While I admire your courage, and your well thought out net blogs that sound like they were fucking written by Shakespeare, I really think it’s interesting that you wouldn’t be looking for a job instead.

So what if you have a fucking Master’s Degree from Harvard and *want* to make 150k a year. Your Master’s Degree and your college loans aren’t a ticket to sit on your ass because you feel you deserve a high paying job to pay off your debt. You have to hustle to get anywhere. Stop Protesting about people who have more money than you and control shit. You just wish you could.

Some of us just want a world devoid of all these dipshit economical policies and programs anyways. A world where people help one another out because there’s a stronger sense of community instead of a “better public health program”. Your “additions” to a once-working government are what fucked it up to begin with…. A world where the guy who works at McDonalds is treated the same as the kid who works at IBM. Social division itself should be your focus. I’d rather live in a world where people wave to one another more often than have some new waste of tax-dollar “solution”. Everyone wants to be better than everyone else which just makes everything worse for everyone else.

The same people you’re attacking have jobs, and they have someone sticking their hand up their ass just like anyone else, telling them what to do, and they do it or their job is toast. Besides, if someone needs $40 million to feel any sense of self worth, they suck anyways. If crazy old rich guys like to hide in the dark and play puppet master, you don’t have a right to stop them. They got there. You didn’t. I am sure they know a bit more about the inner workings and who’s to blame than people outside of the special inner-circle, and magically noone seems to bitch or moan when they donate millions to public/community programs. I Guarantee you if they came out of their offices, sat down with you, and gave you money “to show they had no attachment to money” (or as I see it, paid you off), you’d happily leave your protest stations feeling you learned an important lesson about the “wall street fat-cats”, and you’d keep telling yourself that life is like a Disney movie, while in reality they just paid to get rid of you.

The payoff will come. It will be some fucking horribly stupid new program that creates a new tax, and also probably be marginalized based on income. We who are just trying to live day-to-day and ignore all this horribly stupid bullshit will just chip-in because we have no choice.

The ultimate point is this. These people own large aspects of the media. They also can very easily control they direction of the media. A perfect example of this is how Ron Paul once magically disappeared into a puff of smoke before all of our eyes. Don’t know who Ron Paul is? No shit.

How do you know who is running in an election? The TV. Control who is popular or spoken about on TV, control the sway of the people. Create a Wall-Street-Stir and say “it’s growing” (fuel the fire), and the people will flock simply because many people have no place to go anyways. So when you hear “facts” from the media regarding corruption and crime on Wall Street, use your fucking brain.

This is manufactured, and once you protest enough a new bullshit policy will come into place, and it will just so happen this new policy will create a wonderfully new program that’s *seemingly* beneficial for all….. it will pull money that creates a predictable change in the market…. so predictable that certain people can cash-in on it.

So when your “Occupy Wall Street” movement makes them a little bit richer, just remember that you may have been better off just walking around pissed off. You want change? You want “the elite” to fall? Go attack the Royal Family then? Grow up.

We all want a world where everything works out peachy-keen, everyone has health care and muslims and jews hold hands and sing fucking koombiyah, but reality is a cold bitch. Go home. Be happy our government has welfare, food-stamps, unemployment, SSI, and for employment there’s companies like labor-ready, express-personnel, and a few more …not to mention tons of other programs designed for us to live with.

While browsing the internet, the best tutorial I found on using Jquery with JSON Requests was here – http://jhoyimperial.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/parsing-json-data-from-php-using-jquery/. It’s simple, straight forward, and shows a nice working example. In short, JSON allows you to return an array of data from your PHP request, so that you can update multiple elements at once.

I wanted to have the Javascript functions reside in the PHP, and use PHP to handle my Javascript functions. Then it would all reside in the request file. With this method of requesting (2 requests), everything is held on the PHP end, and I use the Javascript eval() function to run the returned string as a function to execute code. This way you don’t have a Javascript file that is 320k and ugly as hell. Instead, with a bit of work, you can have a nicely laid out PHP file with each Javascript function set into it’s own “case:” instance….. muy bien.

On to the code!

This file makes up the HTML page that will be making the request.
Pre-requisites – Jquery.
Note: This method is HIGHLY un-secure, but very interesting technology. The current pitfalls are that single quotes ‘, and/or double quotes “, will break the process due to improper escaping. Definitely a challenge.

UPDATE: 9/17/2011, both requests now using the $_GET method to simplify the php side.
UPDATE: 9/17/2011, now you can accomplish both ajax->ajax requests, and also ajax->json requests (called by either “a->a”, or “a->j”. I also log the time execution of both. Both methods allow for you to keep your javascript functions php side.

<html>
  <head>
  <title>Using an Ajax Request to pass javascript functions to JSON </title>
  <script src="../jquery-1.6.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
  </head>
  <body>

  <form name="user" id="user">
  First Name:<br>
  <input name="firstname" value="John"><br>
  Last Name:<br>
  <input name="lastname" value="Doe"><br>
  Email Address:<br>
  <input name="email" value="john@lorem.com"><br>
  City:<br>
  <input name="city" value="Ipsum"><br>
  </form>

  <p><a href="#" id="loaduserdata-ajax-to-json">User Data via Ajax -> JSON</a></p>
  <p><a href="#" id="loaduserdata-ajax-to-ajax">User Data via Ajax -> Ajax</a></p>

  <table id="userdata" border="1">
  <thead>
  <th width="100px">Method</th>
  <th width="100px">Time</th>
  <th>First Name</th>
  <th>Last Name</th>
  <th>Email Address</th>
  <th>City</th>
  </thead>
  <tbody></tbody>
  </table>

  <script>
  $(document).ready(

function () {
  $("#loaduserdata-ajax-to-json").click(function () {
  ajaxReq('a->j', 'getUsers',  $('#user').serialize());
  })
  $("#loaduserdata-ajax-to-ajax").click(function () {
  ajaxReq('a->a', 'getUsers', $('#user').serialize());
  })
  });

function jsonReq(method, request, dataIn, reqData) {

 switch (method) {
  case 'a->a':
  case '->a':
  mode = $.get;
  break;

 case 'a->j':
  case '->j':
  mode = $.getJSON;
  break;

 }


 

 mode('json-request.php', {
  request: request,
  method: method,
  dataIn: dataIn,
  reqData: reqData
  }, function (data) {
  switch (method) {
  case 'a->a':
  case '->a':
  format = dataIn = data;
  break;

 case 'a->a':
  case '->a':
  format = dataIn = dataIn;
  break;
  }
  eval(dataIn);
  });

}


function ajaxReq(method, request, reqData) {

 $.get('json-request.php', {
  request: request,
  method: method,
  reqData: reqData
  }, function (data) {

 switch (method) {
  case 'a->a':
  jsonReq('->a', request, data, reqData);
  break;

 case 'a->j':
  jsonReq('->j', request, data, reqData);
  break;
  }

 });
  }

 </script>
  </body>
  </html>

Here’s the PHP file (name it json-request.php) , we’ll be making all of our requests to.

<?php

switch ($_GET['request'])
  {


 //**** START GETUSERS FUNCTION ****//
  case 'getUsers':
  switch ($_GET['method'])
  {

  //** BEGIN AJAX->JSON REQUESTS **//
  case '->j':
  $reqData = parse_str($_GET['reqData']);
  $data = '{
  "userdata": [
  {
  "firstname":"'.$firstname.'",
  "lastname":"'.$lastname.'",
  "email":"'.$email.'",
  "city":"'.$city.'"
  }
  ]
  }';
  echo $data;
  break;

 case 'a->j':
  $data = '$.each(data.userdata, function(i,user){
  var tblRow =
  "<tr style=\"background:#fff;color:#000;\">"
  +"<td>'.$_GET['method'].'</td>"
  +"<td>'.microtime().'</td>"
  +"<td>"+user.firstname+"</td>"
  +"<td>"+user.lastname+"</td>"
  +"<td>"+user.email+"</td>"
  +"<td>"+user.city+"</td>"
  +"</tr>"
  $(tblRow).appendTo("#userdata tbody");});';
  echo $data;
  break;
  //** END AJAX->JSON REQUESTS **//

  //** BEGIN AJAX->AJAX REQUESTS **//
  case 'a->a':
  $reqData = parse_str($_GET['reqData']);
  $data .= '<tr style="background:#000;color:#fff;">';
  $data .= '<td>'.$_GET['method'].'</td>';
  $data .= '<td>'.microtime().'</td>';
  $data .= '<td>'.$firstname.'</td>';
  $data .= '<td>'.$lastname.'</td>';
  $data .= '<td>'.$email.'</td>';
  $data .= '<td>'.$city.'</td>';
  $data .= '</tr>';
  echo addslashes($data);
  break;

  case '->a':
  $data = '$("'.$_GET['dataIn'].'").appendTo("#userdata tbody");';
  echo $data;
  break;
  //** END AJAX->AJAX REQUEST **//

  }
  break;
  //**** END GETUSERS FUNCTION ****//

  }

?> 

//////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
Notes:
#########################
Javascript Variables

method = The type of request method being used, either a->a, or a->j.

request = the request being sent to json-request.php, in this example it’s “getUsers”

reqData = This variable is the initial data sent with the request. In this example it’s $(‘#user’).serialize(), or in other words, a serialized string from the user form on the page.

dataIn = This variable is the data recieved from the ajaxReq() function, and sent to the jsonReq() function. In a a->j method request, this data is the javascript function being sent from json-request.php, while the “data” variable is the JSON array that will be processed. In an a->a (ajax to ajax) request, this variable is the data that is going to be processed, while the “data” variable holds the javascript functions to do so.

#########################
PHP Variables

$_GET['method'] = the method of the javascript request being sent. (a->j or a->a)

$_GET['request'] = the request being sent, in this example it’s “getUsers”.

$_GET['reqData'] = This variable is the initial data sent with the request. In this example it’s $(‘#user’).serialize(), or in other words, a serialized string from the user form on the page.

$_GET['dataIn'] = In a a->j method this data is the javascript function being sent from the ajaxReq() function residing in the case: instance of a->j in our PHP file it won’t generally do any good to use this variable, as it’s meant to be passed primarily via javascript. In an a->a (ajax to ajax) request, this variable is the data that is going to be processed. In this example, it’s a <tr> of user information that can be found in the AJAX->AJAX case: section of the PHP file.
////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

I use the php switch() function to determine what kind of request is being received. First, I determine what requests it is, which is “getUsers” in this instance. By doing this, we can have all of our functions and responses much more organised. Next, I break it down into what kind of request for “getUsers” it is. If $_POST['request'] == ‘ajax’, I return the Javascript function for the request in string/text format. If $_POST['request'] == ‘json’, I return the array data to the JSON based function. Once JSON has it’s array data, this is then parsed by javascript using the eval() function that is sent from ajaxReq(), to get our result!

Much thanks to http://jhoyimperial.wordpress.com/2008/07/28/parsing-json-data-from-php-using-jquery/ for the original article. I hope you found this mod/hack useful!

I am speaking of course, about animated gifs, and so I’d like to share my recent finds with you. All courtesy of http://www.gifandgif.eu/

The dancers seem to love dancing along to Pendulum.

Ultimately we should be asking ourselves what the true draw is. I would have to say it’s that everyone is somewhere at the same place, and you can talk to them all at the same time. Subconsciously it’s somewhat like this big party, just for you, where anyone and everyone in the world can talk with you, while the real-life repercussions are detachment from societal forms of communication due to lack of actually using it. The more that people work in “Yeah, here’s my e-mail”, the more that people begin to see it as a possible means of actually knowing who someone is. Here’s the psychological-psychotic kicker……

In reality when someone says something to your face, there will always be the judgement aspect of us that recognizes if they are being deceitful, or if what they say is the truth. Technology creates a “buffer”, where people no longer have to worry about such things. So you get people hooking up online all the time, and having “online relationships”. It’s similar to a romance novel, other than one pitfall. The responses might as well be a script from a shitty Hollywood movie. They’re thought-out, well organized, sardonic, but completely lame. While we revel in the ability to be “witty” on the internet, we lose the most important aspect of what it is to be a human being…. Shooting from the hip.

There are two things that used to bug the crap out of me when I was designing a site. The first, was making a div layer take up 100% of the page, the other was centering a div in a div. The first thing you want to do is set the css html property to 100% height. This way, when you set the body element 100% height, it has something to relate the 100% to. Enough lollygagging. Here’s the code. You’ll also notice I included a centered div. This is accomplished by the “margin:0 auto 0;” setting. I hope someone finds this useful.


<style type="text/css">
html
{
height:100%;
}

<div class="mainDiv">
<div class="insideDiv">
This div is in the middle of the parent div.
</div>
</div>


In life, we often find ourselves needing to feel that we found something “right” in our lives, or an “answer”. The interesting fact is that I personally never wanted or needed this until I was told I needed it at a young age. We can’t simply let people live in contentment of life alone… No no no… That would be wrong to let someone simply enjoy their life on planet earth. We should instead create a story or belief that makes their lives feel small and inconsequential in comparison to something else.. But what? Let’s just call them “Gods”, and let’s say that you aren’t good enough just being you, but that you need to be “enlightened” or something. As if just being yourself would ever be enough…. Well hmm… I guess spirituality is run by people who don’t want me to be just me? Suddenly your carefree attitude and endless childhood days are shadowed a dark thought pattern.

Now there are these new things in your life that you can’t see, hear, or talk to, but they apparently have divine judgment, and everything you do is a tally mark on what they decide happens to you in the after life. Sad to say, this belief structure provides nothing but 1. the ability to shift blame onto something imaginary (a deity) 2. A scapegoat and excuse and/or cover for being “unique”/special 3. A reason to argue or disagree with others based not on principles, but “faith”. While contentment and mind relaxation/inner realizations can help us grow as individuals, ever since I have heard the term “inner peace” it’s been like a frickin foot race to see who the most fakey “spiritualist” is. It’s like a world full of actors who actually ACT spiritual.

The darker aspect of this spiritual cloud of crap are the people who are convinced that they need to “seek inner peace”. Well that’s funny…. I never received inner peace in the mail, but have been having a decent time without it. In fact, now that I think about it, I only felt bad when some piece of crap told me I didn’t have it. This is unfortunately the equivalent of pretending to have something special or different that elevates one’s self above others. In a supposed world where true spirituality is that we are all unified, living beings, you’d think that reverence would have gone away with the feudal ages and the inquisition, and we’d probably be cracking jokes with the pope more often.

To elevate one’s self above others in any way, shape or form is to simply (and subtly) be a part of the new breed of hate that exists in the world. It’s essentially a form of being upper class for people who can’t truly afford to be. Anything for any of us to be able to snub our noses at each other in some subtle way. God forbid if we all agreed on one common bond and mystery – life itself. Apparently it’s not enough anymore, and we need things like a dude on a cross, some prophet who can see the future, dragons, 8 armed elephant headed gods, and angels flying around with trumpets out their asses.

The true beauty is that we get *so* offended when someone insults these conceptual ideologies, that we have war, death, and argument, yet everyone fails to see that throughout it all, the “deities” haven’t showed up…. once.

First thing’s first, download a copy of VirtualBox from http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads

If you are having trouble seeing what you should download, it’s the links under the “VirtualBox Binaries” heading. Just match to your current Operating System (Windows, Mac, Linux).

**If you are already on Ubuntu, but need Virtualbox, go to your Ubuntu Software Center, and type “virtualb” into the search bar. Download and instal VirtualBox OSE.

Once you have VirtualBox Installed, it’s time to get the image for Ubuntu. Since we want Ubuntu to be installed, and also have fullscreen enabled, we’re going to use the 10.10 build.

Go to this address to begin the download of Ubuntu 10.10 – http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.10/. If you have a 64 bit processor, be sure to get the 64 bit version.

Next, create a directory for your VirtualBox images. You can place them wherever you like (ie: C:\Virtualbox\ or maybe C:\User\Uname\Desktop\My Stuff\VirtualBox.. ). Move your downloaded iso to this directory.

Next, start up VirtualBox, and click the “new” star-like icon in the top-left area. If you need to, click the “Next” button to get past the intro. On the next screen, in the name field type “Ubuntu 10.10″ select “Linux” as the Operating System, and “Ubuntu” as the Version, click “Next”.

Next, we have to set the Ram Size. Set it to something reasonable based on how much RAM you currently have. Ubuntu runs great with even 1 gig. Click the “Next” button.

Next, we have to create a virtual Hard Disk. Click Next to begin the Hard Disk wizard. Click “Next” Again to skip the intro. I’d set it to default (dynamically expanding) simply because the hard disk can grow to accommodate your info on the virtual OS. Click next, and set it to something reasonable like 10 – 35 gigs.
Click “Next”, and it will tell you it created a .vdi hard drive. Next click “Finish”.

You’ll see the VirtualBox area update with the OS we are creating. Now we want to go into the settings to set the iso image as our boot media. Click on the “Settings” icon. In the left control column, click “Storage”. Now we want to add a cd-rom image to boot from. Click the small plus over the round cds located at the bottom of the pane, then select “Add CD/DVD Device”. Select “Choose Disk”, and browse to the location of your iso file. Once it’s been selected, click “OK” to close the Settings.

Now we can boot up and install Ubuntu. Just click the green “Start” Icon to boot up. You’ll be greeted with a black screen with a little keyboard at the bottom, at this point, hit a key on the keyboard. This simply tells Ubuntu you want to boot from the cd. Now you can install ubuntu.

For instructions on making Ubuntu 10.10 run fullscreen (after you have installed), proceed here – http://www.unixmen.com/linux-tutorials/1157-install-guest-addition-in-ubuntu-1010-maverick-meerkat-fix

I think my room mate must have gone running last night, as I saw his running shoes by the door (new). I completely forgot to wash my breakfast dishes this morning. Whoops. I wonder if anyone else is feeling like today is extremely lazy feeling.

Whenever I checked in with my boss, she’d notice how I had an odd routine of watching X-Files, and having the same soup every day. Suddenly, the idea came to me to make a website for people who make soups out of stuff around their kitchen. The minute it came to mind, I laughed because I knew how unsuccessful and unpopular it would be, BUT it gave me something to do for the times when I had nothing to do, which was exactly what I needed, and occasionally it’s nice to share a soup that is tasty with other people who like soups. It was named “OopSoup” after the freaky spicy imitation crab based Matzo soup that had become my daily monotony lifeblood. I have since renamed it to “Matzo Crab Soup”, to be a bit more descriptive of what it contains. I may have to create a superior soup to dub “Oop Soup”, but have been eating a lot of hummus and veggies lately instead of soup.

Within a few months of coding in my spare time, I had a stable beta running online. I *only* worked on it when I felt like it, which was amazingly nice, so there was little to no stress involved (heavenly). I notice today that people who worry too much go bald way too fast because they are stressed out all the time about being the first to succeed or make something (I win! I win!) . I had lived like this in the past, and my hair has totally thinned from it, so now I shave my head all sexy-like, but this makes me work out, or the bald-thing FAILS on me.

So there was a point I was working on OopSoup where the thought crossed my mind to have a gnome throughout the site. I attribute this to watching “David the Gnome” on Nickelodeon every day, and thinking how cool he was for riding a Fox around, (who was also his friend) and tricking or capturing Trolls that were up to no good. I also collected gnome statues for a while.

The future plans for it are in development, and surprisingly I managed to rank top on Google for the phrase – Matzo crab soup, …. and the mild interest builds in suspense. :p

For those of you who have visited my website, and possess James-Bond-like detecting skills, you will have notice that the logo contains the soup from the actual photo of the soup. I’d give you a “super sleuth” button, but I’m all out.

I am not going to use a closing statement in an attempt to try and entice you to visit it all the time and post your failed soup inventions, but if you have nothing better to do, it’s kind of fun if you like sharing your rebellion against conventional cooking rules like me.

This shift in the way that humanity operates has not only created an even wider rift between social classes, but it’s created an illusion of power. The term “power” in itself is a conceptual explanation for availability and apparent exercise of control over resources. Given that this fails, the individual is considered a failure with it. Constant maintenance and establishing possible outcomes of uncontrollable variables is the central operating force of this ideology. The failure of it is decentralization of the parties responsible for this. In layman’s terms – Where corporate structure and capitalism failed was in delegating tasks they couldn’t accomplish themselves. But they sure are good at crunching numbers.

Earlier in this century, kings of industry knew the parameters of any job they had assigned to anyone under them, or at a minimum hired a management position to delegate and maintain these positions. Innovation, industrialization, and creation flourished, then along came “micro-management”. The term “micro-management” is simply the most idiotic concept to date. We all find the term familiar, but what does the core of it convey? Let’s examine –

Micromanagement (via wikipedia.com):
micromanagement is a management style where a manager closely observes or controls the work of his or her subordinates or employees. Micromanagement generally has a negative connotation.

The problem?

Well, the “problem” is that workers spend X amount of minutes they could be using for labor creating a report, or tracking their statistics. Not only is the mind of the employee pre-occupied with tracking details for someone who is too fucking lazy to track it themselves, but productivity is cut annually due to the idiots spending X amount of days firing the guy who just happens to hate wasting his time on reports for lazy people, and keeping the lazy bastard who “just needs to focus more”. It’s asking you to fill the void of being a “manager” (subtley called something like “team leader”, because the coporation believes in “family”) , while milking the money you make for them. Kind.

Now of course, the economists argument for this is that “it rounds out”, or that “there is a balance to it”, yet no one’s been able to find that balance. The balance seems to be smooth talking slimeballs who are freaking out because of the crumble of their schemes. It’s actually quite ironic. As the American economy finally becomes focused and controlled by the few powerful elites, the people who can’t manage to live simply freak the hell out and grasp at straws, while people used to living simply don’t even seem to flinch. Strange.