Year: 2011

We have all lived every story ever because we are all new aspects of the same person. When we die, we do live forever because we remember being who you were and we add that experience to our own, remembering then a zillion stories +1, yours. This is the complete and whole truth. The explanations…

Click image for readable version… I’m posting this so you can read it.  You know who you are.  I wonder what you’re like. Oh, and these: You know what’s so cool about Avid Studio’s export to YouTube? Probably the reason I’m so good at this. I think you’re awesome, Stephanie.

Nacho and I get along because I let Nacho be Nacho.  I don’t try to make Nacho into a human and she doesn’t try to make me into a cat. She doesn’t destroy anything and she never smells bad.  She’s not a prisoner, but she doesn’t ask to leave often.  She doesn’t understand why I…

See the colors?  Click on a bill for a larger image. I was trying to pick out colors for the http://MillionDollarBall.org website from my original low resolution scans of the $1 bill (http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2011/06/million-dollar-ball-first-scans.html) and then thought to scan the bill again, this time as a “photograph” and not as a “document” using the descreen function.…

The Internet Protocol version 6 will eventually replace the IPv4 that most of you are using right now. You can get a complete explanation of the technical details from this article on Wikipedia, but I’m writing this blog to point out the greatest thing about having so much more address space — the routing. IPv6 isn’t…

These are the first tests of the scanning for the Million Dollar Ball Project I’m doing.  You can click on an image for the life-size version if you are so inclined. I’m requiring the following be done to a bill if it is going to be included in the Ball: (1) “THIS NOTE IS LEGAL TENDER…

** 2024 IS TOO EARLY ** Ok, I have to admit I still want to be President of the United States (POTUS), but it’s going to have to be in my 60’s because I’ve got lots of studying to do and right now I don’t even have the temperament to pay attention to politics. These are…

The guys were having a few beers after their softball game when Jack had everyone rolling about that time way back in school when they were playing for the district championship. They were one run down in the bottom of the 9th. Ben represented the winning run on 2nd base and almost forgot to run…

The human race is a gigantic team.  We meet the most important criterion of a team – we all want the same things. When one member of the team has a problem, the whole team has a problem. The Drug Problem is not about the drugs, it’s about the problems that lead people into giving…

The bulk of the beauty of the Pyramids resides in our minds, a memory of accomplishment, not in the piles of rocks we see today. In that most important sense, nothing of great value resides in the physical world.

Although none of them are entirely accurate, I believe all vehicles of faith are divinely inspired and that developing faith is your first step on the road to enlightenment. When you teach a three year old to say that the United States of America is the greatest country ever invented, he will be say it,…

Kevin Smith in his fat clothes. It seems to me that we need to show more respect to the people who can more efficiently store extra food in their bodies. Back in the times of feast-or-famine, they were the evolutionary super stars. Imagine a tribe, way back when, that hunted for their food. A kill…

This is a biology class at Grey College. You might have learned it in literature studies, but I learned the word “odyssey” in Mr. Maude’s 9th-grade biology class at the Union 9th Grade Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In Mr. Maude’s class, we studies the odyssey of elements. The elements were formed in stars. The elements…

One day on this spot I’m going to press one million $1 bills into a ball.   I don’t know how to press a million dollar bills into a ball, but I’m sure I’ll have plenty of time to figure it out while I’m scanning both sides and cataloging each of the million $1 bills…

Bora Bora Two days ago, I watched a movie produced by the lady who runs http://thesecret.tv/ about the Law of Attraction. Here’s what I was surprised, shocked, freaked out, and excited to realize: I’d thought all this up myself a few years ago during one of my crazier times.  It’s very odd to dream up a concept…

The feeling of accomplishment I felt when I finally finished my book could only have been topped by getting a publishing deal and now it’s going to happen! I was in the shower.  Having just lathered and rinsed, I was in the process of considering repetition when the phone rang.  Chandra’s voice alone is music…

Apparently I’ve been ignoring the idea “The Universe is Between Your Ears,” which to me means that we create our own reality, literally. Although I’ve written before that I refuse to remove past posts, I did delete two recent articles.  While I don’t feel guilty for having those feelings nor for writing them down, I…

A little sparring match with Nacho Kitty can quickly turn ugly if you don’t allow her to win a few rounds.  The sooner you let her chew on you, the less it’s going to hurt when she does. You might be tempted to assert your human being-ness and apply your hand + thumb technology to…

There once was a guy who learned how to flybut nowhere to go he sat there and solearned to deny itdecided to fry itand wanted forever to die

Here’s one of the posts I don’t like: There was No Picture There are no details because there was nothing to detail.  There are no instructions, certainly not coming out of me.  There is no plot.  The story doesn’t go anywhere. Weirdness isn’t necessarily art and it certainly isn’t useful information. Dozens… dozens of post…

Neither pansies nor bees know the big yellow trees and the horrors they hold inside.  Horrors so small, they fit in us all, and live until we have died.  A green tree is better, the horrors don’t get her, but oh how the horrors have lied.  If somehow you find her, sit down beside her,…

Welcome to the Brown Hair Page.This is the third page in my series, afterRed Hair (2nd) and Blonde Hair (1st). Also known as “brunette,” let it be known that dark brown hair is not black hair.  Black hair is black hair.  My hair is mostly dark brown hair.  The various streaks of white hair which have recently…

Welcome to the Red Hair Page.This is the second post in my series trying to see which hair color draws more random searches from Google users. The first post was Blonde Hair. Now I have to wonder if there is some psychological aspect to my choice of Blonde Hair for the first post.  I don’t think…

The biggest draw to this blog is Some Persians Are Women, Too — there are more than 20x more visits to that page every day than any other page. Most of the visitors are searching for terms like “Persian Women” in Google and most of those people, I think, are just looking at one of the…

It’s not fair that people who want to live die and then I have to endure another fucking fifteen minutes here.  I’m an organ donor — it’s marked on my driver’s license… Kill me now, brain dead, and take my organs, please. For weeks now I’ve been trying to determine whether I hate my life…

Nacho  Recently, I’ve become Nacho Kitty’s best friend, a.k.a. attack dummy.  She follows me around and everything.  She’s probably just hunting, but I’m going to anthropomorphisize her behavior into friendship. Joe’s Right Arm Joe’s Left Arm My Attacker

This is a picture of a bronze on the Walk in front of the Shrine of Freedom in Floral Haven Memorial Gardens cemetery in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma.  My mom, Cathe, is depicted on it, along with flags and text memorializing the activity she dreamed up and organized annually where Boy Scouts come out on Memorial…

Happy, Happy, Happy,Joy, Joy, Joy Ok, I didn’t make it up, but I should get credit for posting it.  I’m doing my part.

About 18 months ago, I was telling someone that everything always works out for the best. I don’t believe that anymore. I don’t believe in damnation, but yesterday I thought: I have been damned and Hell is on Earth, right inside my head. My mother’s birthday would have been tomorrow.  She died on my birthday…

Congenitally unhappy.  It can’t be fixed and won’t get better. ** It’s been a couple of hours since I posted this.  I hate posts like these. I was distracted for a few minutes while Nacho Kitty attacked me.  I let her chew on my arm for a little while then reminded her that even with…

I’m not writing anything these days.  I work stuff up in my head then just let it go. I’ve been thinking about you a lot.  You’re ten today. This morning it was warm.  I sat outside on the back steps, soaking up sunshine while I gave Duke (big dumb dog) a cranial massage.  Duke is…

This picture was taken at your sixth birthday celebration your Grandpa and Grandma treated you to at the bowling + pizza + arcade place. In about a week, you’re turning ten! The last time we saw each other in person was at the same place, about eighteen months before, at the birthday thing for your…

Author of the Karen’s Power Tools Newsletter and fellow computer programmer, Karen Kenworthy, died on April 12, 2011. Karen was one of my first customers at Vigoris Technologies.  I had the pleasure of visiting the KarenWare global headquarters to help reconfigure her router and servers when she switched to my DSL service. In 2009, while…

“My name is Lizzie, I’m 9 years old and in the 3rd grade.”Lizzie’s little sister Becca might have diabetes, so Lizzie set out to fold  1000 cranes and built a website to try to raise $1,000 for juvenile diabetes research.You can check out her website here:http://www.cranes4acure.com/

I got my SlickSurf.com replacement mouse feet today for my beloved Logitech G5 gaming mouse and they’re awesome. I had basically ruined my original feet when I had to take my mouse apart to repair a break in the USB cable.  Since the original pads had been creased, they wore down on the folds and…

I started writing this blog a decade after other people started writing their blogs.  I think I did it because I wanted to try out Blogger to see how it worked and to have a place to keep longer pieces of stuff I was sharing on Facebook or Twitter. Then I used it to get…

I found this picture on someone’s blog. I was tempted to entitle this post, “Misusing ‘Gay’ is Gay,” but the use of “gay” to mean “screwed up,” or “crazy, ” or “wrong,”  or “weak,” or anything other than “favoring love with a person of same sex,” or something along those lines is just wrong. You…

My Daughter My Son Dear My Babies, I’m not allowed to write your names in my blog for another couple of years, but I expect you’ll find this one day. Chad and Erin, my cousin and his wife, are about to become parents. How exciting for them! Adding a baby to the family is definitely…

Blue is my favorite color. I like blue hair.  I thought I would look for some pictures of women with blue hair to “borrow” for this blog, but most of what one finds when searching for “blue hair” are pictures of young, emo girls and/or Katy Perry. Typical Emo Chick Katy Perry (sings, has boobs)…

The smart people who claim to make money blogging will tell you that you absolutely must put things into lists if you want the guy with the second grade reading level to click on your link. Today, The Universe Is Between Your Ears is disclosing the most effective item counts for your lists.  If you…

Her intentions could be sexual or predatory, so don’t fall asleep. Dumb ass, you fell asleep then she cut your strawberry out. She doesn’t know the first thing about disposing of a body. I’m going to steal your boyfriend!! (or whomever) She stole William Shatner!! Jolie!!!! Jennifer Aniston would never steal William Shatner. Jennifer wouldn’t even steal…

This morning, my celebration of Spring took me again to Google, to search the term “beautiful woman” to find a bunch of pictures to steal for my blog.  I found out last year that virtual, online searches and collections belay the requests from my animal brain to actually seek out female companionship. A quick search…

I guess it’s Spring again.

Here’s a c#.net program that reads an .ase file and spits out an ActionScript array of objects. This isn’t meant to be a tutorial or a product, but you’re welcome to use it!  It shouldn’t break anything, but use at your own risk, blah, blah, blah. It does not output anything special about groups, just…

Ok, so you want to know how to mess with HSV (or HSB or HSL) colors, how to do sliders, and/or organize things into classes in ActionScript. Perhaps you just need a cool little color picker. You’re welcome to download the source code for the sample Flash below and use it for whatever you like.…

Securing Apache on a linux server for safely hosting multiple users running php scores about a 9.9 on the complexity scale. I’m not going to explain all the steps, but these are the things you’ll have to accomplish.  I’m using Debian Lenny. These steps refer to a user gordonc in the group gordonc. Apache runs…

In one dream, I was lying in bed in a hospital, talking to someone. I lost consciousness. I woke up and was being given oxygen. I felt weird, light headed, like I was drugged. I think this was two firsts for my dreaming: Losing consciousness, and feeling weird like I was drugged. In the next…

Okay, here’s my weird story. Many years ago, I was driving back from Missouri with a group of friends.  It was late at night and we had had a long day.  My friends were sleeping. My thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a bright light on the side of the road, at the height of a…

I’ve recently shied away from writing anything new that would reveal more of the controversial things I’ve done in my life, but these things I have experienced taught me a few things about the nature of reality and perhaps the reality of nature that might be of use to you. This post is about sight. When you…

I only enjoyed one class in college.  It was a music history class for non-music majors at Oklahoma State University instructed by Dr. McMurtry.  This was also my hardest class, ever… and I’m more proud of that A than any grade I ever earned in any school. The paper I had to do was a…

I’ve been watching a movie about a guy who’s busy, but lonely.  He gets to spend a few weeks with his daughter. Not a day goes by that I don’t miss you and your brother.  I think about you often. Sometimes I feel bad that I’m not writing more for you here than I do,…