Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureCulture Jamming Vacation PhotosPseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front, 2008For 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz February 27, 2024Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7903
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative IllustrationIlluminated Lyrics GalleryRaving 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz February 10, 2024Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7501
Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inWeb DevelopmentWordpress CodingPerformance & Optimization Optimization-A-Go-GoWordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with TransientsI 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz February 4, 2024Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7428
Posted inImages Posted inAI Generative Illustration Welcome To My NightmareDream Jobs (the surreal preoccupations of an out-of-work IT consultant) — Generative Art galleryAnother 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 20, 2024Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7279
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureUrban Exploration Beneath BerkeleyUC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban ExplorationBack 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 15, 2024Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7083
Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingWork Infrequently Asked QuestionsWhat’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
Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingComedy & Society Infrequently Asked QuestionsWhy 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
Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingMusic Theory Infrequently Asked QuestionsWhy 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
Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingProbability & Statistics Infrequently Asked QuestionsDo 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
Satire“Traffic Lights” and the Left’s Destruction of American MobilityYou know what I hate? "Traffic lights". What gives the GOVERNMENT the RIGHT to tell ME when I can stop or go?!? Government shouldn't be standing in the way of… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 3, 2024| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=8619
Posted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal EvidenceTravel & Adventure Local Color—Ghent, BelgiumHow 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
Posted inImages Posted inFun With Scanners Digital Objets D’ArtRH fan club Birthday Card, 2003Robyn Hitchcock used to have an email fan club that I was pretty active in (hence his name coming up a bunch of places on this site; if you're familiar… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6832
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureTravelogue Good Day at Black Rock27 Photos from Burning Man 1997Introduction, 2023:Back when I first got to San Francisco in the mid-90s, full of youthful idealism, the first thing I did was seek out the San Francisco Cacophony Society and… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6797
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureUrban Exploration Beneath the Bay AreaBattery Dynamite — Subterranean Bunker Urban Explorationsomewhere beneath the Bay Area, Aug 6 2004 Last July, my late* trubbamaking companion was trying to find a shortcut down to the beach when he noticed a hole in… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6711
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & AdventureRural Exploration Subterranean SerendipityUC Santa Cruz Porter Caves & the Hell Hole9/30/2005 I was wandering the trails through the woods by UC Santa Cruz, taking some pictures of trees and stuff and trying to shake off a cold, when fate brought… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 31, 2023Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6693
Posted inPhotojournals Posted inTravel & Adventure Back To The GardenA Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournalIn August 2018 my mom and I decided to take a road trip from my sister's home in an un-named southern city, where I was crashing for a few months,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz December 18, 2023Tags: Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9697
Posted 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
Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inFinance & InvestingIndicators & Algos Trading ToolsTradingView Pine Script Indicators, Algos & ExperimentsHere's a collection of trading tools I wrote & shared on TradingView, a finance markets charting site, in their native Pine script. These were originally published on my old crypto… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 24, 2023Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6544
Crossing detector (feat. 2-field date/time entry demo)ApopheniaPays Crossing detector & 2-field date/time entry by ApopheniaPays on TradingView.com TradingView Script. Free TradingView account required to use. Direct link: https://www.tradingview.com/script/izM2anXV-ApopheniaPays-Crossing-detector-2-field-date-time-entry/ A demonstration created by request. You specify a… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 23, 2023| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6523
Range Strategy demoApopheniaPays Range Strategy by ApopheniaPays on TradingView.com TradingView Script. Free TradingView account required to use. Direct link: https://www.tradingview.com/script/vQmYyTp5-ApopheniaPays-Range-Strategy A very simple demo, made by request, to allow a user to… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 23, 2023| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6526