/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)…
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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…
/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,…
/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…
/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,…
/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…
/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…
/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…
/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…
/AI
My use of AI tends to fall into three categories: Generative Art Failed attempts to use AI as a coding assistant Collecting examples for my soon-to-be-published "Artificial Stupidity" page. There…
/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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Don't Believe The Hype: Excel-based Motley Fool Premium Investment Service Performance Analyzer
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…
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These Are The People In My Neighborhood
Some assorted reminscences of characters I occasionally run across in my day.
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Serious Business: A Taxing Gallery
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…
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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…
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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…
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Opinion: How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash
Note: 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…
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Dinner For Schmucks: The Five Ingredient Cookbook — Kitchen Survival for Schmoes
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…
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Who Trails On A Leash: Portraits In Flesh — AI generative art gallery
Painted faces, paintings of faces — an exploration of fantastic portraits and fantastic art. (Titled with apologies to the shade of David Bowie.)
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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. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site…
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Nothing To See Here, Folks: Just 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…
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Bio of Pioneer of Extraterrestrial Research: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Michael Kupietz
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…
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Breaking Barriers in the Sky: The Extraordinary Life of Mike Kupietz
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…
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From Panel to Screen: The Comic Book Movie Revolution
Part 1: The Early Years and Foundation The journey from four-color pulp pages to billion-dollar blockbusters represents one of the most significant transformations in modern entertainment history. To understand this…
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Indoor Container Gardening—A Complete Guide to Growing Plants in Limited Space
A Guide to Cultivating Your Green Thumb Indoors If you've been planted firmly in the belief that gardening requires outdoor space, it's time to turn over a new leaf. Indoor…
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Nearly Famous: Sing 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…
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Video Killed The Pagespeed Score: Non-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…
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The Man Behind The Curtain: About Michael Kupietz — Bio, Contact Info, & Other Projects
Contents: 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…