I am under the impression that the purpose of voting is to reward interesting contributions to the discussion, whether or not you agree with what has been stated.

EDIT: To respond to the issue of the arguable merits of my post — I made my post because the majority of comments here are describing preparatory activities performed on one's computer. I wanted to give some of my non-computer related warmups, since they can also apply to projects that aren't necessarily software-oriented.