Year: 2014

I met David on Uncle Dave’s High Octane BBS in the 80’s – Recently, he had been a great help to me, although I never thanked him… His being him will continue to help me be me. Fr@ck. Dave was The Central Scrutinizer: https://the-universe-is-between-your-ears.blogspot.com/2009/11/the-central-scrutinizer.html This is David McFadden:

Everything is improving.

18 years!!! I love you very mucho.

I’ll just point out that I learned this morning that Kesha exists. Also: – The first thing she does in the video is lie to the audience, saying that they should press record on their phones or cameras because she will be performing something they can’t get elsewhere… in an MTV produced video… which is…

Yay, Joshua!

Tonight was literally the best night of my life. Wow. In other news, I thought of the next big thing!

Have you ever been looking for your razor, and found two razors and then wondered which is the new razor and then thought that if you can’t tell which is the new razor then possibly it doesn’t matter? And then, did you think, why do I have two razors? And, why don’t I throw one…

I want to know if you intentionally misspelled interested.

I deleted this blog as a sort of self-punishment, a suicide I could actually complete, a last flex of my muscle of ultimate control.  I then looked at the upsides of not having this crap on the globular clusterweb: (1) If I try to get a job, I can manage what they know about me…

This product is not to be confused with Vigoris Technologies, Inc. — a company I used to run, poorly. Vigoris Tratamiento de disfunción eréctil 1 tableta (20 mg) previo a la actividad sexual, independientemente de las comidas. Puede iniciar la actividad sexual media hora después de haber tomado la tableta y hasta 36 horas después.…

This applies to me more than you will ever know. ONE OF YOU KNOWS, and you’re just the perfect one for me. He says he’s singing about a woman, but he’s really singing about God, IMHO.  The woman was talking to him in a dream, and she said: “Get better.”   Music video by Bleachers…

“Crazy Eyes” Image from Orange is the New Black, an original Netflix series.

Left to right: My daughter, her sister, another girl, my son. Obviously, I love my kids.   I’ve enjoyed the love we practiced together when I was with them.  I also enjoy the love that comes from them just being my children (a chemical bond, or something). I am so thankful for “Jordan’s” internet postings.…

In other news, Man Tries to Kill a Spider and Ends Up Burning His House Down. Just, really, chill, dudes.  They’re spiders, not Terminators. http://time.com/2991835/man-tries-to-kill-a-spider-and-ends-up-burning-his-house-down/

I love you, Jordyn. I love you, Joshua.

The Law of Attraction advises to keep our minds on what we appreciate and what we want because the Universe tries to provide what’s in our thoughts. Regardless of the mechanism, whether Universal Spirit, or just psychology, I know for a fact that spending too much time thinking about a bad outcome makes that outcome…

This morning, primary election day, me holding the sign for Lani Habrock. 3:49pm update:  FOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE DISTRICT 27 Republican 0 of 17 Precincts Completely Reporting ABSENTEEMAIL EARLYVOTING ELECTIONDAY TOTAL LANI HABROCK 0 0 0 0 0.0% JOSH COCKROFT 0 0 0 0 0.0% Total 0 0 0 0

I just made the mistake of updating one of my customer’s WordPress themes, ignoring the warning that doing so would nuke any of the customizations I had made for her. Before installing Rackspace Cloud’s backup service, I was using whole server images to backup that server.  My options would have been: (1) Try to do…

This is the Facebook login box presented by Spotify for “Connect with Facebook” menu option on Windows 7. This might be a secure Facebook login using OAUTH and SSL and it might not be. Here is what’s wrong: No browser bar – cannot confirm which (or IF) that is one of my browsers presenting the…

I only watched two minutes and forty-five seconds of this film.  Seems accurate enough for me. ** I did watch the rest: I liked the guy saying at the end that it was important for him not to look at life as something that was “blown.”  I don’t like that people use the phrase “you’ll…

This is not Joe Winett’s arm. Why do I have to be Mister Fact Checker when I’m dreaming? I wake up a lot.  I rarely sleep more than two hours without waking up — usually it’s about an hour and ten minutes.  I think it might have something to do with figuring out that what’s…

“His Father’s anger exploded from somewhere else, from outside of the house, from beyond their lives.  It was cosmic and terrible.  Suddenly there were not things, there was not light, there was only rage.  Adam couldn’t see anything; he could only feel the heat.” Read Adam Woke Up.

So, Amazon is telling me that they sent money to people, but I’m not one of them, and that they have credited my previous balance of $0 to my account for a future payment. This is what happens when you let computer programs send email.

Sometimes you just have to break a few rules. 🙂 In senior year, English class, Ky Vargas and I suddenly jumped up and shot our senior English teacher with toy guns that threw out little frisbees and said together, “Score.  Direct hit.” We really thought it would be funny. (seriously — I don’t remember why,…

Let’s have lunch. UPDATE JULY 19, 2014:  Naw, just forget it.  🙂

She’s vicious and, imagine that, she’s a redhead. Stephanie Leonidas as Irisa Nyira on Defiance (TV series) – An Irathient warrior who is Nolan’s adopted daughter and Deputy Lawkeeper. The Irathients are all vicious, all redheads, and the only redheads on the show.

If you’re under the age of 17, then you should not watch this without permission from a parent (or two). You won’t get it, but you should ask anyway..

It’s been a long time. No, Steve isn’t my mother. 🙂 Thanks, faxZERO!  https://faxzero.com/

The Future of Quantum Computing Could Depend on This Tricky Qubit http://www.wired.com/2014/05/quantum-computing-topological-qubit Wow, what an awesome guy.  I hope he works this out.  I mean him.  I want it to be him.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/27/not_all_men_how_discussing_women_s_issues_gets_derailed.html On Friday, May 23, 2014, a man killed six people (and possibly himself). The manifesto he left behind stated he did it because women wouldn’t sleep with him. http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2014/05/27/not_all_men_how_discussing_women_s_issues_gets_derailed.html

Galaxy Blog: The Writing Process: by Lisbeth L. McCarty Each person uses a different process to write, just as each human being is different. There is no right or wrong …

Thank you, Tom! It did take a day for Tom’s staff to reply.  Automated?  Probably not. They surely have an email parser that puts them into different buckets depending on what people say.  I don’t know.  This “net neutrality” conflict might have created a bunch of jobs in Washington because people on the internet send…

Photo (c) Stephanie, SYI Studios, Shawnee, OK I’m getting around to looking at the glass being half full, and I’m half way there, but I have to admit that I’ve been bummed that my ex-wife, Kristi Winett, decided that my son Josh may have the $50 I sent for his 13th birthday, but that he…

Courtney and her babies are friends of mine and of my babies. Courtney and I graduated from high school together.

You know what, I have no idea when I lost my virginity. I’m sure about the year of my life, aren’t it? I thought I didn’t have a driver’s license.  No, I’m confident that I did not have a driver’s license, but that doesn’t add up to the year I know, or thought I knew,…

This was my 26th birthday. Kids, that thing on my waist is a “pager.”  Here’s how it worked: If someone wanted you to call them, they called a number and, after a beep, they typed in their phone number, and that phone number would appear with a beep on the “pager,” or “beeper.” When your…

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Happy Birthday, Joshua! I’m so very proud of you!!  I can’t wait to meet you. I hear from your grandpa and grandma that you’re happy, healthy, and talented.   I was told that you scored “superior” on your drum solo test.  I also saw this article in the Union Public Schools news here on their…

A male patient unexplainably starts lactating. House pours the sample into his coffee. House Season 6 Episode 20

Lordy, even House. I haven’t really watched television for the last six years. I don’t even own a television. But, I have Netflix. I don’t mind starting a sentence with a conjunction. I have recently been war-gaming in my head what it would be like to start a new family. One of my closest school…

I know two lovely ladies named Penny. Tim Posey, where are you?

Dearest Spidey, You have a large family.  They always ask me about you.  I tell them that I hear you and Robin are happy and healthy. I read that my letter had violated your boundaries, in the opinion of The Chairman. At least I think that was her opinion. Without direct communication, it’s hard to…

We return now with an email that was just received from Barrister Walker. This was his response to my request for his physical address. These are the other posts on this mission: http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2014/05/bryan-connor-foundation-for-widows.html http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2014/05/response-from-sarah-connor.html http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2014/05/response-from-barrister-walker.html

Much has been said recently about net neutrality — the principle that an internet service provider must deliver the content you request without preference, making it illegal for them to require a toll from upstream content providers to deliver content through the channel for which you are already paying, and on which they probably already…

Sarah Connor’s attorney contacted me to complete the transaction. In case you’re just joining us, Mrs. Sarah Walker is dying.  Her husband, an oil merchant and businessman, has passed, leaving his great fortune to his wife, but she’s not going to be able to use it, and it’s all locked up in some Asian bank.…

This concerns the moving letter I received the other day from Sarah Connor concerning her husband’s money which is tied up in an Asian bank, doing no one any good. The first post of this series:http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2014/05/bryan-connor-foundation-for-widows.html And, my response: (click to enlarge) This is the response I received from Barrister Walker:http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2014/05/response-from-barrister-walker.html The first post of…

I am obnoxiously copying this comment made by Mark Barbee (the bearded one) to a blog post,  Nobody cares about Windows anymore You can see the original posting here:  http://sacredsilicon.wordpress.com/2014/01/05/nobody-cares-about-windows-anymore/ Mark – KF5HYC | February 4, 2014 at 3:18 AM I find it useful to compare desktops to Pickup trucks, sedans to laptops, compact cars to tablets, and…

I was moved by the following letter. (click to enlarge) I am going to reply, that was to be the gag, but I just noticed I don’t know if I’m writing to Mrs. Patricia or Mrs. Rebecca Connor. I think I’ll write to Sarah Connor. (click to enlarge) I did receive a response. Click here…

I was born to a couple in Kansas City, Missouri, in the summer.  A few months later, they moved to Herington, Kansas so dad could work at his parents’ clothing factory.  This is one of the letters mom wrote home to her parents.

Steve (on the television show, Legit) is sad because he had to wait three weeks to see his daughter after her birthday because she and his ex moved out of state, and his gift, a coat, is way too small for her. Suck it up, Steve!! You weenie, it’s only television. She says, “I love…

Even if the adoption was best for Jordyn and Joshua, I deeply regret my decision to allow it. I never imagined that I would be forever blocked by Kristi to have any contact with my children.  I sincerely thought everything would be alright once my life stabilized.  I don’t know why me sending a letter…

What you need is a zombie kit. “What’s that?” A zombie kit.  It’s got a shotgun, machete, some Bactine.  It’s a side business.  I make up these knapsacks for the zombie apocalypse. You know, in case the undead come back to life and the world gets all dog-eat-dog. “It’s already dog-eat-dog, friend.  Not sure what…

If you love someone, you want her to be happy; with or without you. That’s true love whether you like or not.— Kirk Diedrich (@KirkDiedrich) April 30, 2014 And, I do. I really do.

The discussion is actually in the comments. You’d have to visit the post on Facebook, but it’s public. https://www.facebook.com/winett/posts/10203784192344753 Post by Joe Winett.

I recently made a post including my daughter’s full name so she would find it when she searches Google for her own name… And, it was the first thing on a Google search. I’ve removed her full name because she might not want her friends finding my blog.  If she wants to know what I’m…

Wow, today has been a flurry of blogging, hasn’t it? I’ve accomplished quite a lot today, I think. I know that what I think about what I’m doing is actually most important, because it’s what I think that gets me out of bed, and it’s what I think that starts the next task. I’m not saying that what…

I’ve often said that I don’t like to read my own blog because I don’t like the way I’ve written things. I think it would be a good exercise for me to go back through and critique this stuff (for myself) and pull out the pieces I want to keep as the truths from my…

The thing to do is work fast, while the water is hot. Don’t start blogging before it’s ready. The issue with creativity and tools is that tools get in the way of creativity.  That’s why television shows are written by people sitting around a table.  They’re not sitting around a computer.  They don’t write everything…

It’s funny that Nacho Kitty is usually fascinated by the dripping from the shower head.   Should it be? We’re fascinated by water falls. We say something like, “You don’t see something like that everyday!” and go on with our lives. It’s all a matter of scale and attention.  If you want to pay attention, then…

I have switched (again) to vapor. Have not burned tobacco in my face for more than a month now. I notice myself looking for this thing less often, too. What is that thing? It is the iTaste MVP that I purchased from Flavor Vapor in Shawnee, Oklahoma. The iTaste actually terrific — lots of battery…

It’s 9:24am. Recently, I decided the morning is a better time to take medication than the evening. The pill on the left is Loratadine (Claratin). The pill on the right is 100mg of Sertraline (Zoloft). That concludes my medication for the day. I feel SO much better recently.  This doctor is the first in ten…

Here is a good post about the Discovery Channel’s reality television programming quality in decline. http://workingdream.blogspot.com/2014/04/lament-of-former-deadliest-catch-fan.html I loved the early seasons of Deadliest Catch — but I watched them one after another on Netflix. And when I was like half way through, I mentioned on Facebook that I was watching it and a friend commented,…

Hammer went to live with Kim Beisly This has been in the drafts section of my blog since Aug 2013. Hammer has been around since then.  He doesn’t live with Kim, but with another friend.  And, I understand, his jacket is losing its stuff.  Hammer apparently is just a poser.

[UPDATE 4/29/2014 – I removed my daughter’s full name from this post.] My recent attempts at interaction have failed.  🙂 But, you did favorite a tweet I wrote about you (and I cried) and then you blocked that account (and I cried). I’ll just go back to talking at you in my blog. I am…

It’s almost 7am on April 28 — That would be the first workday of the first week of the first day that I’m keeping track of me trying to live better by boring you with the details. I have made coffee. My coffee maker was a gift!!  Thank you Stephanie Philbrick and family for that…

At 6:29 this morning, Nacho woke me up.  Today is Monday.  Monday is a workday. Awake + Morning + Workday == $  ??? It’s no guarantee that being awake in the morning on a workday will lead me to earning money, but it’s a certainty that being asleep in the morning on a workday will not lead…

I worked at KMYZ (Z104.5) in Tulsa in the 80’s. That’s back when we played vinyl (aka records). Behind the broadcasting desk was a wall of bookcases of albums. If you were a smart DJ, then you pulled all your albums ahead of time.  If you let your stack run out, and a song was…

Goals for 2014: 1. Another haircut — this time, make it count.2. Dish soap.3. Do better job of acting like I’m not whining inside.4. Figure out some way, some how, to have fun. I do lots of things that don’t bring me joy.  I think that’s probably a mistake.  Although it’s not exactly obvious where…

Credit: Mckay68 One of my favorite people blogged: “I’m kind of a pain in my own ass at the moment. If anyone understands the true purpose of a blog, I would be happy to hear what it is.… “In these parts Halloween brought with it a big, pink full moon…pink, pink, pink, pink, pink…pink moon’s…

Rather than watch or read over lunch, I thought I would write the following. Nacho Kitty.I have a cat.  She thinks she gets some of my lunch.  She’s probably gotten that impression because she is usually presented with some of my lunch.  I’m not sure that was a good idea. Why blog?I continue to type…

A picture like this might make you wonder.  Some would wonder why someone would post a picture like this.  Does this become noise?  Is this another fatiguing message from Planet Joe? I haven’t written many blog things because I’ve been questioning myself about the value of blogging (Facebooking, Tweeting, any of it) to my state…