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WordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with Transients, feature art by Mike Kupietz
(An Accidental Review and) Lyrical Illumination of Pink Floyd’s “Sheep”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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WordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with Transients, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Optimization-A-Go-GoWordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with Transients

I suffer from that paradoxical form of laziness peculiar to computer geeks where I will save myself save myself 15 minutes of work on something by spending 4 hours creating…
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(An Accidental Review and) Lyrical Illumination of Pink Floyd’s “Sheep”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Pings On The WigRaving And Drooling: (An Accidental Review and) Lyrical Illumination of Pink Floyd’s “Sheep”

☞ Skip intro Introduction: Pink Floyd's album "Animals", for me, might stand alone as the most singular achievement of the rock 'n' roll era. I've always argued that Pink Floyd…
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20xr9kw2i2qhmz, feature article by Mike Kupietz
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This’ll Show ‘EmVerse Upon Bank of America Holding My Checks And Angering My Cat

"These checks will be held for two weeks", they said, "because they are very large and from New Jersey" This much is true But I am now home and my…
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Comprehensive List of CSS Units, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Vocabulary List, feature art by Mike Kupietz
The Internet Bad Statements (“BS”) Detector, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Comprehensive List of CSS Units, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Web Developer Reference: Comprehensive List of CSS Units

Here’s a guide to all currently available CSS units, with explanations and common use notes. This includes all CSS units listed in MDN Web Docs as of 2025aug15. Sections: By…
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Vocabulary List, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Word SaladVocabulary List

An unsorted list of words or phrases that I like. Aposiopesis (pron.: /ˌæpəsaɪ.əˈpiːsɪs/; Classical Greek: ἀποσιώπησις, "becoming silent") - a figure of speech wherein a sentence is deliberately broken off…
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The Internet Bad Statements (“BS”) Detector, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Online Fact-Checking ToolThe Internet Bad Statements (“BS”) Detector

Here's a fairly old repost from my consulting site, where it got no traction whatsoever. The Bad Statements Detector is a specialized search tool designed to aid in online research…
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Literally Hundreds of Capsule Movie Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
A Technological Solution to Disincentivize a Web Develepment “Concern Troll”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Literally Hundreds of Capsule Movie Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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I can't believe I wrote

Literally Hundreds of Capsule Movie Reviews

If you don't want to read the introduction you can skip straight down to the reviews. Introduction A number of years ago I started jotting down summaries of movies I've…
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CSS Dynamic Point Light Source & Parallax Shadows, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Let There Be More LightWeb Demo: CSS Dynamic Point Light Source & Parallax Shadows

Click here to view this in a separate tab. This demonstrates a high-performance method of rendering dynamic CSS drop shadows from a simulated point light source. The note and sun…
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A Technological Solution to Disincentivize a Web Develepment “Concern Troll”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Fun With A PurposeA Technological Solution to Disincentivize a Web Develepment “Concern Troll”

I had an interesting thing happen a few months ago where a troll in a chat room decided for some reason to run my site through the W3C's Nu HTML…
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Draggable Elements WordPress Plugin, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Can the sentence ‘I literally died laughing’ be true?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Using Per-Website Emails & Passwords to Protect Against Data Breaches, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Draggable Elements WordPress Plugin, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Nothin' But A DragDraggable Elements WordPress Plugin

This will be written up in detail, but for now, this is just a demo page for my KupieTools Draggable Elements WordPress plugin. If you select "View Page Source" in…
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Can the sentence ‘I literally died laughing’ be true?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Infrequently Asked QuestionsCan the sentence ‘I literally died laughing’ be true?

"'Literally' is one of the most misused words in the English language. Literally means: exactly as stated. 'I literally rode a horse to get here.' means you saddled a horse…
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Using Per-Website Emails & Passwords to Protect Against Data Breaches, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Security Through ObscurityUsing Per-Website Emails & Passwords to Protect Against Data Breaches

I got into a conversation today with some web developers, talking about recent articles about a major password breach. This got me to thinking—with some prompting from shadowy web standards…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge – 2025jun29, “Deleted Scenes Monsters” – Casablanca Uncut, feature art by Mike Kupietz
How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash, feature art by Mike Kupietz
#SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Too Hot To Handle Monsters”, Uncensored, feature art by Mike Kupietz
#SaturdayMonsterChallenge – 2025jun29, “Deleted Scenes Monsters” – Casablanca Uncut, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Slay It Again, Sam#SaturdayMonsterChallenge – 2025jun29, “Deleted Scenes Monsters” – Casablanca Uncut

This week's LinkedIn Saturday Monster Challenge generative art theme was "Deleted Scene Monsters": show the monsters that ended up on the cutting room floor. And so, I am pleased to…
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How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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OpinionHow the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash

Note, Sep. 2024: I want to point something out: I’ve given few references here besides a couple of Google search results I happen to like. This page gives my current…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Too Hot To Handle Monsters”, Uncensored, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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But It's A Dry Heat#SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Too Hot To Handle Monsters”, Uncensored

The LinkedIn Saturday Monster Challenge for July 5, 2025 was '"Too Hot To Handle" Monsters'. After consideration, I decided not to post this gallery on LinkedIn. The idea of a…
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Kwitter, the one-user social network, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Bio — About Mike Kupietz, feature art by Mike Kupietz
HIRE MIKE! Professional Info, Full-Stack Web & Certified FileMaker Pro Development, IT Consulting, etc., feature art by Mike Kupietz
Kwitter, the one-user social network, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Social MediocrityKwitter, the one-user social network

I quit Twitter a while back, and sometimes even just glancing at FB consumes a full day, so I have no outlet for my amusing social-media-worthy passing thoughts, except to…
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Bio — About Mike Kupietz, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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The Man Behind The CurtainBio — About Mike Kupietz

It is I! About Mike Kupietz A year of this site, my baby, my pride and joy, ranking on page 11 of Google search results for my own name has…
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HIRE MIKE! Professional Info, Full-Stack Web & Certified FileMaker Pro Development, IT Consulting, etc., feature art by Mike Kupietz
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All Work And No Play Makes...HIRE MIKE! Professional Info, Full-Stack Web & Certified FileMaker Pro Development, IT Consulting, etc.

Some info about Mike's day job: certified Filemaker & Full-Stack Web development. Really you want to check out www.kupietz.com for that info.
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Blue hits again, Harry, Jeff, Blair, feature article by Mike Kupietz
The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist, feature art by Mike Kupietz
#SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Rising Monsters”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Blue hits again, Harry, Jeff, Blair, feature article by Mike Kupietz
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When They Pry It from My Hip, Ironic FingersExploration & Explosions, a Nevada Desert Hipster Road Trip

NOTE: Some of the activities documented in this photo album, like a lot of what goes on in the Black Rock Desert during the off season (when seven different government…
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The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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If I Do Play So MyselfThe Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist

These are probably my favorites of the various video performances I posted on the GuitaristInProgress Youtube channel over the years I was active there. There's both kinds of music here…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Rising Monsters”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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By the time I get there, she'll be rising#SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Rising Monsters”

The Saturday Monster Challenge on LinkedIn for June 21 2025 was "Eternal Rise Monsters". I took the theme and decided to do Phoenixes (Phoenices? Phoenixen?), as in "rising from the…
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“Are you free?”, and Other Ideological Musings, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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A Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournal, feature art by Mike Kupietz
“Are you free?”, and Other Ideological Musings, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Ideology In Brief“Are you free?”, and Other Ideological Musings

Let's talk about sex! No, wait, let's talk about something even more taboo! These are some samples of political, ideological, or economic thoughts I've jotted down. I don't consider myself…
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Essay-Length Memoir“The Light Shone On Me”

Foreword: For some reason, I've always been particularly moved by a sense of loss. It's the sole valuable observation I ever got from a kindly but not particularly effective therapist…
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A Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournal, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Back To The GardenA Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournal

In August 2018 my mom and I decided to take a road trip from my sister's home in an un-named southern city, where I was crashing for a few months,…
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Pure CSS interactive web holiday lights, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Pure CSS interactive web holiday lights, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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season's geekingsPure CSS interactive web holiday lights

Strung across the very top of this page are pure CSS interactive Christmas lights. You can slowly move your mouse across them to jostle them and they're move, all without…
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Marginal Thinking Dept.You Can Quote Me On That (Other Assorted Short Topical Writings)

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Subvert The Cartesian Paradigm!

The Contents Of The Rest Of The World’s Dream Do Not Concern Me (or, Why I’m Not Turning 40)

I originally wrote this essay shortly before my 40th birthday, after which I posted it on my blog and a number of other places. December, 2008 For the record, I…
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An Excel-based DeFi Uniswap Liquidity Pool/Automated Market Maker Simulator, feature art by Mike Kupietz
A Young Person’s Guide To Common Time Signatures, and what they mean in real life, feature art by Mike Kupietz
The Devil In Deco, feature art by Mike Kupietz
An Excel-based DeFi Uniswap Liquidity Pool/Automated Market Maker Simulator, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Untangling Uniswap? Demystifying DeFi? You Tell MeAn Excel-based DeFi Uniswap Liquidity Pool/Automated Market Maker Simulator

For a few years I was in cryptocurrency trading. Eventually, this led me to the wild west of decentralized finance tokens ("DeFi"), an exciting area that I feel has strong…
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A Young Person’s Guide To Common Time Signatures, and what they mean in real life, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Infrequently Asked QuestionsA Young Person’s Guide To Common Time Signatures, and what they mean in real life

I have some time to kill so I thought I would write a brief overview of the concept of time signature in response to some questions that arose recently from…
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The Devil In Deco, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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In The DetailsThe Devil In Deco

A stylistic experiment inspired by vintage art photography.
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Extra New York Images, feature art by Mike Kupietz
UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration, feature art by Mike Kupietz
On Not Voicing One’s Opinion Of Pickles In Deference To A Strange Sensitivity, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Extra New York Images, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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So Much City, They Had To Give It A Second GalleryExtra New York Images

Just a set of fun leftover from when I was working on a featured image for my Local Color: New York Stories, Which I only now realize are all about…
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UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Beneath BerkeleyUC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration

Back around 2005-2006, as social media took off, I was a member of an urban exploration chat group, memory fails but it was probably something on Tribe or Friendster. Mentioning…
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On Not Voicing One’s Opinion Of Pickles In Deference To A Strange Sensitivity, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Is That A Kosher Dill In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?On Not Voicing One’s Opinion Of Pickles In Deference To A Strange Sensitivity

Note: This was composted in response to a #thursdaypoetrysociety challenge on LinkedIn to compose a poem in response to the prompt "my opinion on pickles". My opinion of pickles is…
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Happy Year Of The Snake, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Feminine Stochastique, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Happy Year Of The Snake, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Pretty Snakey, SisHappy Year Of The Snake

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Reflective ProseFascination, And Dangerous Weather

Springtime hits hard in some quarters. I call this 'dangerous weather'—like, you've got to watch out where you're going. You might trip and fall. Somehow this always coincides with the…
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Feminine Stochastique, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Generative MystiqueFeminine Stochastique

About This Gallery This gallery deals with the unavoidable stereotypes of femininity that one encounters using some current generative art tools ca. 2024. Being trained on a society's art, there…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Fog Monsters, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Non-render-blocking YouTube embeds in WordPress, feature art by Mike Kupietz
#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Fog Monsters, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Beware The Fog#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Fog Monsters

#SaturdayMonsterChallenge on LinkedIn for 11 Jan 2024 theme was "Fog Monsters". .
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If You Don’t Live It, It Won’t Come Out Your ConeAdoration Of The City

This is a series of generative art images I am paticularly fond of. Originally these were going to be part of my RobGAN Hitchcock project, but they kind of stand…
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Non-render-blocking YouTube embeds in WordPress, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Video Killed The Pagespeed ScoreNon-render-blocking YouTube embeds in WordPress

On this site's Music Reviews page (itself built on-the-fly by a shortcode that sorts and displays posts from a "Music Review" custom post type), most of the reviews are accompanied…
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“The Radish Is The Noisy’st Root…”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
The Red Day, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Interlude Tonsorial, feature art by Mike Kupietz
“The Radish Is The Noisy’st Root…”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!“The Radish Is The Noisy’st Root…”

The radish is the noisy'st root, Its vocal tack beyond dispute, effusive in expounding truth— so talkative, this verbal fruit. In ages prior and aeons hence, have poets, lost in…
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The Red Day, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Life On Mars?The Red Day

2020, already a strange year due to the pandemic, had its strangest day, for the San Francisco area, on September 9. The Bay Area experienced a kind of weather that…
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Interlude Tonsorial, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Hair Of The DogInterlude Tonsorial

Exqueeze me whilst I sing the tale of facial hair gone tough as nails. When short, it chafes, when long it scares! Crepusculating facial hairs portend the chafed skin one…
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You Light Up My Life, feature art by Mike Kupietz
#WrappedInPink — Pale Pink, feature art by Mike Kupietz
#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Lucky Charm Monsters, feature art by Mike Kupietz
You Light Up My Life, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Shine, Shine, ShineYou Light Up My Life

These people are lit, yo.
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#WrappedInPink — Pale Pink, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Isn't She Pretty#WrappedInPink — Pale Pink

Submission for the Mood Board and Fashion categories of the Wrapped In Pink AI generative art competition, Dec 2024.
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Lucky Charm Monsters, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Some monsters have all the luck#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Lucky Charm Monsters

This week's #SaturdayMonsterChallenge on LinkedIn is Lucky Charm Monsters. I always say, you can tell the lucky charm monsters, because they're the ones hanging out with the people winning at…
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Scripts to Analyze CSS from Firefox’s Javascript console., feature art by Mike Kupietz
Gray Ponytails, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Web Design—Adding Text Previews To HTML Details Disclosure Elements, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Scripts to Analyze CSS from Firefox’s Javascript console., feature art by Mike Kupietz
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For Web Devs and Other Tool-Using AnimalsScripts to Analyze CSS from Firefox’s Javascript console.

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to understand why your wordpress site's freaking menus display fine when you're logged in as administrator but are completely broken…
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Gray Ponytails, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Their Generation, BabyGray Ponytails

The revolution isn't over.
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Web Design—Adding Text Previews To HTML Details Disclosure Elements, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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god is in the detailsWeb Design—Adding Text Previews To HTML Details Disclosure Elements

Looking around the site, you might get the hint that I'm a big fan of <details class="detailsClassName"><summary>blah blah blah</summary> even more blah blah blah</details> disclosure elements. For those unfamiliar, that's…
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Revisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyrical illumination, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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New Userpic. No Specific Lyrical Reference; Just Very Appropriate General Generative Hitchcockiana, Produced Serendipitously By While Trying To Generate A Psychedelic Portrait Of Eugene Mirman Listening To Shufflmania., feature article by Mike Kupietz
Revisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyrical illumination, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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GalleryRevisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyrical illumination

I have to be honest. I don't know about this one. I set out to do another set of AI-assisted lyric illustrations, this time all of one song in its…
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California Deep Dreaming“Wild California” Studies

While working on a featured image for Field Report: Briefing On My Weekend, I had the idea of extending the theme to make a whole set of illustrations inspired by…
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New Userpic. No Specific Lyrical Reference; Just Very Appropriate General Generative Hitchcockiana, Produced Serendipitously By While Trying To Generate A Psychedelic Portrait Of Eugene Mirman Listening To Shufflmania., feature article by Mike Kupietz
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Giving It To A Soft BoyRobGAN Hitchcock — AI-assisted lyrical illustrations

For a while, I had a Twitter account, @robGANhitchock, where I was posting AI illustrations of Robyn Hitchcock lyrics I created using a Generative Adversarial Network ("GAN"). This was an…
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A Helluva Band — Generative Art gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Previsions of Johanna — preliminary experiments, feature art by Mike Kupietz
A Helluva Band — Generative Art gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Is There Rock After Life?A Helluva Band — Generative Art gallery

Angel trumpets and devil trombones, and you are invited! Here's some phantasmagorical music-themed generative AI illustrations I, well, generated. These were, by the way, generated with Dall-E 2.5, which is…
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About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Hey, You Got Your Social Awareness In My AI!About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site

A number of the AI-generated images on this site contain artistic depictions of nudity, presented in a way that might seem to reasonably suggest some confusion between real artistic or…
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Previsions of Johanna — preliminary experiments, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Work-In-Progress PostviewPrevisions of Johanna — preliminary experiments

As I worked on my "Revisions Of Johanna" project, I generated a lot of images I really liked, but which didn't fit into the final project. I decided the best…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — &#8220;Winter Monster&#8221;, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Ode to “Ode To A Croaking Man”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Resurrecting the HTML <blink>&lt;BLINK&gt;</blink> tag, feature art by Mike Kupietz
#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — “Winter Monster”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Baby, It's Cold Outside#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — “Winter Monster”

Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024’s #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme on LinkedIn is "Winter Monster". Here's what I did. Bonus Gallery: Leftover Winter Monster Images
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Ode to “Ode To A Croaking Man”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Meta-Poetry!Ode to “Ode To A Croaking Man”

O! Poem that spoke of a man who croaks, were you not my own, I would quote you! I would think that whomever composed you smokes dope, but I know…
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Resurrecting the HTML <blink><BLINK></blink> tag, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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In With The OldResurrecting the HTML <BLINK> tag

Back in the bad old days, there was an HTML tag called <blink>. It did this, which everybody hated because it was annoying, and everybody's web pages looked like this:…
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Hiking the rockies in Colorado, we got real close to some amazing wildlife., feature article by Mike Kupietz
Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
On Time, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Hiking the rockies in Colorado, we got real close to some amazing wildlife., feature article by Mike Kupietz
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Nothing To See Here, FolksJust Some Vacation Snapshots

Just some photos from my cross-country vacation. Funny how different vacation photos sometimes are from how you remember things being. Guess I should have used a camera instead of an…
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Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Infrequently Asked QuestionsWhy are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note?

Q. Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note? -Charlotte V., Seattle, WA Notes an octave apart are the same note because of the mechanics…
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On Time, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Art Waits For No ManOn Time

I posted The Contents Of The Rest Of The World’s Dream Do Not Concern Me (or, Why I Didn’t Turn 40) and Day Nights at around the same time, and in…
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What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? Is flipping tails more likely after four heads in a row?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
IAQs—Answers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions, feature art by Mike Kupietz
What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Infrequently Asked QuestionsWhat’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week?

What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week? -Jeannie F, Marin County, CA Thursday. Trust me, being self-employed I’ve…
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Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? Is flipping tails more likely after four heads in a row?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Infrequently Asked QuestionsDo the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? Is flipping tails more likely after four heads in a row?

A.) Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? B.) What if 5 people each flipped a coin. If the first four all land on heads,…
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IAQs—Answers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Knowledg Is PowehIAQs—Answers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions

1. What's the difference between a sauce and a condiment? - Susan W., Tallahassee, FL A condiment enhances the flavor of food and is used sparingly. A sauce adds an…
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&#8220;The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)&#8221; — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose, feature art by Mike Kupietz
UC Santa Cruz Porter Caves &#038; the Hell Hole, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Sing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations &#038; Guest Appearances, feature art by Mike Kupietz
“The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)” — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Tonal Eclipse Of The Heart“The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)” — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose

Over the past few years I accumulated a range of inexpensive but beautiful-sounding equipment: a '94 Standard Stratocaster, both Xtomp and Ampero modeling effects pedals from Hotone, and a Fender…
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UC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Subterranean SerendipityUC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole

9/30/2005 I was wandering the trails through the woods by UC Santa Cruz, taking some pictures of trees and stuff and trying to shake off a cold, when fate brought…
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Sing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Nearly FamousSing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances

Here's a page collecting some of my musical guest appearances documented on the web. Currently there ain't much that's been documented, and less of that that's posted, but as I…
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Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Bedroom Full O&#8217; Blooze &#8211; (mostly) acoustic blues videos, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Album PreviewEthay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture

Imagine if an esteemed Pig Latin cinema auteur filmed a classic 1970s horror movie entirely in his native tongue. Then, imagine if I had been picked out of my second-grade class by that auteur to create a vintage electronic progressive soundtrack to that film. Now, imagine that soundtrack was unearthed and finally saw release as an album in the 2020s. These are the work-in-progress demos for what someday will be what would have been that legendary classic film score.
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Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Album PreviewMichael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009

Back in 2009 my old ex-friend Rick Abruzzo, whom I'd met some years earlier during a mutual effort to resuscitate the soggy corpse of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, invited…
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Bedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videos, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Got To Pay Your DuesBedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videos

This is a playlist from my GuitaristInProgress Youtube channel, just a bunch of old blues tunes I ran through at various points. These are some select ones I like, but…
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Portraits In Flesh — AI generative art gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPress, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Essay-Length MemoirArs Moriendi—Haley’s Epitaph

Disclaimer, 2023 Having come a long way from the days related herein, I thought for a while before reposting this 26-year-old piece of writing, originally posted on my old website.…
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Portraits In Flesh — AI generative art gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Who Trails On A LeashPortraits In Flesh — AI generative art gallery

Painted faces, paintings of faces — an exploration of fantastic portraits and fantastic art. (Titled with apologies to the shade of David Bowie.)
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Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPress, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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All ThumbsAdding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPress

On this site, any post without a featured image specifically set (such as this one) displays the default floral 'K' insignia anywhere on the site where a thumbnail is displayed.…
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Fragrance Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Generating On-The-Fly Email Addresses as an Anti-Spam Measure in WordPress, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Fragrance Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Fragrance Reviews

Unbeknownst to anybody except Dan Sonenberg—in fact, practically unbeknownst to even myself—I occasionally write fragrance reviews. These are those. Some people enjoy them. Those of you with the nose can…
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The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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DemoThe Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15

I've been putting together an album of goofy electronic arrangements of classic tunes. Here's one I'm still working on at the moment, a medley of classic favorites, called "The Strutbutter…
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Generating On-The-Fly Email Addresses as an Anti-Spam Measure in WordPress, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Generating On-The-Fly Email Addresses as an Anti-Spam Measure in WordPress

On my IT consulting business site, I'm using a php script I've written to generate on-the-fly random email addresses specific to the browsing session looking at the site. So, I…
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Music Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05, feature art by Mike Kupietz
How to Find Your Hotel If You’re Lost In Ghent, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Music Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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You Are HearMusic Reviews

As of this writing (March 2024) this is pretty sparse, I only just had the idea. Generally I've never written much about music—I don't need to, because music is just…
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Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Album PreviewFive Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05

Posted with great reluctance, my perpetually unfinished magnum opus, likely to someday stand as my failed masterpiece, a ponderous 65-minute arabesque of serialist post-rock instrumentals which, after 7 ongoing years…
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How to Find Your Hotel If You’re Lost In Ghent, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Local Color—Ghent, BelgiumHow to Find Your Hotel If You’re Lost In Ghent

Back in my salad days I once tricked the Belgian government into paying to fly me & two friends to give an arts lecture in Ghent under assumed names (long…
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27 Photos from Burning Man 1997, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front, feature art by Mike Kupietz
djg87h09uydshm, feature article by Mike Kupietz
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!Ode To A Croaking Man

On a long-ago visit to the hamlet of Acton, MA with my GOAT (that's "Girlfriend Onceupon A Time"—hey, I don't mind if they call me a BOAT), the town was…
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27 Photos from Burning Man 1997, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Good Day at Black Rock27 Photos from Burning Man 1997

Introduction, 2023: Back when I first got to San Francisco in the mid-90s, full of youthful idealism, the first thing I did was seek out the San Francisco Cacophony Society…
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Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Vacation PhotosPseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front

For a little while I used to run the Billboard Liberation Front's website (INB4: no, don't even bother asking. I have no idea how to reach them anymore. The Old…
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Shower thoughts, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Critical Reading of a Flawed Information Source, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Even In The Quietest MomentsShower thoughts

Idea for a movie: A time traveling refugee from the 1990s is stuck in another era and must try to blend in, but is found out when it is discovered…
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Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Night Of The Living DreadEarly Experiment: Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a

An early experiment in the serialist style I've been developing, which I was once told by a figure in a dream should be called "Zetetic Music". 2017. This is not…
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Critical Reading of a Flawed Information Source, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Watch Your IntelligenceCritical Reading of a Flawed Information Source

Oct. 7, 2023 I had an interesting talk with my father yesterday. He had a 2-for-1 subscription offer to Mother Jones, and we got into a discussion when I told…
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Terminal-Notifier Bridge For Thunderbird Email Client, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!Ode To A Curl-Up Bug

O! pity the poor maligned curl-up! Its form, tho' well designed, inspires many to fear! But many a curl-up has faced a cruel and untimely fate 'neath some shoe or…
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How to make a completely unusable homepage in CSS3 and jQuery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Usability HellHow to make a completely unusable homepage in CSS3 and jQuery

One of my favorite bits of code I've ever done is on the front page of my jiggy, ancient, perpetually-under-construction, virtually-never-viewed old personal website, Life In A Mikeycosm. Eager to…
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Terminal-Notifier Bridge For Thunderbird Email Client, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Thunderbird CustomizationTerminal-Notifier Bridge For Thunderbird Email Client

Hot off the presses. Direct from my Github, a MacOS BASH script to allow customized per-mailbox notifications in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. Following is the README containing full information…
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Battery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Exploration, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Robyn Hitchcock fan club 50th Birthday Card, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Battery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Exploration, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Beneath the Bay AreaBattery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Exploration

somewhere beneath the Bay Area, Aug 6 2004 Last July, my late* trubbamaking companion was trying to find a shortcut down to the beach when he noticed a hole in…
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Robyn Hitchcock fan club 50th Birthday Card, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Digital Objets D’ArtRobyn Hitchcock fan club 50th Birthday Card

Robyn Hitchcock used to have an email fan club that I was pretty active in (hence his name coming up a bunch of places on this site; if you're familiar…
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Instigative Journalism“Elvis Is Everywhere” (Or At Least In Annandale)

In the Nov. 10, 1988 edition of Bard College school newspaper "The Bardian", for whom I occasionally wrote as a cub reporter, the Campus News section was led by my…
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गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Misinformation Visualization, feature art by Mike Kupietz
गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Album Previewगोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra

This one is finished except for the final production and mastering... it needs some studio gloss on it. This a a drone album I did in early 2023. I created…
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Local Color—SeattleIrene & Sheri

This was originally posted on my old website, Life In A Mikeycosm. Before you read this, I should warn you. This story contains one of the grossest things I've ever…
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Misinformation Visualization, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Fudging The FactsMisinformation Visualization

Among my many inconsequential but fondly-remembered ideas was about 10 years ago, when for a brief time, I had a blog called "Misinformation Visualization" (subtitle: "Bringing a world of misinformation…
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Yiki·dū·sō (A Dream) digital single by Mike Kupietz cover, feature article by Mike Kupietz
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DemoThe Ravine Houses Are Gone (A Song For Hume, And Wacks, And Dan, And You)

May 28, 2007 On May 27, Christopher Hume's parents met up with my friends Dan and Wacks at Bard College, and they went down to the on-campus waterfalls on the…
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Yiki·dū·sō (A Dream) digital single by Mike Kupietz cover, feature article by Mike Kupietz
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Digital SingleYiki·dū·sō (A Dream)

This digital 0", originally hosted on my Bandcamp page, contains a track that sat unfinished on my hard drive for far too long, now finally having had the burrs filed…
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    • Add float:none !important; to .gallery class. Don't know why the theme css had galleries floated left but it messed up subsequent elements' formatting as floated elements can move outside the height of their parent elements and so may cause object below to collide with their contents.
    • Added cron job to dump all of sql to a single file every morning. Changed apt backup cron jobs to save to files with easier to understand names. Found syntax error preventing rsnapshot from running.
  • 2025aug28
    • Update kupietools page cache plugins to accept IPs not to cache from an admin settings panel.
    • Add featuredhtml custom field to allow hero section to put live HTML in background instead of just static images
    • Turned off old code left over from attempt to implement /source/ path.
    • Turned microformat tagging off pending decisions about future site direction.
    • Add class to plugin tab panel close buttons and make larger
    • Add header("X-Cache-Enabled: true") to ktwp page cache plugin to shut WP health plugin up.
  • 2025aug26
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    • Make page display adjusger hover label fit content instead of cutting it off
    • Update labels on kupietools plugin tabs
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    • Ran comprehensive sysbench tests agains serving on quad core i7 MacBook pro. dual core i5 mac mini at same clock speed is faster! Increased memory to 3/4 of available Mac Mini memory because reports say the mini can run the current OS on that little ram... tests appear to bear this out, things are zipping along now.
    • enabled mod_brotli and added that and gzip compression to apache2.conf per pngdom recommendation.
    • Long weekend recovering server from backup after horrific crash in which Claude guided me through "repair" steps that irreparably hosed the server.
  • 2025aug21
    • Make page cache plugin include custom headers for cache hit or miss.
    • Make page display adjuster plugin exempt background images from dark mode, and preserve existing filters on exempt elements

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