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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 R15R resonator guitar
  • Simon & Patrick 2006 Cutaway Dreadnaught
  • Gretsch G9500 "Jim Dandy" parlor guitar reissue
  • Les Paul Deluxe of mysterious origins; likely frankensteined together from vintage parts
Guitar Supplies: Amplifier:
  • Fender Champion 20 modeling amp
Effects:
  • Hotone Xtomp modeling effects pedal
  • Hotone Ampero modeling multi-effects unit
Picks:
  • Tortex purples
  • Bakersfield whites
Strings:
  • Gibson Pure Nickel
Basses:
  • Dean Playmate EABC Cutaway Acoustic-Electric
  • Fender Korea P-Bass
Saxophones:
  • King Super 20 alto
  • Jupiter Capital Edition CES770 tenor
Recorders & Chalumeaus:
  • Aulos garkleit, sopranino, soprano, alto recorders
  • Yamaha tenor recorder
  • Hopf chalumeau
  • Maui xaphoon
Clarinets:
  • Selmer Paris Series 9
  • Vito Reso-Tone 3
Accordion:
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/Uses

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 is the least bad of all the available alternatives.

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Intro — What Are Slashpages?

Start here: Intro — What Are Slashpages?

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 are distinguishing characteristics of the IndieWeb, a loose organization of web site owners and developers dedicated to cultivating independently owned, interoperable web sites and services, free of the data silos and walled gardens of the big, corporate-owned sites and technologies. Slashpages.net lists a bunch of common slashpages.

I will tell you, as I am in the process of gradually getting slashpages set up, some of them replace pages I already had up. I haven't reconciled this yet so there's some duplicate content.

Here's the current list of slashpages on this site:

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/Instruments

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)
Bass (Electric)
Vocals
Saxophone
Clarinet
Hand drums
Lyre (24 string)
Harmonica

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/Interests

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
Intellectual interests:
  • Oceanography, on an amateur or pop-science level.
  • Language & Grammar.
  • Movie special effects, especially the old practical effects masters.
  • Physics.
  • Psychology: Cognition, Persuasion & manipulation,  etc.
Comms, Media & Entertainment:
  • Horror, sci-fi, and true survival movies.
  • Comedy & Humor.
  • Conversation with people with thoughtful perspectives, something to teach, or something to learn.
  • Off-and-on Social Media addict
Travel & Adventure Hobbies:
  • Free Travel/Vagabonding.
  • Urban Exploration.
  • Camping and the outdoors.
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/Guy

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, not an individual. I'm good with it, though. My burrow is cozy. I am a zen insect.

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/Follow

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 you can see the most recent site updates listed in the browser on /changes.

h-feed

I've got this site's front page "hero" (featured posts) section and all archive pages—that's all pages listing articles on this site by any kind of category, tag, or author name (of which there's only me) tagged with the more modern h-feed microformat for reading in h-feed readers (such as, for example, the previewer at https://monocle.p3k.io/preview). This is a microformat (a set of codes added to a web page) recommended by the Indieweb folks that allows modern feed readers to directly read your web pages…

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/Contact

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, 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 map:

Kidding.
Your best bet to reach me about my creative work or issues about this site is email.

Michael Kupietz
Creative Productions, Arrangements, & Operations in Arts, Technology, and Entertainment
Email: website@michaelkupietz.com (but read the warning below)
Web: https://michaelkupietz.com
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If you email me: As an anti-spam measure, you're going to have to make sure your subject contains "email re website", or my mail filters will assume you're a spambot and trash it without me seeing it. Also…

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/Colophon

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 less exhausted state elsewhere on the site's About menu.

This site runs at home.

This is served by Wordpress running on a Debian 12 VM running in VMware on a 2012 Mac mini in my living room (then routed for protection through some things I won't name and then, out on the internet, some reverse proxies and CDNs and caches and other stuff. But you know that because you already ran a traceroute. I saw you coming.)

The theme is an extremely customized version of an obsolete, apparently abandoned wordpress theme called Sinatra that looked good when I started but I have since discovered was written really inefficiently. I've changed huge chunks of…

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/Chipotle

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 to go wrong with that.

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/Carry

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 & similar wallet stuff, carried loose in a pocket so I can't lose them all at once.

I'm a pretty simple guy.

Optional - things I frequently carry but not always:
4. Pen knife (when traveling/camping, often a pen knife and utility knife... different tools for different uses.)
5. Rubik's cube or similar twisty puzzle.
6. USB phone charger and USB cable.
7. Tobacco pipe & pouch of tobacco, as an aid in self-destruction, but not as bad a one as I used to use.

Thrilling, huh.

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/Blogroll

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 of possibly perverse interest.

Download OPML

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OPML

HTML Links

"La flauta es dulce": recorder is sweet » Feed: RSS Url web page
Abnormal Returns: RSS Url web page - Forecast-free since 2005
A Druid Way: RSS Url web page
AdventuresInCapitalism | Small Companies–Big Upside: RSS Url web page - Small Companies--Big Upside
AI Alignment: RSS Url web page - Aligning AI systems with human interests. - Medium
Alice Bradley — Finslippy: RSS Url web page
All Articles on Seeking Alpha: RSS Url web page - © seekingalpha.com. Use of this feed is limited to personal, non-commercial use and is governed…

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/About

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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Privacy Policy

The Whole Of The Law: Privacy Policy

Who we are

This website address is: https://michaelkupietz.com. It is the showcase website for creative works by artist and technologist Mike Kupietz, the owner and author of this site, hereinafter referred to as "Mike".

I. Mike's Commitment To Your Privacy And Right Not To Be Abused For Commercial Purposes

This site is noncommercial and intended 1.) primarily for Mike's entertainment; and 2.) secondarily for yours. No commercial use of your identifying information or resources is ever knowingly made by Mike. Those information and resources are never knowingly shared with others by Mike, except as necessary to resolve technical issues hindering the proper functioning of this site.

II. Information About Site Functions Coded By Mike.

Much of this site runs on code personally authored or audited by Mike. The guarantees in this section II pertain to that code.

What Information About You Mike's Own Authored Code Collects…
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Bio — About Mike Kupietz

The Man Behind The Curtain: Bio — 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 off the brilliant algorithms out there as to who and what this site just might be about (including awkward third-person references to please Google's SEO.)

Mike Kupietz is an avid musician, artist, and by day a software engineer, much of which is linked to on my Other Sites section at bottom.

Mike Kupietz: Origins, range, and distinguishing characteristics

I'm an east coast expatriate who somehow, incomprehensibly, has been based for half my life now in San Francisco.

I grew up on Long Island, and attended Very Big State U upstate for two…

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About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site

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 naked, topless, or scantily-dressed women in some of the image galleries here, but not so many men. Almost none, in fact.

Although it's in several galleries, this is most evident in, say, "Previsions of Johanna", where the many female figures, and only the female figures, all came out either nude, topless, or wearing a low-cut dress, while the male figures are always fully clothed from neck to wrists and ankles. In fact, the lone arguably male figure in that entire set that is wearing a loose tank top, rather than some kind…

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Programming tricks used on this site

Under The Hood: Programming tricks used on this site

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

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Site Design Overview: Featured Images Gallery

Since they're not always clearly displayed on the front page or in every post, for convenience, this is an automated scrape of all original "featured images" (the background or front page image for a post) on the site.

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Administrivia: Site Content, Design, & Technical IAQs

An early viewer asked some questions about the art I use on my site, so I thought I would put together a page of Q&A about the site and the materials on it.

Who are you, now?

I'm Mike Kupietz. You can be forgiven for not knowing who I am. Although I do have to admit I privately hoped I'd make more of a splash. I'm a musician, artist, and by day a FileMaker consultant and web developer based, strictly due to an accident of fate, in San Francisco.

Where did you get _____ image? / Did you do all this art?

Mostly all the images on this site are my own art. There are a few public domain images on this site. As of this writing the images I didn't create are:
- the poo emoji on the BS…

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My Whole Raison D'isaster: About This Site — An Introduction

Hey there! Thanks for visiting my online showcase. I'm Mr. Roarke, your host. Welcome to Fantasy Island.

But seriously, folks...

I've had a personal website for about 20 years, as well as an ancient blog, neither of which ever got many reads. But I've had it in my head for a while to put together something a little nicer as a portfolio, something which could accommodate my longstanding habit of getting projects 98% finished, often almost presentable but for my perfectionist tendencies, before getting distracted by something else while the final work on them dragged out for years. As a consequence of this, my hard drive has become a repository for tons of mostly-finished art, music, and writing that nobody ever sees. Not that that mattered much—I actually don't have much need for applause or care for other people's opinions of my creative work, I mostly just do it…

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The Man Is Out To Get Me: Site Disclaimer, Terms of Use, and Conditions

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 or any constituent part of michaelkupietz.com's technology, data, resources, contents, privately-owned intellectual property, visual pages or media, electronic files, and RSS or other author-published data feeds (all hereinafter referred to collectively as the "Site"), whether accessed by michaelkupietz.com or any other domain or means by which any part of the Site may be accessed. You must immediately close and and terminate whatever means you are using to view or access the Site if you do not agree with the Terms Of Use in full.

The below interstitial numbered section titles in blue text are intended only for amusement and to facilitate easier reading, and are to be taken merely as visual page decoration and not as part of the…

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links

External Links: Fellow Travelers, Friends’ Sites, and other related links

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 by many names, currently going by Piscadoro Kingfisher Mike Brown: music videos, and writing

Looks like my old friend Chris Simunek, whom I call Gene, was running a website of his countercultural journalism & writing for a while over at Paradise Burning. He never mentioned it to me. That's vintage Gene. Gene and his talented wife Rebekah Harris also run Shipwreck Montauk fine jewelery waaaay out on Long Island's eastern end.

My good friend, inspiration, and fellow traveler H. Dean Clark documents his adventures as a road scholar as h.deanclark6796 on YouTube and…