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Can the sentence ‘I literally died laughing’ be true?
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Infrequently Asked Questions: Can the sentence ‘I literally died laughing’ be true?

"'Literally' is one of the most misused words in the English language. Literally means: exactly as stated. 'I literally rode a horse to get here.' means you saddled a horse…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Too Hot To Handle Monsters”, Uncensored
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But It's A Dry Heat: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Too Hot To Handle Monsters”, Uncensored

The LinkedIn Saturday Monster Challenge for July 5, 2025 was '"Too Hot To Handle" Monsters'. After consideration, I decided not to post this gallery on LinkedIn. The idea of a…
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Using Per-Website Emails & Passwords to Protect Against Data Breaches
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Security Through Obscurity: Using Per-Website Emails & Passwords to Protect Against Data Breaches

I got into a conversation today with some web developers, talking about recent articles about a major password breach. This got me to thinking—with some prompting from shadowy web standards…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge – 2025jun29, “Deleted Scenes Monsters” – Casablanca Uncut
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Slay It Again, Sam: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge – 2025jun29, “Deleted Scenes Monsters” – Casablanca Uncut

This week's LinkedIn Saturday Monster Challenge generative art theme was "Deleted Scene Monsters": show the monsters that ended up on the cutting room floor. And so, I am pleased to…
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Draggable Elements WordPress Plugin
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Nothin' But A Drag: Draggable Elements WordPress Plugin

This will be written up in detail, but for now, this is just a demo page for my KupieTools Draggable Elements WordPress plugin. If you select "View Page Source" in…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Rising Monsters”
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By the time I get there, she'll be rising: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge—”Rising Monsters”

The Saturday Monster Challenge on LinkedIn for June 21 2025 was "Eternal Rise Monsters". I took the theme and decided to do Phoenixes (Phoenices? Phoenixen?), as in "rising from the…
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On Not Voicing One’s Opinion Of Pickles In Deference To A Strange Sensitivity
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Is That A Kosher Dill In Your Pocket, Or Are You Just Happy To See Me?: On Not Voicing One’s Opinion Of Pickles In Deference To A Strange Sensitivity

Note: This was composted in response to a #thursdaypoetrysociety challenge on LinkedIn to compose a poem in response to the prompt "my opinion on pickles". My opinion of pickles is…
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HIRE MIKE! Professional Info, Full-Stack Web & Certified FileMaker Pro Development, IT Consulting, etc.
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All Work And No Play Makes...: HIRE MIKE! Professional Info, Full-Stack Web & Certified FileMaker Pro Development, IT Consulting, etc.

Some info about Mike's day job: certified Filemaker & Full-Stack Web development. Really you want to check out www.kupietz.com for that info.
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Extra New York Images
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So Much City, They Had To Give It A Second Gallery: Extra New York Images

Just a set of fun leftover from when I was working on a featured image for my Local Color: New York Stories, Which I only now realize are all about…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Fog Monsters
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Beware The Fog: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Fog Monsters

#SaturdayMonsterChallenge on LinkedIn for 11 Jan 2024 theme was "Fog Monsters". .
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The Red Day
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Life On Mars?: The Red Day

2020, already a strange year due to the pandemic, had its strangest day, for the San Francisco area, on September 9. The Bay Area experienced a kind of weather that…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Lucky Charm Monsters
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Some monsters have all the luck: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — Lucky Charm Monsters

This week's #SaturdayMonsterChallenge on LinkedIn is Lucky Charm Monsters. I always say, you can tell the lucky charm monsters, because they're the ones hanging out with the people winning at…
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#WrappedInPink — Pale Pink
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Isn't She Pretty: #WrappedInPink — Pale Pink

Submission for the Mood Board and Fashion categories of the Wrapped In Pink AI generative art competition, Dec 2024.
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Pure CSS interactive web holiday lights
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season's geekings: Pure CSS interactive web holiday lights

Strung across this page are pure CSS interactive Christmas lights. You can slowly move your mouse across them to jostle them and they're move, all without any javascript. The twisty…
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How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash
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Opinion: How the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job Crash

Note, Sep. 2024: I want to point something out: I’ve given few references here besides a couple of Google search results I happen to like. This page gives my current…
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Interlude Tonsorial
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Hair Of The Dog: Interlude Tonsorial

Exqueeze me whilst I sing the tale of facial hair gone tough as nails. When short, it chafes, when long it scares! Crepusculating facial hairs portend the chafed skin one…
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Web Design—Adding Text Previews To HTML Details Disclosure Elements
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god is in the details: Web Design—Adding Text Previews To HTML Details Disclosure Elements

Looking around the site, you might get the hint that I'm a big fan of <details class="detailsClassName"><summary>blah blah blah</summary> even more blah blah blah</details> disclosure elements. For those unfamiliar, that's…
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Feminine Stochastique
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Generative Mystique: Feminine Stochastique

About This GalleryThis gallery deals with the unavoidable stereotypes of femininity that one encounters using some current generative art tools ca. 2024. Being trained on a society's art, there are…
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Scripts to Analyze CSS from Firefox’s Javascript console.
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For Web Devs and Other Tool-Using Animals: Scripts to Analyze CSS from Firefox’s Javascript console.

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…
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#SaturdayMonsterChallenge — “Winter Monster”
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Baby, It's Cold Outside: #SaturdayMonsterChallenge — “Winter Monster”

Saturday, Dec. 7, 2024’s #SaturdayMonsterChallenge theme on LinkedIn is "Winter Monster". Here's what I did. Bonus Gallery: Leftover Winter Monster Images
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On Time
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Art Waits For No Man: On Time

I posted The Contents Of The Rest Of The World’s Dream Do Not Concern Me (or, Why I Didn’t Turn 40) and Day Nights at around the same time, and in…
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Resurrecting the HTML <blink><BLINK></blink> tag
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In With The Old: Resurrecting the HTML <BLINK> tag

Back in the bad old days, there was an HTML tag called . It did this, which everybody hated, because it was annoying, and everybody's web pages looked like this:…
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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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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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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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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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