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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 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…

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 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…

“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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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.

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

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.

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…

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 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…

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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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.…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

This is a clip from the movie, Twelve.

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…

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…

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…

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…

Merry Christmas.

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

Ok, Jesus died for our sins…  Awesome. Wouldn’t it have made more sense if he had to burn in hell for all eternity at some intensity multiplied by the number of souls expected to ever end up in Hell? Ok, well, I suppose that his sacrifice is worth more than our sacrifice because he’s the…

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!!

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.…

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…

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)…

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…

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.

It’s not supposed to be a conversation tool, but the Twitter-snobs can bite me.  The fact is that lots of conversations take place on Twitter. Here: Do a Twitter client that keeps caches off everything on the timeline to quickly display the timeline in a format that makes it easy to follow the threading. Put…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

It doesn’t matter if you achieve everything or nothing when you’re alone. People try to tell you that God is always with you, so you’re never alone, God is always watching, hopefully you’re always fearing. This “God Fearing” bullshit is really scary.  People who believe in Old Testament wrath, but claim to be Christians, are…

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…

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.

I guess it’s Spring again.

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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 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…

Little Man, this picture makes me smile. Ok, this picture also freaks me out because Baby J is five feet tall there… nearly anyway. But it makes me smile because you and your sister are doing the same thing. This picture on the left was lifted from LuAnne’s Facebook profile. Look at all the smiles.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

We’ll start with a funny Mark Barbee moment. We were playing pinball in a biker bar in Tulsa.  Some guy was waiting.  When the game was over, Mark put another quarter in the machine.  The guy voiced his discontent.  Mark voiced his lack of concern in a humorous way. The guy opened his jacket to…

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…