The Universe Is Between Your Ears

  • In case you’re unaware, there’s a database system called MongoDB that stores documents in collections unlike an SQL relational database management system that stores rows in tables.  And, unlike an RDBMS, MongoDB developers do not declare the schema for data that…

  • If you’re writing Flash applications in AS3 or using the Flex framework or wanting to write browser or desktop AIR applications, then you just have to get’ya FlashDevelop. http://www.flashdevelop.org/ Now, I’m sure Adobe’s own programming tools (Flex Builder?) are probably…

  • The service provider for Elbow is written in PHP and the application and user files are stored in MongoDB. The Elbow desktop application is written in Adobe AIR. The AS3 FileManager and FileLoader classes were started and successfully tested. I…

  • I thought I’d type “hot chicks” into Google’s Images Search. Yes, there’s a website for Hot Chicks Eating Tacos. And one for Hots Chicks Eating Burgers And Pizza Hot Chicks with D-Bags (not making this up) Hots Chicks in Mustaches…

  • I woke up at 5 this morning.  I need to leave for work at 7, so I decided to do a little morning time rushing on Project Elbow. My PHP service script was crashing because I used a + instead…

  • The FileLoader class now moves the downloaded file into a hashed directory system.  When a new FileLoader is created and load() called, the class first checks to see if the file already exists in the directory system.  If so, it…

  • Woke up at 2:30, so decided to do some Elbow. Decided I needed a more spread out directory structure for the cache files.  I could probably look up the most efficient way to do this, cross-platform, or by using some…

  • This blog is full of negative posts.  As an alternative to gloom, sometimes I elected for crazy, so this blog is also full of crazy posts.  I thought today I’d start the day by writing down a few positive things…

  • Joe Winett 32 minutes ago near Shawnee Getting back into 100% gear mode today, less spaz, more bacon. Trying to learn AIR’s on-board SQL server before work. Like ·  · Share Joe Winett And, wouldn’t you know it, it’s easy. I swear, everything Macromedia and then…

  • I’d like to acknowledge the new, ingenious spamming method: Referrer Spam. Here’s how it works… You find a blog or site authored by someone who’s probably in your target market. You visit the site and report the HTTP REFERER (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_referer)…

  • Much happy face this morning. Yesterday I worked from like 1:30am ’till 5 on trying to store the media files downloaded from the Elbow service provider in the SQLite database provided by the Adobe AIR platform.  In my mind, this…

  • The SQLManager class was extended to manage a table that maps a logical filename to a cache ID. The FileLoader class was extended to accept either a FileId or string (filename) in its constructor. Once FileLoader.load() is called, if the…

  • I swear that one of life’s wisest is reflected in the airline warning: If the masks drop, put yours on first, then put one on your child. I mean, if it comes down to you or your child, then you’re…

  • Another night of programming. Since it’s just not a good idea for loaded modules to be calling the FileLoader (or SQLManager) classes directly, I’ve created the FileManager class to load files for them. The FileManager also limits the numbers of…

  • I did this Flash thing.  Click the link to see it: http://www.winett.com/study7/

  • Much unhappy face. Nothing to read here.  Just reminding myself of something.

  • I did one of these when I got home. I did a few more than 300 pieces in 2007, then I stopped in 2008. I was going to write a bunch of stuff tonight about my escape from mental justice…

  • When we pulled up to the gas pump, I asked Dee if she had enough money for the rest of the trip.  She said she thought she had 50 cents in the bottom of her bag and she started rummaging…

  • Anyone who knows me and my clothes can probably deduce that I think buying anything to upgrade or replace something I have is a waste of money, especially clothes and shoes. But, I think I need to have shoes that…

  • Man, the Berryhill family hired me to work for them when no one else would, and after I had been a total jerk to them (for which I have and do now again apologize profusely). They’re very excited about racing,…

  • Intelligence is not genetic.  I’m not smart because of genes, I’m smart because of people and me. Anyone, ANYONE, can be as smart as they want to be. Intelligence is built up by pouring information into a baby.  She plays,…

  • I’m going to be the leader, but I’m not going to make people follow.  I registered http://projectlilly.org today.   Eventually something will show up there.   I hope you can figure out how to work it because I won’t be…

  • Last night, I attempted to purchase $4.25 + tax of popsicles using the debit method of my debit card and was denied. Then I attempted the same purchase using the credit method of my debit card and was denied. So, I…

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  • The plan in 2004 (or was it 2003?) was to pull off something so gigantic that it couldn’t possibly have been pulled off by one person, a crazy person, and therefore would prove the influence of imaginary friends.  Because crazy…

  • I’m really curious whether Facebook will really embed that video.  I’m relying on them being cool about this and not worming their way into your life through one of my orifices.  You know what I mean. Anyway, I did go…

  • No, I’m not going to put a picture of me running for President this year.  In fact, this is the first presidential election since Election 2008 that I have not run for POTUS. The State of the Union is good…

  • Important penis safety tip: Do not search Google for the terms Think and Meat. In the movie, Bull Durham, Crash Davis tells the younger pitcher, whom he calls Meat, “You just got lesson number one: don’t think; it can only…

  • ** STOP CLICKING DOWN THERE OR YOU’LL GO BLIND ** ** DON’T BELIEVE EVERYTHING YOU THINK ** ** OR BELIEVE EVERYTHING, YOUR CALL ** Joe Winett about an hour ago near Shawnee Update, Lip Split 2011: Still not healed, just three short…

  • ** Don’t click below because you’ll go blind because that lady told someone who heard that **** Watch who you’re talking to Mister, you will go blind talking to that old fool **** and yes, I can do this on…

  • I’ve been thinking about rap music for a long time.  My Darling Nikki loves rap music because she took care of a little man that was taking care of his little brothers and sisters while their young mother was in…

  • Just so you know, I’m now writing this to Sir Paul who will personally read these words, so am I humbled. My meat is just like a school boy, praying for some Paul to drip into my face. I intentionally…

  • I know it’s time to stop when I cannot spell religion. I know it’s time to stop when I cannot spell religion. Every time the message was passed on, people took a bit for themselves. Take a little and pass…

  • How may I sell to you today? How may I best sell to you today? In what way can I get you to drive your sexy little self out of here in that car? Walk this way. That sexy little…

  • Audio is much easier than this typing.  But I love typing. Typing gives you the opportunity to hone and craft and whittle and make everything just way you want it to be. Then I decided that I just liked the…

  • All I wanted today was to write this one thing: http://abighairyspider.blogspot.com/2012/03/state-of-union-address-2012.html Because I wanted to explain to my baby mama what my status is now before she even asks. I know what she wants to know. She was asking the…

  • Maybe I can’t sleep because you’re a bitch? I can’t imagine me actually sleeping today because I’m worried about how I’m going to explain to you that this is an experiment with a search engine to somehow relate this all…

  • Lifted from:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WOPR  No, this is not about me.  I’ve learned that it must not be about me because I’m a human being. This I grant:  All of this could be a  belief system,  built by me,  for me,  after following…

  • Love is the highest power we possess to be in complete harmony with the law of attraction. The more love we feel the greater our power. The more selfless love we feel, the more unfathomable our power. The law of…

  • I won’t be in Chicago next spring.  🙂 I’ll just add here because I don’t want to make another post about this stuff… that these weird things I write and video are impressively unpopular.  They attract a few curious views,…

  • This whole strip bar issue is really upsetting to some people.  I was married to one of those people.  And then I was married to a former stripper, so I’ve seen it from both sides. I said on Facebook a…

  • I think that’s definitely the right thing for you to do!!! I had not considered it from your perspective or hers. She’ll contact me, or not, when she wants to do it. I won’t be hunting her down or put…

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  • Everything I’m doing right now is public domain to the extent that I can put it in the public domain.  On services like YouTube and Picasa (and perhaps Blogger, I don’t know, and WordPress) I offer whatever the most free…

  • The closer your speech to the truthful representation of your ideas the more people will love you and hate you.  Eventually people only love you and hate you… except in one case.  There’s only speaker who knows everyone and has…

  • Oh screw it.  I’m not copying it all out.  My profile is public to all Facebook users.  Just hit http://facebook.com/winett

  • I want to make it to 100,000,000 views on my video without any press coverage.  If you do a story, then you’re not a team player.  🙂  Love you.

  • This is Maybell the Spider. Maybell lives in the tree just off my front porch.  Every night, she spins a web in front of the porch light with high hopes of the eight-legged kind, of trapping a juicy moth.  Bad…

  • I am Jennifer Aniston, and I am Lillybug, and I am Duke (Big Dumb Dog), and I am Maybell the Spider.  I am everything you see in the morning and I tuck in at night.  I am it all and…

  • My rendition of what we saw that night. My phone only captured a fuzzy red dot on Thursday night of the very strange moon that rose at about 11:30pm, on July 21st, 2011. The moon was a red-orange color, as…

  • From My Name is Jerry(movie not about the mid-life crisis as described herein) Here is my theory about the classic mid-life crisis some men go through. The crisis has been portrayed as a last gasp for glory before heading into…

  • At 11 years old, this kid began experimenting with electricity in Idaho.  In 1920, at the age of 14, he showed his high school chemistry teacher his design for electronic television. A young Russian immigrant, Vladimir Zworykin, had also thought up television…

  • When your sister learned to ride her bike, we got a seat for my bike and I’d take you along for rides around the neighborhood. My bike had baskets on the pedals that made them sort of like stirrups and I…

  • I’ve had the pleasure of working for some really great managers over the years. Shortly after I started working for KMYZ FM 104.5 in Tulsa in the 80’s, the management team was changed and we were introduced by Rick Cohn…

  • Below you’ll find statistics from this blog and some discussion about how a useless blog like mine attracted so much traffic (useless traffic). But, when I was looking through the traffic sources — sites that had links to my blog…

  • I’ve added a separate collection to map names to files. Two reasons: First, the GridFS collection will eventually be sharded and I’m pretty sure I read somewhere that you don’t want to be adding indexes to sharded collections — you…

  • The FileManager was written to run FileManagerTasks which run FileLoaders.    The FileManager keeps a queue of tasks waiting to run and a list of the tasks running.  The FileManager will not run another task if there are too many…

  • Wow, what a weekend. These blog entries were added (whatever, look backwards – I don’t care right now). This is adore you: 1. I don’t want to make one fricken $ off what I do now or forever.  I work…

  • I’ve done a lot of thinking, learning, and choosing of this: I don’t want to be your bitch. I don’t want to be famous.  I cannot choose not to be famous, but you can choose not to help make me…

  • Everything you are and do is a matter of choice. If you don’t think so, then you’ve let other people choose for you.  Free your mind, and you free your spirit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2aNS682ea8 

  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitation  In the video I’m about to link up, I sort of make fun of how scientific minds like to say things are “facts,” but I don’t know that science ever actually calls something a fact. Look at this Wikipedia…

  • One thing is for sure, Jesus Lives. My rational mind tells me Jesus did not actually walk the Earth, but my rational mind would have pulled the trigger long ago and it was God that said, “Hey!  Look at the…

  • It’s a 100 million times.  It’s exactly as it says… I was sort of picked out and I didn’t come up with any of the words or the number… I just do as I’m moved. And I don’t know anything…

  • I know you think I’m crazy, but I’ve been trained to look past that.  I am who I am and what you think I’m not won’t hurt me. The movie, The Matrix, was released in 1999. Keanu Reeves here looks…

  • I miss you, Steam Rice! Yep, I’m still here. I’m living alone, renting one of Stephanie’s trailers. It’s AWESOME. My job is web design and this 24 year old girl who started her own company goes around selling sites and…

  • I’m using Avid Studio to create videos in full 1080p HD and my little computer gets pretty clunky when I’m working with titles and tweened transformations.  So, I went to NewEgg and put together a wish list for a kit.…

  • Good article by Craig Hockenberry: The Rise and Fall of the Independent Developer Excerpt: I’m old enough to remember a time before the Internet. I know what it’s like to develop software both with and without a worldwide network. Little…

  • So my prayer is one of thanks. It’s not necessary for me to express what I want or need, because God’s living my walk and knows these things. The burritos I just ate were purchased with money that I made…

  • Joe Winett This kid figured out the keys to life 20 years quicker than I did. You may not want to live in the moment every moment of the day, but I urge you to relax and just let life…

  • If you cut your foot off and put it over there, are you over here or over there? If you cut off your hand off and put it over there, with your foot, are you over here or over there?…

  • Comedy, I hope. Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio… Created using a Canon PowerShot ELPH 500HS camera and Avid Studio 1.1. I only spent 8 hours working on this. Saying so is not a tribute to me, but a…

  • I always want to say things about myself, but I’m usually saying them to myself, and I’m always asking why I would post such things publicly and then I remember the Joe Transparency Plan of 2007 and remember a bunch…

  • Last month, I mailed a couple of dvds to Todd Hollenshead, the co-owner and CEO of id Software. The videos gave him a couple of ideas for the future of the Quake franchise, ways to make the game more social and ubiquitous, and…

  • Lots of work is going into voice-to-text applications for hand-held devices.  Translation from one language to another using a cloud-based system is one application I’ve seen demonstrated recently. Such devices could help those who cannot hear make some sense out…

  • MOTHERFUCKER BLOGGER FUCKER ASSHOLE BLOGGER Yeh, well, fuck. It sucked anyway, but I spent an hour writing it.  The least blogger could have done was save it. I’ll sum it up: Life isn’t precious at all.  DIE ALL YOU WANT,…

  • A Trip to the Moon is my favorite book of all time. My parents bought me my first copy.  I played the record and read along probably four million times before I was 8. I had a little record player…

  • A few days ago, PayPal “limited” my account. They sent me a vague email telling me that I might have violated their terms of service and that I should refer to their policies to try to figure out what’s going…

  • My dad’s parents lived in Kansas City, about a 4.5 hour drive from where we lived in Tulsa. We visited them on holidays and my brother and I usually stayed with them for several weeks every summer. Kansas City had…

  • I’m watching this PBS documentary  called The Botany of Desire which is about plants that are really good at getting humans to “work” for them: apples, tulips, potatoes, and cannabis.  Here’s something I just learned that I thought was really funny: Smoking pot…

  • My Dear Babies, This is a picture of George Washington Carver.  He was one of the world’s greatest scientists.  He did most of his work in the very early days of the 20th century. Mr. Carver was born into slavery…

  • Dear BabyJ, Happy Birthday! You’re fifteen today, but when you and Little Man were little kids, you used to ask me to tell you stories of when you were babies.  I thought this year for your birthday, I’d write the…

  • One Sunday morning, BabyJ, you and I were up early. Your mommy was sleeping in, so I decided I would make us some breakfast. You had recently started feeding yourself and so I decided it was time to teach you…

  • I used to say that purple was my favorite color, but I didn’t really have a favorite — I just said purple so I’d have an answer to the question. In 2007 I did a bunch of art and saw…

  • Sometimes I put too much crap all at one time onto Facebook.  🙂 Joe Winett ‎(last one) Sometimes the words make all the difference. The Beatles – It’s Getting Better All the Time w/ lyrics www.youtube.com One great song =)…

  • Mika’s blog post is difficult to read.  She was beaten up at home last night. This is what resulted in the concussion, bruised ribs and shit. I’m not throwing a pity party. It’s just explanation. nblo.gs/kzcSb Excerpts of On A…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…