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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Changed header single page title template and CSS to include title prefices and mimic front page hero post title appearance in post pages.
2025mar27
lots of crashes before I woke up this morning, had to restart whole server, even host machine froze.
Install 2nd monitor noted in “March 2025 monitor installs” text doc
edited /etc/xdg/autostart/tracker-miner-fs-3.desktop to stop tracker-miner indexer per https://verahill.blogspot.com/2012/08/disabling-tracker-miner-fs.html and the first answer at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/694065/how-to-really-completely-disable-gnome-tracker. Also turned off fs indexing on host machine
2025mar25
Install monitor noted in “March 2025 monitor installs” text doc in troubleshooting notes
2025mar22
Convert Details disclosure elements so all important ones have borders, replace triangles with open/close folder icons
2025mar20
Make noheader attribute of othercatposts shortcode remove blacktext class so links show as blue underlined, and add “showexcerpt” parameter.
Add plugin to allow logged-in users to edit pages on the front end. PFM settings optimizations to try to relieve recent slowdowns, changes logged in config files and saved locally in troubleshooting logs folder
Mike Kupietz, your humble proprietor, serving these electrons to you steaming hot from a server in the heart of San Francisco, right where the American dream rises out of the Pacific as a moist, gray fog and ascends to Heaven in a cacophony of poetry, acid rock and sarcasm.
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.
