all of your farm.
FarmVille has also expanded their line of flowers to include Tulips, Lilies, Lavender, and Roses in addition to the Sunflowers. So now you can turn your farm into a tulip wonderland. Now all we need are the wooden clogs and windmills. I’ve updated my FarmVille profits spreadsheet to include the new crops. It’s available hosted on Google Docs or after the break.
The most up to date post is available here!
Massive Ice Loss Video
Sep 29
Video from a TED talk showing time lapse video of ice loss due to climate change.
