Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inMacOS & App CustomizationShell Scripting Thunderbird CustomizationTerminal-Notifier Bridge For Thunderbird Email ClientHot off the presses. Direct from my Github, a MacOS BASH script to allow customized per-mailbox notifications in the Mozilla Thunderbird email client. Following is the README containing full information… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 10, 2023Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5936
Posted inWriting Posted inHealth & WelfareLife In A Mikeycosm Health & LifestyleHow 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
Posted inWriting Posted inMusic TheoryInfrequently Asked Questions MikesplainingA 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
Posted inWriting Posted inKnowledge Is Power EMIAQsAnswers 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
Posted inWriting Posted inFunPranks & SatirePublic Provocations Hoax ‘Em If You Got ‘EmAnti-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
Posted inImages Posted inOld StuffSketches Old Sketches And StuffI don't draw as much as I used to, these are a couple of things I salvaged from my ancient other site. I'll add more as I run across them.… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 22, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5581
Posted inImages Posted inWork-In-ProgressIlluminated LyricsAI Generative Illustration GalleryRevisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyric illustrations galleryI have to be honest. I don't know about this one. I set out to do another set of AI-assisted lyric illustrations, this time all of one song in its… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 21, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5516
Posted inWriting Posted inPoesy & Doggerel The Measure Of A PoetA Lyrical Explication Upon Substantive Empirical Qualification of Authorial Poesy in Three LinesWhat better a measure of man as a poet Is there, b'sides seeing some poems he's wroet? If better exists, I sure do not knoet. Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 20, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5426
Posted inWriting Posted inIdeology & BeliefsFrom The Archives Just A Dab’ll Do YaAgainst Libertarianism, AlmostForeword about "Against Libertarianism", 2023I wrote this, originally a blog post, about 10 years ago. Nowadays I have more to say about this, but for the moment this stands with… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 20, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5414
Posted inWriting Posted inFunPranks & Satire Amazon Product ReviewPearl PCB20 Anarchy CowbellLink: http://www.amazon.com/review/RUISCK9IXTK6J/ref=cm_cr_dp_title?ie=UTF8&ASIN=B000OY5RKA&channel=detail-glance&nodeID=11091801&store=musical-instruments Rating: Review Title: Steal This Cowbell! Review: Submission to domination is enforced not solely, nor even most significantly, through blatant repression, but rather through subtle manipulations worked into… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 20, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5407
You’ll love this entry.I've finally nailed what bothers me so much about those Upworthy headlines. It's that they they tell you what to think about about the video, instead of telling you what… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 20, 2023| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5405
The most suggestive term in telecommunicationsThe 90 days after the creation of a new area code in which either the old or the new code may be used to dial that area is called the… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 20, 2023| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5402
Posted inImages Posted inConfabulated TraveloguesAI Generative Illustration California Deep Dreaming“Wild California” Studies — Ai Generative Art galleryWhile working on a featured image for Field Report: Briefing On My Weekend, I had the idea of extending the theme to make a whole set of illustrations inspired by… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 18, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4703
Posted inWriting Posted inReflectionsThe Beast Within Reflective ProseFascination, And Dangerous WeatherSpringtime hits hard in some quarters. I call this 'dangerous weather'—like, you've got to watch out where you're going. You might trip and fall. Somehow this always coincides with the… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 18, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4697
In Heaven, Everything Is FineI have an idea about what happens after you die. I think when you go to heaven, St. Peter lets you in, they show you to a room. You take… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 17, 2023| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4694
These are the people in my neighborhoodAllisonFly Bar, Alamo Square [My eccentric neighbor Allison walked into a bar where my friend Brent and I were sitting at a table near the door and I called out… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 17, 2023| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4691
These are the people in my neighborhoodAllison IIFront stoop of my apartment, day after Thanksgiving, 11/25/05 As I was arriving home, my eccentric neighbor Allison was just leaving her building. Allison: [waves at me] Me: Oh, hey,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 17, 2023| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4689
A step towards understanding (instead of) violenceI’m a big believer in personal responsibility and people being accountable for their actions. That said, there’s only so long you can do something to people that they perceive as… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 17, 2023| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4685
Posted inWriting Posted inMisc BrainspillTackling The Big Issues The Most Evil WordsI think "fuck 'em" are the most evil two words, the worst thought, in the English language. Maybe they're not terribly evil, said once, by themselves. But no words are.… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 17, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4679
Posted inWriting Posted inPoesy & Doggerel I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!Ode To A Croaking ManOn a long-ago visit to the hamlet of Acton, MA with my GOAT (that's "Girlfriend Onceupon A Time"—hey, I don't mind if they call me a BOAT), the town was… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 17, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4671