Comments for Emma Brooks

Comment on There’s Gold in Them Farmville Farms! by jonlim

jonlim — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 02:30:25 +0000

My god…

*takes off glasses*

…I've gone into the wrong profession!

Comment on Year in Review Meme: 2009 by Rayanne Langdon

Rayanne Langdon — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:29:10 +0000

My heart felt sad with the heart break story. I went through that once — thinking you're going to be with this person for years and years and that there's no one more perfect for you. Having that end without being near close ready for it to be is pretty devastating.

Almost a year for you now, though! Glad you're happy and confident and more amazing than ever more — it shows! I'd never now you had fallen apart at the beginning of the year : )

What's Bill Bryson like? I'm looking for some new reads.

Comment on Great Spot from INPES by JR Brooks

JR Brooks — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:29:07 +0000

My life philosophy exactly — even without the smoking angle. Where do you find these things?

Sad to think they wouldn't dare run this in the US — too many Christian fundamentalists would be up in arms about the anti-creationism.

Comment on Experiment: The $0 Challenge by Devin

Devin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:29:00 +0000

All I can say is that I REALLY hope you got groceries before starting this 4 day challenge lol, otherwise it's going to be a hungry four days!

Comment on Interesting Facebook Find by Caitlin

Caitlin — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:28:54 +0000

I used to have an alternative fb for my England pics (I literally LOATHE the bytes that PhotoBucket and Flickr were born from), but once I realized I couldn't be faffed to actually update it ever, it was time to close it. True to form, everyone in the entire world will miss me, apparently.
Verdict: Maybe those who miss ought to pick up a rather outdated and overlooked piece of technology known as the “telephone”. Kickin' it oldskool, facebook…

Comment on #WriteOff09 – Day 10: Dan Blogs About Uninformed Opinions by flash-player

flash-player — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:28:43 +0000

Nice!

Comment on The Great Write-Off of ‘09: Losing a Friend by karen ho

karen ho — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 01:28:38 +0000

Hey, I also came by here as a result of Dan's link.

I completely know what you mean by this entry, only in my case it was finally letting go of an attempt to be friends with an ex.

Realizing I wasn't getting anything from it at all and it was simply a waste of time, energy and emotion was one of the most freeing things I have felt in a long time. It's always comforting knowing that despite any initial pain, you'll be a better person for it.

And I can especially relate to the modern problem of completely removing someone from your life online as well - it gets hard to sometimes remember it all with FB, twitter, your blogroll and so on along with the regular emails, phone numbers, text msgs and any standard junk/letters.

Comment on From DICE 2010: “Design Outside the Box” by Emma Brooks

Emma Brooks — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 16:01:49 +0000

@Lucas – The thing I find fascinating right now is that we’re the first generation that can track all these things like, the books we’ve read. Our granddaughters and grandsons could actually go and ACCESS this information and find out what kind of books we read when we were in our teens, our 20s, our 30s. Unlike our generation, that has no idea what our grandparents read unless the actual book was handed down to us.

I forgot about the Popsicle points! Oh man!

And I agree, that people are already changing their behaviours (maybe slightly) because they know everything is documented.

I don’t know about points being transferred. Makes no sense to me that the points you earn for brushing your teeth an extra minute should be the same points you get if you buy 4 Big Macs in a week. Different decisions (good, bad), different types of points (positive, negative for the government but positive for McDonald’s).

Obviously the points you earn have to be valuable for SOMETHING, otherwise it would be similar to flooding the market, definitely.

Comment on From DICE 2010: “Design Outside the Box” by Emma Brooks

Emma Brooks — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:48:37 +0000

@ Kevin – Yeah, you probably got the point!

I don’t know – Do YOU have free long distance? Why not do a video for your comment? I’ll put it up and everything!

Comment on From DICE 2010: “Design Outside the Box” by Emma Brooks

Emma Brooks — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 15:44:36 +0000

@ Ian – Oh, found the price on amazon. $115?! No thanks!