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chalsema
10-18-2007, 08:21 PM
FreeRice.com (http://freerice.com/index.php)
I wanted to share this link with everyone that I came across on Reddit just now. It's kinda fun to see how high you can get your vocab level... I got up to 40 and donated around 350-400 grains. But I'll probably be on there more later since work is slow today.
Sure it's probably easier to just donate cash to a charity... but that doesn't kill as much time as this does! :p
GraphixNPrint
10-18-2007, 08:24 PM
delete this post and repost it tomorrow ... we all need to kill time Friday afternoon ;)
budafist
10-18-2007, 08:31 PM
I love rice. It's Friday morning here now, we can always just bump until then :)
Satchel
10-18-2007, 08:49 PM
That site's pretty cool... some of those words are weird. Like I thought I knew what they were but the choices to pick were not anything close to what I thought!? And it's pretty slow... anyone else notice that?!
chalsema
10-18-2007, 08:51 PM
It might be slow since it's on the front page of Reddit right now. It was going pretty slow for me too.
budafist
10-18-2007, 08:53 PM
Yeah it's getting slower and slower for me now.
D-Frag
10-18-2007, 09:13 PM
yeah very slow, but still fun
Red Kittie Kat
10-18-2007, 11:21 PM
that's a fun site :)
http://i22.tinypic.com/264nxtu.jpg
Red Kittie Kat
10-18-2007, 11:22 PM
I missed a few I got to level 32 and need to go eat dinner .. I worked up an appetite now ;)
hewligan
10-18-2007, 11:24 PM
I got up to vocab level 45, but once you get above 40 it's pretty hard.
Friday is a lousy day for concentrating on what I'm supposed to be doing...
CkretAjint
10-18-2007, 11:31 PM
1 grain of rice...
2 grains of rice...
3 grains of rice...
*BEEP, BEEP!!!*
Dammit Jimmy, you pancaking made me loose count again! :angry:
budafist
10-18-2007, 11:47 PM
I got up to vocab level 45, but once you get above 40 it's pretty hard.
Friday is a lousy day for concentrating on what I'm supposed to be doing...
I don't lick your brains for nothing do I? I got up to 40 at one stage but then I got silly and now I'm at level 35.
hewligan
10-19-2007, 12:17 AM
I don't lick your brains for nothing do I? I got up to 40 at one stage but then I got silly and now I'm at level 35.
Me big word bloke.
Actually, half of the words above about 42 or 43 I've never heard of, but I can usually guess based on the pieces they're made up of.
urstwile
10-19-2007, 12:30 AM
I got up to 45. :)
budafist
10-19-2007, 02:19 AM
I've had this window open all day doing a few words while waiting for things to pdf etc. Up to 3290 grains. Is that even a cup? I'm not wanting to go home to my bag of rice to figure out how much rice that is, but I bet the time I spent doing this would be better spent doing work and donating the money to charity. Oh wait I am a work...as you were then :D
hewligan
10-19-2007, 02:24 AM
I've had this window open all day doing a few words while waiting for things to pdf etc. Up to 3290 grains. Is that even a cup? I'm not wanting to go home to my bag of rice to figure out how much rice that is, but I bet the time I spent doing this would be better spent doing work and donating the money to charity. Oh wait I am a work...as you were then :D
Maybe, but would you still have increased your vocabulary? :D
frankster
10-19-2007, 02:29 AM
44, will get a lot more milage out of that site though because the husband is keen to try and beat me (he's fed up of doing it with his fists;):eek: :D )
CkretAjint
10-19-2007, 02:29 AM
How many grains of rice are in a one pound bag of long grain rice? (http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_grains_of_rice_are_in_a_one_pound_bag_of_ long_grain_rice)
I <3 the Wiki ;)
Cool. I managed to donate 1580 before my brain said, enough for tonight.
budafist
10-19-2007, 02:31 AM
Maybe, but would you still have increased your vocabulary? :D
You are right. Learning is the best gift I've given today....to myself.
Cheese!!!
I'm finding this quite addictive.
urstwile
10-19-2007, 02:53 AM
This is completely addictive. I know I'll be checking it out when I need to exercise some synapses.
hewligan
10-19-2007, 02:56 AM
So I managed to get up to 46. I also managed to get half the office playing it.
CkretAjint
10-19-2007, 02:58 AM
Go Hewligan! Work is for bitches. Why work when you can feed the hnugry from your computer?!?! ;)
hewligan
10-19-2007, 03:02 AM
Oddly, while doing this I figured out the solution to a javascript problem I'd been stuck on for days. I guess I can't even slack off right...
CkretAjint
10-19-2007, 03:04 AM
And people say your brains are worth licking. I am not licking them if they are going to make me more productive! HELL NO!!!
urstwile
10-19-2007, 03:13 AM
Yup, I managed to get up to 46 as well. Like you Hewligan, I can often figure the word out just from the different parts it's made up of. My grammar may suck, but I got's me some vocabumalary. :D
hewligan
10-19-2007, 04:13 AM
And people say your brains are worth licking. I am not licking them if they are going to make me more productive! HELL NO!!!
Well, I would suggest you give Urst's brains a taste instead, but she strikes me as the kind of lady who gets stuff done :D
urstwile
10-19-2007, 04:48 AM
Aww, shucks, Hewligan. :o
Red Kittie Kat
10-19-2007, 05:41 AM
Is the site a wee bit slow or is it just me?
GraphixNPrint
10-19-2007, 05:45 AM
its called old age RKK ... it hit me about 10 years ago :p
hewligan
10-19-2007, 10:16 PM
Well, as someone said, it hit Reddit, and the server's been creaking under the load since.
Red Kittie Kat
10-19-2007, 10:26 PM
lmao Hewligan ;)
I am up to level 41 now .. until I get some wrong anyway :D
urstwile
10-20-2007, 11:51 PM
I actually made it to vocab level 49 yesterday, for a minnit.