Escape Artists
The Lounge at the End of the Universe => Gallimaufry => Topic started by: Russell Nash on December 19, 2007, 12:37:10 PM
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Just heard about this site, freerice.com (http://freerice.com), where you can test your vocabulary. The difference is that for every correct answer you give they donate enough money to the UN Food Program to pay 20 grains of rice. Yesterday they donated over 350,000,000 grains. It adds up. The whole thing is financed by ads that show up under the question. They're very subtle and aren't annoying.
I'm at level 42 right now, but I stopped to come here and post this.
What level have you reached?
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I couldn't get past 36. ??? And here I thought I had a decent vocabulary.
Do they have one of these where you can donate to the NRA instead of the UN?
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I couldn't get past 36. ??? And here I thought I had a decent vocabulary.
Do they have one of these where you can donate to the NRA instead of the UN?
The NRA gets all the money it needs from Colt and Smtih & Wesson. They don't need any help.
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Gallimaufry is a word (around level 45.) That's just awesome.
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Gallimaufry is a word (around level 45.) That's just awesome.
No kidding???
That rocks!
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:( i couldnt get past 35.
but im still goin!
FOR THE HUNGRY!!! CHAAAAAAAAAAAAARGE!!!!!!!
yay lv. 40!
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When I took a try at it last week, I got up to 41. I had to force myself to stop because I had to get some work done.
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Couldn't crack 46, but racked up 3400 grains! w00t!
Attention began to wander, though, and I dropped down to level 40... I did find it ironic that "mendicancy" appeared twice on a quiz designed to aid the needy. What are they implying? ???
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I can get up to 44 before my miss/hit ratio becomes such that I stop progressing.
As a linguist, I found the "philology = linguistics" entry a bit misleading since the two terms are normally used to describe considerably different approaches to the study of language. It's sort of like if you had "anthropology = sociology" or something like that.
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I can get up to 44 before my miss/hit ratio becomes such that I stop progressing.
As a linguist, I found the "philology = linguistics" entry a bit misleading since the two terms are normally used to describe considerably different approaches to the study of language. It's sort of like if you had "anthropology = sociology" or something like that.
There were a few like that, I noticed; but like the SAT, it is multiple choice, so I got most of them from context. (My use of the word "most" probably would not pass mathematical muster, but you weren't there, so you wouldn't know, right?)
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I've noticed that my score can vary by four or five points depending on whether I'm tired or not.
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I couldn't get past 36. ??? And here I thought I had a decent vocabulary.
Do they have one of these where you can donate to the NRA instead of the UN?
Nah... orgs that don't actually benefit society have no trouble raising cash. You only have to trick folks when it comes to actually helping people.
(Chodon, before you vituperate or saponify me for my bathetic reply, I pray you will harbor no dudgeon for my untrammeled badinage! ;))
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My highest is 42. The multiple choice helps.....probably wouldn't get quite that high if there were more choices.
That reminds me.....I should buy a rice steamer.
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*cough* bump!
Just want this to be known again for those who have not heard of it. This is such a great cause! I mean, sure its not a permanent solution by any means, but it is such a great start!
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*cough* bump!
Just want this to be known again for those who have not heard of it. This is such a great cause! I mean, sure its not a permanent solution by any means, but it is such a great start!
Maybe we could start posting our scores, and offer some kind of meaningless, cost-free prize to the winners of the "highest level" and the "most rice donated" categories? (I'd play hardest if the prize was a free Kofi mug. :) )
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*cough* bump!
Just want this to be known again for those who have not heard of it. This is such a great cause! I mean, sure its not a permanent solution by any means, but it is such a great start!
Maybe we could start posting our scores, and offer some kind of meaningless, cost-free prize to the winners of the "highest level" and the "most rice donated" categories? (I'd play hardest if the prize was a free Kofi mug. :) )
Done.
Impromptu contest:
Two prizes: Highest Score, and Most Rice Donated
Play the game: freerice.com (http://freerice.com)
IM me your daily totals for how much rice you've won, and I'll post a leader board.
Send me a screen capture of your highest score, and I'll do the same.
It's on the honor system, but this is charity so that shouldn't be a problem, right?
Most Rice gets one pound of gourmet coffee and a cool coffee mug.
Highest score gets a coffee mug.
Any questions?
edit: New topic here: http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=1432.0
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My best level is 46, but I hang somewhere around 42. My mom's best level is 49! (Of course, she's been an editor for more than two decades, and edited all kinds of textbooks, including medical texts. I think that helps.) They say there are 55 levels! You can set the game to keep track of your high score and rice totals, and it's a good idea to do that before you get addicted to this game. I found out too late, and had to fight to win back my high score to prove it to anyone.
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My best level is 46, but I hang somewhere around 42. My mom's best level is 49! (Of course, she's been an editor for more than two decades, and edited all kinds of textbooks, including medical texts. I think that helps.) They say there are 55 levels! You can set the game to keep track of your high score and rice totals, and it's a good idea to do that before you get addicted to this game. I found out too late, and had to fight to win back my high score to prove it to anyone.
Thanks for that! (It's the "Options" tab at the top of the page, in case anyone has trouble finding it.)
I have brushed lightly against level 49, myself, but haven't been able to get above 47 since setting the memory. :(
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Arrrgh.
6,140 grains of rice and I'm still stuck at 53, since about 2,000 grains ago.
My first error was a level 48 word, at 640 grains.
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The price of rice is now three-fold what it was last year. The Haiti government has fallen (not that it was strong in the first place), because of food riots. Unicef and the WFP are asking for donations so that they can keep millions from starving to death. If your donations budget is already taken up, take some time to increase your vocabulary. Every little bit helps.
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I couldn't get past 36. ??? And here I thought I had a decent vocabulary.
Do they have one of these where you can donate to the NRA instead of the UN?
What would the NRA do with all that rice, anyway?
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I couldn't get past 36. ??? And here I thought I had a decent vocabulary.
Do they have one of these where you can donate to the NRA instead of the UN?
What would the NRA do with all that rice, anyway?
Shotgun weddings??
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I couldn't get past 36. ??? And here I thought I had a decent vocabulary.
Do they have one of these where you can donate to the NRA instead of the UN?
What would the NRA do with all that rice, anyway?
Shotgun weddings??
...and a stain on my shirt.
(Soy un perdedor...)
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I couldn't get past 36. ??? And here I thought I had a decent vocabulary.
Do they have one of these where you can donate to the NRA instead of the UN?
What would the NRA do with all that rice, anyway?
Shotgun weddings??
...and a stain on my shirt.
(Soy un perdedor...)
Don't get crazy with the cheeze whiz.
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I found this one to be interesting
pettifogger = unscrupulous lawyer ( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)
anyhow lvl 40 highest and 4720 grains
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( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)
That's what they all say.
Now, start making obscure song references like the rest of us or I'll bring the wrath of N-sh down upon you.
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( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)
That's what they all say.
Now, start making obscure song references like the rest of us or I'll bring the wrath of N-sh down upon you.
Actually, this raises a complicated theological issue. I am a noted atheist of N-sh, but yet I have risen to a position of authority and power within this world. Now, surely if N-sh was all powerful he would have prevented this because it dilutes his own power and authority. Unless, of course, I am here as a Nemesis to tempt all of you innocent forumites to the dark side.
Perhaps I've said too much.
Level 48, 4210 grains was my best score so far.
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( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)
That's what they all say.
Now, start making obscure song references like the rest of us or I'll bring the wrath of N-sh down upon you.
Actually, this raises a complicated theological issue. I am a noted atheist of N-sh, but yet I have risen to a position of authority and power within this world. Now, surely if N-sh was all powerful he would have prevented this because it dilutes his own power and authority. Unless, of course, I am here as a Nemesis to tempt all of you innocent forumites to the dark side.
Perhaps I've said too much.
Level 48, 4210 grains was my best score so far.
Your disbelieving in N-sh does not mean he doesn't exist.
It is as possible to abbreviate infinity as it is to dilute something that is all powerful. N-sh's power is not diminished by your elevation, only his burden.
What makes you so sure you would have been elevated to your current status were it not for N-sh's intervention?
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( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)
That's what they all say.
Now, start making obscure song references like the rest of us or I'll bring the wrath of N-sh down upon you.
Actually, this raises a complicated theological issue. I am a noted atheist of N-sh, but yet I have risen to a position of authority and power within this world. Now, surely if N-sh was all powerful he would have prevented this because it dilutes his own power and authority. Unless, of course, I am here as a Nemesis to tempt all of you innocent forumites to the dark side.
Perhaps I've said too much.
Level 48, 4210 grains was my best score so far.
I think N-sh keeps guys like us around to use as a warning to his followers: "look what a lack of faith can turn you into... a lego man and a trippy eyeball." It's kind of like the way the Flying Spaghetti Monster put dinosaur bones in the ground and made them look millions of years old, just to test our faith.
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( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)
That's what they all say.
Now, start making obscure song references like the rest of us or I'll bring the wrath of N-sh down upon you.
Actually, this raises a complicated theological issue. I am a noted atheist of N-sh, but yet I have risen to a position of authority and power within this world. Now, surely if N-sh was all powerful he would have prevented this because it dilutes his own power and authority. Unless, of course, I am here as a Nemesis to tempt all of you innocent forumites to the dark side.
Perhaps I've said too much.
Level 48, 4210 grains was my best score so far.
I think N-sh keeps guys like us around to use as a warning to his followers: "look what a lack of faith can turn you into... a lego man and a trippy eyeball." It's kind of like the way the Flying Spaghetti Monster put dinosaur bones in the ground and made them look millions of years old, just to test our faith.
Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion?
http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/miraculous_images.htm (http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/miraculous_images.htm)
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( I am not trying to derail the thread I promise lol)
That's what they all say.
Now, start making obscure song references like the rest of us or I'll bring the wrath of N-sh down upon you.
Actually, this raises a complicated theological issue. I am a noted atheist of N-sh, but yet I have risen to a position of authority and power within this world. Now, surely if N-sh was all powerful he would have prevented this because it dilutes his own power and authority. Unless, of course, I am here as a Nemesis to tempt all of you innocent forumites to the dark side.
Perhaps I've said too much.
Level 48, 4210 grains was my best score so far.
I think N-sh keeps guys like us around to use as a warning to his followers: "look what a lack of faith can turn you into... a lego man and a trippy eyeball." It's kind of like the way the Flying Spaghetti Monster put dinosaur bones in the ground and made them look millions of years old, just to test our faith.
Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion?
http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/miraculous_images.htm (http://www.visionsofjesuschrist.com/miraculous_images.htm)
He did! He appeared on an underpass in Chicago: http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/04/its_only_rock_a.html (http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/04/its_only_rock_a.html)
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He did! He appeared on an underpass in Chicago: http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/04/its_only_rock_a.html (http://skeptico.blogs.com/skeptico/2005/04/its_only_rock_a.html)
So he looks like Keith Richards? Cool!
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Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion?
Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.
Can any god who can't answer his own mail really call himself "omnipotent"?
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Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion?
Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.
Can any god who can't answer his own mail really call himself "omnipotent"?
Can any god who can't hire an assistant (http://forum.escapeartists.info/index.php?topic=1397.0) really call hirself "omnipotent"?
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Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion?
Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.
Interesting. I thought gods and the dead spoke to people using games like Pictionary (the Christian god's "images") or Charades (the dead "talking" to John Edwards and others using gestures and symbols).
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Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion?
Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.
Interesting. I thought gods and the dead spoke to people using games like Pictionary (the Christian god's "images") ...
I thought that was exclusive to the Roman Catholic god. I've never heard of any Protestant sect's member claiming to have seen the Face of Christ burned into a piece of toast.
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Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion?
Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.
Interesting. I thought gods and the dead spoke to people using games like Pictionary (the Christian god's "images") or Charades (the dead "talking" to John Edwards and others using gestures and symbols).
Whereas Allah prefers to leave messages written in Arabic inside vegetables (http://www.mcn.org/1/Miracles/allaharchive.htm)...
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Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion?
Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.
Interesting. I thought gods and the dead spoke to people using games like Pictionary (the Christian god's "images") or Charades (the dead "talking" to John Edwards and others using gestures and symbols).
Whereas Allah prefers to leave messages written in Arabic inside vegetables (http://www.mcn.org/1/Miracles/allaharchive.htm)...
...to Quran on a grain of rice... and... BACK on topic! TAD-ah!
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Why can't N-sh give his followers a sign, like the guy from that other religion?
Because N-sh isn't interested in playing games. If he wants something, he'll tell you. And if you talk to him, he'll answer.
Interesting. I thought gods and the dead spoke to people using games like Pictionary (the Christian god's "images") or Charades (the dead "talking" to John Edwards and others using gestures and symbols).
Whereas Allah prefers to leave messages written in Arabic inside vegetables (http://www.mcn.org/1/Miracles/allaharchive.htm)...
...to Quran on a grain of rice... and... BACK on topic! TAD-ah!
*golf clap*
Nicely done.
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I wonder if Freerice is going to change the rules due to all the latest rice news. The US Rice Federation spokesman says there is no shortage in the US but rice futures are at an all-time high and Costco and Sam's Club are limiting the sales of rice. Maybe they should switch to FreeOreos or something.
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I wonder if Freerice is going to change the rules due to all the latest rice news. The US Rice Federation spokesman says there is no shortage in the US but rice futures are at an all-time high and Costco and Sam's Club are limiting the sales of rice. Maybe they should switch to FreeOreos or something.
Limiting the sale of rice to a mere 80lbs per customer! After that, you have to carry all that rice out to your car, and then go to all the effort of walking back into the store to get the rest of your rice! Can you imagine how huge a minor inconvenience this is going to be to... ummm.... whoever the hell it is that buys more than 80lbs of rice in a go? Anyway, that one guy, he's going to be slightly put out by this!
What definition of the word "limiting" is meant to apply here? I honestly don't see anything other than a way for Sam's Club to get their name on TV whenever the news talks about rice shortages..
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I wonder if Freerice is going to change the rules due to all the latest rice news. The US Rice Federation spokesman says there is no shortage in the US but rice futures are at an all-time high and Costco and Sam's Club are limiting the sales of rice. Maybe they should switch to FreeOreos or something.
Limiting the sale of rice to a mere 80lbs per customer! After that, you have to carry all that rice out to your car, and then go to all the effort of walking back into the store to get the rest of your rice! Can you imagine how huge a minor inconvenience this is going to be to... ummm.... whoever the hell it is that buys more than 80lbs of rice in a go? Anyway, that one guy, he's going to be slightly put out by this!
What definition of the word "limiting" is meant to apply here? I honestly don't see anything other than a way for Sam's Club to get their name on TV whenever the news talks about rice shortages..
From what I heard, some restaurants buy their rice bulk from Sam's Club or Costco so they would be the ones affected by this.
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I wonder if Freerice is going to change the rules due to all the latest rice news. The US Rice Federation spokesman says there is no shortage in the US but rice futures are at an all-time high and Costco and Sam's Club are limiting the sales of rice. Maybe they should switch to FreeOreos or something.
Limiting the sale of rice to a mere 80lbs per customer! After that, you have to carry all that rice out to your car, and then go to all the effort of walking back into the store to get the rest of your rice! Can you imagine how huge a minor inconvenience this is going to be to... ummm.... whoever the hell it is that buys more than 80lbs of rice in a go? Anyway, that one guy, he's going to be slightly put out by this!
What definition of the word "limiting" is meant to apply here? I honestly don't see anything other than a way for Sam's Club to get their name on TV whenever the news talks about rice shortages..
From what I heard, some restaurants buy their rice bulk from Sam's Club or Costco so they would be the ones affected by this.
Hrm. 80lbs of rice is about 700 servings. So it's possible that some oriental restaurants would get through that much in a day. Oh no! They will have to either use the above-detailed "going back into the store" technique, or send more than one person shopping. Either way, you're correct: They will indeed suffer an almost-noticeable hardship because of this "limit".
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Hrm. 80lbs of rice is about 700 servings. So it's possible that some oriental restaurants would get through that much in a day. Oh no! They will have to either use the above-detailed "going back into the store" technique, or send more than one person shopping. Either way, you're correct: They will indeed suffer an almost-noticeable hardship because of this "limit".
Yeah, big hardship. Send someone in to the store on the bank run and someone on the mail run. Or shop at a store without the limitations. At the China Buffet I go to I don't think 80 lbs of rice equals 700 servings, though. You see some plates with about a pound of rice on them, and that's just the first trip.
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I wonder if Freerice is going to change the rules due to all the latest rice news. The US Rice Federation spokesman says there is no shortage in the US but rice futures are at an all-time high and Costco and Sam's Club are limiting the sales of rice. Maybe they should switch to FreeOreos or something.
Limiting the sale of rice to a mere 80lbs per customer! After that, you have to carry all that rice out to your car, and then go to all the effort of walking back into the store to get the rest of your rice! Can you imagine how huge a minor inconvenience this is going to be to... ummm.... whoever the hell it is that buys more than 80lbs of rice in a go? Anyway, that one guy, he's going to be slightly put out by this!
What definition of the word "limiting" is meant to apply here? I honestly don't see anything other than a way for Sam's Club to get their name on TV whenever the news talks about rice shortages..
From what I heard, some restaurants buy their rice bulk from Sam's Club or Costco so they would be the ones affected by this.
Hrm. 80lbs of rice is about 700 servings. So it's possible that some oriental restaurants would get through that much in a day. Oh no! They will have to either use the above-detailed "going back into the store" technique, or send more than one person shopping. Either way, you're correct: They will indeed suffer an almost-noticeable hardship because of this "limit".
No kidding! How serious could a food "shortage" be if you're limited to 80lbs a trip? What kind of whiny losers get upset over rice shortages?
Oh, that's right. The ones below you on the economic ladder. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/14/world.food.crisis/index.html)
How inconvenient!
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No kidding! How serious could a food "shortage" be if you're limited to 80lbs a trip? What kind of whiny losers get upset over rice shortages?
Oh, that's right. The ones below you on the economic ladder. (http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/04/14/world.food.crisis/index.html)
How inconvenient!
Hey, I don't mean to suggest that there isn't a rice shortage, globally, or that people aren't going to die because of this. I'm just pissed off that Sam's Club have set up a fake limit that's not actually going to affect any of their customers (and therefore, their sales of rice) but will make sure that news anchors give them free advertising to illustrate the rice shortage, rather than pointing to people in the third world actually dying.
Seriously.
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A run on rice in Chinatown (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/01/us/01rice.html).
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...deer tail about $350 apiece...
There are about 10 roadkilled deer between my home and workplace that I drive past every day. You mean to tell me I if I cut those tails off and ship them to SF I can make $350 each!? Where is my knife?
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...deer tail about $350 apiece...
There are about 10 roadkilled deer between my home and workplace that I drive past every day. You mean to tell me I if I cut those tails off and ship them to SF I can make $350 each!? Where is my knife?
.....and dried toad at $42/ounce??!! Growing up in small town WI I could've paid for my college with all the toads I could've dried and roadkill dear tail I could've collected.
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I'd like to bump this, because it's a good cause.
Edit: Thanks Zathras
Since it's the season of giving, I thought that this would be a good time to bump this thread. I understand that times are tough, and not everyone has the room in their budget for charity that they used to have. But just about everyone that comes to this forum could spend a little time for a good cause.
Merry Zobmas, one and all!
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I'd like to bump this, because it's a good cause.
RL, we don't do mindless bumping here. It really annoys people if it's done too much. If you want to bump something, you have to go through the work of writing an entertaining post.
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But I don't have any originality or creativity!
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But I don't have any originality or creativity!
No bump for you!
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*grovels*
I promise it won't happen again. Just don't hit me with your rhythm stick!
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RL, here's how ya do it:
Since it's the season of giving, I thought that this would be a good time to bump this thread. I understand that times are tough, and not everyone has the room in their budget for charity that they used to have. But just about everyone that comes to this forum could spend a little time for a good cause.
Merry Zobmas, one and all!
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Curse you! I can't get past 51. I generally stay between 44 and 48, a little higher or lower at times.