Plenz' Rantings and Ramblings - March 6th, 2008

So, if you haven't heard of it, there's a site called "Free Rice" (www.freerice.com) where you can build your vocabulary and donate rice to the hungry. It's a great (and addictive) site, and especially good for those people who may want to build vocab prior to taking the SAT or GRE.

When you go there, it gives you a word and four possible definitions. Select one. For every three correct you go up one level of vocab difficulty, for every ONE you miss you drop a level. The level of vocab goes from 1 - 50.

The first four items when you go there are used to place you in the difficulty range... if you get all four right you start at level 40. For every three after that you go up a level. This means that, if you never make a mistake, you can get to Level 50 in no less than 34 words. 20 grains of rice per word. 34 * 20 = 680.

Why do I bring this up?

Check out the screen shot below! Please note the size of the donation and the vocab level... and the fact that they match the afore mentioned minimum necessary to get to Level 50. I've been hovering around 48 and 49 for a while now occasionally popping into the 50 level, but yesterday was a very good day.

Not just a genius... a super-genius! (By the way, "penna" is a feather, in case you were wondering).

I am lurking at : Da lab!

I'm feelin' : accomplished

What's that I hear?: At the Mountains of Madness