Homework Post Book Review Part 1

Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone by J.K.Rowling is a good book. The reason I say this is because I am very picky about books and I dont like more then about %80 I read, and this book I seem to enjoy. 

It starts of with Harry living with Mr and Mrs Dursley becuase Harrys parents died in a car crash. The Dursleys weren't overly very nice to Harry, when it was his birthday they would give him there sons Dudley old clothes or something not very nice like that. Once day Harry got a letter. Harry had never gotten a letter in his life. But Mr Dursley didn't let Harry read. A while later Harry got another letter. Mr Dursleys snatched it from him again before Harry could read it.Once Harry and the Dursleys moved to a shack around midnight there was a knock on the door. Hagrid knocking the door smashing the door right of its hinges. Little while later Harry got told he was a wizard by Hagrid. Later he got on a train to Hogwarts and there he started to go to school at Hogwarts to learn his very first spells and magic.

I love this book because it was very well described plot that I could understand pretty well. I also have never seen any Harry Potter movie but a little bit of one of the later in the series movie. So its a surprise to me. I like all the stuff about mopr=agic I think its quite cool. I have only read 1/3 of the book and I think this book will get really exciting and It will be awesome. I would really recommend this book to get out it is very good. 

Complete a 10x10 grid in under 2 minutes.

On Saturday I started to do the 10x10 grid. First I got my dad to draw me a random 10x10 grid, then I went onto this website with a stopwatch. My Dad timed me on my laptop. The first time I got 2 minutes and seven second. When I got this I instantly tried again to get under 2 minutes. After a while I completed the grid and got two minutes and 12 seconds. I don't know why I got worse but I tried on Sunday. On Sunday I tried the challenge again to see if I could do it this time. My Dad drew me up a grid and started the stopwatch, completing it at two minutes and 1 second which was really close and knew I could do it the next time I tried. So I tried again, Started the stopwatch and I started. Completing it in one minute and fifty seven seconds. Surprisingly I thought I would ace it first go but maybe I over estimated or just jinxed myself

Blog Post 1/7/13 Bad Product or Service

A bad product that I bought was Black Ops 2. After watching the trailer I thought it was gonna be really cool and so I bought it. After I bought I played It straight away. From going to non prestige to 1st, and to 2nd. After that it wasn't really a good game, I didn't like it but played it after I got bored. There are so good points in the game but mostly bad points, some of the good points is that there is to many op guns in the game and stuff like that. Till today I am only 5th prestige and not really gonna move from that level. If I knew it was gonna be the way it was I would have returned it so I could buy a better game which probably would have been something like battlefield 3.

After watching the trailer I thought for sure it would be a good game but obviously I made a mistake.

Science Fair Summary Spray on Toothpaste

Connor and I are doing science fair on spray on toothpaste. We wanted to create a spray toothpaste as hinted in the name. We created the spray on toothpaste because it would be easier to get all the toothpaste out of the tube because there is always some in the bottom. We created the the name of the spray on toothpaste which is Oral Fresh. The can is decorated can with the prices on the side of it, which is  $8.00 for a new one and $5.00 for a refill.

reCAPTCHA

reCAPTCHA is a site that turns old books, Newspapers and old time radio shows and digitizes them. CAPTCHA is a program to tell wether its human or computer. It is used to prevent bots spamming or automated programs usually written to make spam. There is no computer that can read distorted text, so if sites are protected by CAPTCHA then bots cant spam. Around about 200 million CAPTCHAS are being figured out by humans a day.

I have used these many times and get really annoyed by them but now I know that it helps turn olds books newspapers and old time radio shows it doesnt really annoy me.

Cross Country Race

Yesterday on 25th of June 2013 the school did the Cross country. The first group to go was the year 7 girls. In the year 7 girls race a girl from Rimu won, she got 10:30. Then the year 7 boys went. There wasn't on winners from Rimu year 7 boys. When the year 8 girls went but I didn't see there race but there were no winners from Rimu in the year 8 girls race. When we were going there was the sound of the gun and everyone started to run. Around about 10 boys got pushed over, after one got pushed over many more got fell over the ones who were pushed over.

After a while the race was over and I came 183rd. I didnt do as good as I did last year unfortunately.

A5:research rimu-Where do you find it? Why is it important to maori? What uses does it have?Why is Rimu the best tree in the school?

Rimu Tree

The Rimu tree also know as Dacrydium Cupressinum is a big evergreen tree located in the forests of New Zealand. The Rimu Tree is found throughout North Island, South Island and Steward Island. The largest trees are now found at the west coast region which reaches from Kahurangi point and the Awarua Point of the South Island, but the biggest trees are found in Mixed Podocarp Forest near to Taupo. 

Rimu Trees are a large tree growing up to 800-900 years. Its trunk of a Rimu Tree normally is 1.5m in diameter, but it may be larger or very tall. Rimu and other trees such as Totara, Kauri and Matai were the sources of wood New Zealand for constructions such as buildings and furniture. You might find it hard to believe but the inner bark can also be used to treat burns and cuts.

I think that Rimu is the best house in the school because we get the write and do our work on laptops and I think that is really cool because writing in a book is really boring. Also Rimu is really cool because we have nice people in our house.

Game Explanation Blogpost 21/6/13

Heroes of Newerth 

Heroes of Newerth aslo know as HoN is a 5v5 multiplayer online game with a hero pool of 95. 

                                                     HoN is alike LoL and Dota.

 .In HoN there are 3 lanes, Bot Lane, Top lane And Mid lane. Two players will go down bot or top. And 1 person will go down Mid. Mid will be the one who will get the most experience in your team. In your team you need a Intelligence, Strength and Agility. Agility is your carry, Your carry will help you win the game during the late stage of the game. Strength is your tank/Initiator. Intelligence is your support. Support is the person who will ward and help you win the game when placing wards around the map making it easier to pick of enemy heroes to earn gold and experience. From about 1-10 minutes this will be farming phase. This is were you want your carry to farm creeps so they can get more items so they will be good late game when it comes if your team cant win. 

20/6/13

My Mums job is working at the gas station and housework. She normally works for approximately  2 hours longer then a schoolday. She will wake up at 7:00 and take us to school at 8:00. After Mum drops Caitlyn and I of at school she will sometimes go to BB'S Cafe and get coffee for all the workers. Sometimes she will go back into the house and do housework of will stay at work. At 3:00 she will come pick Caitlyn and I up and after she picks us up she will go back to work. At approximately 4:00-5:00 Mum will start to cook us dinner depending on what she cooks if it takes a long time or not. Occasionally she will cook something for the workers like scone or muffins during the day. 

19/06/13 Dialogue

Dialogue With Family

As im walking to the fridge.

"Matt dont drink the Ribena" Said Caitlyn.

I replied "Why its not just all yours, its 1.5L"

"Yes it is" As she yells across the house.

"Well, im drinking some" I replied.

"NOOO" Caitlyn comes sprint across the house.

"Dont drink the Ribena, drink this its this raspberry drink and its got like 5% vodka or something, I'd rather you drink this then the Ribena" Caitlyn said.

"Fine, But if this drink isn't good im gonna drink the Ribena" I replied.

I drink the drink and it was quite nice. 

"Just dont drink my Ribena" Caitlyn said. "Its mine"

The END?

                                      

18/6/13

The Story of Steve

Once there was a person named Steve, he was in this mysterious blocked world. Steve had no idea what was going on, Why everything was blocked and even himself was blocked. Steve decided he was going to have to survive in the mysterious world so he had to get some tools and some food to survive the night. Steve starting to cut down trees to get some wood so he could make some basic tools. Steve had to make a sword so he could kill some animals to get some food. Once steve had made some tools he went out to find some animals to kill. Steve stopped thinking he had heard something, and steve had. There was a quite chicken noise in the back round. Steve made his way to the sound of the chicken. Steve saw the chicken within a couple of meters. Steve creeped up as slow as he could, until Steve was just behind it and toke a huge slash at the chicken killing it in one shot. The next thing Steve had to do was build a shelter/house. Steve went back to chopping down trees so he could build a house for the night. As night started to fall Steve got worried. Steve had no source of light, nothing. Steve started to make a 4x4 house as quick as he could because night was only seconds away. Steve managed to make a make do house for the night. Steve was safe for now. Steve woke up with with a huge yawn. Steve broke one of the blocks outside to be sure it was morning, and it was. Steve made his way outside at glad he survived.

My Weekend 17/6/13

My Weekend

In the weekend I talked to some friends on Skype and I played some games. One of the games I played is wasted on Minecraft. Wasted is a Minecraft version of Wasteland. In wasted there is different citys and different citys have shops. There are only 5 citys with shops and they are normally taken over by really good people. In wasted there are different types of guns. My personal favourite would be the AA-12 or the PkP. You can get jetpacks which are really rare but since me and Zane are beast we get them all the time. There is also kevlar which is armor that you can get so you are more protected from bullets and can survive longer. In wasted there are drop zone's, they can drop guns and jetpacks and really good guns and rocket launchers and grenade launchers. The shopkeeper is PauseUnpause and he is a you tuber which is really cool .I love wasted it is a very good game. I played it with Zane, Daniel, Connor, Taylor and Ryan.H. On the weekend I got my highest kill streak which was 92. After that I didn't do much, I watched this movie that my sister was watching. The movie was Dragon Ball Z. On Sunday I played a bit more wasted again with Zane, Ryan.H and some with Daniel.

14/6/13

Mumbo Jumbo:

Nonsense or Meaningless speech.

Mumbo Jumbo Means no sense, Confusing, meaningless. His story was a whole lot of mumbo jumbo.In the 18th century mumbo jumbo was know as West African God. Mumbo jumbo basically means that you nonsense or meaningless speech or text. My Mum and Dad always use you're dreaming joanse when I ask for something expensive.

13/6/13

"When I say look at the birds ditch to the canteen" Zane said.
"Hey look at the patch of birdies in the sky" Said Zane as we ditched to canteen.
Zane and I laughed while we ran. 
"Look behind us" Zane said.
As I looked behind, everyone was following us. 
 They caught up and we all got at least something.
"Look at the patch of birdies, really Zane" Connor.S said.
"Noooo" Zane said,  looked at Connor with a smile.
" WEOW!" Connor replied.

Charging Laptops at school

• What are the negatives of charging laptops at school? Charging laptops at school will cost the school unnecessary money because people can charge their laptop at home so they dont have to charge there computer at school. 

• What are 2 of the suggestions for solving the problem?

         People can turn down there brightness and turn of there wi-fi to save power and see if that lasts.

The people who use a charger at school should pay at least ¢20 every time the use it at school and have a little punishment like doing a few extra minutes working during lunch time.

• What is your opinion about rimu students charging their laptops at school. Give reasons.

I dont think rimu students should be able to charge their laptops because it will cost the schol money.

My Weekend

In the weekend I was so excited to see my cousin Jak Hobbs, He come to my house and we played a lot of games. On Saturday in the morning we play some Bo2. We played that for 3 hours and then we watched some youtube videos after that. After about 2-3 hours we went back a played some more Bo2 and FtB.  For the rest of the day we didn't do much until night we we talked to 12:00. On sunday we went out for breakfast at BB's. When we got home we were gonna watch Human Centipede 1 and 2 but we got psytracted and played some more games.

I wonder how life is when you die

When you die it really depends on your religions and what your believes are. Christens believe  you will go to hell or heaven, Hindu and buddism say you relive karma when you die so you can learn lifetime was about and get ready to make a new one. I dont believe any of these religions myself so I am Atheist

6/5/13

Q. Why dont we get dizzy when the earth is spinning

In our ears there is a sense of balance fluid called equilibrioception. When you spin in a circle and then stop, inertier keeps fluid in your ears spinning. When the earth is spinning the fluid in our ears is spinning as fast as our bodies.

I Wonder Why

I wonder why we dont get dizzy when the world spins round.

I wonder if a deaf person swears or rages.

I wonder how life is when you die. 

Technology Challenge

On Friday Cole, Milly, Jessica and Britney went to the Technology Challenge in the gym. The first challenge we did was a challenge when you had to make a structure that can hold up a marble 5cm of the ground. We built a rectangle going up in the air with the marble hanging down the middle. The second challenge was you had to make a structure out of a 2 bags, 3 A4's, cardboard paper. You had to make a structure that can keep a egg safe dropping it from a max of 3m. The next challenge was you had to make a structure that could pull a chisel and a hammer that is 2.5m away from you. You had 1 newspaper, String, Plastic bag. We only managed to get the hammer because it wasn't strong enough. The Technology Challenge was fun but I think there is stuff we could have done better.