The Universe Is Between Your Ears

Year: 2012

  • Much Unhappy Face Movies and Puking My Guts Out

    My best friend was upset about something this morning.  She’s a chick, but we have more of the kind of relationship a couple of guys might have — I asked what the problem was and she didn’t say, and that’s cool.  🙂 But, it makes me feel guilty that I’m looking for reasons to make…

  • No Contact

    I was going to make a negative observation of this chart, but screw it.  I’m not the only person who writes more articles in one week than the number of people they know who bother to read any of them.  We’re a dime a dozen. So, I’ve turned off my little Facebook bleeper, and my…

  • I’m Very Sick

    I think I started getting sick last Wednesday and then I sort of undertook an intense program of not sleeping nor eating well nor drinking much water until I slept on Sunday morning for like two hours and then slept overnight Sunday night and woke up still sick, DUH. I feel like I’ve been sick…

  • A Trip to the Moon

    Thank God, I still have it.This was one of the most thoughtful, loving gifts anyone has ever given me.

  • Hey You, Bigot (with respect)

    Hey, you biggots (I know you’re not reading this, just talking) — you people who begrudge some descendant of slavery, with darker skin, because they’re expressing some in-your-face jubilation and pride… CHILL, YO!! It hasn’t been very long.  These weird Jewish people aren’t saying the Egyptians suck (or EVEN SUCKED)… And, in fact, I think…

  • Why I Don’t Read This Blog

    I thought this image was visually interesting.It does not indicate posts I like or do not like. Here’s why I don’t read this blog:  I don’t like what I’ve written here, a lot of it.   Whether I like what I read depends on who I am that day.  And a lot of us don’t…

  • Not In Chicago, Spring 2013

    I won’t be in Chicago next spring.  🙂 I’ll just add here because I don’t want to make another post about this stuff… that these weird things I write and video are impressively unpopular.  They attract a few curious views, by people who already know me, and then traffic drops off. Someone like yourself may…

  • Hot Chicks Eating Food: Update

    Hot Chicks Eating Food by Joe WinettMade from Stolen Images from Around the NetSource Links on the Blog Post, Hot Chicks There’s some new, really interesting text at the bottom of my blog post Hot Chicks which includes pictures of hot chicks, eating food http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2012/01/hot-chicks.html 

  • I’m Still Sick, and Disturbed

    Thomas Kelly is on Lockerz.http://lockerz.com/s/192146429  It’s 11:30pm.  I haven’t completed a day of work since like a long time ago and I’m still weirdly sick.  I haven’t been this sick in a pretty long time.  I think being awake for so long this weekend probably weakened me more than I thought. But, the grownup in…

  • Love is the Highest Power We Possess

    Love is the highest power we possess to be in complete harmony with the law of attraction. The more love we feel the greater our power. The more selfless love we feel, the more unfathomable our power. The law of attraction has been called the law of love, because the law itself is a gift…

  • Baby J Plate

  • What War-Gaming Taught Me about Me

    Lifted from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOPR  No, this is not about me.  I’ve learned that it must not be about me because I’m a human being. This I grant:  All of this could be a  belief system,  built by me,  for me,  after following a complex  set of delusions  to what my logic  and choices  tell me is  the conclusion.…

  • Gravity: It’s a choice, lovely fool.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation  In the video I’m about to link up, I sort of make fun of how scientific minds like to say things are “facts,” but I don’t know that science ever actually calls something a fact. Look at this Wikipedia article about Gravitation – they describe gravity as a natural phenomenon. Wow, that is spot on.…

  • Choice: Free Mind, Free Spirit

    Everything you are and do is a matter of choice. If you don’t think so, then you’ve let other people choose for you.  Free your mind, and you free your spirit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2aNS682ea8 

  • I don’t want to be your bitch.

    I’ve done a lot of thinking, learning, and choosing of this: I don’t want to be your bitch. I don’t want to be famous.  I cannot choose not to be famous, but you can choose not to help make me famous. If you’re famous, a person of much influence over people you don’t personally know,…

  • This last weekend, videos, round up, recap, top off. OVER OUT DONE

    Wow, what a weekend. These blog entries were added (whatever, look backwards – I don’t care right now). This is adore you: 1. I don’t want to make one fricken $ off what I do now or forever.  I work for my bacon. 2. I don’t want my face on something.  I don’t want my…

  • I can’t imagine me actually sleeping today!

    Maybe I can’t sleep because you’re a bitch? I can’t imagine me actually sleeping today because I’m worried about how I’m going to explain to you that this is an experiment with a search engine to somehow relate this all in my head against the merits or weights of the name of the image file…

  • May I babel to myself here?

  • All I wanted today.

    All I wanted today was to write this one thing: http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2012/03/state-of-union-address-2012.html Because I wanted to explain to my baby mama what my status is now before she even asks. I know what she wants to know. She was asking the same questions about the same time I think she decided that I was no longer…

  • It’s Sunday, Thank God

  • Well

    Audio is much easier than this typing.  But I love typing. Typing gives you the opportunity to hone and craft and whittle and make everything just way you want it to be. Then I decided that I just liked the look of the font on the screen. The words were important but I just saw…

  • The Money For Whom I Ask

    How may I sell to you today? How may I best sell to you today? In what way can I get you to drive your sexy little self out of here in that car? Walk this way. That sexy little car sure is going to look good on your shirt. And, on your cap. For…

  • There is no time, no money, no religion too

    I know it’s time to stop when I cannot spell religion. I know it’s time to stop when I cannot spell religion. Every time the message was passed on, people took a bit for themselves. Take a little and pass it on down. Commandments are a GREAT IDEA.  They’re SOLID LIKE THE ROCKET ROCKETERCHARACTER

  • About Sir Paul

    Just so you know, I’m now writing this to Sir Paul who will personally read these words, so am I humbled. My meat is just like a school boy, praying for some Paul to drip into my face. I intentionally made that gay for your convenience. Get over, or out of, yourself, whatever, step aside.…

  • About Rap Music

    I’ve been thinking about rap music for a long time.  My Darling Nikki loves rap music because she took care of a little man that was taking care of his little brothers and sisters while their young mother was in trouble or something or other…. There was, and I hope still is, Grandma, God bless…

  • @aBigHairySpider is Joe Winett on Twitter, but we’re all Oprah

    ** Don’t click below because you’ll go blind because that lady told someone who heard that **** Watch who you’re talking to Mister, you will go blind talking to that old fool **** and yes, I can do this on stage, but I’m only going to do it once and I don’t plan on being…

  • Lip Split 2011: Update.

    ** STOP CLICKING DOWN THERE OR YOU’LL GO BLIND ** ** DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK ** ** OR BELIEVE EVERYTHING, YOUR CALL ** Joe Winett about an hour ago near Shawnee Update, Lip Split 2011: Still not healed, just three short months after the incident (laughter) on or about Christmas Eve. Although, happily, new incidents of…

  • Don’t think, Meat.

    Important penis safety tip: Do not search Google for the terms Think and Meat. In the movie, Bull Durham, Crash Davis tells the younger pitcher, whom he calls Meat, “You just got lesson number one: don’t think; it can only hurt the ball club.” You might think all the breathing through the eyelids and talk…

  • State of the Union Address 2012

    No, I’m not going to put a picture of me running for President this year.  In fact, this is the first presidential election since Election 2008 that I have not run for POTUS. The State of the Union is good today. Actually, the state is always good.  I try to buck against boredom and hate…

  • Pottawatomie County Liars’ Club: 2012 Update

    I’m really curious whether Facebook will really embed that video.  I’m relying on them being cool about this and not worming their way into your life through one of my orifices.  You know what I mean. Anyway, I did go to the Liars’ Club again last night. My last visit was in June of 2012:…

  • So how does this work?

    The plan in 2004 (or was it 2003?) was to pull off something so gigantic that it couldn’t possibly have been pulled off by one person, a crazy person, and therefore would prove the influence of imaginary friends.  Because crazy people do not get that lucky in that way.  Imaginary influences must have been the…

  • Andrew Winett Dance and Fitness

    http://andrewwinett.wordpress.com/ 

  • Busted Bank: The Investigation

    Last night, I attempted to purchase $4.25 + tax of popsicles using the debit method of my debit card and was denied. Then I attempted the same purchase using the credit method of my debit card and was denied. So, I walked the frozen confections back to their holding tank and launched an investigation into why…

  • Started Project Lilly

    I’m going to be the leader, but I’m not going to make people follow.  I registered http://projectlilly.org today.   Eventually something will show up there.   I hope you can figure out how to work it because I won’t be giving you instructions. This is going to be fun. I can always find joy and…

  • Intelligence is not Genetic

    Intelligence is not genetic.  I’m not smart because of genes, I’m smart because of people and me. Anyone, ANYONE, can be as smart as they want to be. Intelligence is built up by pouring information into a baby.  She plays, she asks, she asks again.

  • Support Tanner Berryhill’s NASCAR Racing Dream

    Man, the Berryhill family hired me to work for them when no one else would, and after I had been a total jerk to them (for which I have and do now again apologize profusely). They’re very excited about racing, always have been, and I know some people reading this blog know some people who…

  • This week’s goals.

    Anyone who knows me and my clothes can probably deduce that I think buying anything to upgrade or replace something I have is a waste of money, especially clothes and shoes. But, I think I need to have shoes that don’t smell bad. I’m thinking I might upgrade to grown up shoes. I’m saying that…

  • God spede you, Dee

    When we pulled up to the gas pump, I asked Dee if she had enough money for the rest of the trip.  She said she thought she had 50 cents in the bottom of her bag and she started rummaging around for it. She thought I was asking for money for gas and she was…

  • I wrote this because you’re reading it now.

    I did one of these when I got home. I did a few more than 300 pieces in 2007, then I stopped in 2008. I was going to write a bunch of stuff tonight about my escape from mental justice and the events that led up to that adventure, but now I’ve decided to hold…

  • Amarillo

    Much unhappy face. Nothing to read here.  Just reminding myself of something.

  • Project Elbow: File Manager / Weak References to BitmapDatas in Actionscript Flash.Utils.Dictionary

    The FileManager was written to run FileManagerTasks which run FileLoaders.    The FileManager keeps a queue of tasks waiting to run and a list of the tasks running.  The FileManager will not run another task if there are too many already running.  It also won’t run a task if we’re already loading something with the…

  • Flash Art: Study 7

    I did this Flash thing.  Click the link to see it: http://www.winett.com/study7/

  • Project Elbow: FileManager

    Another night of programming. Since it’s just not a good idea for loaded modules to be calling the FileLoader (or SQLManager) classes directly, I’ve created the FileManager class to load files for them. The FileManager also limits the numbers of files being simultaneously loaded to a preset number so in case the files are actually…

  • Weird Universal Stuff I Said on Twitter and Don’t Want to Forget I Said

    I swear that one of life’s wisest is reflected in the airline warning: If the masks drop, put yours on first, then put one on your child. I mean, if it comes down to you or your child, then you’re going to save your child… ..but so often people get zeroed in on helping other…

  • Project Elbow: Files Collection

    I’ve added a separate collection to map names to files. Two reasons: First, the GridFS collection will eventually be sharded and I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that you don’t want to be adding indexes to sharded collections — you want a separate collection to contain your indexed items and then use the primary shard…

  • Project Elbow: Files by Name

    The SQLManager class was extended to manage a table that maps a logical filename to a cache ID. The FileLoader class was extended to accept either a FileId or string (filename) in its constructor. Once FileLoader.load() is called, if the class was instantiated with a filename, then it will search the database for a mapping…

  • Project Elbow: Using the Adobe AIR SQLite Database

    Much happy face this morning. Yesterday I worked from like 1:30am ’till 5 on trying to store the media files downloaded from the Elbow service provider in the SQLite database provided by the Adobe AIR platform.  In my mind, this was a better alternative than caching the file on the PC’s file system, but I…

  • Referrer Spam

    I’d like to acknowledge the new, ingenious spamming method: Referrer Spam. Here’s how it works… You find a blog or site authored by someone who’s probably in your target market. You visit the site and report the HTTP REFERER (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer) as being your site selling something. Then when the author checks his Google Analytics or…

  • Project Elbow: Working with flash.data.SQL

    Joe Winett 32 minutes ago near Shawnee Getting back into 100% gear mode today, less spaz, more bacon. Trying to learn AIR’s on-board SQL server before work. Like ·  · Share Joe Winett And, wouldn’t you know it, it’s easy. I swear, everything Macromedia and then Adobe did with Flash/Flex/AIR is easy. about an hour ago · Like Joe Winett And, of course, all…

  • 2011 + 18 Days – Joe Winett’s Year in Review

    This blog is full of negative posts.  As an alternative to gloom, sometimes I elected for crazy, so this blog is also full of crazy posts.  I thought today I’d start the day by writing down a few positive things about 2011 plus another 18 days. And now I’m finding this difficult.  I don’t like…

  • Project Elbow: Storing Metadata Along with File

    Woke up at 2:30, so decided to do some Elbow. Decided I needed a more spread out directory structure for the cache files.  I could probably look up the most efficient way to do this, cross-platform, or by using some AIR facility, but 26 top level directories each leading to 26 second level directories is…

  • Project Elbow: Transparent Caching

    The FileLoader class now moves the downloaded file into a hashed directory system.  When a new FileLoader is created and load() called, the class first checks to see if the file already exists in the directory system.  If so, it transparently dispatches the Complete event. The FileManager class is actually used to create FileLoader instances.…

  • Project Elbow: Magic Cookie + AS3 Plus is not PHP Dot

    I woke up at 5 this morning.  I need to leave for work at 7, so I decided to do a little morning time rushing on Project Elbow. My PHP service script was crashing because I used a + instead of a . to stick the content-length onto the end of the content-length header. This…

  • Hot Chicks

    I thought I’d type “hot chicks” into Google’s Images Search. Yes, there’s a website for Hot Chicks Eating Tacos. And one for Hots Chicks Eating Burgers And Pizza Hot Chicks with D-Bags (not making this up) Hots Chicks in Mustaches Busty Asian Married Chicks? Hot Chicks and Beer Cans Hot Chicks with Guns Hots Chicks…

  • Project Elbow: File Loader

    The service provider for Elbow is written in PHP and the application and user files are stored in MongoDB. The Elbow desktop application is written in Adobe AIR. The AS3 FileManager and FileLoader classes were started and successfully tested. I decided to use a mixed binary and JSON format for the getFile service result.  It…

  • Joe’s Picture Theft Project and EpicFaiil

    Below you’ll find statistics from this blog and some discussion about how a useless blog like mine attracted so much traffic (useless traffic). But, when I was looking through the traffic sources — sites that had links to my blog that people clicked — I noticed some traffic coming from this girl’s blog. I was…

  • FlashDevelop and Greensock’s TweenLite

    If you’re writing Flash applications in AS3 or using the Flex framework or wanting to write browser or desktop AIR applications, then you just have to get’ya FlashDevelop. http://www.flashdevelop.org/ Now, I’m sure Adobe’s own programming tools (Flex Builder?) are probably terrific, but I haven’t been in a position to pay for them so I haven’t…

  • Storing Media Files in MongoDB + Streaming Back the Chunks

    In case you’re unaware, there’s a database system called MongoDB that stores documents in collections unlike an SQL relational database management system that stores rows in tables.  And, unlike an RDBMS, MongoDB developers do not declare the schema for data that will go into each document. Anyway, MongoDB is really good at sharding data across a…

  • Realistic Stereo Electret Condenser Microphone RS 33-1065

    Remember these? Your Realistic Stereo Electret Condenser Microphone is a compact and unique high quality stereo microphone. lt’s unique because the two mike heads are individually adjustable (each head can be adjusted up to 90°). The special adjustable heads give you better stereo separation for recording your favorite music.Kurt Wise (aka, Wiseguy), a buddy of…