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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

This is a clip from the movie, Twelve.

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

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…

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…

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…

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

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

Merry Christmas.

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…

I guess it’s Spring again.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

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.

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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.…

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…

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 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.…

Now reading Conversations with God By Neale Donald Walsch. I’m going to see if he’s full of shit. ** I’m a few pages in and I’m a little tingly. This is what I’ve been experiencing.. thoughts and experiences… both in…