I went to school to enroll today, but when I saw my grades, I was so surprised to see that one of them says INCOMPLETE. It’s for my 3D Modeling class. I immediately looked for my professor and I explained to him the situation. He said that, his computer wasn’t able to read the CD I submitted. He instructed me to send it to him through email and submit a completion form on Monday. Without his subject grade, I believe I did pretty well. My general average is within the 92%-94% bracket. *Gives myself a pat on the back* Good job, Dre!”
Anyway, Lexie pointed me to a website that aims to stop world hunger by playing a simple game. All you have to do is pick the answer that best describes the word. You donate 10 grains of rice per correct answer. If you chose the wrong answer, they will give you an easy word to define next, if you get the word correctly, you will be given a difficult word to define next. Free Rice is the sister site of Poverty.com. Free Rice has two goals:
- Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free.
- Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free.
Isn’t that a great idea? They have lots of big sponsors to help UN distribute the sacks of rice that all of us contribute, just by playing a simple vocabulary game. We improve our vocabulary skills, we feed the hungry. Everybody wins, right? So why not spend some of your internet time saving the world? It feels really rewarding.
Has anyone heard about the Google Pagerank issue? I thought my website wasn’t affected by it, but when I checked my PR at PPP, from PR4 my blog dropped to PR3. That kinda sucks, I haven’t checked if it affected my blog traffic, but then, as long as my beloved readers still read my posts and comments, then I’m good.
I tried to do some pixel drawing, and I came up with 3 different ones that I seem a bit satisfied to show, so check them out.
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I hope that your professor is able to get the information that he is needing so that you can get the “incomplete” changed to the grade that you deserve.
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I think your grades are really, really good. Glad that your professor is fair and lets you submit the completion form now.
Ooo. That sounds really great. I shall go and play the game later. I agree it’s pretty rewarding.
I have been to free rice before. But I don’t feel like the rice would actually be given to the people. How do you know that it does? It just seems way too easy to me.
You just have to have good faith in people, I guess. I mean, they don’t ask us to pay anything while playing, right?
Ah, the Google PR issue. Mine dropped from 5 to 3. Do you have rel=nofollow deactivated in WordPress? If you don’t, it would be a good idea to use a plugin like doFollow, or hack into your installation to fix that.
But at the end of the day, a PR is just a PR. Besides, I hear it’s easily manipulated, as much as Alexa ranks are.
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Your layout is very original, I like it.
And yay for good grades :D
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nice congrats dre, ang ganda ng performance mo sa school. ganda nung bear na pixel.
ei nga pla baka this week ko palang maback up ung mga files ko, may work kasi ako. thanks!
Congratulations on the awesome grades Dre. I think that was rather lame of the professor though to not at least email you and let you know that the disc wasn’t working. But hey, at least he’s giving you a chance to get it to him. He could have been a real arse and said: “too bad, so sad”. =/
I dropped in PR too, from 3 to 2 on my blog and from 4 to 2 on my domain. ;_; Strangely enough, I haven’t seen a drop in search results, a good portion are surfers are coming in from google, and on top of that, my rss subscribers numbers are rising and my traffic is higher than ever. It makes me wonder if google isn’t instead trying to devalue blogs themselves.
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Gah, stupid pageranks – I’ve gone down from a 4 and 5 on my blogs to double 3s – it’s the paid links, Google’s hitting us all hard with new PR criteria. Pew.
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Congrats on the grades.
Yeah, I heard about that Free Rice game. It’s a pretty good idea. Kind of makes you wonder why don’t just give this “free rice” away though.
My PR is 3 too… I don’t really know how much PageRanks matters anyway.
oh wow. it’s been awhile since i saw a 92% on my grade card. haha. sad. i enjoyed that FREE RICE website. it’s great, really. i love it how people come up with these ideas. ang saya. =]
i hope you’re joining wpf’s eb (maybe a feeding program) on december, dre. :) by the way, you got tagged. click here.
buti ka nga dre 1 point lang sakin from 4 to 2 hehehe pero ok lang yun… just like you said if my readers still read my post then I’m good too :)
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