[bksvol-discuss] the free rice word game site
- From: Cindy <popularplace@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 Aug 2008 22:46:56 -0700 (PDT)
The URL is http://freerice.com/
The game and explanations and easy start is there. One nice thing about it is,
in addition to the fact that you're having fun, learning new words that you'll
probably never use in your life (when you get to some of the higher levels),
and are donating rice to the food bank (presumably) is that the game remembers
where you left off, so you don't have to start over at the beginning every
time--unless months pass before you play again.
Cindy
--- On Sat, 8/9/08, Amy Goldring Tajalli <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> From: Amy Goldring Tajalli <agoldringtajalli@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: recondite
> To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 8:27 PM
> I am also an autodidact but I did not send you the game so
> it was either another Amy, of which I have not seen or heard
> here, or your brother. I should not ask, since I have not
> the time and am already a solitaire addict but please do
> send me the game information. Sounds like fun
>
> --
> It if be now, 'tis not to come,
> If it be not to come, it will be now,
> If it be now now, Yet it will come.
> The readiness is all.
> Wm. Shakespeare
> -------------- Original message from
> Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx: --------------
>
>
>
> By the way, I have described myself several times on this
> list, even though I may not have used the word, as an
> autodidactic computer user, but I assure you that what
> little I have taught myself about how to use a computer is
> one hell of a lot harder than my studies in history have
> ever been. In a message dated 8/9/2008 7:23:15 P.M. Pacific
> Daylight Time, popularplace@xxxxxxxxx writes fun and in case
> you don't already have the information, please note:
>
> The Hunger
> site:http://www.thehungersite.com/clickToGive/home.faces?siteId=1&link=ctg_ths_home_from_ths_home_sitenav
>
> Here you can click on the rectangle and feed people, then
> after you get to the sale page look at the top and click on
> the Breast Cancer site and give free mammograms, free
> children's vaccinations, books, etc. The sponsors pay.
> All you have to do is click on the sites and on the
> rectangles, back and forth. I get a reminder and do this
> once a day.
>
> Thanks for the information and continued good luck with the
> self education. I am still learning.
>
> Amy
> omsm
> That sent me there, too. I've seen it and understood
> it in the context in which I was reading it, but I
> didn't really know it out of context.
>
> There's a wonderful word game someone sent me the URL
> of: free rice: http://freerice.com/index.php The words
> start at an easy level and get more difficult as one
> proceeds, and "For each word you get right, we donate
> 20 grains of rice to the United Nations World Food
> Program." (Amy, was it you who sent it to me? Or my
> brother.) It's addictive, so if one wants to get any
> validating done one must set oneself a limit--time or number
> of word sets.
>
> Cindy
>
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>
> Jake's site for useful links:
> http://www.jbrownell.com/bkslinks.html
>
>
> --- On Sat, 8/9/08, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
> <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
> <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT: Autodidactic
> > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 7:12 PM
> > No, I was not aware of those items of interest
> concerning
> > auto didacticism.
> > Personally, I may be something of an autodidact, but
> I
> > think I am far from
> > famous. Now, it was interesting that I sent you to
> the
> > dictionary. The word that
> > I use that most frequently sends people running to
> the
> > dictionary is
> > recondite and after they learn the word they often
> accuse
> > me of having recondite
> > interests. In a message dated 8/9/2008 6:36:27 P.M.
> Pacific
> > Daylight Time,
> > popularplace@xxxxxxxxx writes:
> >
> > Very interesting. I love all the different kinds of
> people
> > who are bookshare
> > volunteers. And you just taught me a new
> word--rather, you
> > caused me to look
> > it up online and learn it. Do you know that there
> is an
> > Autodidactic Press
> > and also a list online of famous autodidactic
> people,
> > though the list doesn't
> > say what their particular areas of interest
> were/are. One
> > of them is Ezra
> > Cornell, which is interesting since he founded a
> > university.
> >
> > Cindy
> >
> >
> > --- On Sat, 8/9/08, Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
> > <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > > From: Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx
> > <Rogerbailey81@xxxxxxx>
> > > Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: Wish List
> > > To: bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Date: Saturday, August 9, 2008, 6:22 PM
> > > It is not for school. I am a student, but not
> > formally.
> > > Basically, I am a
> > > long-time autodidactic student of the history,
> > philosophy
> > > and politics of
> > > communism. I am especially partial to books
> written
> > from
> > > the communist point of
> > > view, especially the Trotskyist and Cuban
> points of
> > view.
> > > Books from a non
> > > communist point of view are okay as long as they
> are
> > > objective, but I find most
> > > of those books are basically anti-communist
> slander.
> > Right
> > > now I am trying to
> > > learn as much as I can about James P. Cannon,
> the
> > founder
> > > of American
> > > Trotskyism. So, yes, I am a student, but the
> only
> > school I
> > > attend is the one
> > > administered and taught by myself for myself.
> In a
> > message
> > > dated 8/9/2008 5:35:41
> > > P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
> popularplace@xxxxxxxxx
> > writes:
> > >
> > > Roger,
> > >
> > > I've added James P. Cannon and the Origins
> of the
> > > American Revolutionary
> > > Left, 1890-1928to the Wish List. Is it for
> school or
> > for
> > > your pleasure. If
> > > the former, we can ask Carrie to get it with
> the
> > grant
> > > money and it probably
> > > will get into the collection faster.
> > >
> > > Cindy
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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