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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…
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/Instruments

/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

/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…
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/Follow

/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…
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/About

/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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Excel-based Motley Fool Premium Investment Service Performance Analyzer

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

These Are The People In My Neighborhood

Some assorted reminscences of characters I occasionally run across in my day.
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A Taxing Gallery

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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“Of Uncertain Origins” — original demo for “Five Themes in Uncertain Times”

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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“The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)” — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose

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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I AM DA CHEF OF DA FUTURE

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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Portraits In Flesh — AI generative art gallery

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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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. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site…
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Hiking the rockies in Colorado, we got real close to some amazing wildlife.

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

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

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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Sing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances

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…
Non-render-blocking YouTube embeds in WordPress

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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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…
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Bedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videos

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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The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist

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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Music Reviews

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…