Author: Joe

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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

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.…

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…

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…

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,…

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 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,…

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…

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

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Ah yes, the Chuck Eye Steak. #2 taught me how to eat well with little money. The chuck eye is a steak cut from the chuck eye roast.  I don’t know what that means, but it’s good steak for around $4.99/lb. I’m enjoying one right now. Victory today: New company collected it’s first check. [Update…

Bhopal Child Victim In the United States, a corporation is a person. A person in the United States is basically free of regulation.  He doesn’t have a government agency watching him as he leaves his home.  He doesn’t have to file a plan for lunch.  He doesn’t have to get approval to get his freak…

This is a clip from the movie, Twelve.

This is three and a half minutes of a 12-way video chat (used without permission). I started recording this because the keyboard guy was doing such a good job. I don’t know why some people like to broadcast themselves playing video games, or just sitting there staring at a screen.  I guess it’s kind of…

The web desperately needs a way for people to send very small amounts of money to people.  This whole idea that you should give away everything is toxic.  If you could pay a cent or even a fraction of a cent to use someone’s content, wouldn’t you feel great knowing you’re helping them pay for something…

You remember that morning, the melody?  As usual, they pour out of you when you listen.  You try not to hear, but it’s everywhere.  No matter the tempo, the words are there.  No matter the words, you hear the notes. A simple idea.  It wasn’t crazy.  See the your future, then walk to it.  If…

If you own the rights to this image, please contact me.No, I don’t make any money, sorry.I’m curious about your feelings. Ok, I’ve been afraid of failure. This morning it’s raining in Shawnee. The image of rain in lyrics is often used to evoke images of sadness and despair, but actually we have rain to…

There is no such thing as a free-market for medicine.On principle, I do believe in open capitalism and competition for the best ideas, the payoff being financial reward.  However, there is no such thing as a free market in the medical industry.  The power of the transaction is unfairly on the side of the provider…

Screenshot of Westburo Baptist Church’s Websitehttp://www.GodHatesFags.com I’m not really sure I should bother writing about this because I might be helping Pastor Fred Phelps of Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, KS spread his message. On second thought, the more his message is spread the more damage he does to his own cause, so let’s light…

Johnathan Wendel aka Fatal1ty is the self-proclaimed number one gamer in the world. At one time, many people definitely would have agreed.  Now some people dispute that there is a real way to determine who’s number one.  His Wikipedia article shows him winning 5 world championships. When Quake 3 Arena came out in 1999, I was…

Roofer On Fire: On A Serious Note : Glenn Beck and Goldline: “Article first published as All That Does Not Glitter is Gold on Blogcritics Folks around the blogosphere rip apart Glenn Beck because the…”

I hate Halloween. I hate Thanksgiving. I hate Christmas. Right. Oh, hate is a strong word.

Flash is still amazingly underutilitized on the web.  Yes, I said it. Flash is generally not used as an interface tool because people are concerned about SEO and accessibility from mobile devices. You’re missing the whole market of people who will pay money to make their stuff look cool who are only attracting a few…

In the last posting, Video Commentary via Audio or Annotation, I brought up the idea of allowing people to add commentary and annotations to videos streamed over the Internet on a service like YouTube, but way better. We all know someone who knows everything about their favorite movies.  It’s fun, sometimes, to watch a movie with…

I stole this paragraph from FoxxySheist… not just because of her appearance:        2000 words written today and I felt as though I’d done enough to stop then I was stopped dead in my tracks by a fabulous writer friend of mine who sent me an email reminding me of all the reasons why…