DISQUS

I used to play starwars galaxies, each evening for a few hours for about a year. They ruined the game by changing it too much so I stopped, I tried wow but I liked SWG better because it had a player driven economy which facinated me! The best stuff had to be made and crafted by players and SOLD by player vendors. Wow has crafting but not at all to the same extent. Also SWG had weird proffesions like someone who could fix make up and hair and totally change the way your charachter looked, and tailors who made clothing (I loved putting together outfits) but I also was an engineer and made droids, and you could totally customize the components in the droids which was so neat, and if you got the best resources your stuff was better so the game within the game was getting and harvesting the best resources (there are machines to do this for you if you purchase them and place them at the right time in the right place). I looooved SWG so much more then WOW. You may want to try it. I did master doctor and some other half combat proffesions, they have bounty hunter, jedi and other combat proffesions, but I far more enjoyed the crafting proffesions.

I meant to say "myspace has become a bit of a mess".

I think you make a lot of great points but I am not convinced this is the begin of a decline. I did a usability study on text messaging about a year or two ago, and we had kids and young teens come in to test our text messaging application (and interface for setting up msg subscriptions for dating, horoscopes, sports scores etc.

The main thing I got from the kids (and the children are our future after all!). Facebook is for old people, my space is for young people. E-mail is for old people. Seriously, several of them if not all said this out right. I think facebook became a bit of a mess with lots of controversy and facebook has in the last year or two become more "safe" with the way it handles blocking and friends and public profiles etc, and parents I think felt better about a child using it then myspace, but I most certainly think facebook isn't really the main place kids want to connect, and I am very sure something else will come about that is new, with a new paradigm as social networking shifts so constantly. Oh they also said IM'ing was for old people hah. Txt'ing and social networking sites was the way to go, and look 2 years after those kids told me that I myself no longer IM, instead I use twitter and google chat.

Ranting, but anyway... it was really wild to watch those kids use their phones and the physical differences in how they used the phone as well as the philosophical differences in their use.

I watched the entire season of entourage when I first came home with my baby and was often stuck in a chair with her not able to more because I would wake her. I love that show!!!

if you get to book 3, and don't think you can read book 4, give it a shot. I like book #1 and #4. the other two pissed me off lol.

people are so critical, I think anytime someone says something nice to us it's okay to be excited or put into a good mood etc by it. Picking apart anything nice I think could ruin the simplicity of someone saying or doing something nice. I do get what your saying, totally... but I guess thinking about a compliment that much would probably just ruin it for me so I would rather be ignorant and happy someone said something nice! SOMETHING spurred the compliment, so why not enjoy it? :) heh.

Gap has great stuff, and mimi maternity. I hate everything else I go to motherhood and sometimes can score some cute cheap jeans and tops, but you have to keep your eye open for the good stuff.

Also don't be afraid to buy something that will be too small on you later, you can always wear it after you give birth but are too big to get back into normal cloths.

I litterally just got a new MacBook Pro. It's very nice and fast and thin. However, I am not a huge fan of that new touchpad thingy. I really miss the button. You can still click, but now if I leave my thumb in the same place I used to I keep accidently increasing and decreasing the font size or zooming in and out when I don't want too. Try just browing the web in a store with the new trackpad. I guess I will have to live with it, I suppose there is no other choise but I really don't know what they wanted it to improve because so far it just annoys me.

Like you I liked the first book best and as I read each book I simply got angrier and angrier. I did not read the 4th one, I djdn't feel like paying for it.

If you want to read really fantastic teetn vampire fiction, read this (which in my view twilight doesn't hold a candle too and would have made a far better movie).

http://www.amazon.com/Vampire-Diaries-Awakening...

In fact it's funny there is a review on the page titled:
What Twilight Wishes it Could Be, September 6, 2008

haha

If you want you can get them even cheaper by finding the older printed versions. I've had to re-buy them on amazon about once every 4 or 5 years because I loose or damage them from re-reading.

There is a amazon preview and you can read some of the book first too.

For me the neatest part about twilight was the concept of vampires that don't kill, try to live amungst people (try to be human) and that sort of fight.. I liked that. I could have done with out everything else.

Thanks so much :)

I am a fledgling indie designer of baby things :) Work blocks ravelry so I can't link to it but here is my patterns page on my website:

http://pixiepurls.com/patterns.html

I couldn't agree more, and I had not thought about it that way before.

What do I do? I don't really know what I do, I just keep doing until i get past it. No plan, no idea for when or how. I just go and do, what do I do and where do I go? I haven't a clue. Right now I am angry and depressed in some form. My kid has been sick sense I went back to work and sense I stopped BF'ing her and I feel like it's all my fault she's sick all the time and we are all miserable, because I stopped doing that and because I went back to work. I spend more money now then i did when I didn't work and I'm not even sure working is benefiting anything besides our 401k which is of course important. So I'm feeling like I've made a bunch of wrong decisions even though at the time my gut said to do what I did. So I'm depressed and angry and frustrated. But I just will keep going, and I know eventually I will come out on the other side. Maybe it's just that one little bit of knowledge that keeps me going. I know in life there is good and bad, down and up and it's just a matter of time before you hit one or the other.

would have been nice if I spelled that right....

I would ask "how do you plan to intagrate the crafting subcoluture into your future projects?"

I agree with everything you said about e-books. I only went to project gutenburge when I couldn't find the books I want for cheap on amazon.com kindle store. I'm not paying $7 for a digital version of a public domain work! I've found the gutenburge stuff doesn't formate well even though it's supposed.

My big frustration about the kindle is I got a photographers field guide but no way to view the photos online of the detailed graphs etc. I also got a child phycology book and it had several small tables showing various details for certain ages of children and again, I couldn't view it on the kindle. Highly frustrating. I love my kindle but it's annoying how publisher's don't seem to have a clue. I want to be able to buy a hard copy of a book I love and get the discounted digital copy just for ease of reading or so I don't "bend up" my nice copy. I would love harry potter in digital form. I already own the hard copies but it would be nice to keep them in good condition and re-read them on my kindle. Kindle is still too expensive for most of the books. They claim "half price" but it's a bit of spin as amazon never sells those books full price in the hard copy form anyway. In some cases it's only a savings of $2 or $3 which boggles my mind when there is no paper, no transportation etc.

Considering my pattern writing business is entirely online (with 10% of the sales going to bright and mortar yarn stores) I like to think I am forward thinking as my business is basically entirely digital (ravelry helped with that and is WAY ahead of its time with the digital downloads/library feature (amazon.com take note!).

In some ways I think ravelry is the livejournal of the blog explosion. Livejournal had the friends feature way before RSS hit mainstream. It was ahead of it's time but most people didn't even know about it.

haha it's even more neat to watch because I've met Eunny and Annie in real life. I always LOVE behind the scenes stuff, you can see more of people's personality.

I can't see anyone would read something written by someone they loathed anyway. They must be very bored to want to focus on things they don't like. I've always enjoyed reading anything you have written.

That person sounds like a complete idiot, wow. Just, wow.

omg greg I could not agree more!!!

A few years ago I was working for a women who was all organic and natural etc. I learned a lot just from talking to her and while working for her I decided to quit soda. Prior to that I was a coke head. I drank soda all day long. ALL DAY LONG. I hated water.

So when I switched off soda's I didn't go cold Turkey on caffeine, I was allowed a sweet tea, and then after a week of sweet tea's (only at lunch) I started doing half sweet and half un-sweet. Now I can't stand a sweet tea. It's WAY too sweet. I have occasionally had a soda and I never ever drink more then about 4 sips and I just feel *done* and it's only for a special occasion but I find myself over the years wanting it less and less. THen when I got pregnant I didn't want to drink caffeine and also i started to LIKE water. Once I committed to JUST drinking water and I got used to it, now I love it and drink it all the time, crave it. I still don't drink the "recommended" amount which I have always thought was silly. Drink water when you are thirsty. Easy. Drink wine and fruit juice etc when you feel like it.

I have a friend who has the same issues, publi the supermarket out here, the brand publix it sells is almost all gluten free which is nice. My friend says she uses this forum all the time: http://www.glutenfreeforum.com/index.php

but what if Roslin IS a cylon??? I can't wait for the new iPhones either, I didn't get the first gen one, waited for better and 3G.

That new doogie movie looks great, he's such a great actor.

oh how exciting your mom will be meeting FunkyPlaid! I'm sure they will get along great. Have fun!

wow thats so crazy isn't it>? I read once in a book on kids/babies that a lot of time the troubles kids have at school and in other things can sometimes actually be food allergies. My sisters son has never had a reaction to food and she recently had him testing (I can't remember why) and he was allergic to EVERYTHING accept cats. So crazy. I think the hardest is gluton, its in everything!