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beercanman
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Bondrock wrote: |
Dave's ESL Korea Forums
I don't post much. But I check this site out regularly.
Online Chess: play daily
Online Scrabble: ditto |
Sort of the same here, but I post too much, don't play chess, but am often on yahoo playing word games. |
Do you play word racer? |
Yep, and a bit of "literati" now and then. |
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tzechuk
Joined: 20 Dec 2004
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:03 pm Post subject: |
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| I used to play literati all the time - I was even in a league and was one of the .. uh.. what do you call it people.. you know, the people who can administer league games? |
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Sector7G
Joined: 24 May 2008
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:22 pm Post subject: |
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Coffee. I drink at least two cups a day, sometimes three. I even have my own espresso machine, and it's like having bliss on tap.
There are worse addictions though, so whatever. Still, whenever I've made a point of going a day or two without it, I get pounding headaches. |
Me too. What's the reason for that? Anyone know? |
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flakfizer
Joined: 12 Nov 2004
Location: scaling the Cliffs of Insanity with a frayed rope.
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:28 pm Post subject: |
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| beercanman wrote: |
| flakfizer wrote: |
| beercanman wrote: |
| Bondrock wrote: |
Dave's ESL Korea Forums
I don't post much. But I check this site out regularly.
Online Chess: play daily
Online Scrabble: ditto |
Sort of the same here, but I post too much, don't play chess, but am often on yahoo playing word games. |
Do you play word racer? |
Yep, and a bit of "literati" now and then. |
I love Word Racer. I always play at 5's tables. |
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Underwaterbob
Joined: 08 Jan 2005
Location: In Cognito
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| Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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| cdninkorea wrote: |
Coffee. I drink at least two cups a day, sometimes three. I even have my own espresso machine, and it's like having bliss on tap.
There are worse addictions though, so whatever. Still, whenever I've made a point of going a day or two without it, I get pounding headaches. |
Me too. What's the reason for that? Anyone know? |
Withdraw symptoms. Caffeine is an addictive drug.
I had some physics profs in University that drank coffee all day long, never without a thermos in their hands. One tried to quit and within a day he had a massive, pounding headache. |
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beercanman
Joined: 16 May 2009
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 4:59 pm Post subject: |
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| flakfizer wrote: |
| beercanman wrote: |
| flakfizer wrote: |
| beercanman wrote: |
| Bondrock wrote: |
Dave's ESL Korea Forums
I don't post much. But I check this site out regularly.
Online Chess: play daily
Online Scrabble: ditto |
Sort of the same here, but I post too much, don't play chess, but am often on yahoo playing word games. |
Do you play word racer? |
Yep, and a bit of "literati" now and then. |
I love Word Racer. I always play at 5's tables. |
Yeah I often play those; usually just try for bigger words, hate all the fuss over short ones. But can never get in the 2000s. |
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young_clinton
Joined: 09 Sep 2009
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I have a serious coffee addiction. I used to drink 5 cups a day. Everytime I went to Seoul, a grande coffee sometimes more. I am now down to 2 cups a day.
I also binge smoke, 5 cigarettes a day, 2 to 3 at a time. |
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PatrickBateman
Joined: 08 Jun 2009
Location: American Gardens Building, West 81st Street
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:10 pm Post subject: |
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| Mt. Dew |
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ThingsComeAround
Joined: 07 Nov 2008
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:29 pm Post subject: |
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| im addicted to silly or violent movies a la Naked Gun, Apocalypse Nowet al |
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tfunk
Joined: 12 Aug 2006
Location: Dublin, Ireland
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| Posted: Tue Sep 29, 2009 10:34 pm Post subject: |
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| I used to be addicted to Prince. I'm trying to cut down now, I only listen to 10 songs a day. |
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chonga
Joined: 15 Mar 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:10 am Post subject: |
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Wrist watches.
I used to buy expensive Swiss automatics but sold that collection off and now am hooked on Casio G-Shocks
That and coffee as well. But just one cup per day. |
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Gibberish
Joined: 29 Aug 2009
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 3:03 pm Post subject: |
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Sex
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typo
Joined: 16 Jun 2009
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| Goku wrote: |
Reading,
It helps my mind get off stress and things that bother me.
I've read 7 books in the last week. But here's the thing. I don't read a book a day. I read 3-4 in 1 day. I don't read on the train either.
I go to a bookstore, sit down for 8 hours and just do a marathon of reading. I ALWAYS take huge breaks, smoking and going to the bathroom. But when I read, I read a page in 30 seconds or less.
I've achieved speed reading. Its good and bad. I burn through books like candy, so I pay so much in buying them. |
honest question: how's your memory of read books?
snarky question: how's your comprehension of said books?  |
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Goku
Joined: 10 Dec 2008
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 5:34 pm Post subject: |
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Reading,
It helps my mind get off stress and things that bother me.
I've read 7 books in the last week. But here's the thing. I don't read a book a day. I read 3-4 in 1 day. I don't read on the train either.
I go to a bookstore, sit down for 8 hours and just do a marathon of reading. I ALWAYS take huge breaks, smoking and going to the bathroom. But when I read, I read a page in 30 seconds or less.
I've achieved speed reading. Its good and bad. I burn through books like candy, so I pay so much in buying them. |
honest question: how's your memory of read books?
snarky question: how's your comprehension of said books? |
Depends on the book.
Speed reading greatly increases comprehension for "light and predictable" material. Such as a novel or a relatively unchallenging book like a self help book.
However, for books that have complex jargon or too many intertwining ideas and premises it can lead to confusion.
However, almost 95% of the books we read are the former. so comprehension is much better. The reason speed reading helps with comprehension and memory of the books is because we are able to predict and read ahead of just normal verbal syntax. Visual imagery is much stronger and therefore understanding and recollection increases.
I highly recommend speed reading to anyone because it really opens worlds but it can be difficult to grasp a hold of. Especially because speed reading requires peripheral training and unlearning our old methods of reading.
I sped read in middle school and lost it sometime before college. When I was in college it took me 4 months to retrain it. It's a skill that takes a long time to pick up, but is also easy to lose. |
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JMO
Joined: 18 Jul 2006
Location: Daegu
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| Posted: Wed Sep 30, 2009 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Coffee and yoghurt. |
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