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Portraits In Flesh — AI generative art gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash, feature art by Mike Kupietz
“The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)” — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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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: I want to point something out: I’ve given no references here. This is my current understanding. I’m still researching it, and you should research it yourself, don’t take my…
653 words2 media itemsUpdated Oct 7, 2024
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“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…
344 wordsUpdated Sep 20, 2024
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Non-render-blocking YouTube embeds in WordPress, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Sing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Hiking the rockies in Colorado, we got real close to some amazing wildlife., feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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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…
390 wordsUpdated Oct 7, 2024
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Hiking the rockies in Colorado, we got real close to some amazing wildlife., feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Nothing To See Here, FolksJust Some Vacation Snapshots

Just some photos from my vacation. Funny how different vacation photos sometimes are from how you remember things being. Guess I should have used a camera instead of an AI.…
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The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Bedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videos, feature art by Mike Kupietz
About Michael Kupietz — Bio, Contact Info, & Other Projects, feature art by Mike Kupietz
The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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If I Do Say 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 a little variety here — both…
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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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About Michael Kupietz — Bio, Contact Info, & Other Projects, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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The Man Behind The CurtainAbout Michael Kupietz — Bio, Contact Info, & Other Projects

Contents: It is I: About Mike Kupietz Don’t call me, I’ll call you: Mike Kupietz contact info. Links to Mike’s other web pages and online presence It is I! About…
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Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front, 2008, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Blue hits again, Harry, Jeff, Blair, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Music Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front, 2008, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Vacation PhotosPseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front, 2008

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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Blue hits again, Harry, Jeff, Blair, feature art 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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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…
124 wordsUpdated Mar 17, 2024
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Dream Jobs (the surreal preoccupations of an out-of-work IT consultant) — Generative Art gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
WordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with Transients, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Raving And Drooling — AI-assisted lyrical illumination of Pink Floyd’s “Sheep”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Dream Jobs (the surreal preoccupations of an out-of-work IT consultant) — Generative Art gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Welcome To My NightmareDream Jobs (the surreal preoccupations of an out-of-work IT consultant) — Generative Art gallery

Another AI generative art project. I recently was experimenting with creating some work-themed images. I didn’t come up with anything I could use on my FileMaker consulting website, but I…
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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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Raving And Drooling — AI-assisted lyrical illumination of Pink Floyd’s “Sheep”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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GalleryRaving And Drooling — AI-assisted lyrical illumination of Pink Floyd’s “Sheep”

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 were not a…
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Why do people respect George Carlin?, 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
UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Why do people respect George Carlin?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Infrequently Asked QuestionsWhy do people respect George Carlin?

I have a serious question, and, dead serious, I’m not deliberately trying to provoke. 
Why do people respect George Carlin? -Brett F., Alberta Carlin was the observational comic who set…
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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
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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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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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How to Find Your Hotel If You’re Lost In Ghent, 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
Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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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,…
2309 wordsUpdated Oct 7, 2024
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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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Battery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Exploration, feature art by Mike Kupietz
27 Photos from Burning Man 1997, feature art by Mike Kupietz
RH fan club Birthday Card (2003), feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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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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RH fan club Birthday Card (2003), feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Digital Objets D’ArtRH fan club Birthday Card (2003)

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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“Peaks Island Ferry” by Dan Sonenberg — album review, feature art by Mike Kupietz
A Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournal, feature art by Mike Kupietz
UC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole, feature art by Mike Kupietz
“Peaks Island Ferry” by Dan Sonenberg — album review, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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I Like To Listen“Peaks Island Ferry” by Dan Sonenberg — album review

Finally giving a listen to the prerelease of old friend Dan Sonenberg’s return to solo singer-songwriting, “Peaks Island Ferry”. Rather than set down & give him feedback after it’s over,…
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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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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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“The Radish Is The Noisy’st Root…”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
An Excel-based DeFi Liquidity Pool Simulator, feature art by Mike Kupietz
TradingView Pine Script Indicators, Algos & Experiments, 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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An Excel-based DeFi Liquidity Pool Simulator, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Untangling Uniswap? Demystifying DeFi? You Tell MeAn Excel-based DeFi Liquidity Pool 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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TradingView Pine Script Indicators, Algos & Experiments, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Trading ToolsTradingView Pine Script Indicators, Algos & Experiments

Here’s a collection of trading tools I wrote & shared on TradingView, a finance markets charting site, in their native Pine script. These were originally published on my old crypto…
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Critical Reading of a Flawed Information Source, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Previsions of Johanna — Generative Art gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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Previsions of Johanna — Generative Art gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Work-In-Progress PostviewPrevisions of Johanna — Generative Art gallery

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…
473 words67 media itemsUpdated Oct 7, 2024
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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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Misinformation Visualization, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Ode to “Ode To A Croaking Man”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
How to make a completely unusable homepage in CSS3 and jQuery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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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…
130 wordsUpdated Jan 15, 2024
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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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IAQs—Answers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions, 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
Terminal-Notifier Bridge For Thunderbird Email Client, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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…
780 wordsUpdated Oct 21, 2024
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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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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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mjqlzumrn15les, feature art by Mike Kupietz
1gsf6c9pdxcpd9, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Revisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyric illustrations gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
mjqlzumrn15les, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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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1gsf6c9pdxcpd9, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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California Deep Dreaming“Wild California” Studies — Ai Generative Art gallery

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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Revisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyric illustrations gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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GalleryRevisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyric illustrations gallery

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…
422 words84 media itemsUpdated Oct 7, 2024
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20xr9kw2i2qhmz, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Report On My Weekend, feature art by Mike Kupietz
djg87h09uydshm, feature art by Mike Kupietz
20xr9kw2i2qhmz, feature art 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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Report On My Weekend, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Local Color—Point Reyes, Marin CountyReport On My Weekend

(Sent via email to undisclosed parties) My god, if I knew how my little weekend of excursions was going to turn out, I would have made it an event and…
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djg87h09uydshm, feature art 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…
300 wordsUpdated Feb 19, 2024
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wu6rn5slljuedo!!, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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dcdea589 8ba6 4d7b bfe0 0980a9decfdb, feature art by Mike Kupietz
wu6rn5slljuedo!!, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Investigative Journalism“Elvis Is Everywhere”

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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iytlbciupmd599, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Marginal Thinking Dept.You Can Quote Me On That (Assorted Short Topical Writings)

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dcdea589 8ba6 4d7b bfe0 0980a9decfdb, 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…
446 words1 media itemUpdated Jan 7, 2024
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RavineHousesTake12 mp3 image, feature art by Mike Kupietz
mosrite picks crop jog smaller, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPress, feature art by Mike Kupietz
RavineHousesTake12 mp3 image, feature art 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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mosrite picks crop jog smaller, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Serious Gear GeekeryMosrite/Bakersfield Guitar Picks

I wonder how many of even my guitarist friends will appreciate the above photo. Maybe some of you Seattle musicians, or Ventures fans. I found a set of vintage Mosrite…
860 words3 media itemsUpdated Feb 8, 2024
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Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPress, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Adding 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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cmism1zdu8xyha!, feature art by Mike Kupietz
yurv4ghopv2vm7, feature art by Mike Kupietz
8gb0o0ytg7z3an, feature art by Mike Kupietz
cmism1zdu8xyha!, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Question of the dayWhen was the first time you noticed someone cheating at something?

A few years back, my friend Al Katkowski was something of a success with his “Question Of The Day” iphone app and subsequent book. This was a question from the…
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yurv4ghopv2vm7, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Reflective ProseDay Nights

I gotta do something about them day nights. I was just walking home from the store, bopping down the street at 11 PM, a time that I grew up believing…
645 wordsUpdated Jul 24, 2024
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8gb0o0ytg7z3an, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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…
1401 wordsUpdated Oct 12, 2023
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3228338d f61d 49c8 8239 d1fd35fefc1c, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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AdministriviaSite Content, Design, & Technical IAQs

An early viewer asked some questions about the art I use on my site, so I thought I would put together a page of Q&A about the site and the…
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z796olukpm1e2v, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Site Design OverviewFeatured Images Gallery

Since they’re not always clearly displayed on the front page or in every post, for convenience, this is an automated scrape of all original “featured images” (the background or front…
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9351eqbfhhacfh, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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 Didn’t Turn 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…
1309 wordsUpdated Jul 24, 2024
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Fragrance Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Yiki·dū·sō (A Dream) digital single by Mike Kupietz cover, feature art by Mike Kupietz
drsdcx1m5g218t, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Fragrance Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Nobody knows I write...

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…
81 wordsUpdated Jun 15, 2024
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Yiki·dū·sō (A Dream) digital single by Mike Kupietz cover, feature art 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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drsdcx1m5g218t, 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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2daab143 7c4f 41eb 9c38 90c43236f70d, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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My Whole Raison D'isasterAbout This Site — An Introduction

Hey there! Thanks for visiting my online showcase. I’m Mr. Roarke, your host. Welcome to Fantasy Island. But seriously, folks… I’ve had a personal website for about 20 years, as…
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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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If You Don’t Live It, It Won’t Come Out Your ConeAdoration Of The City — AI Generative Art gallery

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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The Internet Bad Statements (“BS”) Detector, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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 art by Mike Kupietz
WordPress Custom “Hero Header” Modifications, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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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 art by Mike Kupietz
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Giving It To A Soft BoyRobGAN Hitchcock — AI-assisted lyrical illustrations gallery

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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WordPress Custom “Hero Header” Modifications, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Used on this siteWordPress Custom “Hero Header” Modifications

This site uses the “Sinatra” free WordPress theme as its base. Sinatra includes a single “Hero Header” the row of 3 animated featured posts on the home page which changes…
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Kwitter, the one-user social network, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Michael Kupietz Live (And Almost In Tune) on Pirate Cat Radio, 5/28/2009, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Literally Hundreds of Capsule Movie Reviews, 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…
599 wordsUpdated Oct 7, 2024
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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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Literally Hundreds of Capsule Movie Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Literally Hundreds of Capsule Movie Reviews

A number of years ago I started jotting down summaries of movies I’ve watched, just to keep track of what I’d seen. As the years went by, the list grew,…
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गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Bento software synthesizer screenshot, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Site Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and Conditions, 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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Bento software synthesizer screenshot, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Equipment OverviewBento Box Software Synthesizer

I love the Bento synthesizer app. This is the kind of thing I never would have thought was worth my time, until I started to actually play with it and…
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Site Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and Conditions, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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The Man Is Out To Get MeSite Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and Conditions

...You haven't lived unless you've read 'em!

Commencing herewith are the understandings and conditions (hereinafter referred to as the “Terms Of Use”) to which you must agree to be permitted to access, view, or use the whole…
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Five Themes In Uncertain Times v.0.89.05, feature art by Mike Kupietz
“Are you free?”, and Other Short Ideological Musings, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Shower thoughts, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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“Are you free?”, and Other Short Ideological Musings, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Ideology In Brief“Are you free?”, and Other Short 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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Shower thoughts, 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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The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky, v13.15, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Ethay Eaday Illstay Eamscray (“The Dead Still Scream”) — Music From The Imaginary Motion Picture, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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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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Monster Zed / Night Of The Living Zed 0.5a, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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DemoMonster 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.
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Generating On-The-Fly Email Addresses as an Anti-Spam Measure in WordPress, feature art by Mike Kupietz
A Helluva Band — Generative Art gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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…
675 wordsUpdated Jul 7, 2024
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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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