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Chore Wars? http://www.chorewars.com/
Worked for a while in my family—the kids were arguing over who got to clean the toilet for the XP bonus :-)
For YouTube, try right clicking, choose ‘Settings...’ and uncheck ‘Enable hardware acceleration’. Any change?
Does it do this regardless of the software playing the video e.g. YouTube and VLC or WMP or XMBC or whatever you use to play your videos?
Advice for a similar problem is here
Have they checked for rheumatoid arthritis (and not just with a blood test, it doesn’t always show)? It took many doctors vists for them to get the correct diagnosis for my wife (despite a history of it in her family).
Donated $50 (on top of my automated monthly donation).
It is the sterotypical thing to talk about, but the point is not the actual weather. It is signal that they would rather be talking to you than be silent. It’s an invitation to start a conversation, since people don’t routinely come up to you and say ‘I would like to being a conversation with you—please suggest a topic’. They say ‘Raining again!’ instead.
Please don’t destroy the world. I’m still using it.
Fair enough. I have updated my estimate of the size of the d) population.
My eldest daughter is eight, and I haven’t taught her to code yet. I’m such a bad parent :-)
We’ll do “Hello World!” tonight after school!
Freecycle exists specifically to assist in giving things away.
‘Chore Wars’ (http://www.chorewars.com/) is designed to motivate you do get chores done by providing XP / Gold / Treasure for completing chores, and tracking it to induce competition amongst your housemates.
It works for me as a more interesting to-do list, and has caused my kids to argue about who gets to clean the toilet and level up.
Is Rain’s quote the most upvoted entry of all time? Its currently at +62.
Excellent! My kids get this version:
Twinkle Twinkle little star,
We all know just what you are,
You’re a sun that’s far away,
Far too faint to see by dayTwinkle Twinkle little star,
We all know just what you are
There are people who try to raise their kids to be advertising-proof, but I haven’t heard anything about the long term effects.
I make an effort to do this with my kids. It will be interesting to see how it effects things as they get older.
I scored 36 on the test, which was way higher than I was expecting. I think I can do a pretty decent impression of a normally social person. Perhaps my responses are skewed by my having programmed for the last 7 hours. Maybe I should take the test again after spending a couple of hours interacting with my wife and kids.
I’ve been trying to do this since November for a close family member. So far the reaction has been fairly positive, but she has still not decided to go for it.
I have a recent example—discussing cryonics with my father-in-law. He supported my choice to do it, but is convinced that when I reach his age I will feel differently about it.
Personally, I would have thought that adding on another 25 years of precious experience and accumulated physical damage would make me more likely to want to preserve/fix myself.
Survey done!