Paul Starr

@pa.ulst.ar

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Reach/grasp mismatch error. https://paulstarr.dev/

The cat reading a newspaper meme with the text “I should buy a Unimog”
Short skirt long jacket but make it good wife wise mother
The “WELCOME HOME” text from the end of Gunbuster
A shorthaired brown tabby cat lounges on a concrete wall behind wrought iron bars
A social media post reading “If you can't listen to spitz and feel gently wistful with the big dogs get out of the bakery where I control the aux”
a comparison of my RT-DETR finetune (left) vs. MagiV2 (right).
a screenshot of claude code running the fable model reporting success
a photo of a page of me & roboco with bounding boxes around pages and panels and reading order correctly graphed
an analysis of potentially palindromic equivalency in sheena ringo/spitz songs titles
Voxel conifers spring to life within bounding boxes
a video of a 3D rendered voxel cube with a red stripe running around it. An area cursor tool is applied to the stripe, and red voxels "grow" organically/randomly out of the red stripe.
the cornell box from the quoted post getting sliced and diced by area selection
a "Cornell Box" renderer test: The inside of a box, with white on its top, bottom, and back sides, red on left, green on white, filled with various shapes that demonstrate the physically accurate behavior of light inside the box.
A discord exchange between me and Carter: Me: just realized that "greedy" is the opposite of "lazy" Could've called them anything but we reached for vices at both ends Carter: You should always feel a little guilty about indulging in algorithms
A six second video of a toddler in a rain coat and rain boots splashing in a puddle
a screenshot of the blender repository with the "fork" button circled
Damaged tokimemo figurines in the corner of a dirty storage unit
A cardboard box with a computer game box and other items. The computer game box has a picture of a city and the text "There's intelligent life out there." and "eWorld The new online service from Apple Computer."
The cover of Oh My Goddess issue number 2
The “ok ima fight” meme with the text “ok ima fight the tickle monster / damn the tickle monster got hands”
A red velvet ant crawling on gravel
A black and orange insect on a dirt surface. A small gray rock is nearby. The dirt is brown with small rocks and twigs.
CodeWarrior Discover Programming Edition Two
When we look at the world around us, we are not sensing the shapes of the things that make it up. We sense only whatever light made it to our retinas after bouncing off (or being emitted from) those shapes. To turn the abstract mathematical representation of its scene into an image, MagicaVoxel has to answer the question "Given this scene and this point of view, what is the image created by the light that reaches the eye of the viewer?"
a gif of the completed "experimental catalyst" puzzle from Opus Magnum: De Re Metallica.
a mediocre solution to the first puzzle in Opus Magnum's De Re Metallica DLC.
The funniest joke I've heard or seen in months was a sight gag: a single automotive tire, thrown out through the open doors of a truck trailer containing hundreds of its comrades and onto a loading dock, rolled unsteadily for a couple dozen feet before wobbling in such a way as to make a quick 180 degree turn and begin rolling back toward the trailer from which it had been thrown. Imagine that you have unloaded perhaps 700 similar but less gifted tires in the process of receiving the day's inbound shipment at the American Tire Distributors warehouse in Columbia, SC. Your counterpart in the trailer has been rolling the tires to you. Your job is to place like tires in stacks five or six or seven high onto pallets, which will be forklifted across the dock and scanned into the warehouse inventory. The tires are sometimes heavy---the knobby off-road ones can weigh close to a hundred pounds each---but above all they are numerous, and you (recall, now, 700 tires into the unloading process) are therefore winded and muscle-sore. In the midst of the tedium and exhaustion of the work, an unremarkable car tire rolling towards you in the manner of the last several hundred of its brethren suddenly turns on its heel in a manner ineluctably _decisive_ and begins rolling precisely back toward the trailer, as though it has changed its mind. As though it has _forgotten its wallet._
A screenshot of text from an Adobe Indesign text frame reading: In Closing, A Freeform, Impressionistic List of Hopefully Interesting Things I Have Done Translate 14 volumes of a fantasy book series about medieval microeconomics from Japanese into English • Explain to a room full of comics editors why regular expressions are good • Compose and produce music for a friend’s Kickstarter video • Write a node.js tool to help authors check the status of their submissions to a science fiction zine • Play drums in a jazz band in rural Japan • Compose formal sonnets for the back cover copy of an Eisner Award-winning manga • Write Adobe InDesign scripts to automate certain very specific types of editorial drudgery in the manga production process • Justify the delicate art of translation to a convention hall full of anime fans • Write LaTeX macros to correctly typeset classical Japanese poetry • Create a piece of music for Homestuck • Implement three separate iterations of a document editor for composing comic book scripts as structured data • Create a detailed 3D computer model of a 200-year-old traditional adobe ranch house using roughly 250 million individual voxels • Invent a novel form of doggerel • Create an animated visualization of ad performance data as a swarm of flocking birds • Make a driving-through-the-rain sound simulator entirely from algorithmic noise • Write a shell script to convert an idiosyncratic 1400 page memoir formatted for print into an ebook • Animate and render a prestige TV-style camera move over a digital model of Chauvet Cave • Create a system of geometric tiling based on the grammar implied by the Spectre aperiodic monotile • Write a Python script to optimize SVG files for laser cutting • Design a crossword puzzle • Produce, edit, and publish a podcast • Throw tires, professionally • Visit every roller skating venue in every city I’ve lived in since 2008
A section from a wikipedia article with the heading "Title Discrepancy" that reads: Translating the original Japanese title of Aa! Megami-sama proved to be problematic. Fred Patten, in writing the preface to the collection "Watching Anime, Reading Manga: 25 Years of Essays and Reviews", stated that fans were still debating whether "Ah! My Goddess" or "Oh My Goddess!" should be used at the time of writing, approximately 15 years after the first Oh My Goddess! manga was published. When the United States anime import company AnimEigo obtained the original video animation (OVA) rights, they titled the series Oh My Goddess! This approach was also followed by Toren Smith and Dark Horse Comics when translating the manga, released in concert with the OVA series in 1994. Smith has since stated that he saw the title as a play on "Oh my god!", and felt that there was no problem when translating it. Smith confirmed that his interpretation of the author's intent was correct by consulting with Fujishima. Nevertheless, Kodansha's bilingual release of the manga used Ah!My Goddess, as did Pioneer's North American release of the film, and Media Blasters's 2005 DVD release of the TV series. Fujishima stated in Animerica that "Oh" was closer to his intent, but acknowledged that the title should be rendered so as to make sense within the country that it is published, and specifically stated that films may warrant different titles than other works. 19 He did, however, state that he would prefer to see consistency between the titles of the manga and those of the animations.
A beige tote bag with black handles leaning against a wall. The bag has red text that reads "#HITOZUMA."
an orthographic voxel render of a hi-fi stereo speaker setup with record player, tape deck, minidisk, and receiver, on a sheet of plywood on cinder blocks. There are a couple dozen records underneath the table.
A series of tweets from @JennyHolzerMom: DON'T GIVE YOUR HEART TO JUST ONE BRAND NO ONE CAN PROTECT YOU FROM YOURSELF -- I'M NOT NAGGING, I'M JUST SAYING A VAGUE AWKWARDLY EXPRESSED HOSTILITY IS FUN FOR A BIT BUT THEN IT GETS OLD ARE YOU GOING TO GO OUT AND DISMANTLE THE MEANS OF OPPRESSION OR ARE YOU GOING TO SIT AROUND THE HOUSE ALL DAY LIKE A LUMP? A STRONG NARRATIVE CAN BE AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE BUT IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO PAUSE THE DVR WHILE I'M TALKING TO YOU WHY DO WE HAVE A DVR? I SAW YOU ACROSS THE MALL AND I CALLED YOU AND I WATCHED YOU TAKE YOUR PHONE OUT AND HIT IGNORE OH IT IS SO FUNDAMENTALLY IMPORTANT TO THE WELLBEING OF THE PROLETARIAT THAT YOU KEEP PLAYING THAT GAME ON YOUR PHONE RIGHT NOW YOU CAN FOLLOW ALL THE RULES AND STILL GET BURNED WHICH IS WHY I PACKED YOU SUNSCREEN
A gif of a computer interface where a user clicks a button and a variety of unrelated amounts of money are displayed
Prophet Analog Ultra for sale This unit is loaded out with wailing leads, moist pads, and stern, avuncular bass. Kills me to part with it but my girlfriend's pregnant and I need cash. $2799. NO LOWBALLS.
Yamaha Giga 12 for sale This big dog is packed with piercing leads, gooey pads, and thick, thick bass. Can't believe I'm selling it but I'm moving to Tunisia and I need cash. $1150.
Of course, eventually party had to deflate from verb to noun, but there was no renouncing indulgences you hadn't exhausted.
Poster image for Moneyball (2011)
A short portrait mode video clarifying the delivery of the lines in the quoted post.
A panel from the Me & Roboco manga depicting Roboco dressed as a female bowling pro. Bondo says "She's a Showa-era female pro bowler!"
A green leaf with a network of veins in sunlight. The leaf is elongated and oval. The background is blurred but appears to be green foliage. There is a brown stem attached to the leaf.
A Christmas tree with multi-colored lights and ornaments next to a white armchair with a green and yellow leaf pattern. A white lamp with a pleated shade is behind the chair. A small white reindeer figurine and a small green tree figurine are on a table next to the chair. A book with a white cover and black text is on the table. The floor is wooden.
A tweet reading “Kikuko Inoue goes into her closet, records a few "Ara, Ranma-kun!'s with a Blue Yeti plugged into her iPad and then cashes a check for ninety five thousand dollars while Megumi Hayashibara spends a week in the booth & yells herself hoarse for a half mil.” And linking to the trailer for the ranma one half reboot
A small jetliner at a terminal. The reflections of the terminal interior in the window are highly visible.
The original photo of the plane, faintly overlaid by a reflection of the terminal interior
Greg Lemond winner 1986 Tour de France
A tianjin seagull 1963 chronograph