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 inUrban ExplorationTravel & Adventure 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 Hole, Sep 30 20059/30/2005 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 inTrading Indicators & AlgosPine script 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
Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted inCryptocurrencyExcelFinance Simulations Untangling Uniswap? Demystifying DeFi? You Tell MeAn Excel-based DeFi Liquidity Pool SimulatorFor a few years I was in cryptocurrency trading. Eventually, this led me to the wild west of decentralized finance tokens ("DeFi"), an exciting area that I feel has strong… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 23, 2023Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6516
Posted 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
Posted 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
Posted inImages Posted inIlluminated LyricsAI Generative IllustrationOuttakes Work-In-Progress PostviewPrevisions of Johanna — Generative Art galleryAs I worked on my "Revisions Of Johanna" project, I generated a lot of images I really liked, but which didn't fit into the final project. I decided the best… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 20, 2023Tags: Images| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6226
Posted inWriting Posted inMediaPropagandaManipulationPersuasion Watch Your IntelligenceCritical 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
Posted inCode & Algorithms Posted injQueryWeb Development Usability HellHow to make a completely unusable homepage in CSS3 and jQueryOne of my favorite bits of code I've ever done is on the front page of my jiggy, ancient, perpetually-under-construction, virtually-never-viewed old personal website, Life In A Mikeycosm. Eager to… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 18, 2023Tags: Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6159
Posted 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
Posted inWriting Posted inSatireObfuscation & Misinformation Fudging The FactsMisinformation 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
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 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 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 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