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…

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…

Love and miss ya, Douglas.I bet you were shocked. This isn’t a tutorial. If you’ve found this post then I’m guessing you’ve already been trying to use mcrypt in php, and you’re on your fourth cup of coffee, ready to…

While we’ve never met, my circle has cross paths with Douglas Gordon’s, an artist also living here in Shawnee. Douglas’ art was first pointed out to me by one business partner and today I’ve realized thanks to an exchange with…

Click on this graphic to see the code. Ok, so you’ve been searching around for an easy way to override the default Joomla error page to match your template. After TWO HOURS of messing around, I finally found the page…

I was getting ready to put this drawer back in its dresser this morningwhen I noticed this sums up one of the greatest people I’ve everhad the pleasure of knowing.  This isn’t art, this is her life right here. This…

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…

From This Site No, I’m not going to shut up about it.  If you don’t like it, don’t read it (i.e., fuck off). Georgia is definitely my favorite web font. This blog doesn’t use Georgia right now, and I could…

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Somehow I ended up following the blog of a woman who describes herself as a grandma to two 15 year old twins who has suffered from depression since she was in her teens, a condition which has gotten progressively worse…

Bouquet My life is about to become much more difficult.  I just spent sixty hours hiding under my covers. It wasn’t that long ago that I made up a delusion that this was all for some greater purpose, that this…

Every election cycle we see pleas from the involved to the undecided that they should cast their votes in such a way that their vote is not “wasted” by voting for someone who is never going to win. That’s just…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

** 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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,…

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…

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.…

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.…

“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…

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…

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’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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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

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.…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

That last post sucked. I thought what I wanted to do was to try to satisfy potential curiosity in you.  If you weren’t curious, you wouldn’t be reading this. But, it looks like I’m more likely to say what I…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…