Posted inWriting Posted inPortrait GalleryMemoirs & Reflections These Are The People In My NeighborhoodSome assorted reminscences of characters I occasionally run across in my day. Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 21, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10475
Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingCurrent EventsEconomics OpinionHow the Section 174 Tax Code Changes Caused a White-Collar Job CrashNote: I want to point something out: I've given no references here. This is my current understanding. I'm still researching it, and you should research it yourself, don't take my… Posted by By Mike Kupietz September 4, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=10189
Posted inWriting Posted inWork-In-ProgressBachelor Survival 'n' Style Dinner For SchmucksThe Five Ingredient Cookbook — Kitchen Survival for SchmoesMostly 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… Posted by By Mike Kupietz August 30, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=9868
Posted inWriting Posted inMusic Reviews You Are HearMusic ReviewsAs of this writing (March 2024) this is pretty sparse, I only just had the idea. Generally I've never written much about music—I don't need to, because music is just… Posted by By Mike Kupietz March 16, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=8650
Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingWork Infrequently Asked QuestionsWhat’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week?What’s the best day of the week to take off if you work a four day, 10-hours-a-day work week? -Jeannie F, Marin County, CA Thursday. Trust me, being self-employed I’ve… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 7, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7041
Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingComedy & Society Infrequently Asked QuestionsWhy do people respect George Carlin?I have a serious question, and, dead serious, I’m not deliberately trying to provoke. Why do people respect George Carlin? -Brett F., Alberta Carlin was the observational comic who set… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 7, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7038
Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingMusic Theory Infrequently Asked QuestionsWhy are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note?Q. Why are musical notes an octave apart considered to be the same note? -Charlotte V., Seattle, WA Notes an octave apart are the same note because of the mechanics… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 7, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7024
Posted inWriting Posted inMikesplainingProbability & Statistics Infrequently Asked QuestionsDo the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? Is flipping tails more likely after four heads in a row?A.) Do the odds of winning the lottery change if more people play? B.) What if 5 people each flipped a coin. If the first four all land on heads,… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 7, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=7013
Posted inWriting Posted inAnecdotal EvidenceTravel & Adventure Local Color—Ghent, BelgiumHow to Find Your Hotel If You’re Lost In GhentBack in my salad days I once tricked the Belgian government into paying to fly me & two friends to give an arts lecture in Ghent under assumed names (long… Posted by By Mike Kupietz January 1, 2024Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6867
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 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 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 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 inMisinformation Visualization The Infinity RazorDraft - never published This is an old favorite of mine that I'm glad to see survives in some form on the web. Close to 20 years ago, The Economist… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 16, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6132
Posted inWriting Posted inMisinformation Visualization More than Coincidence? The Bushes, the CIA, an inexplicable disease cluster, and a TV showDraft - never published Over the course of the persidency of George H. W. Bush, both he and first lady Barbara Bush developed Graves' disease, a form of lupus. Doctors… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 16, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6121
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 inWriting Posted inMisinformation Visualization Online Petition Gets Murder Conviction OverturnedOriginally posted on Misinformationvisualization.com on 12/9/2013. According to Change.org’s current homepage: “Family wins release of son from prison! Ryan Ferguson’s family fought for his release from prison for a murder they… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 15, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6110
Posted inWriting Posted inMisinformation Visualization How To Pick A Better PasswordOriginally posted on Misinformationvisualization.com on 12/2/2013 Buried in this interesting article about password security from the BBC is the tidbit that studies have found that red-haired women tend to pick… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 15, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6108
Posted inWriting Posted inMisinformation Visualization Election ’12 fact-findingHas Obama Increased or Decreased Shark Attacks in the US?Originally published on MisinformationVisualization.com on Aug 18, 2012 Here’s something Romney’s attack ads refuse to discuss. According to figures from the nonpartisan American Elasmobranch Society and the Florida Museum of… Posted by By Mike Kupietz October 15, 2023Tags: Writing| Permanent URL: https://michaelkupietz.com?p=6105