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Why Eat Pigeon?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
By Request, Wild SF & Wild NYC (Work In Progress), feature art by Mike Kupietz
Latest News — What's Up With The Site & Mike, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Why Eat Pigeon?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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A Reminiscence Of DuncesWhy Eat Pigeon?

Way back in the heady days of the dotcom boom, as a newbie in San Francisco, I fell in with a group of hipsters trying to revivify the soggy corpse of the SF Cacophony Society, which, for a while, consisted mostly of a bunch of underemployed techies around on a mailing list kidding with each...
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More Wild StylesBy Request, Wild SF & Wild NYC (Work In Progress)

A cousin of mine was helping work on a volume of poetry and asked if I had more images specifically of San Francisco or New York City in the style of “Wild California” Studies — AI Generative Art gallery that they could consider for inclusion. I didn't, but I whipped some up. I'm pretty fond...
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Read All About ItLatest News — What's Up With The Site & Mike

2025 Sep 4 - A humans.txt file has been added to the site. For background, see https://humanstxt.org/. 2025 Aug Lots of new stuff this past month. - The front page "hero" (that featured post section) background images are now capable of javascript interactivity... you may occasionally notice one of them moving, or reacting to your...
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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 a shortcut. As such, the menus on this site are dynamically generated by traversing the category tree in PHP and laying out menus and submenus...
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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 introIntroduction: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 rock band, but the first act of what several decades later eventually came to be called "post-rock"—musicians grounded in the language and conventions of...
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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 cat is angry He looks up through his sloth with narrowed eyes He querulously naiows his consternation Tonight I will sleep the sleep of a...
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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 Category Notes and tips Alphabetically: By Category Angle units deg: Angle Degrees (360deg = full circle). grad: Angle Gradians (400grad = full circle). rad: Angle...
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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 and left unfinished, the ending to be supplied by the imagination, giving an impression of unwillingness or inability to continue.[1] An example would be the...
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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 and to help prevent people from passing along nonsense on the internet, by making it easier to look stuff up on fact-checking websites like Snopes.com,...
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Literally <strike>Hundreds of</strike> Like A Thousand Capsule Movie Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
A Technological Solution to Disincentivize a Web Develepment "Concern Troll", feature art by Mike Kupietz
Literally <strike>Hundreds of</strike> Like A Thousand Capsule Movie Reviews, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Literally Hundreds of Like A Thousand 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 watched, just to keep track of what I'd seen. As the years went by, the list grew, and occasionally (but not often) I was moved...
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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 light source elements have been made interactively user-draggable by the inclusion of an external draggability package. Until I have this documented, you can see the...
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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 Validator and apparently was grievously wounded by the validation errors it had—and furthermore, had a big concern with the overall bandwidth consumption of the site,...
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Draggable Elements WordPress Plugin, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Can the statement '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
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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 your browser, you will see that the four following DIV elements, as defined in the page HTML, are just ordinary DIV elements with a single...
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Can the statement 'I literally died laughing' be true?, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Infrequently Asked QuestionsCan the statement '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 and rode it to your destination in real life. 'I literally died laughing' is untrue, because you're still alive." —Siana W., via internet That's not...
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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 advocate and staunch info-sharing supporter Tantek Çelik—that this would be useful to document. Unique email addresses and passwords for every website The basic idea is...
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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
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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 present these rare stills from the original cut of "Casablanca" (1942)—starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman as star-crossed former lovers in a classic tale of...
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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 understanding. I’m still researching it, and you should research it yourself, don’t take my word as gospel truth. But this is how I understand it...
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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 "monster"-themes art challenge on a professional site has always been a funny one, and while most people (including myself) usually create work-safe images, the fact...
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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 just think them privately to myself. And that's so 20th century. So this page is my new one-person social network, "Kwitter", a place to post...
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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 convinced me it's time to do a little search engine optimization, so here's some brief biographical information about artist and technologist Michael Kupietz to tip...
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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.

I ought to say something on this site about my IT day job. I've been a full-stack web developer and Claris-certified FileMaker Pro developer for a long time. This page is kind of a placeholder until I figure out what to say about that here. I have a professional site—really just an online post of...
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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 agencies aren't there standing by to protect you from yourself), fall firmly in the "Don't try this at home" area. Or even in the "Don't...
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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 — classic rock AND blues! Plus, a few hints of electric guitar and one odd psychedelic spin on my old Wurlitzer organ. If you're only...
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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 ashes." ~ Click any image to enlarge ~
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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 an authority on these things, for sure, I just like to think things through, and as I like to say, for me these kinds of...
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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 I saw for a while in my 30s, one of the few deep and profoundly true things about myself I hadn't already excavated on my...
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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, to visit Pearl Fryar's Topiary Garden, in Bishopville, SC. Pearl Fryar is a folk artist, famous for, in the 1980s, having cleared a three-acre cornfield...
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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 any javascript. The twisty cord is CSS too. There's also a broken one. How it's done First off, here's how it's done. The only HTML...
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Marginal Thinking Dept.You Can Quote Me On That (Other Assorted Short Topical Writings)

Toggle all open/closed  Advice & Life Lessons [1]> Forgive Yourself For Your Misadventures (225 words) Originally posted on my LinkedIn on 11/25/24 @ 11:26 AM. Someone said this to me a while ago, I wish I could remember who, but it’s helped me deal with a lot of adverse circumstances. A lot of us are going...
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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 was born on Dec. 11, 1968. I turned 39 last year, on Dec. 11, 2007. I can't say I thought about it much, at least...
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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 potential to be on the cutting edge of technology's potential to fundamentally reshape our society. Decentrailized Finance concept: The "Automated Market Maker" Among the odd...
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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 non-musicians. Just a word, this post was originally submitted to a long-ago fan club email list for an older musician, hence many uses of music...
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In The DetailsThe Devil In Deco

A stylistic experiment inspired by vintage art photography. ~ Click any image to enlarge ~
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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
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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 petty crimes page. My cousin likes them. ~ Click any image to enlarge ~
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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 my interest in the UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels—a fabled network of sometimes-dangerous underground utility tunnels cross-crossing the UC Berkeley campus, which had once been well-traveled...
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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 deep and profound, and so sharp it tickles, and so, when around those ones whose sharp senses are hurt by adjectives, or dire consequences of...
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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
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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 rise of halters and midriff shirts. Fascination, you know, is a universal feeling. I hesitate to call it an emotion, it's more than that, it's...
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Generative MystiqueFeminine Stochastique

About This GalleryThis 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 are two possibilities for generative visual art software: it can hold an unflinching mirror up to that society, including reiterating its existing biases; or its creators...
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#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". ~ Click any image to enlarge ~ .
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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 on their own. Created with Stable Diffusion. ~ Click any image to enlarge ~
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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 by YouTube video embeds from the album in question. What I didn't realize in setting that up is that YouTube embeds use [code][/code] tags to...
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“The Radish Is The Noisy’st Root…”, feature art by Mike Kupietz
The Red Day, 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 reverence, e'er had their solemn thoughts disturbed in comp'ny of this verbal herb, As, spicy, doth it bide its time concocting tales in verse and...
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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 few people ever see. I woke up that morning thinking it was dawn… from where I'd slept, through the windows I could see the sky...
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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 expects of consequence in harm direct of concourse with the roughshod necks of neck-beards come to wreak their heck! 'Ere I detect, this sullen morn,...
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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
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Shine, Shine, ShineYou Light Up My Life

These people are lit, yo. ~ Click any image to enlarge ~
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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. ~ Click any image to enlarge ~
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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 the casino tables, as opposed to the ones slipping roofies into people's drinks at the bar, snarfing up the king crab legs at the all-you-can...
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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 when you're logged out, it may be useful to be able to easily compile all the CSS for the affected page elements for both the...
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Their Generation, BabyGray Ponytails

The revolution isn't over. ~ Click any image to enlarge ~
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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 this: Here's a title of a sectionHere's where a bunch of information goes. Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah Blah...
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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 entirety... Bob Dylan's "Visions Of Johanna". I got a little ways into it, and it was going well, when a few times in a row...
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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 my travels around California's natural areas. I wound up doing a whole mess of them. These are experimental, but I like the idea and the...
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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 interesting project, because when it started I knew next to nothing about generative art; as I worked on it I learned more about crafting prompts,...
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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 sadly no longer available. All public instances have been replaced with Dall-E 3 which is much more literal, produces crisp, more concrete and digital-looking or...
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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 aesthetic value, and what gives some people, perhaps including myself, some level of simple va-va-va-voom visual jollies. Put simply: there's a lot of images of...
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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 of them deserved their own gallery. This page is a work in progress, I just kind of threw it up to get me started. I...
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — "Winter Monster", 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
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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. ~ Click any image to enlarge ~ Bonus Gallery: Leftover Winter Monster ImagesAs usual, when doing my gallery for #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — "Winter Monster", there were a ton of images left over that I liked but didn't make the cut, or...
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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 it ain't so, 'cause I wrote you. Which poet is it, that constructed you, Ode? 'Twas myself! Though I scant deserve credit. For a poem's...
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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 [code][/code]. It did this, which everybody hated because it was annoying, and everybody's web pages looked like this: Hello! Welcome to Kupietz Arts+CodeThis is the homepage of Mike Kupietz where you can see all his art, music, writing, and code! BEST VIEWED WITH...
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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 AI. Still, some of them really are surprisingly accurate to how things really were. ~ Click any image to enlarge ~ Beach bunny. I wish...
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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?

Originally posted on my old site Life In A Mikeycosm. 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 of vibration. Consider a piano string that is hit by a hammer and vibrates 1000...
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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 making the featured images, used Stable Diffusion XL to create a bunch of images that I'm kind of fond of, all around the themes of...
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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 done a lot of experimenting. The ideal 3-day workweek is easy: that’s MWTh — Monday, Wednesday, Thursday. It makes Monday easier, because you know you...
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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 version of this was originally posted on my blog Sloth And Dignity on 3/31/12 @ 05:34 am. 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, the odds of the fifth coming up...
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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, FLA condiment enhances the flavor of food and is used sparingly. A sauce adds an additional flavor or richness of its own to the dish, and may be used generously. 2. Is there a name for that special credit where at...
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"The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)" — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose, feature art by Mike Kupietz
UC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole, feature art by Mike Kupietz
Sing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances, 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 Champion 20 modeling amp, the latter three of which, as digital modeling hardware containing hundreds of software models emulating vintage analog signal processors, amps, and...
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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

Originally posted on my old site Life In A Mikeycosm. 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 me by sheer happenstance onto this intriguing tableau:   Click any image to enlarge Hmmm......
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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 go through my archives I'll dig up more. Daniel Sonenberg with Mike Kupietz: Dan's a very old and dear friend and major force early in...
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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' Blooze - (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 1970s Pig Latin cinema auteur had filmed a classic horror movie entirely in his native tongue. Then, imagine that I, at that time, rather than being entirely preoccupied with my second-grade studies and unavailable to travel, had instead left the safe confines of my suburban Long Island childhood home to see...
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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 me to come down with my guitar and fill some airtime on Baghdad By The Bay, his show on San Francisco's Pirate Cat Radio. A...
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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 if you click that link to go to the channel, there are plenty more. The below is displayed with some new scripts I'm working on,...
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drsdcx1m5g218t, feature article by Mike Kupietz
Portraits In Flesh — AI generative illustration 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. I think it has merit as a piece of my own writing and as a remembrance of someone I liked and cared about, despite how...
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Portraits In Flesh — AI generative illustration gallery, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Who Trails On A LeashPortraits In Flesh — AI generative illustration gallery

Painted faces, paintings of faces — an exploration of fantastic portraits and fantastic art. (Titled with apologies to the shade of David Bowie.) ~ Click any image to enlarge ~
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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. I looked around the web and none of the solutions I found worked. I eventually figured out that adding the following to my theme's functions.php...
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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 find me on Fragrantica. Toggle all reviews open/closed [mctagmap responsive="yes" columns="1" css3="yes" title_divider="The" show_posts="yes" descriptions="yes" width="50%" post_type="fragrance-review" dont_hide_titles="yes"]
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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 / The Great Game Show In The Sky". https://michaelkupietz.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/The-Strutbutter-The-Great-Game-Show-In-The-Sky-v13.14c8c.mp3
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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 can include email addresses in plain text on the site, but if a spammer harvests one, I can block it, and other people legitimately browsing...
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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 one of those things I retain like a steel trap; it's all carved in stone upstairs, so I don't have to spend time putting it...
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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 of work and no end in sight, is at this point holding up the completion of 8 subsequent albums. I wouldn't make a recommendation as...
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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 story, now recounted elsewhere on this site). The Kunstencentrum Vooruit (Vooruit Arts Center), where we delivered our address, was an elegant old 1910 festival hall...
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djg87h09uydshm, feature article by Mike Kupietz
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
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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 infested with the loudest toads I'd ever heard, so loud I initially took them to be someone hiding outside our window playing a prank. I...
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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

Originally posted on my old site Life In A Mikeycosm on Spring 1998. 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 and their best-known offspring, the Burning Man festival and the nascent subculture that...
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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 Man is long since retired, and I stopped talking to everyone else I knew through the BLF maybe 15 or 20 years ago. Maybe try...
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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 he knows how to correctly pronounce the names Shania, Tyra, and Demi. Geezer Butler, bassist for the band Black Sabbath, came up with the idea...
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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 an listenable or enjoyable album nor a particularly interesting piece of music, and is posted here primarily for the historical record. There are many other...
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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 him I didn't like that magazine. Since then, I've been doing some thinking about how I pick my news sources, something I do very carefully,...
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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 sneaker well-placed So it raises its hackles to have some such footwear come near! Though 'pill bug' it's properly named, so low on the food...
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How to make a completely unusable homepage in CSS3 and <strike>jQuery</strike>Javascript, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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Usability HellHow to make a completely unusable homepage in CSS3 and jQueryJavascript

One of my favorite bits of code I've ever written is on the front page of my jiggy, ancient, perpetually-under-construction, virtually-never-viewed old personal website, Life In A Mikeycosm. Eager to make my front page "pop" a little more back in days gone by, I came up with a clever CSS3/javascript hack that caused the page...
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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 and instructions, and then the code and license, embedded live from my terminal-notifier-bridge-for-thunderbird repo on GitHub.
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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

Originally posted on my old site Life In A Mikeycosm on Aug. 6, 2004. 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 a fence across the road, where someone had cut it away...
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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 with his songs, it makes sense that he gives people ideas for art.) Back in, geez, 2003 or 4, I think, he turned 50 so...
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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 groundbreaking first full-length investigative feature article, a probe into reports of campus supernatural sightings of the ghost of late king of rock and roll Elvis...
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गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra, feature art by Mike Kupietz
8gb0o0ytg7z3an, feature article by Mike Kupietz
Misinformation Visualization, feature art by Mike Kupietz
गोल्डन यात्रा • The Golden Yatra, feature art by Mike Kupietz
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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 the basic audio for this with the wonderful Bento analog synthesis emulator, then arranged and produced it in my hated enemy Logic Pro. Unlike a...
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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 heard. By the end of the story, things improve and it winds up as one of the funniest things that has ever happened to me......
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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 to your fingertips"). My goal was to present, with a straight face, the kinds of fallacies and illogic masquerading as science and reason I saw...
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RavineHousesTake12 mp3 image, feature article by Mike Kupietz
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)

Originally posted on my blog Sloth And Dignity. 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 Sawkill Creek, where Chris and I had spent so much time back in school, to scatter Chris's...
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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 off and rough edges sanded down for safe general listening. It's an experimental techno sample manipulation exercise exploring the text of a meme video that...
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    • Add func ID to page cache plugin
  • 2025sep9
    • update cache get and set to use ID instead of whole cat or term list in theme's entry_meta_genre and entry_meta_category functions in theme additions
    • Added $funcID to cache get and set in ktwp caching toolking
  • 2025sep6
    • Add KTWP Function Timer plugin and add option to KTWP Caching Toolkit to log the timing of object cache calls.
  • 2025sep5
    • Add blur to boundaries between hero rows
    • Fixed the excerpts after the hero database call optimization the other day. It turns out get_the_excerpt generates a value on the fly if the manual excerpt field is empty, whereas the new query was just grabbing that field, empty or not.
  • 2025sep3
    • Think I forgot to note yesterday... I had michaelkupietz.com still listed as an alias of the original subdomain, so the rules in the vhosts file weren't running at all.
    • Refactor hero and menus to consolidate many database calls into just a few big ones and store result in variable instead
    • Replaced expensive recursive database queries in menu building plugin with one single big query that stores everything in an array. Much faster.

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This site brought to you by four months flat on my back in summer 2023 due to long covid, plus a whole lot of additional lovin' sweat & frustration since then. Per aspera, ad astra.

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