Tuesday, November 20, 2007

The new Einstein!!!


Yes we all know Einstein as the genius with the weird hair-do.
But a new Einstein has risen and proved to be a superstar! No, the new Einstein isn't a guy with a wacky do. The new Einstein isn't human, in fact, she a girl!
Einstein is an african grey parrot.
African grey parrots are one of the smartest parrots in the world. There are heaps of other famous African Greys, but Einstein would be the most remarkable! To see Einstein during one of her shows, go to this site:
\http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBJmIhT3mgY

Monday, November 12, 2007

Gymstrada 4ever!!!!!!!!


As some of you may have heard, Maniac me, Miss Candy, Spud, Kittykat and I have started a gymstrada rouine. We will be representing Peachgrove at the Waikato Inter-Intermediate Gymnastics competition next year.
What is Gymstrada? Well it is a kinda gym-dance thingy performed by a group of gymnast with background music. It is a challenging and fun sport in which teamwork, timing and synchronized-gym/dancing is the key.

The video I reccomend you to watch is a video about rhythmic gymnastics. The people in the video have probably trained for so many hours each day to be that good!!!
Gymstrada people:
We don't have to do everything you see in the video, but we should watch the parts in the middle where they show you groups doing rhythmic together. This could make us even better and we could win the competition again like we have for 3 or so years!

The Video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Viu7U8_IhD4

Friday, November 2, 2007

Some long words!!!

I've put up some long words on my blog before, but this post is much better and tells you the definition to the word too!!!

The longest English word is acually too long too put up, but you can view it at my new blog (beware it has 189,819 letters!):


This next word is also one of the longest english words:

acetylseryltyrosylserylisoleucylthreonylserylprolylserylglutaminyl-
phenylalanylvalylphenylalanylleucylserylserylvalyltryptophylalanyl-
aspartylprolylisoleucylglutamylleucylleucylasparaginylvalylcysteinyl-
threonylserylserylleucylglycylasparaginylglutaminylphenylalanyl-
glutaminylthreonylglutaminylglutaminylalanylarginylthreonylthreonyl-
glutaminylvalylglutaminylglutaminylphenylalanylserylglutaminylvalyl-
tryptophyllysylprolylphenylalanylprolylglutaminylserylthreonylvalyl-
arginylphenylalanylprolylglycylaspartylvalyltyrosyllysylvalyltyrosyl-
arginyltyrosylasparaginylalanylvalylleucylaspartylprolylleucylisoleucyl-
threonylalanylleucylleucylglycylthreonylphenylalanylaspartylthreonyl-
arginylasparaginylarginylisoleucylisoleucylglutamylvalylglutamyl-
asparaginylglutaminylglutaminylserylprolylthreonylthreonylalanylglutamyl-
threonylleucylaspartylalanylthreonylarginylarginylvalylaspartylaspartyl-
alanylthreonylvalylalanylisoleucylarginylserylalanylasparaginylisoleucyl-
asparaginylleucylvalylasparaginylglutamylleucylvalylarginylglycyl-
threonylglycylleucyltyrosylasparaginylglutaminylasparaginylthreonyl-
phenylalanylglutamylserylmethionylserylglycylleucylvalyltryptophyl-
threonylserylalanylprolylalanylserine:

Yes, it is loooooonnnnnnngggggg. About as long as a paragraph, possibly.
This 1185-letter word is the third name for "Coat protein, Tobacco Mosaic Virus,
Dahlamense Strain". It uses the letter combination yl 166 times!

Here are some other long words:

Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilphio -
paraomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralektryon -
optekephalliokinklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon:

This word is 183 letters long. It is a fiction name for a greek dish.
The original Greek spelling had 171 letters.
The dish was a fricassee, with 17 sweet and sour ingredients,
including brains, honey, vinegar, fish, pickles, and the following:
*Fish slices
*Fish of the Elasmobranchii subclass (a shark or ray)
*Rotted dogfish or small shark's head
generally sharp-tasting dish of several ingredients grated and pounded
together
*Silphion "laserwort," apparently a kind of giant fennel
*A kind of crab, beetle, or crayfish
*Eagle
*Cheese
*Honey poured down
*Wrasse (or thrush)
*On top of a kind of sea fish or Blackbird
*Wood pigeon
*Domestic pigeon
*Chicken
*Roasted head of dabchick
*Hare, which could be a kind of bird or a kind of sea-hare
*New wine boiled down
*Dessert fruit or thing eaten raw
*Wing, fin

Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis:

A 45 letter word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust found in volcanoes.'

Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism:

This 30 letter word is and inherited disorder that closely simulates the symptoms, but not the consequences of pseudohypoparathyroidism (a completely different word).

Floccinaucinihilipilification:

this 29 letter word means "the act or habit of estimating or describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation".