Oct 18
If only vocabulary could feed the world…
I’ve been immersing myself in my feedreader this evening and it it now past 1am so I have little to say. Or little time to say it. Take your pick. If you don’t know what to do with your time because of my self-indulgence, go and buy rice with the most priceless commodity on earth: Words.
I have bought hundreds and hundreds of grains of rice. Seriously… hundreds and hundreds! I got up to vocabulary level 48 but upon reading that there are only 50 levels and that hardly anyone gets past 48 I am determined to do better. Pride in abnormality, that’s my motto. Oh, and I get to feed people at the same time as I defend my ego.
October 18th, 2007 at 10:08 am
That’s TERRIBLE! So addictive! I’ve been going up and down between 49 and 41 and now I’ve run out of time. You think you’re feeding the world, and then you realise it’s only a grain at a time. But if enough of us do it, or do it often enough… I’ll have to come back another day. Race you to 50?
October 18th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
lol….I LOVE that site too. I do it to feed someone and I really want confirmation that people do actually receive the rice that I prostituted my understanding of words for.
October 18th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Megan, read this article about John Breen’s previous site, hungersite.com. The United Nations’ World Food Program confirmed that they were receiving donations. I assume this is the case with the new one, but I wasn’t able to find any solid information when I did a search last night. It seems likely to me that there is a bit of skimming off the top but as it’s not me that paying him and sponsor’s money is getting to the UN, I’m not too uncomfortable with that. Besides, I like doing silly online tests.
Rosemary - I’ll see you at the finish line!
October 18th, 2007 at 10:06 pm
50!!!!! *Wild dancing and whooping*
October 18th, 2007 at 10:44 pm
Damn the days for being so short. She beat me to it! Cut off her head…
October 19th, 2007 at 12:58 am
:-r