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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…
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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…
/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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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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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: 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…
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Got To Pay Your Dues: Bedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videos
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…
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If I Do Play So Myself: The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist
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…
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You Are Hear: Music Reviews
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…
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When They Pry It from My Hip, Ironic Fingers: Exploration & Explosions, a Nevada Desert Hipster Road Trip
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…
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Vacation Photos: Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front
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…
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Gallery: Raving 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…
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Optimization-A-Go-Go: WordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with Transients
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…
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Welcome To My Nightmare: Dream Jobs (the surreal preoccupations of an out-of-work IT consultant)
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…
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Beneath Berkeley: UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration
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…
