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Fat Kid Dancing

Dancing fat kid

I’ve seen this animation in other places for a while now.  It’s both sad and hilarious.  The kid is WAY too happy.  I just thought some of my readers might want to see it too.

It’s kind of mesmerizing…

Russ's gravatar Russ United States July 17, 2004

WTF?

Paul Burdick's gravatar Paul Burdick United States July 20, 2004

Please, I beg of you, take it off…

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 20, 2004

What? You don’t like the dancing fat boy?

I’ll be posting some more soon, but right now I’m trying to work out the stupid kinks in the iTunes Watcher script. It’s really poorly written.

Paul Burdick's gravatar Paul Burdick United States July 20, 2004

Me no likely. Scary.

Is it written in PHP?

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 20, 2004

Yes. The author is referring to variables inside of global arrays incorrectly. Instead of $music_prefs[‘thingy’] they use $music_prefs[thingy]. That’s the first thing. Then there are relative path variables, no global path, etc.

I’ve tried changing the script and reinstalling it. I can now get the installer to work, but for some reason it’s not showing any artwork. This has got me stumped.

Paul Burdick's gravatar Paul Burdick United States July 20, 2004

Ugh. Are they requiring register globals to be on too?

Good luck with it. I am sure you will crack its mysteries eventually, of course you might have rewritten the whole thing by then.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 20, 2004

Yeah they’re requiring register globals be on as well.

It’s starting to tick me off. I don’t know how you and Rick chase down bugs in a huge script like EE.

Paul Burdick's gravatar Paul Burdick United States July 20, 2004

Why do people do that?! Drives me nuts when people write PHP scripts like that.

BBEdit is invaluable for the job. Once we know where the script is likely to break we can do a few echo’s and exits to see what is being outputted.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 20, 2004

I’m using BBEdit now, but how would I use echos and exits to see what’s being outputted if the problem area isn’t meant to display anything?

I’m not sure if you’re familiar with the script, but it uses a compiled AppleScript app to query a PHP script which then takes that information and does its magic. The problem area is where the script checks Amazon for artwork. Wait a minute… I think I might have found the problem.

Paul Burdick's gravatar Paul Burdick United States July 20, 2004

Depends. If you have form values coming in, you might want to output them. If you wonder where a variable is coming from and how it is changed, you can output those as well.

I have only seen a brief glimpse of the script when I was helping someone update it to use the EE Database class.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 20, 2004

Well I thought I figured it out, but I was wrong. I’m completely lost on this one.

It would be nice if I had access to my error_log file, but pMachine Hosting doesn’t allow it. At least not by default.

Paul Burdick's gravatar Paul Burdick United States July 20, 2004

And error_reporting is already on? I guess I would have to see it to help.

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 20, 2004

I figured out what the deal is. I had Nevin create a temporary error_log file for me. I outputted the Amazon URL the script is trying to use. I then pasted this into my browser, and got this error from Amazon:——Version 1 web service requests are no longer supported. Please use a newer request version.——So apparently this is using an outdated request? Why does the plugin still work for other people like hicksdesign though?

Chris's gravatar Chris United States July 20, 2004

OK… I fixed it finally! I went to Amazon and used their little URL builder tool to build a new, correctly formatted URL. I then split it up and made it work with the script. So now it all seems to work right. At least I hope so.

Fat Kid's gravatar Fat Kid United States October 6, 2004

The Fat Kid has his own domain!

http://www.happydancingfatkid.com

Chris's gravatar Chris United States October 6, 2004

Wow! Thanks for pointing this out. That site is even more mesmerizing than the single image!

tobot's gravatar tobot United Kingdom October 17, 2004

please please please , ive been trying to track down where this clip originally came from ?
can any one help me?

Chris's gravatar Chris United States October 17, 2004

I have no idea where the fat dancing boy originally came from. I’ve heard that he’s from either Russia or one of the Balkans, but I have no clue if that’s true or not.

All I know is that he’s very, very excited about something.

Lori's gravatar Lori United States October 18, 2004

that’s just sad! a kid that fat… wow… and i dunno if i woul call it dancing it’s more like the kid had to much choclete lol and got hyper

melissa baby's gravatar melissa baby United States November 8, 2004

whoa .. that’s a lil.. scary. do u think they had a real person do that??? ::gasp::

Ame's gravatar Ame United States November 20, 2004

wow…that is just amazing.. im fat.. but damn.. that kid is FAT.. and to see him moving like that.. scary man.. just scary. I think whats worse is the fact that you are really sure if it is a girl or boy.. would boys wear a daisy shirt?!? ugh!

Sharon Scott's gravatar Sharon Scott United States December 6, 2004

Hey I used to have this clip on my desktop so I’d iChat it to friends to freak them out. My hard drive crashed tho and I can’t find it anywhere. Can you send me the clip so I can pass it on? I’d appreciate it. Thanks!

Ashley's gravatar Ashley United States December 17, 2004

LOL! that’s so funny! He’s huge. maybe he should go on a diet…..fast.

brian's gravatar brian United States February 2, 2005

thats the most hilarious thing ive evr seen!!!!

tman's gravatar tman United States February 25, 2005

That’s so funny! .... A friend of mine told me that he has seen this same image on the web but someone had photoshopped a drumset in front of her, and she was holding drumsticks. I would sure like to see that. btw… am I the only one who thinks it’s a girl?

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