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This is so cool. Took Wacom enough years to make an updated version.

I first want to say thank you to everyone who wished me a happy birthday. I’m 30 now, going to be an old man. I really didn’t plan on doing anything this year. But I did have a goal for the next year. I want to obtain a wacom tablet monitor by then. Since my age has gone to the next level. I want to be able to create art at the next level. I’ve already got some money saved up for this. Any help getting me there will be super. A buck or two would be good.

Barry Allen is back and faster than ever! He is such a cool character. He is the fastest man alive and yet he is always late because he slows down for the little people. He gets to know the people he runs across and always spends extra time at a crime scene to make sure justice is served.

Him being back in comics has made me want to pick up a pencil. Hope you all like it.

GO BARRY!!!

EDIT: 9/25/09

Here is an updated watercolor version. I’m pretty happy with it knowing it’s my second water color EVER! YAY!

Facebook’s Farm Town is the type of game that has so many different pieces to it, that you can get lost in playing it for hours. Often times we want to buy extra items for our farm, or plant better crops but they are out of our reach because we need to raise our Farm Town level. But just how much experience do you need to get the next Farm Town level? Check out this nice chart of levels and experience points:

Farm Town Chart of Levels

Farm Town Level 1 – Getting Started
Farm Town Level 2 – 20 Experience – Just Moved In
Farm Town Level 3 – 50 Experience – Learning the Ropes
Farm Town Level 4 – 100 Experience – Apprentice – Buy Strawberry seeds / send gift pear trees
Farm Town Level 5 – 250 Experience – Farmer – Buy Small House / Buy Cart / send gift Dogs
Farm Town Level 6 – 500 Experience – Adept – Buy Cart with Barrels / Buy Wheat seeds / send gift Banana trees
Farm Town Level 7 – 750 Experience – Promising Farmer – Buy Water Well / send gift Pigs
Farm Town Level 8 – 1,000 Experience – Green Thumb – Buy Dirt Path / Buy Sunflower seeds / send gift Plum trees
Farm Town Level 9 – 1,500 Experience – Popular Farmer – Buy Silo / send gift Cows
Farm Town Level 10 – 2,000 Experience – Superb Farmer – Buy Stacked Crates / Buy Coffee seeds / send gift Peach trees
Farm Town Level 11 – 2,500 Experience – Talented Farmer – Buy Windmill / send gift Horses
Farm Town Level 12 – 3,000 Experience – Talk of the Town – Buy Table with Stools / Send gift Cherry trees
Farm Town Level 13 – 3,500 Experience – Distinguished Farmer – Send gift Bunny
Farm Town Level 14 – 4,000 Experience – Specialist – Buy Barb Wire Fence / Send gift Mango trees
Farm Town Level 15 – 4,500 Experience – Inspiring Farmer – Buy Barn / upgrade to 14×14 * farm unlocks / Send gift Cat
Farm Town Level 16 – 5,000 Experience – VIP – Send gift Coconut Tree
Farm Town Level 17 – 6,000 Experience – High Achiever – Buy Small Pond / Upgrade to 16×16 * farm unlocks / Send gift Donkey
Farm Town Level 18 – 7,000 Experience – Master Farmer – Buy Farm House / Send gift Palm trees
Farm Town Level 19 – 8,000 Experience – Influential Farmer – Buy Squirrels / upgrade to 18×18 * farm unlocks
Farm Town Level 20 – 9,000 Experience – Expert Farmer – Buy Hedge
Farm Town Level 21 – 10,000 Experience – Eminent Farmer – Buy Wood Shed / Buy Brown Dog / upgrade to 20×20 * farm unlocks
Farm Town Level 22 – 11,000 Experience – Mighty Farmer
Farm Town Level 23 – 12,500 Experience – Gifted Farmer – Buy Fruit Stand / Buy Llamas / upgrade to 22×22 * farm unlocks
Farm Town Level 24 – 15,000 Experience – Green Ace – Buy Stone Fence
Farm Town Level 25 – 20,000 Experience – Acclaimed Farmer – Upgrade to 24×24 * farm unlocks
Farm Town Level 26 – 25,000 Experience – Just Brilliant – Buy Tent
Farm Town Level 27 – 35,000 Experience – Extraordinary Farmer
Farm Town Level 28 – 45,000 Experience – Virtuoso – Buy Big Pond
Farm Town Level 29 – 55,000 Experience – Green Prodigy
Farm Town Level 30 – 70,000 Experience – Awe Inspiring – Buy Greenhouse
Farm Town Level 31 – 85,000 Experience – Force of Nature
Farm Town Level 32 – 100,000 Experience – Green Genius – Buy Stone Path
Farm Town Level 33 – 120,000 Experience – Tycoon
Farm Town Level 34 – 150,000 exp points – Green Wizard – Buy Mansion

While you have been playing Farm Town, you may have noticed that you gain experience points for doing various things in the game. This is partially done by planting the best crops on your farm, but can also be achieved when you buy items for your farm.

As a general rule, you get more experience points by purchasing more expensive items – but this is not always the case. If you are trying to balance aesthetics of your farm with your desire to get more experience and level up, take a look at these ratios. One possible idea you can also incorporate is purchasing items with a high ratio of experience points per dollar, and then selling them back to the store.

You won’t get very much money back by doing this, but it might be an option if you want to power level and just want the experience points.

Other Items

• Hay Bale – $50 – 5 Experience
• Wood Pile – $100 – 5 Experience
• Barrel – $100 – 5 Experience
• Crate – $100 – 5 Experience
• Scarecrow – $200 – 5 Experience
• Stool – $100 – 5 Experience
• Cart – $1,000 – 13 Experience
• Cart with Barrels – $1,500 – 18 Experience
• Waterwell – $20,000 – 203 Experience
• Grill – $500 – 8 Experience
• Stacked Crates – $300 – 6 Experience
• Mailbox – $150 – 5 Experience
• Table with Stools – $700 – 10 Experience
• Lawn Mower – $1,500 – 18 Experience
• Wheelbarrow – $500 – 8 Experience
• Bench – $250 – 6 Experience
• Dog House – $3,000 – 33 Experience
• Patio Table – $2,000 – 23 Experience

Fences

• Fence – $250 – 6 Experience
• Fence Closed Gate – $750 – 11 Experience
• Fence Open Gate – $750 – 11 Experience
•  Barb Wire Fence – $250 – 6 Experience
• Barb Wire Closed Gate – $750 – 11 Experience
• Barb Wire Open Gate – $ 750 – 11 Experience
• Hedge – $300 – 6 Experience Hedge
• Closed Gate – $900 – 12 Experience
• Hedge Open Gate – $900 – 12 Experience
• Stone Fence – $400 – 7 Experience
• Stone Fence Gate Closed – $1200 – 12 Experience
• Stone Fence Gate Opened – $1200 – 12 Experience

Paths

• Dirt Path – $200 – 5 Experience
• Dirt Path Corner – $200 – 5 Experience
• Dirt Path Crossing – $200 – 5 Experience
• Stone Path – $500 – 8 Experience
• Stone Path Corner – $500 – 8 Experience

Buildings

• Small House – $70,000 – 701 Experience
• Silo – $30,000 – 302 Experience
• Windmill – $40,000 – 402 Experience
• Barn – $60,000 – 601 Experience
• Farm House – $300,000 – 1,000 Experience
• Wind Pump – $10,000 – 103 Experience
• Wood Shed – $30,000 – 302 Experience
• Fruit Stand – $1,000 – 13 Experience
• Tent – $1,000 – 13 Experience
• Water Mill – $100,000 – 1,000 Experience
• Playground – $30,000 – 302
• Water Tank – $50,000 – 502 Experience
• Gazebo – $50,000 – 502 Experience
• Greenhouse – $80,000 – 800 Experience
• Wind Generator – $25,000 – 253 Experience
• Mansion – $1,000,000 – 1,000 Experience
• Ponds Small Pond – $80,000 – 800 Experience
• Big Pond – $200,000 – 1,000 Experience

Rivers

• River – $1,000 – 13 Experience
• River Corner – $1,500 – 18 Experience
• Bridge – $5,000 – 53 Experience

Now that you know how many experience points you can get from each item in the game, make sure to check out more Farm Town tips!

Why is a raven like a writing desk? April 18, 1997 Dear Cecil: This is something that drives me crazy every time I hear it: “Why is a raven like a writing desk?” Is there really a hilarious answer to this seemingly impossible riddle? Or is the hilarious part that there really isn’t an answer? Also, where did this riddle originate? — Mary, via the Internet Dear Mary: This riddle is famous, although it’s the rarefied kind of fame that entails most people never having heard of it. It comes from Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. Alice is at the tea party with the March Hare, the Mad Hatter, and the Dormouse, when apropos of pretty much nothing the Hatter pops the question above. Several pages of tomfoolery ensue, and then: “Have you guessed the riddle yet?” the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. “No, I give it up,” Alice replied. “What’s the answer?” “I haven’t the slightest idea,” said the Hatter. “Nor I,” said the March Hare. Alice sighed wearily. “I think you might do something better with the time,” she said, “than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers.” At this point most of us are thinking: Ho-ho, that Lewis Carroll, is he hilarious or what? But inevitably you get a few losers who say: Well, OK, but I still want to know why a raven is like a writing desk. One sighs wearily. Guys! It’s a joke! The answer is that there isn’t any answer! Oh, they say. (Pause.) But why is a raven like a … Lewis Carroll himself got bugged about this so much that he was moved to write the following in the preface to the 1896 edition of his book: Enquiries have been so often addressed to me, as to whether any answer to the Hatter’s Riddle can be imagined, that I may as well put on record here what seems to me to be a fairly appropriate answer, viz: ‘Because it can produce a few notes, tho they are very flat; and it is never put with the wrong end in front!’ This, however, is merely an afterthought; the Riddle, as originally invented, had no answer at all. Did this discourage people? No. They figured, that dope Carroll, he’s too dumb to figure out his own riddle, setting aside the halfhearted attempt just quoted. So they ventured answers of their own, some of the more notable of which are recorded in Martin Gardner’s The Annotated Alice and More Annotated Alice: * Because the notes for which they are noted are not noted for being musical notes. (Puzzle maven Sam Loyd, 1914) * Because Poe wrote on both. (Loyd again) * Because there is a B in both and an N in neither. (Get it? Aldous Huxley, 1928) * Because it slopes with a flap. (Cyril Pearson, undated) Not bad for amateurs. But the real answer, to which the careers of Poe and Carroll bear ample testimony, is that you can baffle the billions with both. Postscript: In 1976 Carroll admirer Denis Crutch pointed out that in the 1896 preface quoted above, the author had originally written: “It is nevar put with the wrong end in front.” Nevar of course is raven spelled backward. Big joke! However, said joke didn’t survive the ministrations of the proofreaders, who, thinking they understood the author’s intentions better than the author, changed nevar to never in subsequent editions. The indignities we authors suffer! Sure, we make up for it in money and groupies, but still, if in some book (e.g., one of mine) you come across a line that really clanks, be assured: It was funny before.