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Photojournals Travel & Adventure

Back To The Garden: A Visit to Pearl Fryar’s Topiary — photojournal

In 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,…

By Mike Kupietz December 18, 2023Photojournals| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9697 | Embed link

Writing Music Review

I Like To Listen: “Peaks Island Ferry” by Dan Sonenberg — album review

Finally 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,…

By Mike Kupietz November 1, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9294 | Embed link

Code & Algorithms Finance & InvestingIndicators & Algos

Trading Tools: TradingView Pine Script Indicators, Algos & Experiments

Here'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…

By Mike Kupietz October 24, 2023Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6544 | Embed link

Code & Algorithms CryptocurrencyExcelFinance Simulations

Untangling Uniswap? Demystifying DeFi? You Tell Me: An Excel-based DeFi Liquidity Pool Simulator

For 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…

By Mike Kupietz October 23, 2023Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6516 | Embed link

Writing Poesy & 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…

By Mike Kupietz October 22, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6465 | Embed link

Writing TechnosociologyAI Issues

Hey, You Got Your Social Awareness In My AI!: About Sexism In The AI Images On This Site

A 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…

By Mike Kupietz October 21, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6322 | Embed link

Image Gallery AI Generative IllustrationIlluminated LyricsOuttakes

Work-In-Progress Postview: Previsions of Johanna — preliminary experiments

As 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…

By Mike Kupietz October 20, 2023Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6226 | Embed link

Writing MediaPropagandaManipulationPersuasion

Watch Your Intelligence: Critical Reading of a Flawed Information Source

Oct. 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…

By Mike Kupietz October 20, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6198 | Embed link

Code & Algorithms Web DevelopmentjQuery

Usability Hell: How to make a completely unusable homepage in CSS3 and jQuery

One 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…

By Mike Kupietz October 18, 2023Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6159 | Embed link

Writing MetadoggerelPoesy & 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…

By Mike Kupietz October 18, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6151 | Embed link

Writing SatireObfuscation & Misinformation

Fudging The Facts: Misinformation Visualization

Among 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…

By Mike Kupietz October 15, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6104 | Embed link

Code & Algorithms MacOS & App CustomizationShell Scripting

Thunderbird Customization: Terminal-Notifier Bridge For Thunderbird Email Client

Hot 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…

By Mike Kupietz October 10, 2023Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5936 | Embed link

Writing MikesplainingMusic Theory

Infrequently Asked Questions: A Young Person’s Guide To Common Time Signatures, and what they mean in real life

I 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 24, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5704 | Embed link

Writing Mikesplaining

Knowledg Is Poweh: IAQs—Answers to Even More Infrequently Asked Questions

1. 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 24, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5689 | Embed link

Image Gallery Work-In-ProgressAI Generative IllustrationIlluminated Lyrics

Gallery: Revisions of Johanna — AI-Assisted lyrical illumination

I 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 22, 2023Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=5516 | Embed link

Image Gallery AI Generative IllustrationConfabulated Travelogues

California Deep Dreaming: “Wild California” Studies

While 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 18, 2023Image Gallery| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4703 | Embed link

Writing ReflectionsThe Beast Within

Reflective Prose: Fascination, And Dangerous Weather

Springtime 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 18, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4697 | Embed link

Writing Poesy & Doggerel

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!: Ode To A Croaking Man

On 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…

By Mike Kupietz September 17, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4671 | Embed link

Writing Gonzo JournalismConfabulated TraveloguesFun

Local Color—Point Reyes, Marin County: Report On My Weekend

(Sent via email to undisclosed parties) My god, if I knew how my little weekend of excursions was going to turn out, I would have made it an event and…

By Mike Kupietz September 16, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4415 | Embed link

Writing Poesy & Doggerel

This’ll Show ‘Em: Verse Upon Bank of America Holding My Checks And Angering My Cat

"These checks will be held for two weeks", they said, "because they are very large and from New Jersey" This much is true But I am now home and my…

By Mike Kupietz September 16, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4375 | Embed link

Writing Poesy & Doggerel

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Poetry!: Ode To A Curl-Up Bug

O! pity the poor maligned curl-up! Its form, tho' well designed, inspires many to fear! But many a curl-up has faced a cruel and untimely fate 'neath some shoe or…

By Mike Kupietz September 14, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4367 | Embed link

Writing Misc. Thoughts & Brainspill

Marginal Thinking Dept.: You Can Quote Me On That (Assorted Short Topical Writings)

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By Mike Kupietz September 14, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4348 | Embed link

Writing The ParanormalInvestigative ReportingPublished Bylines

Investigative Journalism: “Elvis Is Everywhere”

In the Nov. 10, 1988 edition of Bard College school newspaper "The Bardian", for whom I occasionally wrote as a cub reporter, the Campus News section was led by my…

By Mike Kupietz September 13, 2023Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4277 | Embed link

Code & Algorithms WordpressPHP

Adding A Default Featured Image Or Thumbnail In WordPress

On this site, any post without a featured image specifically set (such as this one) displays the default floral 'K' insignia anywhere on the site where a thumbnail is displayed.…

By Mike Kupietz September 12, 2023Code & Algorithms| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4251 | Embed link

Music & Sounds Equipment & Tools Used

Serious Gear Geekery: Mosrite/Bakersfield Guitar Picks

I wonder how many of even my guitarist friends will appreciate the above photo. Maybe some of you Seattle musicians, or Ventures fans. I found a set of vintage Mosrite…

By Mike Kupietz September 12, 2023Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4238 | Embed link

Music & Sounds Singer / SongwriterAcousticky Guitar

Demo: The Ravine Houses Are Gone (A Song For Hume, And Wacks, And Dan, And You)

May 28, 2007 On May 27, Christopher Hume's parents met up with my friends Dan and Wacks at Bard College, and they went down to the on-campus waterfalls on the…

By Mike Kupietz September 11, 2023Music & Sounds| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=4191 | Embed link

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