Have you all heard of the website freerice.com? This site is amazing! It has educational games that you can play and they donate 10 grains of rice for each question you get right. Sure, 10 grains is not much, but to date they have donated 80 billion grains of rice, so it adds up ( I personally have added 2,000 grains to the count just spending random moments on there in the past two days. Booyah!).
I have only played the Italian game (fairly easy) and the two English games (the grammar game is too easy, for me anyways, but the vocab one is very difficult. I got up to level 50 once, but couldn't stay there. I average around level 41-44. Can you beat that, without cheating?). So, do you have some time to waste? Check it out, exercise your mind, and add to the rice count.
(Half of this post was parenthetical. Did you notice?)
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(I want to hold you in parenthesis).
1) Author failed to give proper citation to his source. Winner, Adam L, in a gmail chat on 15 November 2007, wrote at 11:03AM
"im about to send everyone i know an annoying blast email
here you get first peek...
http://www.freerice.com/
go play
see if you can beat my top score of 40"
2) Please publicly acknowledge the following, also a quote from Winner (ibid. 11:10AM)
"helping people or whatever...i mostly care about ridiculing people who score lower than me"
3) I also hover around the mid-40s, but my high is only 48. So you're a better human than me. But I could play the game in Korean, too, if they had one. So I'm a better human than you.
4) On a serious note, while of course it's hard to find fault with the idea of a website turning our boredom into rice for others, I have a few qualms.
Like: if you play for an hour, how many grains will be donated? How much would that cost in local prices? How much money could you earn for an hour, and how many grains could that buy? I am pretty sure freerice would come out on the low end of the calculation. Of course, most people don't have the ability to just work an extra hour if they want, so the comparison isn't entirely fair. Just a thought.
Also: I'm reading a book now called "The Vegetarian Myth," the main thesis of which is that most of the world's land is not actually suited to the production of annual grains (rice, wheat, corn) and continuing to raze forests, irrigate deserts, drain rivers, displace animal populations, and ruin topsoils by planting them where they wouldn't naturally grow is a harmful process. Of course it feeds people in the short run, but it increases hunger in the long run (actually, it's probably one source of the hunger people are facing now) by destroying the local environment and food-chain and replacing it with an artificial one. Bummer.
5) Don't steal my parenthetical blog schtick. You know I've been at it for like for years.
6) My comment is twice as long as your post. If not more. Get used to it!!!!
7) I want to pinch your *assterisk*
1. Josh, I miss you dash--
2. Mike, ridiculous numbering, I like.
3. Mike, I did not actually recall that gmail chat, probably because I never checked the website out when Adam told me about it. I just (re)learned about it at a workshop I was at.
4. Mike, I had the choice of buying the same product today with or without packaging, and I bought it without, thinking of you (No doubt, you will think that perhaps this was a product I could easily have gone without. In response to that, you can ' my :
[get it? Think of what an apostrophe is, in literature {and I have my own track record in parentheticals}]).
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