Author: Joe

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…”

Today I attended a Mexican-American wedding at the local Catholic church in Shawnee.  The ceremony was in Spanish, but what I gathered is that the couple was married, as witnessed by the congregation, and sanctified by God. There was some standing up, there was some group-talk in Spanish, and there was some sitting down. El…

Whatever Works is my new favorite movie. This is a big deal.  Previous favorite movies: Star Wars, Raising Arizona, and then The Matrix. I thought I would hang on to The Matrix forever, and I’m sure some people who know me personally will be happy to read that I’ve let it slip to the #2…

The people who are first to enter into business in a new industry are generally in the best position to profit from it. If you knew people who knew something about the cemetery industry and you knew people who knew people in your state government and you knew people who knew something about information technology…

Earlier this year, I decided that I should just dump all my business ideas here. Since thinking up ideas seems to be enough for me, it makes sense that I should pass them on to others so that they can money with them.  Part of the delusion is that people who make money with my…

Here’s a great business idea for you: Create a tool on the web which people can use to create fake fame to tease a friend. Here’s how it works: A prankster visits the site, chooses some options, and pays some money. Then they upload a video and still images of their friend (or themselves). Then…

There was an “Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon” (UAP) hovering over a United Airlines gate at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport on November 7th, 2006.  The aviation guys do not refer to these things as UFO’s, they’re UAP’s. Lots of United Airlines people saw it, including pilots. There are no pictures. There’s an organization called the National Aviation…

Create a service by which people can add commentary to videos.  Their commentary can be applied as annotations in text, directly on the screen, or as audio mixed with the soundtrack. You’re going to need something that works like Flash Media Server, or Wowza, for this. The service should allow people to choose who’s commentary…

Being miserable is important, but it’s also important to not have friends. It’s not good enough to ignore friends, because some won’t take being ignored… I found it’s easier to get family to blow you off than some friends. So, the next step is to lose some friends.

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…

Hi, kids!! I don’t know if this will still be up when you find my blog, but I’ve been working in Adobe Flex on a project I’m calling ClickyTwisty. ClickyTwisty uses a set of rotating widgets to draw shapes on the screen.  It’s mesmerizing, I think. The link to the site is http://www.winett.com/ClickyTwisty/1 I miss…

I love to sign up for these things and read what they have to say.  This one is pretty funny. These are images taken from my browser window.  All of this appeared on the same page, in this order.  I’m skipping the boring parts. I can hardly wait!! Yep.  This is a good sign entertainment…

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)…

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.

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…

China leads in the battle to build the most super supercomputers. Being an American geek, I have to say this is just wrong.  Oh, I’m all for the global village when it comes to grapes, alternative fuels, porn, and cool little phones, but the country that created the WOPR simply must always be on top when…

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…

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…

In her latest book, Sarah Palin revealed her admiration for Simon Cowell, writing that Cowell is “almost alone in his willingness to tell hard truths” to bad singers. “No one they’ve encountered in their lives – from their parents to their teachers to their president – wanted them to feel bad by hearing the truth.…

Happy Birthday, Baby J. I LOVE YOU  I hope you’re having fun today and that everyday to come will be a good one.  I hope you have a positive mental attitude that will carry you through the rough days and that you’re able to find the silver lining. 14 years. My happiest days ever are…

Merry Christmas.

I won’t be writing anything publicly for a long while. My babies, I love you.  A little DNA can go a long way.

אלוהים גדול. God is Great. الله أكبر. Ok, so the Jews, the Christians, and the Muslims all think God is great and they all think He is the same God as in the stories of Moses, Noah, and Abraham.  To me, that makes the current dust-up more about power on Earth than in heaven.

Hello My Babies!! I still miss you. I wrote this Flash game called Poker GUTS! http://www.winett.com/PokerGuts/ I’m working on a Facebook integration for it now so people can use their Facebook login to save their scores and interact with each other. I love you!!

See the previous posting (new window):AdWords: Is Google Telling the Truth? The problem is even worse with AdSense. AdSense is the program a website owner can use to make money by providing advertising space to Google and their partners. Google handles an auction for your space and you get a percentage of the take. It…

Google AdWords is the program an advertiser uses to buy ad space on Google search and a number of partner sites. The advertiser bids the maximum they’re willing to pay for a click. Every time a search runs, an auction takes place.  If there are three display slots, then  Google selects the top three maximum bids.…

Image (c) CERN – Click here for more What happens when you smash lead ions into each other at really high speeds? You get fireballs of quark-gluon plasma at 10 trillion °C acting like a perfect liquid instead of a gas. This is the highest temp ever in an experiment and the fireballs were described…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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/

Oh, the nightmare I had.  I reached up to turn on the lamp, but the switch kept turning and the light did not come on.  Their words were still repeating in my head.  Then I remembered I don’t have a lamp. I hate nightmares.

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…

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

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…

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…

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’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,…

I drove across the country to see your mother in 1992. She said she liked this band called The Posies, so I bought an album and packed it along with 100 or so other CDs of mine for the trip. The only thing that varies between McDonalds in this land is the price of Coca…

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…

And now people have tried to get the police involved.  Thanks.  I suppose you can now feel as though you’ve tried to do something to “help” me.  That’s good. You’ll notice that I’m not in the mental slammer. I was able to buy a cigarette for $0.50.  That was good. I spent my last $0.27…

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…

Kids, I love you. You need to know that in my early twenties my appendix was surgically removed. Just before they removed my appendix, a doctor poked it with his index finger, causing me to experience a sharp, searing pain.  The pain was so sudden and so strong that, for just a moment, I was…

Kids, Many people will love you, but none of them can give you love. The love you feel, you made. You can choose to love whatever, so choose to love everything. I want to quit writing things to entertain myself, or teach myself, or show someone I did something, or was something, or want to…

The Original Roofer on Fire is a great blog with many more readers than this one THAT MENTIONED ME!!!  OMG. Joe’s Version Here’s the posting. Of course, I had to notice that the fire on the right margin on the blog page looks like a woman’s body. You should check out her blog. Oh, this…

The idea the Jesus is the only way is a dangerous one. Jesus is an almost perfect representation of God, except for the fact that the people who brought you Jesus tried to make it an exclusive club.  Ok, that might not make sense.  You’re thinking: Joe, it’s not exclusive… anyone who accepts Jesus can…

I’m convinced that the purpose of dreaming is to audition things that might be approved for reality in the “real world.”  Of course, 99.999% of what happens in dreams will never see the “light of day” in this “universe.” I think it’s also a lesson to us, teaching what would happen if we were turned…

I miss you so much, it hurts.  I don’t want to miss you anymore, but I can’t see you. I really don’t understand why verbal messages aren’t passed back and forth… why I don’t hear any news about you. I’m thinking it’s because I’ve been effectively eliminated from your lives and minds in order to…

This article on the CNN website, “‘Enter birthdate’ not the Fort Knox of online child locks,” has a lot of unnecessary words which boil down to this: The method of keeping kids out of adult information sources on the Internet is baloney.  What’s your birthday? Do you agree to these terms? The online age thing is…

Love is an imprecise word.  We use it all the time to different degrees and so, it has been said, the word is useless. Some would say that the vague nature of the word Love is what makes it so useful. “Oh, I love you,” said a certain way can be easy for one person…

Heck, just visit this page and check out how Twitter talks about jobs at Twitter. Click here.  I dare you.  (new window) Ok, I’m not going to try to get a job anywhere.  It seems weird and twisted and probably truly screwed up (if you’re related to me) and my excuse for all this nonsense…

Babies, I feel hopelessness most of the time.  I am so far under, I am usually sure I’ll never make it back to the surface.  Any period of time I don’t feel this way is due to distraction. I don’t blame the world, or circumstances, or luck, or the devil, I blame myself.  Things are…

Nelson Mandela spent the first 18 of his 27 years in prison in thiscell on Robben Island where mainly political prisoners were forcedto spend their days breaking rocks in the hot sun. On the day of his release, Mandela called for peace andreconciliation with the white minority of South Africa. Out of the night that…

Plop down two little American brothers to crunch up some things with rocks and this interchange would probably be the same.  We’re all the same, but others convince us we’re of different worth. It makes sense to help your neighbor.  I agree, your neighbor usually lives right next to you. In America, even the poorest…

I’m still telling your jokes. In the past couple of years, I’ve started saying Riboflavin is my favorite word. You’re the closest thing to a Muppet humanity has ever grown. That’s a compliment, I think. You can’t give something you don’t have and you can’t have something you don’t give.  I’m really, really trapped by…

The most popular post on this blog right now is I’m Done Whining [August 24, 2010] – by far. The reason? If you search for “raining” on Google Images, it’s the seventh displayed out of more than 4 million results. If you click on Similar or More Sizes in the Google Images search results, you’ll…

You know, it used to be that your stuff was basically secure because the number of people who understood the underlying systems and knew how to write software well enough to truly be “hackers” was pretty small. Today, I think that number is still relatively small, but the Internet can be used to distribute their…

The .co domain is a really silly idea, except if you make money on domain registrations. Here’s the idea: You can now get a name you’ve always wanted but couldn’t get because it was gone from the .com top-level domain. Why do you need a particular domain name?  For advertising, I assume.  I’m guessing you…

In this New Scientist article a program in Japan testing a little kids monitoring device hooks up kids so that their parents can see what their children are seeing. “The technology builds on existing devices that can track the location of a child, but this gadget also monitors what the child is seeing, and even their…

Kids in the Hall did this on television… from Canada I think.Somehow Canadians appear on television in the United Statesfrom time to time thanks to the magic of theCanadian Electromagnetic Comedy Dissemination SystemI don’t actually recognize this guy.I did see Kids in the Hall perform a stage show in Houstonsome years ago.  It was one of…

This is what I call a “sales letter” website. I’ve seen dozens of these selling all sorts of things from dating advice to kitchen appliances. The very first one I found was selling information on how to sell things on the Internet by creating sites like these.  Of course, the guy could hook you up…

I’m convinced that some movies are made badly on purpose, like Ice Twisters. Here’s the IMDB page. I’m a computer programmer, by all measures a failure at that, and yet I know I could have saved this screenplay by just editing down the nonsense. Imagine that weird ice twisters are breaking out in a three…

This Sailor is Navy Petty Officer, PO2 (Petty Officer, Second Class) EOD2 (Explosive Ordnance Disposal, Second Class), MIKE MONSOOR April 5th, 1981 ~ September 29th, 2009  Mike Monsoor was awarded “The Congressional Medal Of Honor” in April, 2008, for giving his life in Iraq in 2006, when he jumped on, and covered with his body, a live hand grenade, saving…

Since no one but my babies is supposed to read this, then you must be one of my babies.  Thank God, you finally found this blog. Which baby are you? Little Man, you were only four when I saw you last.  You were nine when I wrote this. Baby J, you had just turned nine.…

These are some funny AT&T pictures, Babies. See, this is an AT&T security guard. I’ve made fun of AT&T because they’re Southwestern Bell and Southwestern Bell was kind of mean to me, like they were to anyone trying to compete with them, when I tried to start a CLEC. They were mildly mean.  I think…

Surely there’s something I can do for my country as an agent for the government, representing the people of the United States, in some secret mission abroad, perhaps risking my life and/or my testicles, in order to advance the cause of freedom and/or the economic dominance of my Zionist masters. My resume: I speak English fluently…

Back when I was a kid, one million dollars was a lot of money. I saw an interview with Jim Carrey a while back where he said when he was just starting out in show business that he wrote himself a one million dollar check and pledged that one day it would be good. When…

What I said about my mother beating and terrorizing me when I was little was true, but that wasn’t my mother. No, she wasn’t possessed. People change. She changed. She was never very warm to me.  In fact, the first time I can remember her hugging me since I was a teen ager was after…

My partner had some business to attend to in a distant land, so I was left alone in the hideout with a three cigarette ration. I’m not good with rationing. My general theory of consumption is to consume smaller stores of goodies FASTER in order to get a more intense, yet short, moment of enjoyment.…

Most of the images I use on this blog are stolen from other sites on the Internet and used without permission. When I looked for an image for this posting, I used Google’s image search on these keywords: gambling slots. It’s funny that one of the images that came up was on an article titled,…

Did you read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy? Did you read all of Vonnegut’s stuff? I’ve actually read more fiction than these guys but I always come back to them. Little Man, your sister and I read the Narnia books and the Wizard of Oz books and the lots of other books.  You should make some…

Seek God? I’m glad you think God cares — I hope that works for you.  It makes no sense at all that God takes an interest in any individual life as one experience is as good as another and there are billions of people here to take my place, anyway. I can’t sing a song…

Is John Lennon chewing gum?? I’ve thought about this song quite a bit recently. It’s a nice thought that love is all you need. What does he mean that you can’t sing a song that can’t be sung? Nothing you can see that isn’t shown? Nowhere you can be that isn’t where you were mean…

This morning I was looking for adventure, but first I needed to fill my tank. Happiness is a full tank. That’s a saying from Way of the Peaceful Warrior.  It’s a book my brother bought for me.  It’s sort of a metaphysical fantasy about being at peace with yourself and the universe. This college athlete,…

Blogger, I apologize for dissing your new-fangled editor.  I was hurt because when it messed up my old postings, it made me feel like I had been foolish to choose to use it, wasting my time, and tweaking that core hurt in my gut that tells me I’m a loser. Oh, Blogger, you’re not responsible…

The Universe isn’t digital, really. Well, wait, you either are or you are not.  Yes or no.  Come or go. On or off. Digital means on or off.  To be digitized is to be turned into a stream of ons and offs. The Universe feels. The Universe feels the vibrations on strings of energy which…

So I was in the middle of making a little statement about judgment when I realized I was out of cigarettes and had to make a trip to Mr. Kim’s little shop at the corner of Highland and Kickapoo in Shawnee, Oklahoma. Mr. Kim’s is a little convenience store complete with a multiply-headed fuel pumping…

I enjoyed a nice little breakfast at the Salvation Army in Shawnee, Oklahoma then attended the morning announcements and the Sunday school lesson which was from Judges, a book in the Old Testament. I would give you a synopsis of the lesson, but you can look up Judges if you like.  There are plenty of…

Always looking for early morning adventure, I decided to pack up my camera and head to the Firelake Casino between Shawnee and Tecumseh, Oklahoma at 5:30am this Sunday morning. It was a beautiful morning. I walked all around the place and took some cool pictures. Then I put my camera in my pocket and went…