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Baby, It's Cold Outside: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — “Winter Monster”
Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024’s #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme on LinkedIn is "Winter Monster". Here's what I did.
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Baby, It's Cold Outside: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — “Winter Monster”
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Mo' Bigfoot, Mo' Betta: Bonus Bigfoots
Working on the #SaturdayMonsterChallenge "A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur's Court" I created a lot of extra images that I liked a lot, but which either didn't fit the theme quite right, or were too similar to others, or too different. Here are some of those.
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You Can Take The Goth Out Of The Club...: Finding Goths in Ungothly Places
My friend Hellena Banner (from whom I cribbed the title of this gallery, with apologies) was doing a project where she was trying to put Goths in the least Goth-like situation possible. I took up the challenge.
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge “A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur’s Court”
Saturday, Nov. 30, 2024's #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme on LinkedIn is "Time Travelling Monsters".
Here's my interpretation: "A Connecticut Sasquatch In King Arthur's Court".
Bonus Gallery — favorite extra images
Error 404 — You Done Took The Wrong River
This site has no dang page at this URL.
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Art Waits For No Man: On Time
I posted The Contents Of The Rest Of The World’s Dream Do Not Concern Me (or, Why I Didn’t Turn 40) and Day Nights at around the same time, and in making the featured images, used Stable Diffusion XL to create a bunch of images that I'm kind of fond of, all around the themes of time and calendars. Here's the leftovers.
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LinkedIn #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Mustache Monsters
One of the fun non-work-related things that happens on LinkedIn is the "Saturday Monster Challenge", a fun AI art meme where every Saturday this one guy picks a monster-related theme and people make generative art monster images about it. Today, as I write this, the theme was "Mustache Monsters", for "Movember", a global campaign where men grow mustaches to raise awareness of men's health issues.
It seemed like fun. I of course, couldn't stop with just one.
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Turn And Face The Strange: All Articles by Last Modification Date, Newer to Older
This is a mirror, for navigation convenience, of the /Changes slashpage, which lists all recent changes to any content on this site, including new edits and updates to old articles.
A list of just the most recently created, brand new articles is available on the Newest Articles page, or in the column on the right-hand side of any page, under the heading "Newest Articles...".
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Hey You Get Offa My: Article Tag & Topic Index
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/Devlog
- 2026jul3
- Changed .metainfo > .dashicons {margin-bottom: -2px;margin-top: -2px; /* fix for dashicons raising text baselines in tags in meta info line */} to use ".page-header .metainfo > .dashicons" so didn't add weird spacing to metainfo in archove page post lists.
- Create ktwp-table-of-contents and ktwp-raw-html-shortcode plugins
- add :target {scroll-margin-top: 120px; /* o make named anchors always appear under sticky header */ }
- 2026jul1
- Added overflow-y:hidden during earthquake to prevent extra scrollbars from appearing.
- Discovered the earthquake was moving all .do-earthquake-children around the same origin, and, earthquake was being applied to invisible elements. Fixed both.
- 2026jun21
- Moved category "In Brief: Topical Short Takes" from "Written Snippets" category to "Blog Posts" and renamed it "You Can Quote Me On That: Topical Short Takes".
- Moved category "kwits" from top-level to a subcategory of "blog posts".
- 2026jun15
- Today Comcast (boo! hiss!) did some work…
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Images Of A Resurrection: May Your Tags Blink In Eternity
I had a lot of fun making the featured image for the article "Resurrecting the <BLINK> tag". Here's some of the also-rans.
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In With The Old: Resurrecting the HTML <BLINK> tag
Back in the bad old days, there was an HTML tag called [code][/code]. It did this, which everybody hated because it was annoying, and everybody's web pages looked like this:
.blink { display: inline-block; animation: blink 1s step-end infinite;} .oldschool, .oldschool * {font-family:times,'times new roman',serif !important;} .oldschool:not(a), .oldschool *:not(a) {color:#000;} .oldschool a, .oldschool a blink {color:blue !important;text-decoration:underline !important;} .oldschool a:visited blink {color:purple !important;}
Hello! Welcome to Kupietz Arts+Code This is the homepage of Mike Kupietz where you can see all his art, music, writing, and code! 
BEST VIEWED WITH
An interesting bit of history, courtesy of Lou Montulli, early Mozilla engineer and author of…
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Mike Kupietz, Arctic Explorer — Bio
Michael Kupietz (1848-1922) was a pioneering British Arctic explorer best known for his controversial claim of discovering a tropical paradise at the North Pole and his unorthodox expedition methods, which included training polar bears to pull his sledges while playing the bagpipes to "keep their spirits up."
Kupietz began his career as a professional umbrella tester in Manchester before becoming inexplicably convinced that the Arctic contained vast deposits of marmalade. His first expedition in 1880 was funded entirely through the sale of his revolutionary "frost-proof tea cozy," which he insisted was essential Arctic survival gear.
During his most famous expedition (1885-1887), Mike Kupietz allegedly survived for six months by teaching himself to photosynthesize like a plant, claiming the Aurora Borealis provided sufficient light. He documented discovering a colony of Portuguese-speaking penguins (despite penguins being native to the Antarctic) and mapped what he called the "Great Northern Hot Springs Resort," which…
/Not
I am not:
- a Master of the Mystic Arts.
- a "morning person".
- reserved about the things I care about.
- named Reg (at least, not yet.)
- out to trick anybody.
- losing weight like I would like.
- likely to put up politely with a huge load of BS. (Small loads of BS sometimes ok.)
There's probably more, I'll update as I figure it out.
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For users: Easily embed this site’s content on other sites
This site allows you to get the content of posts and pages by adding either /embed/ or ?embed to the URL, optionally including the post title, author, and/or tags.
This was inspired by a discussion in an Indieweb Homebrew Website Club Europe/London online meetup. I want to say shadowy web standards advocate Tantek Çelik brought it up, so, as these things tend to happen, I coded it up here while we were talking. It's discussed on Indieweb's wiki at https://indieweb.org/embed.
What do you mean, 'Embed'?Well, for instance, this post's permalink is https://michaelkupietz.com/?p=10887. You can see just the text of this post's content, without the sidebar and menus and other web page "furniture", at https://michaelkupietz.com/embed/?p=10887 or https://michaelkupietz.com/embed/?p=10887&embed, so you can theoretically include this page's content on your own site (long as you…
/Trivia
In college, I once won an ice cream flavor naming contest with "Cannibal Crunch Surprise".
I have solved a Rubik's cube in 40 seconds. I solve it in under 60 seconds pretty consistently.
Enough people have seen me play guitar on youtube to sell out a 2-week engagement at Madison Square Garden.
I have been 14 miles away from the nearest paved road. I walked there.
The longest straight stretch I have ever lived solely on what I could carry on my back, including all food, shelter, and supplies, was 3 weeks.
The longest straight stretch of nights I ever slept outdoors in a tent was 3 months.
The longest straight stretch of nights I ever lived on someone else's couch was 6 months.
The longest straight stretch I have ever been without a fixed address or direct phone number was 7 years.
I…
/Favorites
An incomplete list of my favorites of various sorts of things.
Movies Musicians Popular:- Pink Floyd
- Jethro Tull
- The Who
- David Bowie
- Cat Stevens
- Harry Chapin
- Maurice Ravel
- J.S. Bach
- Pink Floyd, Animals
- Mike Oldfield, Hergest Ridge
- J.S. Bach, Trio Organ Sonatas, played by Wolfgang Rübsam (Yeah, everybody hates this version, it's the first one I ever heard and I stand by it.)
- Special category: Bluegrass covers of non-bluegrass music
- Tim O'Brien - Red On Blonde - Bluegrass covers of Bob Dylan
- Luther Wright & The Wrongs - Rebuild The Wall - Nothing I can say will pursuade you how good this is. The liner notes say, "For 30 years, a great bluegrass album has been held prisoner by rock & roll. We've set it free." Pink Floyd's "The Wall" from start…
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Things That Make You Say "Hmmmmm": Timeslippin’ With Gene
This is a true thing that happened to me. And better, it happened to me and a friend together, so there's a corroborating witness.
Back in high school, me and my friends Chris, whom I call Gene, and Scharf made plans to hang out at Gene's house after school. Gene and I both had 9th period free, so we met at the beginning of 9th period in the SWAS room. Scharf had said he'd meet us there at the end of 9th period, the last period of the day.
I was in an alternative education program, School Within A School, in high school. It was in a big room with couches instead of desks, no grades, etc., it's a whole other story. But SWAS met for the first few periods of the day, and after that, the SWAS room, full of couches, was a…
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Going Down...: Beneath Hawk Hill—Exploring underground Battery 129, Marin Headlands
Many years ago, around the turn of the millennium, as I was simultaneously just breaking into and away from the San Francisco underground art scene, some folks I used to run with said elusive phantom stranger John Law had called for a bunch of us to meet up for mysterious purposes, as he was wont to do.
Hopping into some cars that night, we caravaned out along the twisty road into the Marin Headlands, parking some distance from Hawk Hill and walking there under cover of night. Once we arrived at the observation platform on top of the hill, someone produced a shovel and began to dig in the dirt, down a foot or two until hitting a rock. We pulled the rock out, and, to my surprise, underneath was an overturned 5-gallon bucket. We pulled out the bucket, and under that, to my…
/Toys
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
- Fender Champion 20 modeling amp
- Hotone Xtomp modeling effects pedal
- Hotone Ampero modeling multi-effects unit
- Tortex purples
- Bakersfield whites
- Gibson Pure Nickel
- Dean Playmate EABC Cutaway Acoustic-Electric
- Fender Korea P-Bass
- King Super 20 alto
- Jupiter Capital Edition CES770 tenor
- Aulos garkleit, sopranino, soprano, alto recorders
- Yamaha tenor recorder
- Hopf chalumeau
- Maui xaphoon
- Selmer Paris Series 9
- Vito Reso-Tone 3
- …
/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.
- Code editors: BBedit, VS Code, Cursor
- Database: FileMaker Pro
- Spreadsheet: MS Excel
- Browser: Firefox (Extensions: Tab Session Manager, uBlock Origin, Singlefile, Form History Control (II), Web Stickies, Go To Playing Tab, Save A Link To The Current Tab)
- Notes: Apple Notes.app
- File Synching: Syncthing
- Home Automation: Home Assistant
- Security video recorder: SecuritySpy
- Security camera control: Bitbar with homebrewed BASH scripts
- Backup: Backblaze
- Anti-Malware: Little Snitch, BlockBlock
- OS Utils: LaunchControl
- Filesystem management utils: GrandPerspective, DupeGuru
- OS: MacOS 12.7.6 Monterey
- Email: Thunderbird…
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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:
/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)
Mandolin
Bass (Electric)
Vocals
Saxophone
Clarinet
Hand drums
Lyre (24 string)
Harmonica
/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
- 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.
- 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
- Free Travel/Vagabonding.
- Urban Exploration.
- Camping and the outdoors.
/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.
/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-feedI'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…
/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.
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…
/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…
/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.
