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A cousin of mine was helping work on a volume of poetry and asked if I had more images specifically of San Francisco or New York City in the style of “Wild California” Studies — AI Generative Art gallery that they could consider for inclusion. I didn't, but I whipped some up.
I'm pretty fond of how a lot of them turned out, but, as with so many of these projects, I wound up making many that are visually striking but don't really have much artistic value beyond that, and the work remains to be done to winnow down all the striking images to the ones that really are special.
Until then, I'm so fond of them, though, that I thought I'd give a preview. Here's the complete output of those experiments, awaiting the best of it being culled down into the final presentation.
When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary to understand why your wordpress site's freaking menus display fine when you're logged in as administrator but are completely broken when you're logged out, it may be useful to be able to easily compile all the CSS for the affected page elements for both the working and nonworking versions, and compare them to see what might be different.
Let me back up. I had a problem the other day where my Wordpress site's caching plugin, which performs various optimizations on my site's code for non-logged-in users, was adding some sort of broken CSS. When I was logged in, everything worked fine, but when not logged in, something changed somewhere in the CSS that caused some of my menus not to display. I had a rough idea of where the changed code must be, but no more than that, and…
This was an old idea I saw on the web 20 or so years ago, and did for myself for a while: the "Flypaper" page, trying to find people you have lost track up by putting their names on a page for them to find if they do a web search for themselves. I had one for a while, too, and I'm going to update it and put it here. For now, this is a placeholder to remind me to do that.
As usual, when doing my gallery for #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — "Winter Monster", there were a ton of images left over that I liked but didn't make the cut, or weren't quite unique enough, or didn't fit the theme. There are those.
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.
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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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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Disable Recipe post type, I wasn't really using it and it didn't work quite right for some reason, was missing permalinks, previews, and other features.
Add skip_posts_in paramater to othercatposts. skip_id tells it which categories not to search, now skip_posts_in tells it to skip posts in certain categories even if they come up in other categories too... like, skip_posts_in="898" says don't include posts in "kwits" even if they come up in the "blog post" category.
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Added a slow log and made some apache changes mostly related to logging and registering header info sent from cloudflare. Details are at https://michaelkupietz.com/server-changes-summary-july-24-2026/
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Changed .metainfo > .dashicons {margin-bottom: -2px;margin-top: -2px; /* fix for dashicons raising text baselines in tags in meta info…
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An interesting bit of history, courtesy of Lou Montulli, early Mozilla engineer and author of…
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…
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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…
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…
Back around the turn of the millennium, as I was simultaneously just breaking into and beginning to be repelled away from the San Francisco underground art scene, some hipsters I used to run with said elusive phantom stranger John Law had called for a bunch of us to meet up after dark for mysterious purposes, as he was wont to do, in the hills on the the far side of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Hopping into some cars that night, we caravanned out along the twisty road into the Marin Headlands, parked some distance from Hawk Hill, and walked there under the stars. 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, before hitting a fair-sized rock.
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These are my musical skills, roughly in descending order of competency: Guitar (Acoustic & Electric, flat-picked & finger-picked) Keyboards (Electronic,…
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