Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inInvestingMarketing DebunkeryFinance Simulations Don't Believe The HypeExcel-based Motley Fool Premium Investment Service Performance AnalyzerBack 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 28, 2024Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10548
Posted inWriting Posted inPortrait GalleryMemoirs & Reflections These Are The People In My NeighborhoodSome assorted reminscences of characters I occasionally run across in my day. Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 21, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10475
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative IllustrationWebsite Deconstructionism Serious BusinessA Taxing GalleryWorking 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 20, 2024Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10426
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inElectronic MusicZetetic Music Early Demo“Of Uncertain Origins” — original demo for “Five Themes in Uncertain Times”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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 16, 2024Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10389
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inElectricky GuitarVideoLive Performance Tonal Eclipse Of The Heart“The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)” — Electric Guitar Noodling With A PurposeOver 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 14, 2024Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10292
Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingCurrent EventsEconomics OpinionHow the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job CrashNote: I want to point something out: I've given no references here. This is my current understanding. I'm still researching it, and you should research it yourself, don't take my… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 4, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10189
Posted inWriting Posted inWork-In-ProgressBachelor Survival 'n' Style Dinner For SchmucksThe Five Ingredient Cookbook — Kitchen Survival for SchmoesMostly 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 30, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9868
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative Illustration Who Trails On A LeashPortraits In Flesh — AI generative art galleryPainted faces, paintings of faces — an exploration of fantastic portraits and fantastic art. (Titled with apologies to the shade of David Bowie.) Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 21, 2024Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9808
Posted inSite Info Posted inLegalese The Whole Of The LawPrivacy PolicyWho 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 20, 2024Tags: Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9712
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative IllustrationFun Nothing To See Here, FolksJust Some Vacation SnapshotsJust some photos from my vacation. Funny how different vacation photos sometimes are from how you remember things being. Guess I should have used a camera instead of an AI.… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 11, 2024Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9471
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inMisc. Appearances Nearly FamousSing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest AppearancesHere'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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 3, 2024Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9347
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Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inWeb DevelopmentWordpress Coding Video Killed The Pagespeed ScoreNon-render-blocking YouTube embeds in WordPressOn 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz July 17, 2024Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=8749
Posted inSite Info Posted inMetaAbout Me The Man Behind The CurtainAbout Michael Kupietz — Bio, Contact Info, & Other ProjectsContents: It is I: About Mike Kupietz Don't call me, I'll call you: Mike Kupietz contact info. Links to Mike's other web pages and online presence It is I!About Mike… Posted by By Mike Kupietz July 7, 2024Tags: Site Info| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9103
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inVideoBluesAcousticky GuitarLive Performance Got To Pay Your DuesBedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videosThis 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz June 15, 2024Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10302
Posted inMusic & Sounds Posted inRockFolk & BluesAcousticky GuitarLive Performance If I Do Say So MyselfThe Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlistThese are probably my favorites of the various video performances I posted on the GuitaristInProgress Youtube channel over the years I was active there. There's a little variety here — both… Posted by By Mike Kupietz June 15, 2024Tags: Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10328
Posted inWriting Posted inMusic Reviews You Are HearMusic ReviewsAs 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 by By Mike Kupietz March 16, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=8650
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureExplosionsUrban Exploration When They Pry It from My Hip, Ironic FingersExploration & Explosions, a Nevada Desert Hipster Road TripNOTE: 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz February 28, 2024Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=8209
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureCulture Jamming Vacation PhotosPseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front, 2008For 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz February 27, 2024Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7903
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative IllustrationIlluminated Lyrics GalleryRaving And Drooling — AI-assisted lyrical illumination of Pink Floyd’s “Sheep”Introduction:Pink Floyd's album "Animals", for me, might stand alone as the most singular achievement of the rock 'n' roll era. I've always argued that Pink Floyd were not a rock… Posted by By Mike Kupietz February 10, 2024Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7501