Napalm Riot

I seem to be posting everything that's either sarcastic or a joke or both, in wanna be bastardized-lol-form.

LIK OH EHM JEE MAIN! WHIT WRUNG WHIT MAI!?

I should just go take my shower and go to Judo...

So I'm sure everyone's noticed that I have my spurts of activity and then long draws of inactivity...

I started school.

Deal with it bitches.

P.S.: Now that I'm getting settled into my schedule, I'll try and get into the chatroom more now though...

I'm out for the weekend, going on a backpacking trip. I'll talk to y'all on Sunday when I get back.

Coolhand2, out.

This blog has absolutely nothing to say in it. But my last one was fucking up the layout of my screen, so I'm just moving it down one, so HAH!

*insert crazy man laughter for no reason*

Recently, I've been wanting to expand my coding base for my database handling. Currently, my function for handling the automatic creation of SELECT statements has been... Well... Limited. Example:
The following code:

Code:

$database->select( "table_name" );

Has resulted in the following MySQL code:

Code:

SELECT * FROM `table_name`;

And of course, it's can get so complicated as to be something like this:

Code:

$database->select( 
    "table_name" 
    array( "col_1", "col_2" ),
    array( "col_3" => "some_value" ),
    array( "ASC" => "col_4" ),
    array( 10 )
);

And that would become:

Code:

SELECT `col_1`, `col_2` FROM `table_name` WHERE `col_3` = "some_value" ORDER BY `col_4` ASC LIMIT 0,10;

The only real restraint on this is that I couldn't select from multiple tables. And sometimes (like in forum software), we need to do that to speed things up a bit and save memory and run time.

I now have a syntactical model on how this will work. For simple stuff:

Code:

$database->select( array( "table_1", "table_2" ) );

becomes

Code:

SELECT a.*, b.* FROM `table_1` a, `table_2` b;

For the complicated stuff:

Code:

$database->select(
    array(
        "table_1",
        Database::INNER_JOIN => "table_2",
        Database::RO_JOIN => "table_3",
        Database::RI_JOIN => "table_4",
        Database::FO_JOIN => "table_5"
    ),
    array(
        array( "col_1" ),
        array( "col_2", "col_3" ),
        array( "col_4", "col_5" ),
        array( "col_6", "col_8" ),
        array( "col_9" )
    ),
    array(
        array( "col_1" ),
        array( "col_2", "col_3" ),
        array( "col_4", "col_5" ),
        array( "col_6", "col_7" => "X", "col_8" ),
        array( "col_9" )
    )
);

Turns into:

Code:

SELECT
	a.`col_1`,
	b.`col_2`,
	b.`col_3`,
	c.`col_4`,
	c.`col_5`,
	d.`col_6`,
	d.`col_8`,
	e.`col_9`
FROM	`table_1` a INNER JOIN
	`table_2` b ON a.`col_1` = b.`col_2` RIGHT OUTER JOIN
	`table_3` c ON b.`col_3` = c.`col_4` RIGHT INNER JOIN
	`table_4` d ON c.`col_5` = d.`col_6` FULL OUTER JOIN
	`table_5` e ON d.`col_8` = e.`col_9`
WHERE
	d.`col_7` = 'X'

Hehehe. Hehehehe. Hehehehe.

I quote (with my diatribes in parens):
FAKE FRIENDS: Never ask for food.
REAL FRIENDS: Is the reason you have no food.

(This is actually true, if you think about it. But friends will be mindful of letting each other stay well endowed in the food market.)

FAKE FRIENDS: Call your parents Mr / Mrs
REAL FRIENDS: Call your parents DAD/MOM

(Heh. I've done this before. It's kinda sad actually.)

FAKE FRIENDS: Never seen you cry
REAL FRIENDS: Cry with you

(For girls, sure. Guys, the first is true. Either that, or they're to let you vent, but we don't cry with each other.)

FAKE FRIENDS: Borrow your stuff for a few days then give it back
REAL FRIENDS: Keep your stuff so long they forget it's yours

(Real friends still know it's yours, but it's one of those things where if they want it back then they come over and get it, because you don't mind having them for company anyways)

FAKE FRIENDS: Know a few things about you
REAL FRIENDS: Could write a book about you with direct quotes from
you

(Only too true. I know this about a few people)

FAKE FRIENDS: Will leave you behind if that is what the crowd is doing
REAL FRIENDS: Will kick the whole crowds butt that left you

(Probably not, but will at least stick by your side through the good and bad)

FAKE FRIENDS: Would knock on your front door
REAL FRIENDS: Walk right in and say 'I'M HOME!'

(This hasn't happened to me, but I guess it's because we're respectful of each other. On the other hand, this happens with my cousin and her friends...)

FAKE FRIENDS: Are for awhile
REAL FRIENDS: Are for life

(Damn straight)

FAKE FRIENDS: Will talk bad to the person who talks bad about you.
REAL FRIENDS: Will knock the person out that talked bad about you.

(I personally think that'll happen in extreme situations, but normally we just up and leave and forget. Then smack talk him behind his back because it's funny.)

Your guys' thoughts?

Two weeks ago or so, if I didn't have any social decency, I woulda told someone off about their assumptions about Muslims.

The conversation started out innocently enough about the presidential candidates. And naturally we got around to Barack Obama. Then, one of the people I'm talking with says the following:
"He's not gonna be elected because of the pure fact that at least his ancestry is Muslim, and all Muslims are bred to kill America."

OOooh man I coulda slapped that bitch.

I like breaking things down, so lets do that.
If we compare Christianity/Catholicism, with Judaism and Islam, one who does not consider himself a part of any of the religions, would feel that all three religions refer to the same "God" or "Allah". Where they differ, is in how events transpire.

Judaism and, let's keep it short and call it Christianity, basically have the same story. Christianity breaks off from Judaism with the birth of Jesus Christ, the Messiah. Jews do not believe he is the Messiah, Christians do. In fact, Christianity was a sect of Judaism until around 400 A.C. when the Romans declared it their official state religion. They basically had enough influence to say to the Christian sect: "Nope, you're not a sect anymore, you are now you're own entity." And people followed.

Islam, believes in Allah. It's not a different story at the beginning, because you still have Adam and Eve, and Abraham and all them. But what makes Islam, Islam, is the prophet Mohammed. He is not seen as a savior or a messiah, but as a teacher who in his time, did away with the "bastardized" versions of the faith, and brought it back to it's roots and made it pure again. The Qu'ran is based off of his teachings, much like how The New Testament in the Christian Bible, is based off the teachings of Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Jesus' main disciples.

So in essence, they're not all that different. They have what is essentially (and this a wild guess) the same creation story, but one takes it more liberally than the other and then they split off from there.

Going back to my main point, this lady said that "All Muslims are bred to kill American". However, if you have actually read the Qu'ran or have done just a teensy bit of research on Mohammed, then you'd realize that his teachings are not about violence at all. But instead about peace, and protecting people for the greater good. So then the question rises, "How did this idea of killing Americans to achieve eternal glory, come about?"

Put simply, there's one word: Extremists. I will say, that not all religions have these types in their numbers, just for how people are brought up in certain religions and beliefs. There has been a few of those in Christianity. Most recently is the Phelps clan of Baptists. They attack gays, soldiers, and anyone who supports gays or soldiers. There are, obviously (sorry if I can't find the names of specific groups or sects) the religious extremes in Islam as well.

If we compare these two groups. We find a couple things in common.
1.) They both hate America, and see any destruction of America, or parts of America, as a good thing.
2.) They are both very small and very specific in their numbers.
3.) They have views that do not agree with the main religion of what they trying to preach, but they take a stance where it looks justified. For the Muslims, they are trying to reach spiritual perfection as Mohammed preaches, but they are told to do it in such a way that hurts the US, or any of it's counter parts. For the Phelps clan, they feel that anything bad that happens to the US, is a sign from God that we are not doing what is right, that we are not doing what God has preached, so he is taking his vengeance out on us, through 9/11, through the war, through dead soldiers, etc. because we fucked up.

People know the first one, inherently. That's just as clear as day. The other two, only the ones who have done a small bit of research know this.

What people don't realize, is that by todays standards and sizes, the Phelps clan makes up less than a hundredth of a percent (or there abouts) of the Christian religion. And the extremists Muslims only make up 1% of the Islamic relgion. Relatively in pure body counts, that %1 is order of magnitudes bigger than the Phelps clan. But what happens, is that we don't see the other parts, the other 99%, because that doesn't make good news. Apparently, no likes to take the vantage point of the pure bred fact that millions upon millions upon millions of Muslims, did NOT, in fact, try and hurt America today. And they won't tomorrow, or even the next day. They'll more than likely stay that way, even after they die.

So please people, instead of making ignorant* comments, make smart comments, and actually know what you're talking about next time.

* Ignorance sprouts from two kinds of ways people can be informed about a subject matter. These two are "ill-informed", and "uninformed". There is a distinct difference, as one is the lesser of two evils. ill-informed, if you break it down, means mis-informed, or informed with the wrong data. Uninformed, on the contrary means that you don't have any data, at all. Both of these, can be made moot points, buy just checking more than one source of information. If you're ill-informed, then the second or third pieces of info you'll get will probably contradict what you have. Doing a search while uninformed can get you into the same predicament. This is solvable by doing more research and finding out which case is supported more. Boring as hell, but yes. It is that simple.

So, being the mature man that I am (oh hey that rhymed), I just stayed up all night, and plan to keep it going!

Why? You may ask.

One week ago, stayed up till about 2-3 in the morning with a friend of mine, playing WoW (Which I need to add to my games list. Hm.). Having finally sent him home from my dorm, I get into bed and promptly sleep in until 11 'o clock the next morning. Seeing as I have a schedule to tend to, I realize what happened and was like "Oh, I'll just fix it tomorrow when I force myself to wake up at the proper time."

Well, it worked. Kinda. I didn't wake up at my usual time, which is bad enough, but was still able to get to my classes on time and participate. Then I had a test that day too. More on that later.

Tuesday, I have off from school, so I work for 8 hours, with a lunch break. I knew I had some homework due, and since work was so freaking slow, I tried to do it, but I was thusly distracted by other means, non-work related. I still get up late, this time I get out of bed at about the same time I'm supposed to arrive at work... Yeah, small dip, but I can take care of it on Wednesday, next day I have classes.

This is where my distinct inability to look into the future comes in. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I participate at the local University Judo club. Doing so, has presented a STRONG tradition of at least one bloody nose per, and one sore appendage to go along with it. This day, (Tuesday), said appendage was my ANKLE. Thus preventing me from being able to walk without a splint. And being the guy that I am, I just took some medical tape and it's under-wrappings, put my foot into a makeshift sling that I didn't remember from boy-scouts and then went on keeping on.

Come Wednesday morning, my foot cannot move. So I just sleep in. My girlfriend calls me at like, 9:00 and that finally forces me out of bed. My ankle has gotten better by now, so I can walk. But I need to do Laundry. So, instead of being the smart person I should be... I go off and do laundry. Then I go in for a lab after I have some lunch, and then go off to work, which was again, dull to no extent. By now, I'm stressing out about ANOTHER test (because it's that time of the semester boy oh boy!) that I'll be taking the next day, and leave when it's my time to leave, in a huff and don't say good bye to my boss as I usually do...

I talk with my gf again that night, and I start thinking. What the hell is going on... I should not be acting this way, what do I need to do to get better? So I send my boss an email saying I'm gonna need the rest of this week and all of next week, off so I can correlate myself and get back into the center of my focus that I need to be.

The next day, my boss responds saying that I need to fill out paper work, at least attend a consulting meeting, and then fix something as promised. Now I'm TOTALLY stressing out about this test, unwilling to do any work for... work... and just wanting to sit around and THINK. So I do. Then I go take my test, have an EXCELLENT Judo club meeting directly afterwards (because I was pissed at myself for getting test shock on something that I never should have had it in the first place, and Judo helped me get through that.), and only came out with a pulled lat on my right side, and again, another bloody nose.

Now we're to Friday. I gotta do that consulting meeting, I gotta go to all my classes, and I got a shit load of homework to do. Well, remember that test I said I took on Monday? Well, I got it back and realized, that being an active participant in a class, does NOT substitute well for taking notes and not being active within this particular class. My overall grade in that class is such that, my teacher has recommended me to drop the class, just so I don't get an 'F'.

I am a full time student, under the most barest of circumstances. I have 13 credit hours (spanning over three, 3 c.h. classes, and one 1 c.h. class). If I drop one class, it'd have to be my Judo class, but that's not impacting anything in the first place, so that'd just be stupid. Dropping any other class would make me part time, and thusly I would be disqualified from working short of doing Mickey D's or the Beniggan's right across the street from my dorm.

So I go into work, all pissed at myself, go to the meeting, feel better afterwards after subtly chewing out my boss for trying to make me do something that was plainly against my greater well being.

And so yesterday, Saturday, rolls around. My friend comes over again. I stay up till midnight, he leaves, and then I stay up the rest of the night watching YouTube standups and doing stuff here. The main reason for this, is actually kinda smart. I plan on staying awake all day, then going to bed at the proper time (9, 9:30), which should then allow me to wake up at the proper time, (6:30, 7:00) and be all good and ready for school.

That's a step in the right direction, but I have been notorious for being a lazy bum, and then doing anything that counts to get the grade. I did not want that to happen this semester, but it has.

Has anyone here gotten the same bug at school, and then done something to defeat it and get back into working mode? If so, I lend you my ears!

Mike

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SO I'm here. Thanks, Elsie.

I play games. Currently, the love of my life is Mass Effect. I'm playing it through on Hardcore, the second time around. It's awesome.

Also, chances are I've completed most of my games, but it was only on the easy levels, because I'm cheap like that. I've not completed any game on a more difficult level outside of Halo: CE. Which is sad. I know. But I don't care. I have more fun that way.

So yeah. I like writing reviews of games. I've written one of Mass Effect that I'll be putting up soon. I wrote one on Gamespot about Area-51 that I may transfer over. We shall see...

So, until we meet again...

Mike