This is the list of articles by the date they were first published, from newest to oldest. A log of all latest site changes & updates, which includes new edits…

Pardon My Placeholder! This page is a placeholder listing my various Github repos containing my custom WordPress plugin work, loosely branded as “KupieTools”, as I work on more detailed pages…

2025jul14 add “register_setting(‘ktwp_details_excerpt’, ‘ktwp_details_excerpt_avoid’);” to Details Previews plugin, was missing. Add vertical borders around arts section menu headings 2025jul13 Fix vlaue display Fix Page Adjuster saturation and zIndex on temperatureOverlay…

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…

This is a mirror, for navigation convenience, of the /Changes slashpage, which lists all recent changes to any content on this site, including new edits and updates to old articles.…

2025 jul 11 The Draggable Elements WordPress Plugin demo has gotten a lot of rough edges sanded off and is working well. I have also added an AI Policy page,…

Who we are This website address is: https://michaelkupietz.com. It is the showcase website for creative works by artist and technologist Mike Kupietz. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site…

Uses The following are how generative AI is used on this site: 1. Visual Images There are plenty of AI images on this site, enough that you should assume all…

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…

These are things things should ideally eventually happen.

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…

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…

I don’t know if this affects other versions of Photoshop, but on MacOS Photoshop CC 2017 frequently starts unexpectedly graying out all save buttons when you have made changes to…

Unfortunately this must be set by site, but on retina screens on MacOS, many browsers blur small images, such as 88×31 buttons. You can overcome this, at least for the…

Buttons Kupietz Arts+Code buttons “Built During An Indieweb Meetup” buttons I strongly suggest, if you use these buttons, that you use an <a> tag to link them to https://events.indieweb.org. Site…

One of the fun non-work-related things that happens on LinkedIn is the “Saturday Monster Challenge”, a fun AI art meme where every Saturday this one guy picks a monster-related theme…

Working on the #SaturdayMonsterChallenge “A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur’s Court” I created a lot of extra images that I liked a lot, but which either didn’t fit the theme…

This is a slashpage mirror of this site’s AI Policy for convenience. That page’s content follows:

Saturday Monster Challenge for Jan. 18, 2024. Comes a time when the monsters have eaten their fill of villagers and there’s no danger anymore, so now everybody can come out…

As 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 weren’t quite…

Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024’s #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme on LinkedIn is “Time Travelling Monsters”. Here’s my interpretation: “A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur’s Court”. Bonus Gallery — favorite extra images

IMPORTANT UPDATE, July 3, 2025: Pending signing of the new tax bill tomorrow, it appears the below information may finally be obsolete. The tax bill passed by Congress today quietly…

The #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme for March 1, 2025 was “Element Monsters”. I went with radioactive elements: uranium, radium, plutonium, caesium, thorium, einsteinium, radon, and americium.

On Saturday, Feb 15, 2025, the theme of LinkedIn’s “Saturday Monster Challenge” was “Love Monsters”. I apologize to anybody with delicate sensibilities offended by the inclusion of a few monster…

Some info about Mike's day job: certified Filemaker & Full-Stack Web development. Really you want to check out www.kupietz.com for that info.

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…

“Every CMS is great for the first week.” —Joe Crawford “In the beginning, one of the things that God said before the Bible started—the first thing, according to the Bible,…

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…

In the spirit of keeping up with the Joneses I’ve finally created an 88×31 button for those wishing to link to this site. In characteristically have two very similar versions…

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…

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…

If you have any questions or concerns, I’m absolutely here to help. To get in touch, come to San Francisco and walk down each street shouting my name. Here’s a…

More Kupietz for you? Links to Mike’s Other Sites & Pages Music & Sounds: GuitaristInProgress on YouTube – my old YouTube channel, mostly me playing sloppy covers on guitar. Once…

This site allows you to get the content of posts and pages by adding either /embed/ or ?embed to the URL, optionally including the post title, author, and/or tags. This…

Command to check fail2ban’s log is sudo tail -f /var/log/fail2ban.log

I use the uBlock Origin browser plugin to filter my LinkedIn Posts, Notifications, and Comments to hide anything containing objectionable topics. uBlock Origin allows you to add custom rules to…

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…

These were some illustrations I whipped up trying to come up with a header image for an article I wrote on LinkedIn asking about people’s real-life experiences with using AI…

I installed the WordPress plugin LWS Optimize, which turned out to be unusably broken (which is the reason I’m not linking to it) and made my site unusable. To make…

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…

As I run across words or phrases that I like, I add them here.  Apotropaic magic (from Greek αποτρέπω, apotrépō ‘to ward off’) – protective magic, a type of magic…

Had a weird one today. Last one website of the several of on this server suddenly started returning 503 (service unavailable) errors. There was nothing in the PHP error log…

I’ve spent so much time fruitlessly trying to get LLMs (Large Language Model chatbots, commonly referred to generically as “AI”) to actually help me solve coding problems that I’ve taken,…

How to monitor RAM usage: free -h: This command shows your system’s total, used, and free memory in a human-readable format. Key metrics: total: Total RAM. used: RAM currently in…

ExecuteSQL ( "SELECT FieldName FROM FileMaker_Fields WHERE TableName='[TABLE NAME]' AND FieldClass='Normal'",",","¶")

find [path/to/access/logs/folder] -name "*_access_log" -exec sh -c 'tail -200 "$1" | grep -v "HetrixTools\|ok\.txt\|canary" | sed "s/$/ [$(basename "$1" _access_log)]/"' _ {} \; | sort -k4,4 The grep -v "HetrixTools\|ok\.txt\|canary"…

Add this to virtual host file in /etc/apache2/sites-available/, right below DocumentRoot, in both :80 and :443 sections <Location "/fpm-status">     SetHandler "proxy:unix:/var/php-fpm/170027027353667.sock|fcgi://127.0.0.1"     Require all granted </Location> May need in /etc/php/8.2/fpm/pool.d/www.conf, not…

Add or change /etc/cron.d/sysstat to this. This creates a cron jobe to write file /tmp/outage_resource_log.txt that keeps minute-by-minute stats, sometimes useful in troubleshooting slowdowns. However, it’s not a great way…

Some IRL Friends My old friend, a music professor and composer of both opera and rock music: Dan Sonenberg A ridiculously talented friend and endless font of creativity who goes…

1. See memory consumed by php-fpm8.2 (change this to match different PHP version if necessary) ps --no-headers -o "rss,cmd" -C php-fpm8.2 | awk '{ sum+=$1 } END { printf ("%d%s\n",…

1. tuning-primer.sh Run from Github: curl -L https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BMDan/tuning-primer.sh/main/tuning-primer.sh | bash 2. MySQLTuner.pl wget http://mysqltuner.pl/ -O mysqltuner.pl wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/master/basic_passwords.txt -O basic_passwords.txt wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/major/MySQLTuner-perl/master/vulnerabilities.csv -O vulnerabilities.csv perl mysqltuner.pl --host 127.0.0.1 --user [user]…

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…

Mostly sticking this placeholder into the “works in progress” section to remind me to pull all my recipies together and work on my cookbook. At a certain point in my…

This site started as an archive for my various art projects, previous scattered hither and yon across the web. As I’ve been working on it, I’ve come to want to…

This is my technology test page. I have a local instance of changedetection.io pointed at this page to alert me if any of these website features change unexpectedly, meaning that…

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…

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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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…

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…

This is a placeholder to remind me to write about this project. This was what I called “chart art”. These are social network graphs created by querying a database of…

[could probably have a whole website section on words & language] This is a placeholder for a page suggested by captJamesG in the Indieweb writing group meeting at https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-02-04-writing :…

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A stylistic experiment inspired by vintage art photography.

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…

Strung across 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…

Hey there, good lookin’! These are handy uptime stats for all my websites and servers. As of this writing I’m using Hetrix Tools for these, and so far, liking it…

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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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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…

Slashpages are common website pages, usually with a standard, root-level slug like /contact, /about, or /uses, usually giving basic factual information about the site or the individual behind it. They…

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,…

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…

Among my fascinations and frsutrations is go. This is going to be my page for organizing my thoughts on it as I learn. I get the sense that Go is…

For convenience, this is a slashpages mirror of my Latest News page.

Mac Apps Be aware, as a Mac user, sometimes I am stuck with what software is available. Inclusion in this list doesn’t mean I recommend it, it just means it…

Once, I was a man like most others—a worldly man, seduced and jaded by material things. These are some of those things. Musical Instruments Guitars 1994 MIM Standard Stratocaster Washburn…

In college, I once won an ice cream flavor naming contest with “Cannibal Crunch Surprise”. I have solved a Rubik’s cube in 40 seconds. I solve it in under 60…

A cousin of mine is 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…

I am not: a Master of the Mystic Arts. a “morning person”. reserved about the things I care about. named Reg (at least, not yet.) out to trick anybody. losing…

These are my musical skills, roughly in descending order of competency: Guitar (Acoustic & Electric, flat-picked & finger-picked) Keyboards (Electronic, Piano, Organ) Recorder & Chalumeau (Garkleit, Sopranino, Soprano, Alto, Tenor)…

Creative Arts, Hobbies & Interests: Music, both listening and making. Photography. Creative nonfiction writing. Generative art. Software engineering. Stock option trading. Electronics. Rubik’s cube and similar puzzles. Indoor gardening/raising houseplants…

An incomplete list of my favorites of various sorts of things. Movies Network Musicians Popular: Pink Floyd Jethro Tull The Who David Bowie Cat Stevens Harry Chapin Classical: Maurice Ravel…

The secret is out!   I’m some sorta guy, I have no fucking idea what, at this point. Actually nowadays I feel more like a bug than a person—a specimen,…

RSS Right now, the site feed is live at feed://michaelkupietz.com/feed. It doesn’t validate properly—I’m working on that—but it does work in my FreshRSS reader, so it should be ok. Alternatively…

I’ve never eaten at Chipotle, so I don’t really know. People actually eat at that place? I guess pick me up some nachos. With meat. Make sure there’s jalapeños. Hard…

While I’m still transitioning to using default slashpages, this is just a mirror of info on my main Bio & Contact Info page. If you have any questions or concerns,…

This was an old idea I saw on the web 20 or so years ago, and did for myself for a while: the “Flypaper” page, trying to find people you…

My everyday carries are pretty simple: 1. Keys, chained to my belt so I can’t lose them. 2. Cellphone, currently 1st generation iPhone SE as of this writing. 3. ID…

Primarily as an interim measure as I adapt my site to using slashpages, this page largely repeats things you can find written about at greater length and in a way…

Note: This page is a mirror of my about/contact page at a href=”https://michaelkupietz.com/?p=9103″>https://michaelkupietz.com/?p=9103, just for consistency with the other slashpages. You should probably just read it there.

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Let’s make this easy. Here’s my OPML file from my RSS reader. Some links or feeds may be obsolete. Inclusion in this list does not imply endorsement, just some sort…

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.…

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…

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…

I write down a lot of thoughts on AI but have never gathered it into a cohesive essay or collection. This is the beginning of loosely collecting my thoughts and…

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…

About This Gallery This gallery deals with the unavoidable stereotypes of femininity that one encounters using some current generative art tools ca. 2024. Being trained on a society’s art, there…

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…

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…

Originally posted on my old site. I’d have called this “New York After Dark”, but the souvlaki guy story happened in the middle of the afternoon. Back in the ’80s…

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…

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…

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…

#SaturdayMonsterChallenge on LinkedIn for 11 Jan 2024 theme was “Fog Monsters”. .

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

(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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

This is a true thing that happened to me. And better, it happened to me and a friend together, so there’s a corroborating witness. Back in high school, me and…

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…

These people are lit, yo.

Originally revealed at https://www.linkedin.com/posts/allisonmarierossi_allisonwith2ls-copycats-plagiarismgoals-activity-7276604068976816129-tV7b?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop: Your browser does not support the video tag.

Submission for the Mood Board and Fashion categories of the Wrapped In Pink AI generative art competition, Dec 2024.

The revolution isn’t over.

They’ve been doing this “#WrappedInPink Challenge” generative art meme on LinkedIn. Here’s just a preview of studies of some things I’ve been working on for it. Not entirely sure what…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Back in the bad old days, there was an HTML tag called <blink>. It did this, which everybody hated, because it was annoying, and everybody’s web pages looked like this:…

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…

Someone on social media asked for AI interpretations of Santa Claus. I couldn’t resist such low-hanging fruit.

My friend Hellena Banner (from whom I cribbed the title of this gallery, with apologies) was doing a project where she was trying to put Goths in the least Goth-like…

Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024’s #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme on LinkedIn is “Winter Monster“. Here’s what I did. Bonus Gallery: Leftover Winter Monster Images

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…

Michael Kupietz (1848-1922) was a pioneering British Arctic explorer best known for his controversial claim of discovering a tropical paradise at the North Pole and his unorthodox expedition methods, which…

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…

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…

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…

Michael “Lightning” Kupietz’s remarkable journey from a small-town dreamer to one of aviation’s most influential figures began on a dusty farm in Kansas in 1934. As the son of a…

Michael Kupietz’s obsession with the unknown began on a moonless night in 1952, when as a ten-year-old boy in rural Montana, he witnessed what he would later describe as “a…

Many years ago, around the turn of the millennium, as I was simultaneously just breaking into and away from the San Francisco underground art scene, some folks I used to…

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…

I had a lot of fun making the featured image for the article “Resurrecting the <BLINK> tag“. Here’s some of the also-rans.

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,…

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…

The other night I talked to my old friend Zigmo Parcheesi, the funniest man in the world. He told me he took his toddler son Max to his first movie.…

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…

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…

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…

Some assorted reminscences of characters I occasionally run across in my day.

Back before I first became the global success I am today, I began looking into investing. Among the things you can’t miss when you enter that world looking to learn…

Link: http://www.amazon.com/review/RUISCK9IXTK6J/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000OY5RKA&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=11091801&store=musical-instruments Rating: Review Title: Steal This Cowbell! Review: Submission to domination is enforced not solely, nor even most significantly, through blatant repression, but rather through subtle manipulations worked into…

Here we have a interesting relic of how the creative process can mess with you. My perpetually unfinished magnum opus “Five Themes In Uncertain Times” has been through a lot…

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…

Working on a featured image for my writeup on  How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash, I tried to create an artistic representation of tech…

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.

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…

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…

Look; I’m a Star Trek fan. Don’t talk to me about “Picard” or “Janeway” or “Archer” or whoever. Even the movies barely qualify as “Star Trek”, and they have the…

Painted faces, paintings of faces — an exploration of fantastic portraits and fantastic art. (Titled with apologies to the shade of David Bowie.)

This is (or, will be) a meta-post listing all posts I’ve written about the techniques used to create this site.

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…

Bad poems give just cause to critics who revel in finding ways to rag on others’ flaws.   When upon poorly set, is personal whose hearts cherish pride, and, gorging…

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.…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

Waaaaay back during the dot-com boom in San Francisco, in my carefree 20s (a much different time of my life than my carefree ’50s) I used to put this up…

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…

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.

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…

I’m going to flesh this out at some point, but it was lost in a pile of old notes and I wanted it up on the site as a reminder,…

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…

“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…

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…

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…

Among the many things the late, lamented Eudora email client spoiled me for was, when I checked my mail, opening all the mailboxes that had received mail in new windows.…

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…

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…

If you’re like me, you care passionately about certain subjects; the natural flip side of this is being viscerally revulsed by certain things. As a matter of mental hygiene I’m…

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…

I’ll tell you about Texas. Back in ’95, me and my friend Haley went down to his Dad’s timeshare in Port Aransas, Texas, a little beach resort town about 45…

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…

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…

An Afternoon At The Races, Unplanned So, last night I was standing on Mission in South of Market with my phone out, trying to find a nearby hardware store, when…

What better a measure of man as a poet Is there, b’sides seeing some poems he’s wroet? If better exists, I sure do not knoet.

I don’t draw as much as I used to, these are a couple of things I salvaged from my ancient other site. I’ll add more as I run across them.…

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…

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…