Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inUnexplainedMemoirs & Reflections Things That Make You Say "Hmmmmm": TimeslipThis 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 28, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10845 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inPortrait GalleryMemoirs & Reflections These Are The People In My NeighborhoodSome assorted reminscences of characters I occasionally run across in my day. Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 21, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10475 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingCurrent EventsEconomics Opinion: How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job CrashNote: 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 4, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10189 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inMusic Reviews You Are Hear: Music ReviewsAs 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz March 16, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=8650 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingWork Infrequently Asked Questions: What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week?What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week? -Jeannie F, Marin County, CA Thursday. Trust me, being self-employed I’ve… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 7, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7041 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingComedy & Society Infrequently Asked Questions: Why do people respect George Carlin?I have a serious question, and, dead serious, I’m not deliberately trying to provoke. Why do people respect George Carlin? -Brett F., Alberta Carlin was the observational comic who set… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 7, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7038 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingMusic Theory Infrequently Asked Questions: Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note?Q. Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note? -Charlotte V., Seattle, WA Notes an octave apart are the same note because of the mechanics… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 7, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7024 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingProbability & Statistics Infrequently Asked Questions: Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? Is flipping tails more likely after four heads in a row?A.) Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? B.) What if 5 people each flipped a coin. If the first four all land on heads,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 7, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7013 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal EvidenceTravel & Adventure Local Color—Ghent, Belgium: How to Find Your Hotel If You’re Lost In GhentBack in my salad days I once tricked the Belgian government into paying to fly me & two friends to give an arts lecture in Ghent under assumed names (long… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 1, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6867 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inMusic Review I Like To Listen: “Peaks Island Ferry” by Dan Sonenberg — album reviewFinally giving a listen to the prerelease of old friend Dan Sonenberg’s return to solo singer-songwriting, "Peaks Island Ferry". Rather than set down & give him feedback after it’s over,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz November 1, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9294 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inPoesy & Doggerel I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!: “The Radish Is The Noisy’st Root…”The radish is the noisy'st root, Its vocal tack beyond dispute, effusive in expounding truth, so talkative, this verbal fruit. In ages prior and aeons hence, have poets, lost in… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 22, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6465 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inTechnosociologyAI Issues Hey, You Got Your Social Awareness In My AI!: About Sexism In The AI Images On This SiteA number of the AI-generated images on this site contain artistic depictions of nudity, presented in a way that might seem to reasonably suggest some confusion between real artistic or… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 20, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6322 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inMediaPropagandaManipulationPersuasion Watch Your Intelligence: Critical Reading of a Flawed Information SourceOct. 7, 2023 I had an interesting talk with my father yesterday. He had a 2-for-1 subscription offer to Mother Jones, and we got into a discussion when I told… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 20, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6198 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inMetadoggerelPoesy & Doggerel I Can’t Believe It’s Not Meta-Poetry!: Ode to “Ode To A Croaking Man”O! Poem that spoke of a man who croaks, were you not my own, I would quote you! I would think that whomever composed you smokes dope, but I know… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 17, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6151 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inSatireObfuscation & Misinformation Fudging The Facts: Misinformation VisualizationAmong my many inconsequential but fondly-remembered ideas was about 10 years ago, when for a brief time, I had a blog called "Misinformation Visualization" (subtitle: "Bringing a world of misinformation… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 15, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6104 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inPoesy & Doggerel I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!: Admonishment To A Bad PoetBad poems give just cause to critics who revel in finding ways to rag on others' flaws. When upon poorly set, is personal whose hearts cherish pride, and, gorging… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 15, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6036 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inHealth & WelfareLife In A Mikeycosm Health & Lifestyle: How I Deal With InsomniaI'm going to flesh this out at some point, but it was lost in a pile of old notes and I wanted it up on the site as a reminder,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 24, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5709 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingMusic Theory Infrequently Asked Questions: A Young Person’s Guide To Common Time Signatures, and what they mean in real lifeI have some time to kill so I thought I would write a brief overview of the concept of time signature in response to some questions that arose recently from… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 24, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5704 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inMikesplaining Knowledg Is Poweh: IAQs—Answers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions1. What's the difference between a sauce and a condiment? - Susan W., Tallahassee, FLA condiment enhances the flavor of food and is used sparingly. A sauce adds an additional… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 24, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5689 | Embed link
Michael Kupietz | ARTS+CODE - Category: Writing https://michaelkupietz.com/articles/writingPosted inWriting Posted inFunPranks & SatirePublic Provocations Hoax ‘Em If You Got ‘Em: Anti-Plague FlyerWaaaaay back during the dot-com boom in San Francisco, in my carefree 20s (a much different time of my life than my carefree '50s) I used to put this up… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 22, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5585 | Embed link