I'm currently doing a major refactoring of scripts on the site for performance.
At the moment, many features may be erratic or nonfunctional. Expect problems, things to not work when you click on them, etc.
I'll take this notice down when I'm sure everything is working again. Until then, apologies.
A favorite snack of mine—feels like junk food, but not too bad, filling, and super-easy.
Take about 12oz vanilla yogurt. I use cream-top full-fat yogurt.
Add a couple of splashes chocolate extract. You have to be careful, unlike real chocolate, more chocolate extract is not better... it's a little tart. Ideally I suppose you could just use unsweetened cocoa powder, I'm particular to the Hershey's unsweetened dark cocoa, but the store over here has been out lately.
Two reasonably heaping teaspoons of coconut flour.
Mix it all together really well.
And that's it! The coconut flour gives it rich texture and a nice flavor, which combines well with the chocolate and vanilla. I like to eat it with a very small spoon, so I can savor it. It's not that much like custard, but, it manages to hit enough of the same notes that it's a pretty…
This would be haiku,
But it only has two lines.
Oh, wait — nevermind.
This is a haiku.
You can tell because it's, uh,
not everything else?
This, too, is a hai
ku, even though it's labored
I still got it right.
Someday maybe this,
too, will be a haiku, dude,
but it just ain't now, man.
Ere, now I follow
the plain footsteps of Basho
but without his skill.
Occasionally I visit the Indieweb Chatroom when nobody is there and leave haikus.
the lone web dev sighs
soft, in the empty chat room
indieweb haiku
8/9/2025
The empty chat room.
The placid textarea
bears no hacker wit.
11/20/2025
This is my placeholder scratchpad for what will be my page of rules of thumb, natural laws, and other such handy guidelines.
1. Child rearing
Keep a parent's vigilant eye, and keep the kid away from high stuff and sharp stuff and hot stuff and anything with teeth and no training. You'll do fine.
2. Kupietz's Henriksen Conjecture
As described on my movie reviews page: Lance Henriksen will be the last to die in any horror movie he is in.
I'll be adding to this as I remember these, until it grows into an article.
This is a placeholder page to remind me to post my gallery of photos from Wendee Key's plantation.
This is a placeholder page left here to remind me to set up a single-page index of links to all my various software projects.
This is a brief demo page for my KupieTools Draggable Elements WordPress plugin, which dynamically adds interactive draggability to any page element, based on CSS class names (or, really, any CSS selector).
Here's some boxes:
Drag Me Horizontally Drag Me Vertically Drag Me Anywhere Drag Me To CornersIf you select "View Page Source" on this page in your browser, you will see that the above four DIV elements, as defined in the page HTML, are just ordinary DIV elements with a single classname, an ID, and some visual styling. The KupieTools Draggable Elements plugin adds draggability to any arbitrary page element, by simply specifying a class name or other CSS selector for it in the plugin. (If you use your browser's Inspector instead of View Page Source, you'll see the current state of those elements, with any changes or additions the plugin created…
This site started as an archive for my various art projects, previous scattered hither and yon across the web. As I've been working on it, I've come to want to include some other, more blog-like and social features. What will that look like? I don't know yet. This page is here as a reminder to myself to think about it.
TL;DR: This site is about me. This area is the part that will be about talking to you.
This page is a placeholder listing my various Github repos containing my custom WordPress plugin work, loosely branded as "KupieTools", as I work on more detailed pages documenting them.
kupietools/ktwp-wp-plugin-caching-toolkit A plugin providing functions for WordPress developers to implement PHP function caching for performance. kupietools/ktwp-wp-plugin-cli-mode WordPress plugin supplementing my CLI.html text-based web browsing front end. Adds a little icon on wordpress pages to allow users to switch to a javascript-based terminal emulator providing web page browsing commands via the keyboard. kupietools/ktwp-wp-plugin-debuggery-toolkit WordPress plugin providing handy debugging functions particular to the author's needs. /kupietools/ktwp-wp-plugin-draggable-elements WordPress Plugins allowing developers to make any previously existing page element draggable freely, vertically, horzontally, or constrained to corners, by adding the element's CSS selector to the plugin code. kupietools/ktwp-wp-plugin-editor-codefolding WordPress plugin adding code folding (disclosure triangles) to the built-in editors on WP's admin…[could probably have a whole website section on words & language]
This is a placeholder for a page suggested by captJamesG in the Indieweb writing group meeting at https://etherpad.indieweb.org/2025-02-04-writing : "Writing challenge for anyone interested: write about a word or words that you use but may not be widely known." Agita, vehagedah, sennsucht, and I'm sure I have a bunch of English ones
I write down a lot of thoughts on AI but have never gathered it into a cohesive essay or collection. This is the beginning of loosely collecting my thoughts and saved references for that.
A cousin of mine was helping work on a volume of poetry and asked if I had more images specifically of San Francisco or New York City in the style of “Wild California” Studies — AI Generative Art gallery that they could consider for inclusion. I didn't, but I whipped some up.
I'm pretty fond of how a lot of them turned out, but, as with so many of these projects, I wound up making many that are visually striking but don't really have much artistic value beyond that, and the work remains to be done to winnow down all the striking images to the ones that really are special.
Until then, I'm so fond of them, though, that I thought I'd give a preview. Here's the complete output of those experiments, awaiting the best of it being culled down into the final presentation.
Right now…
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 bachelorhood, I realized I was subsisting, in my home-cooked meals, on almost the same 5 ingredients. Tough to recall at this late date what those ingredients were... I think there was tuna fish in there, mayonnaise, ramen, I can't remember the other two. I had this idea at the time that it would be fun to put together a bachelor's cookbook of all the different things I made out of those few ingredients.
Over time my culinary palette grew, horizontally if not in terms of sophistication, but the idea never left me. Now there's an air fryer on my counter (or, as I call it, the "meat microwave"), probably more than 5 things I use regularly on my spice shelf…
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 entirety... Bob Dylan's "Visions Of Johanna".
I got a little ways into it, and it was going well, when a few times in a row the generative algorithm overemphasized cats I had added as incidental background elements in the prompt, to interesting effect. So I had the brilliant idea: let's illustrate the whole song with cats. I backtracked and started over again.
It was an instructive lesson, one that didn't turn out as well as I had hoped.
It's just hard to get a lot of variety out of the Stable Diffusion XL algorithm when the main subject is cats. Turns out, visually, cats are really not a very expressive medium. And especially…
Back in 2009 my old ex-friend Rick Abruzzo, whom I'd met some years earlier during a mutual effort to resuscitate the soggy corpse of the San Francisco Cacophony Society, invited me to come down with my guitar and fill some airtime on Baghdad By The Bay, his show on San Francisco's Pirate Cat Radio. A few unruly friends tagged along to egg me on, and in addition to going out live over the wires, the ensuing off-the-cuff, improvised hour of chaos was recorded for posterity on Pirate Cat's state-of-the-art low-quality direct-to-mp3 recorder. This is that chaos. It may or may not have passed for showmanship—you be the judge.
This is basically a nearly-finished live album, warts and all, and creeping up on 15 years after the fact it just awaits on a little bit of final production gloss and mastering for me to…
This one is finished except for the final production and mastering... it needs some studio gloss on it.
This a a drone album I did in early 2023. I created the basic audio for this with the wonderful Bento analog synthesis emulator, then arranged and produced it in my hated enemy Logic Pro.
Unlike a lot of my music, I would actually present this as worth a listen, for anyone open to things this far from conventional musical ideas. Dim the lights, put your headphones on, and drift downstream through my inner space for 80 minutes. You may like it or you may not, I never would have expected to. I certainly wouldn't ever have thought that a 80 minute piece of music with only one note could be engaging all the way through, and especially not hold up to repeated listening. But I'm pleased to…
Posted with great reluctance, my perpetually unfinished magnum opus, likely to someday stand as my failed masterpiece, a ponderous 65-minute arabesque of serialist post-rock instrumentals which, after 7 ongoing years of work and no end in sight, is at this point holding up the completion of 8 subsequent albums.
I wouldn't make a recommendation as to whether anybody should listen to this or not. This isn't actually intended for anyone to listen to, this one in particular I'm really just making to suit myself, writing it for its own sake. You're welcome to check it out, but that's as far in as I'll welcome you.
Some degree of patience may be of help to those who do care to venture into it, because it does something longer, quieter, and more deliberate than it may at first…
An early experiment in the serialist style I've been developing, which I was once told by a figure in a dream should be called "Zetetic Music". 2017. This is not a listenable or enjoyable album nor a particularly interesting piece of music, and is posted here primarily for the historical record. There are many other things on this site much more worth listening to.
I've been putting together an album of goofy electronic arrangements of classic tunes. Here's one I'm still working on at the moment, a medley of classic favorites, called "The Strutbutter / The Great Game Show In The Sky".
For confused first-time visitors and other people still acclimating, here is a description of these little tabs to the left, as well as some other features of the site.
Open "Expert Mode" CLI Navigation - this give you the option to switch your browser's display to an old-fashioned terminal mode where you may browse this site, view pages and images by typing text commands. Just like how we used to browse the web back in 1978!
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