Author: Joe

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…

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…

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.  🙂

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..

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.

> I found the blog title hilarious. Thanks. 🙂 > Is there a meaning behind it? There is.     What do you think?      https://youtu.be/VRKvvxku5So?t=20m22s The first thing about vision that isn’t explained is that fact you’re conscious of what you see. That’s an example of, “the hard problem,” in consciousness studies, or philosophy of…

Spend some time reading his paper, then let’s discuss.  It’s cool, I’ll wait. http://megafoundation.org/CTMU/Articles/Langan_CTMU_092902.pdf From Page 50: “The CTMU has a meta-Darwinian message: the universe evolves by hological self-replication and self-selection. Furthermore, because the universe is natural, its self-selection amounts to a cosmic form of natural selection. But by the nature of this selection process,…

“It seems likely that redshift may not be due to an expanding Universe, and much of the speculations on the structure of the universe may require re-examination.” – Edwin Hubble, PASP, 1947 “The evidence that many objects previously believed to be at great distances are actually much closer confronts us with the most drastic possible…

“…[President] Theodore Roosevelt, he sent the [Great] White Fleet around the world. And he was saying to the world, ‘Look world, we’re not gonna be a power, we are a power.’ And he came back and uttered one of the great sales sentences of all time when he said: ‘We will speak softly, but we’ll…

Planning to build this to notify thekids they’ve left the door open (again). From Time Delayed Door Alarm on Homebrew Technology, a blog by Chris Handwerker [KB1WKI] My cat likes to open the front door if we don’t latch it properly, which is often. Waking up to a cold house sucks! I designed a time delayed alarm…

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…

Last year I took a MENSA entrance exam because I was lonely.  And then I felt bad about the whole organization because it might be about “Hey! We’re smarty pants!” and I shouldn’t enable that sort of thing.  I tried to find fault with the organization — their web people have some problems — that’s…

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Screenshot from: http://www.epochconverter.com/ Probably the only birth date and time cooler than yours and mine would be to be born on New Year’s Eve, 1969, at 6pm (in the Central timezone) or whenever the date and time would make you born at 0 in Unix time. Considering the number of Unix/Linux system installed around the world…

Happy birthday!  I hope you’re having a great day, today. Last night, I hatched a plan to buy you a gift and hang out at the mall during lunchtime hoping that you would eat there today. Then I upgraded the plan to me standing there with a sign that said, “Happy Birthday, Jordyn!!” and eventually…

You have an Adobe AIR native application and you want to activate a Window for a particular mxml class if it exists or open a new one if it does not, right? For example: If you have a configuration dialog opened by a menuitem or a button, you don’t want to open another instance of…

I still think of you, often.  Not too often, yet not enough.  At least, I never refrain.  I’m never sated, so I’ll never abstain. I’m not ashamed of my feelings. Your sweet little voice still rings in my ears. You’re the Bean.

Downs.OhOhI’mOh, The Downs. at Denny’s. The line above is a mistake caused by me not understanding the focus scrolling on my Android phone while I was attempting to add the “down side” part of tonight’s story.  I wrote the text below while I was waiting at Denny’s for my Bacon Avocado Burrito and hash browns.…

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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.…

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?

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

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…

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…

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.

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.

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…

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…

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…

I read or heard somewhere that people frequently are unhappy to the extent that they do not feel that they are in control of their own lives.  I acknowledge that I’m unhappy because I’m in complete control of my life.  Past performance is said not to be indicative of future returns regarding financial investments, yet…

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 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.

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 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…

Zingo said she knows how guys like to fix things, but this cannot be fixed. I say that the challenge of gravity isn’t the falling, but the landing.  Love you, Scrambled Eggs.

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…

Of course, this gets old for me.  You don’t have to read it, but apparently I have to write it.

Dear Joe, 1. Paint something.  Acrylic, oil, whatever. Sorry, no water colors. 2. Take your medicine. Feel better, don’t ya? It had been five years since you were on medication. You don’t remember any of them working so well. This new jazz is indicated for the depressive phase of bipolar I and it seems to…

99% of the time I’ve spent playing computer games since Quake was released in 1996 has been Quake, Quake 2, Quake 3 Area, Quake 4, or (now days) QuakeLive. I think I’m done. About QuakeLive Record: * Spend like 1500 hours since June, 2009. * Played about 9300 games, 98% of those Free For All…

No, you didn’t read that wrong.  Tulsa renamed a street named for one Brady to another Brady. The whole story: http://workingdream.blogspot.com/2013/08/whats-in-street-name.html What’s in a (street) name?by Rich Lohman

How is it that I experience the previously mentioned calmness laying next to Zingo? Scrambled Eggs as chaotic as they come… Yet peace.

I’m sitting here at the end of my winter season, my internal winter.  Outside, it’s still summer, but fall is on the way and the fall is my favorite time of year. I stopped writing because I didn’t like to see the crazy.  Then I decided I didn’t like to live the crazy and so…

Have you noticed that some links shared on Facebook end up displaying a pretty and informative preview and other generate a confusing mess of unrelated title, description, and image? Facebook invented and supports OpenGraph meta tags which you can put on your site pages to better identify the information you think should be shared when…

Yesterday I heard Tater Salad, Ron White, telling a story about his friend, Dr. Phil (is he a doctor?).  He asked “Doc” for some advice for his son about building self esteem and confidence and Phil’s advice was that he should finish everything he starts. One of my mental hangups is that I seem to…

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…

Jordyn, my baby, the little bubble of a girl whom I fathered intensely for as long as I could, you know we had fun making guacamole. We will instantly be friends. Please contact me. You can’t write anything wrongly and I won’t embarrass you with this blog. I feel a real charge when I read…

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…

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,…

Yes, I’m actually going to post this here.  No, it doesn’t help my situation. My fall-2004 diet of steak and beer and antidepressants really paid off when I made it to like 198 lbs… which I called 200. My monthly, 5-minute psychiatrist appointments at a brain-adjustment-facility documented both my growth in size and the failure…

There is no dispute. We have not had a discussion, or traded any form of communication for nearly eight years.  You are the mother of my children, were my high school sweetheart, have been inspirational in the forming of business, are the creator of so many things, and you will not politely say anything?

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…

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…