Mark Gritter

@markgritter.bsky.social

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Math and startup geek. Software Engineer at Thirdlaw. Ex-Postman, Ex-HashiCorp, ex-Tintri. he/him

A giraffe mask hanging on a wall. It has narrow slits for eyes, a bulbous nose, and very straight ossicones. But it's definitely a giraffe.
Several drums in center stage next to the conductor's podium. Most are timpani of different sizes while the front one is a kick drum mounted vertically so that the soloist can whale on it.
A pen drawing of an homage to Escher's "Sphere Spiral" in purple ink on white paper. The art is a set of wedges drawn along lexodromic spirals on a sphere.
A frozen pizza with many black olives. Also pepperoni, bell peppers, onions, and mushrooms.
A closeup of a cluster of blueberry flowers on a small bush in rock bed. A thicker but dead branch sits in the center of the photo.
A pizza on a pizza stone, showing a reasonable amount of pepperoni and mushroom, a scattering of pepper and onion, and a solitary olive slice.
A Pep's Legit Supreme Pizza box. The square-cut piece of pizza has pepperoni, red onion, black olives, mushrooms, and bell peppers -- all of which can in fact be found on the final product.
A photo from a parking lot showing protestors lining the nearby sidewalk, wrapping around two sides of the transit center.
A singer facing sideways and a pianist facing away from us. Both are colored purple due to stage lighting.
A fundraising email from Peggy Flanagan's campaign for Pi Day. "make a donation of any amount ($3.14 or $31.40 would be appropriate today!)..." The options shown are 3.14, 10, 30.14, 100, and 300.14.
Black and yellow lines start parallel, become twisted and overlapping as they progress from left to right. The lines re-enter the artwork from the lower left after exiting the upper right, and become parallel and orderly again. "These Roots Run Deep", 2010, oil, size 13 seed beads, and thread on canvas
A selfie with a small cat head in the ceiling
A bearded man in glasses smiles at the camera in a blue room with art visible on the walls. He is wearing a Roguelike Celebration 2024 T-shirt which displays pixel art versions of all the monsters, and our hero the @ symbol.
Granny Weatherwax, as drawn by Paul Kidby. She is wearing a pointed witch's hat with several needles sticking through it, holding four cards in one hand, and scratching her ear with the other.
A room showing several sculptures with a seating area and a large photo of Asawa's work area in her home.
Two chocolate chips sitting on a white napkin. The left one is a normal circular chip with its point folded over. The right one is much larger and has a hexagonal base, and its point is smoother and does not fold over.
A photo of a sunset. A blue sky above gives way to a backlit cloud. Rays of light seem to connect two of the clouds.
A 3x3 grid. Inside each grid is a smaller 50x51 grid illustrating possible room shapes, each with a count of how many seeds produce that shape. The distribution is conditioned on particular shapes for the first two rooms -- only 209 seeds out of 2^32 generate those shapes.
Three people working on their embroidery
Two gigantic doors made of redwood, carved in a whorl meander pattern.
Asawa and Buckminster Fuller teaching a workshop at Marshall Elementary School, San Francisco, 1974
A large painting with coarse strokes of black and tan on a a white background.
Lines heading in four directions in four quadrants,.drawn directly on the gallery wall.
Sharp fragments of stone lie in a filled-in circle on a gallery floor. They have one flat side down to resemble a set of mountain peaks, and none of them touch.
A long, brightly colored painting on a wall. It is about three times wider than tall, and consists of a jumble of abstract shapes. There is a strong top-to-bottom flow with lines of colors or stripes running from the top to the bottom, but not directly or in straight lines. Some of the shapes suggest but do not directly resemble letters.
A hanging sculpture made of metal wire, with many curved lobes, some of which are inside each other.
A fuzzy white dog lying on a black-and-white striped rug. His eyes are nearly obscured by his overgrown hair. A small green lies behind him.
Dolores Abernathy from Westworld aims a gun. She is wearing a gray button-down shirt with the sleeves rolled up. The text states "Hey, sexy mama, wanna kill all humans?"
A blue and white tile, hand painted, reading "Mark + Marissa Aug 1999"
The Gmail sidebar, showing exactly 100,000 unread items in the Inbox.
for a in N, sum of k=0 to n of (an +k) choose k equals (n+1) times (an +n +1) choose (n+1), divided by (an+1)
A painted wooden shark head. It has shiny gold teeth.
Wolfram Alpha's plot looks like a bunch of disconnected gibberish.