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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…
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Timeslippin’ With Gene
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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…
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Beneath Hawk Hill—Exploring underground Battery 129, Marin Headlands
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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…
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Excel-based Motley Fool Premium Investment Service Performance Analyzer
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Don't Believe The Hype: Excel-based Motley Fool Premium Investment Service Performance Analyzer

Back before I first became the global success I am today, I began looking into investing. Among the things you can't miss when you enter that world looking to learn…
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A Taxing Gallery
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Serious Business: A Taxing Gallery

Working on a featured image for my writeup on  How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash, I tried to create an artistic representation of tech…
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“Of Uncertain Origins” — original demo for “Five Themes in Uncertain Times”
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Early Demo: “Of Uncertain Origins” — original demo for “Five Themes in Uncertain Times”

Here we have a interesting relic of how the creative process can mess with you. My perpetually unfinished magnum opus "Five Themes In Uncertain Times" has been through a lot…
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“The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)” — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose
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Tonal Eclipse Of The Heart: “The Quest For Tone (On A Budget)” — Electric Guitar Noodling With A Purpose

Over the past few years I accumulated a range of inexpensive but beautiful-sounding equipment: a '94 Standard Stratocaster, both Xtomp and Ampero modeling effects pedals from Hotone, and a Fender…
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I AM DA CHEF OF DA FUTURE
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Dinner For Schmucks: The Five Ingredient Cookbook — Kitchen Survival for Schmoes

Mostly sticking this placeholder into the "works in progress" section to remind me to pull all my recipies together and work on my cookbook. At a certain point in my…
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Portraits In Flesh — AI generative art gallery
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Who Trails On A Leash: Portraits In Flesh — AI generative art gallery

Painted faces, paintings of faces — an exploration of fantastic portraits and fantastic art. (Titled with apologies to the shade of David Bowie.)
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Privacy Policy
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The Whole Of The Law: Privacy Policy

Who we are This website address is: https://michaelkupietz.com. It is the showcase website for creative works by artist and technologist Mike Kupietz. Comments When visitors leave comments on the site…
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Hiking the rockies in Colorado, we got real close to some amazing wildlife.
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Nothing To See Here, Folks: Just Some Vacation Snapshots

Just some photos from my cross-country vacation. Funny how different vacation photos sometimes are from how you remember things being. Guess I should have used a camera instead of an…
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Bio of Pioneer of Extraterrestrial Research: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Michael Kupietz
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Bio of Pioneer of Extraterrestrial Research: The Extraordinary Life and Mysterious Disappearance of Michael Kupietz

Michael Kupietz's obsession with the unknown began on a moonless night in 1952, when as a ten-year-old boy in rural Montana, he witnessed what he would later describe as "a…
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From Panel to Screen: The Comic Book Movie Revolution
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From Panel to Screen: The Comic Book Movie Revolution

Part 1: The Early Years and Foundation The journey from four-color pulp pages to billion-dollar blockbusters represents one of the most significant transformations in modern entertainment history. To understand this…
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Sing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances
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Nearly Famous: Sing This All Together — Kupietz Musical Collaborations & Guest Appearances

Here's a page collecting some of my musical guest appearances documented on the web. Currently there ain't much that's been documented, and less of that that's posted, but as I…
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Non-render-blocking YouTube embeds in WordPress
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Video Killed The Pagespeed Score: Non-render-blocking YouTube embeds in WordPress

On this site's Music Reviews page (itself built on-the-fly by a shortcode that sorts and displays posts from a "Music Review" custom post type), most of the reviews are accompanied…
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About Michael Kupietz — Bio, Contact Info, & Other Projects
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The Man Behind The Curtain: About Michael Kupietz — Bio, Contact Info, & Other Projects

Contents: It is I: About Mike Kupietz Don't call me, I'll call you: Mike Kupietz contact info. Links to Mike's other web pages and online presence It is I! About…
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Bedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videos
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Got To Pay Your Dues: Bedroom Full O’ Blooze – (mostly) acoustic blues videos

This is a playlist from my GuitaristInProgress Youtube channel, just a bunch of old blues tunes I ran through at various points. These are some select ones I like, but…
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The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist
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If I Do Say So Myself: The Best of GuitaristInProgress — video playlist

These are probably my favorites of the various video performances I posted on the GuitaristInProgress Youtube channel over the years I was active there. There's a little variety here — both…
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Blue hits again, Harry, Jeff, Blair
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When They Pry It from My Hip, Ironic Fingers: Exploration & Explosions, a Nevada Desert Hipster Road Trip

NOTE: Some of the activities documented in this photo album, like a lot of what goes on in the Black Rock Desert during the off season (when seven different government…
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Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front
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Vacation Photos: Pseudonymous adventures in Europe pretending to be the Billboard Liberation Front

For 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…
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Raving And Drooling — AI-assisted lyrical illumination of Pink Floyd’s “Sheep”
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Gallery: Raving 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…
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WordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with Transients
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Optimization-A-Go-Go: WordPress Shortcode & Function Performance Optimization with Transients

I 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…
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Dream Jobs (the surreal preoccupations of an out-of-work IT consultant)
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Welcome To My Nightmare: Dream Jobs (the surreal preoccupations of an out-of-work IT consultant)

Another 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…
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UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration
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Beneath Berkeley: UC Berkeley Steam Tunnels Photojournal—Urban Exploration

Back 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…
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