Year: 2011

I’ve had the pleasure of working for some really great managers over the years. Shortly after I started working for KMYZ FM 104.5 in Tulsa in the 80’s, the management team was changed and we were introduced by Rick Cohn to Rick Cohn, the radio station’s new General Manager. One of the statements he made…

When your sister learned to ride her bike, we got a seat for my bike and I’d take you along for rides around the neighborhood. My bike had baskets on the pedals that made them sort of like stirrups and I was really nervous that we might start falling and I wouldn’t be able to get…

I used to say that purple was my favorite color, but I didn’t really have a favorite — I just said purple so I’d have an answer to the question. In 2007 I did a bunch of art and saw a lot of colors next to each other and decided that blue was definitely my…

Just a few weeks after they decided not to do business with me, for offenses I did not commit, about which they will not provide their evidence, they’re sending me an email taunting me about it? Wow, why don’t you people at Paypal put a little thought into your form email system?  This email reiterates…

I did these last night.  The story about the matrix filter is below them. One of the coolest things about messing around with art on the computer is that you can change the colors of pixels that are already on the canvas.  When you have a complex mix of colors, it’s quite neat to see…

Nearly 71.9% of the anti-religious hate crimes in the United States were perpetrated because of the offender’s anti-Jewish bias, 8.4% because of anti-Islamic bias — according to the Department of Justice Uniform Crime Reporting Program statistics for 2009. I found the links to this information here on Ketzele’s blog. Crimes suck.  Hate crime sucks.  The…

A college slacker checks on his final grade. Take a look at your overall scores there. What you’ll notice is that we’re pretty much in the same place as we were two years ago – nothing’s changed. What concerns me about that is not your consistently poor grades, but your consistently inconsistent performance.  Scott, as…

One Sunday morning, BabyJ, you and I were up early. Your mommy was sleeping in, so I decided I would make us some breakfast. You had recently started feeding yourself and so I decided it was time to teach you to make scrambled eggs with cheese. I pulled your high hair into the kitchen and…

Dear BabyJ, Happy Birthday! You’re fifteen today, but when you and Little Man were little kids, you used to ask me to tell you stories of when you were babies.  I thought this year for your birthday, I’d write the story of the day you were born. The story of the day you were born…

At 11 years old, this kid began experimenting with electricity in Idaho.  In 1920, at the age of 14, he showed his high school chemistry teacher his design for electronic television. A young Russian immigrant, Vladimir Zworykin, had also thought up television independently and almost simultaneously. He ended up helping RCA develop a working system. Philo’s patent…

From My Name is Jerry(movie not about the mid-life crisis as described herein) Here is my theory about the classic mid-life crisis some men go through. The crisis has been portrayed as a last gasp for glory before heading into the autumn years and I think that might be due to the shallow interpretation by these men…

In case you were wondering, I don’t have much of a life among those of you in the wider world.  I have and do spend a lot of time alone and I watch a large number of movies, easily more than 50 every month. Way back, when times were more generous, I saw every movie…

My Dear Babies, This is a picture of George Washington Carver.  He was one of the world’s greatest scientists.  He did most of his work in the very early days of the 20th century. Mr. Carver was born into slavery in Missouri. Mr. Carver later figured out ways to save poor southern farmers from a…

I’m watching this PBS documentary  called The Botany of Desire which is about plants that are really good at getting humans to “work” for them: apples, tulips, potatoes, and cannabis.  Here’s something I just learned that I thought was really funny: Smoking pot in North America used to mainly be a Mexican thing. As Mexicans migrated north, they…

Every election cycle we see pleas from the involved to the undecided that they should cast their votes in such a way that their vote is not “wasted” by voting for someone who is never going to win. That’s just screwed up, short-term thinking and short-term thinking is the reason we’re always in a mess…

My dad’s parents lived in Kansas City, about a 4.5 hour drive from where we lived in Tulsa. We visited them on holidays and my brother and I usually stayed with them for several weeks every summer. Kansas City had a UHF television station that aired Star Trek on Saturday afternoons.  I’d never seen anything…

A few days ago, PayPal “limited” my account. They sent me a vague email telling me that I might have violated their terms of service and that I should refer to their policies to try to figure out what’s going on. Then they let me know that they’d be holding on to my $18 for…

Bouquet My life is about to become much more difficult.  I just spent sixty hours hiding under my covers. It wasn’t that long ago that I made up a delusion that this was all for some greater purpose, that this would all have been worth it in the end, that it wasn’t actually possible for…

Somehow I ended up following the blog of a woman who describes herself as a grandma to two 15 year old twins who has suffered from depression since she was in her teens, a condition which has gotten progressively worse over the years.  The cheerful part is that she has and is being treated with…

A Trip to the Moon is my favorite book of all time. My parents bought me my first copy.  I played the record and read along probably four million times before I was 8. I had a little record player in a white plastic case.  I’m thinking it looked something like this (but all white):…

This photograph appeared in Life Magazine in 1957. Recently, I’ve been sleeping at least three times a day. One of the weird things I’ve noticed is that my dreams are never playgrounds and what I want never happens. This morning, I woke up and was going to write about a dream I was having, but…

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From This Site No, I’m not going to shut up about it.  If you don’t like it, don’t read it (i.e., fuck off). Georgia is definitely my favorite web font. This blog doesn’t use Georgia right now, and I could fix that, but the only project I really want to work on is killing myself.…

Wow, what a sterling post that last one was, eh?!?! One thing you can be sure of is that your father wasn’t a robot.  Well, I am sort of like a robot, but I’m sure I’m not. Remember when I tried to start reading Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy to you, Baby J?  It was…

MOTHERFUCKER BLOGGER FUCKER ASSHOLE BLOGGER Yeh, well, fuck. It sucked anyway, but I spent an hour writing it.  The least blogger could have done was save it. I’ll sum it up: Life isn’t precious at all.  DIE ALL YOU WANT, WE’LL MAKE MORE.  I’m sure when I get to wherever we’re all going that I’m…

I was getting ready to put this drawer back in its dresser this morningwhen I noticed this sums up one of the greatest people I’ve everhad the pleasure of knowing.  This isn’t art, this is her life right here. This is a little hairy spider. I remember a lot of my dreams because I wake…

Lots of work is going into voice-to-text applications for hand-held devices.  Translation from one language to another using a cloud-based system is one application I’ve seen demonstrated recently. Such devices could help those who cannot hear make some sense out of a conversation with someone whose sloppy lips are hard to read and they’ll definitely…

This is not a tutorial, just some source code that might help you out if you’re looking for hints. The code below won’t run for you out of the box because you don’t have my framework, but here is a brief explanation of what it does: If a browser requests a URI like /image/some-image-slug.jpg then…

Click on this graphic to see the code. Ok, so you’ve been searching around for an easy way to override the default Joomla error page to match your template. After TWO HOURS of messing around, I finally found the page which is linked at the bottom of this post. To summarize: You need to edit…

Last month, I mailed a couple of dvds to Todd Hollenshead, the co-owner and CEO of id Software. The videos gave him a couple of ideas for the future of the Quake franchise, ways to make the game more social and ubiquitous, and suggested they pay me a consulting fee of a couple grand per month to help.…

While we’ve never met, my circle has cross paths with Douglas Gordon’s, an artist also living here in Shawnee. Douglas’ art was first pointed out to me by one business partner and today I’ve realized thanks to an exchange with another business partner that Douglas’ day job is at the very agency that helped me…

Love and miss ya, Douglas.I bet you were shocked. This isn’t a tutorial. If you’ve found this post then I’m guessing you’ve already been trying to use mcrypt in php, and you’re on your fourth cup of coffee, ready to trade up for something stronger. The code below should output the original text, the encoded…

I always want to say things about myself, but I’m usually saying them to myself, and I’m always asking why I would post such things publicly and then I remember the Joe Transparency Plan of 2007 and remember a bunch of other stuff then I wonder why I bother to write because few people read.…

This is the picture I started focusing on instead of my problems after I watched that video about the Law of Attraction. The Law of Attraction did not bring me riches in these two months in between, but my attitude changed in just one weekend and suddenly my life was better than it had been…

Comedy, I hope. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio… Created using a Canon PowerShot ELPH 500HS camera and Avid Studio 1.1. I only spent 8 hours working on this. Saying so is not a tribute to me, but a strong affirmation that Avid Studio is downright awesome. Thanks to Purple Planet Music for use…

In case you’re living on Mars: This is a McDonald’s cup. While waiting on a computer process to finish, I remembered a statement I’ve been prepared to make the next time someone tells me I’m intelligent. Then I was looking around for a picture to put on this post and decided “borrowing” other peoples’ pictures is not…

Christopher Jones as President Maxwell Frost making hisfirst State of the Union Address in the 1968 movie,Wild in the Streets. Wild in the Streets is a movie released in 1968 exploring the power of personality and music, and their role in political movements.   Max Frost, an anarchist turned pop star, uses his status and music…

If you cut your foot off and put it over there, are you over here or over there? If you cut off your hand off and put it over there, with your foot, are you over here or over there? How much of yourself do you have to cut off and throw on the pile…

Joe Winett Thank you, Avid Studio, for finally doing what you were supposed to do. And, I think it’s weird that you’ve come through today when I had Aptana, Photoshop, and a trillion Google Chrome windows open, and music playing. Obviously, memory is not your problem. 48 minutes ago · Like · Joe Winett And,…

Joe Winett This kid figured out the keys to life 20 years quicker than I did. You may not want to live in the moment every moment of the day, but I urge you to relax and just let life happen sometimes. How I LIVE my LIFE www.youtube.com My thoughts on my personal experience of…

So my prayer is one of thanks. It’s not necessary for me to express what I want or need, because God’s living my walk and knows these things. The burritos I just ate were purchased with money that I made thanks to some weird, chance introductions.  I made the money employing skills I learned as…

Joe Winett Carlton Pearson gets it and he’s trying to communicate the truth by working within the system. AToast2Wealth.com (AT2W) 2011 |Unveiling Truth Behind Celebrity Life| The Church| Latest News www.atoast2wealth.com Bishop Carlton Pearson has stepped down from being pastor of Christ Universal Temple of Chicago. The majority of the well established church did not…

This album and the movie are called True Stories… They’re all true.  The lady who thinks she’s done everything is a little confused, but she’s not wrong. That guy does predict the Internet at the dinner table in 1986, “Imagine a distribution network that allows scientists and engineers to leave their jobs with the big…

There’s a big war coming to America and we’ll be betrayed by an ally.

My rendition of what we saw that night. My phone only captured a fuzzy red dot on Thursday night of the very strange moon that rose at about 11:30pm, on July 21st, 2011. The moon was a red-orange color, as you might expect when it rises. The moon’s outline was clearly visible (unlike this image…

The movie Bull Durham is about man’s relationship with God.  Baseball is the backdrop and Susan Sarandon is the window dressing. All the talk about breathing through your eyelids is the comic relief and the mumbo-jumbo you need to channel your disbelief. God is the Catcher and You’re the Meat. We work best when we…

Mika’s blog post is difficult to read.  She was beaten up at home last night. This is what resulted in the concussion, bruised ribs and shit. I’m not throwing a pity party. It’s just explanation. nblo.gs/kzcSb Excerpts of On A Serious Note My mum’s sort of old man drinks. Michael bounds off of the sofa…

From The Secret Daily Teachings, an email newsletter I receive from this lady’s site. Is this a thought that you hold?  “I have no money to give, but when I have money then I will give.” If it is, you will never have money. The fastest way to attract anything is to give it to…

Good article by Craig Hockenberry: The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer Excerpt: I’m old enough to remember a time before the Internet. I know what it’s like to develop software both with and without a worldwide network. Little has changed with the process of software development since the 1980’s. Of course there have…

You make fun of others whom you believe cahoot with imaginary friends. Consider the confidence you enjoy because you think you have the support of your earthly friends. Perhaps you got that job because your buddy said you could do it, that you were right for the job.  So, you held your head up, smiled,…

Jesus’ is probably the best story ever told.  I mean that from a personal, emotional perspective and also based on my evaluation of how the story fits in with everything. He didn’t say so, but I believe I lost my best friend because of my willingness to think and discuss what you’re about to read.…

Sometimes I put too much crap all at one time onto Facebook.  🙂 Joe Winett ‎(last one) Sometimes the words make all the difference. The Beatles – It’s Getting Better All the Time w/ lyrics www.youtube.com One great song =) It’s getting better all the time I used to get mad at my school (No…

Below is a link to Picasa where you can download the 28mb png of Red Wheel in its original 4800×4800 pixel dimensions. I’m hoping you can help me find a market for this art.  I sure could use the money.  🙂 Click here for the image.

http://web.archive.org/web/20030611044640/http://www.heidiho.org/Archived on June 11, 2003 These screenshots are from the WayBackMachine Internet Archive  that’s been running at  http://archive.org  for a number of years. You can look up old stuff there!! I ran a Quake 3 Arena server called HeidiHo. http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/heidiho.org If you’re having trouble reading the text, click on an image to see the full size…

I’m using Avid Studio to create videos in full 1080p HD and my little computer gets pretty clunky when I’m working with titles and tweened transformations.  So, I went to NewEgg and put together a wish list for a kit. aBigHairySpider’s List on NewEgg Since I’m dreaming here, I picked out the best processor for…

Here is a video I made while playing an 8 minute game of Quake Live during which I explain the genesis of my fascination with The Matrix. Genesis was not an accident, nor was my use of the word in the sentence above. The Book of Genesis is the Readers’ Digest condensed version.  Try to get…

This is from a conversation on YouTube concerning the movie, The Matrix: I wrote: This whole movie at the lowest level is a metaphor for our relationship with God and his system. Of course, the manifest symbolism is that the system is our post-industrial society. Don’t ask me… 🙂Mymarkis666 wrote:@aBigHairySpider No it isn’t.My response:Catching symbolism…

Our brains are wonderful, parallel processing computers operating at a scale that never will be matched by machines. If you look into the IBM supercomputer, Watson, that won on Jeopardy, you’ll find that it used parallel computing to split the clues up, searching millions of documents, coming up with hundreds of possible answers, and then…

“Bullet Time” is a term created by the special effects team working on the movie, The Matrix.  It refers to Neo’s ability to think and move faster than bullets. I experienced this extreme-perception phenomenon in real life.  I didn’t dodge any bullets… I was hit by one. My aunt and I were coming home from…

Neurons in the brain – illustration Credit: Benedict Campbell. Wellcome Images images@wellcome.ac.uk What does that look like? It’s an illustration of neurons in the human brain, but what does it look like? There are hundreds of billions of neurons in your brain. There are hundreds of billions of stars in a galaxy. There are hundreds…

Notice how these messages are all over the place? They’re mixed with tips, jokes, and persuasive speech on off topics. God knows, the choir is the preacher’s only audience.

Who does this guy sound like, right down to saying I love you at the end? Who does this guy LOOK like, 25 years ago? We’ve only just met — tonight he commented on one of my YouTube videos. http://www.youtube.com/user/sreinemer After spending YEARS sure I was the only one who figured all this out, or…

Stephanie Philbrick Early Morning 20110707081618J www.youtube.com Created using Avid Studio Yesterday at 3:12am · Like ·  · Share not too funny joe. 16 hours ago · Like Stephanie Philbrick Love you joe, in your time where you are 🙂 15 hours ago · Like Joe Winett I don’t make these Wendy, and I think you and I are a little older than the target demographic. The…

Of whom might David Byrne remind you? I slept three times between 9pm and 2am. Before the last nap, I started up the Talking Heads’ album, True Stories, cranked it down to quiet, and turned on the repeat. My dream was about preparing to finally see my kids. I lived in a large house.  The…

The closing monologue from the movie, Factotum. If you’re going to try, go all the way.  Otherwise, don’t even start.   This could mean losing girlfriends, wives, relatives, jobs, and maybe your mind. It could mean not eating for three or four days.  It could mean freezing on a park bench.  It could mean jail.…

I miss you, Steam Rice! Yep, I’m still here. I’m living alone, renting one of Stephanie’s trailers. It’s AWESOME. My job is web design and this 24 year old girl who started her own company goes around selling sites and I have about a month to get them done. I work whenever and for as…

I hope by reading this blog you witness my transformation from angry little man to one that has accepted his responsibility, recognized his former crimes, and embraced the love we once shared.  While we’ll never be together again, I am warmed by the memory of times we spent together, talking and loving and laughing and…

Joe Winett As far as I know, God doesn’t control lightning. Lighting does as it does… it’s part of the way things work. When a tornado comes, get down. Don’t put your finger in the light socket either. Wednesday at 10:24pm · Like Joe Winett Everything is very complicated and intricate. The power of everything out there is focused…

I know you think I’m crazy, but I’ve been trained to look past that.  I am who I am and what you think I’m not won’t hurt me. The movie, The Matrix, was released in 1999. Keanu Reeves here looks like me. Morpheus, who represents the Father, God, has been looking for Neo, “his whole…

It’s a 100 million times.  It’s exactly as it says… I was sort of picked out and I didn’t come up with any of the words or the number… I just do as I’m moved. And I don’t know anything that will actually happen. I think in my computer brain, it’s possible to make it…

One thing is for sure, Jesus Lives. My rational mind tells me Jesus did not actually walk the Earth, but my rational mind would have pulled the trigger long ago and it was God that said, “Hey!  Look at the size of that cat!!” and I was saved. I do know that the people who…

I am Jennifer Aniston, and I am Lillybug, and I am Duke (Big Dumb Dog), and I am Maybell the Spider.  I am everything you see in the morning and I tuck in at night.  I am it all and you are too. I don’t have a name, I just am. You’re here to name…

This is Maybell the Spider. Maybell lives in the tree just off my front porch.  Every night, she spins a web in front of the porch light with high hopes of the eight-legged kind, of trapping a juicy moth.  Bad for the moth, but Maybell eats once more and the cycle goes on. This is…

I want to make it to 100,000,000 views on my video without any press coverage.  If you do a story, then you’re not a team player.  🙂  Love you.

Oh screw it.  I’m not copying it all out.  My profile is public to all Facebook users.  Just hit http://facebook.com/winett

The closer your speech to the truthful representation of your ideas the more people will love you and hate you.  Eventually people only love you and hate you… except in one case.  There’s only speaker who knows everyone and has devised a plan to please them all.  And those poll numbers are your proof of…

Everything I’m doing right now is public domain to the extent that I can put it in the public domain.  On services like YouTube and Picasa (and perhaps Blogger, I don’t know, and WordPress) I offer whatever the most free license that’s available.  I might have used a CC license that was attrib non-deriv, but…

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This day of labor by Joe Winett will generate a $12 billion effect in the US Economy alone by this time next year.  Of course, it’s more than one day of labor.  I was just the puppet.  Here are the videos.

I’m going to Quakecon.  Do not disturb me there unless you work for id software.  Do not disturb my guest.  Please do not disturb the people around me.  Please be invisible to me.  Please do not share my links with too many people before August 7th, 2011… Then go crazy. I’m not too worried because…

Today you are free. Time is not relative, it’s irrelevant. You can talk to whomever you want about me. You can tell your stories and you can share what you have. I release all medical records to the public domain. I release all court records to the public domain. I release all client attorney conversations…

I will post wherever and whenever I like. Do not contact me if you do not know me. It’s not my job to organize your thinking. I talk and you listen or not. Your mileage will vary widely. I do not do interviews.  Ever. I do not return emails.  Ever. I do not return phone…

“Enter through the narrow gate. For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.” – Matthew 7:13I was just doing some figuring in my head and it turns out that it’s been 13 years since I started trying to think this way and it’s been…

The story is static. It always is, always was, and always will be. The story differs from the perspective of the observer depending on where he starts, the direction he is going and the rate at which he consumes it. He can change direction and speed at any time. In the end, his mileage did…

I wanted to do something difficult today, so I decided it should be to walk 1 1/2 miles and cross a highway to buy a Coke.  Then walk back. It was hot out, like the sun was slapping my skin. This is what I looked like when I got back. Anyway, I had walked maybe…

Dearest Little Man and Baby J, I love you more than life itself and now that’s saying something because just 5 1/2 years after we last spoke I’ve learned to love my life and everything around me. Loving everything is a skill I hope you’ve developed or soon will. My best friend and I were…

Carlton, this is exactly what I was wearing when we met.I was a little younger then and I’m a little older now. Independence Day, 2011 Bishop Carlton Pearson, DD New Dimensions International P.O. BOX 35190 Tulsa, Oklahoma 74153 Dear Carlton, Please forgive my informality. 6:37 am  At 2 o’clock this morning, a conversation with you…

At the end of the movie, True Stories, David Byrne says this: Well, I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place I notice all the details. I notice the way the sky looks, the way people walk, door knobs, everything. Then I get used to the place, and I don’t notice those…

When your story is done, your dream is always remembered. You’ll never forget it. It’s all already been written, but it’s in parts and you think they’re just words. When you were littleYou dreamed you were bigYou must have been somethingA real tiny kid You wish you were meI wish I was youNow don’t you…

Holy crap, I’ve written a bunch today.  But, I’ve just written it down today… it’s been in my head for seven years. I’ve retold it to myself hundreds and hundreds of times before. Trying to write it down was literally driving me crazy.  Typing it in wouldn’t work because I couldn’t type fast enough.  And…

The idea that you would worship the One Universe is simply absurd. The concept, a slave should worship his master, is complete bullshit on two counts: the manifest, that a slave should endure more than his soul can bare; and the latent, that the Universe is our master. We should no more worship the Universe…

Continued from Individuality… It was determined that it’s more important for people to have an avenue over which to not believe, so the message is embedded in fiction. Telling people, “This is true,” is the surest way for them not to buy it. For instance, telling people there is a force that binds all living…

These guys need a home.  They were abandoned by their family, former neighbors and now live on my porch in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Spot Bodie Bodie and Spot Spot and Bodie

This picture was borrowed from this teacher’s interesting blog. Individuality is the root of all evil as well as the cornerstone of valuable experience. When you’re alone, eventually the whole universe is the same story, told again and again, always happening the same way because the rules cannot be broken. Since we are what we are,…

Universe isn’t perfect, yet. Every time the story was told, the best possible attempt was made to communicate to the messenger a telling in a way that was designed to get the desired effect. But, it’s hard to get a message to someone unless they’re listening in a very special way and that message is…

But it goes deeper than all being the same person. That person isn’t a person at all, it’s everything. Everything there is is a different expression of the same stuff, which is the one thing. The universe didn’t create life, life created the universe. Life is the universe. There is really only one thing, one…