Walt Mankowski

@wmankowski.bsky.social

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Computer scientist in Columbia’s Radiology Department looking for better imaging biomarkers for breast and lung cancer. Longtime open source guy, new ham radio guy (KC3WHU). I’m @walt_man on that other site and @waltman@hachyderm.io on Mastodon.

The L.L. Bean Bootmobile parked in a strip mall outside a new L.L. Bean store.
A small beagle sits on the floor of a subway car at the foot of their human. They’re looking to their right. They are a very good dog.
A shelf in a bookstore with the book "The Usual Desire to Kill" by Camilla Barnes featured. The cover has a red background with white and black lettering, and features the silhouettes of two llamas.
This photo shows the departure board at Penn Station, New York. Nearly all of the Amtrak and New Jersey Transit trains are either delayed or on standby
The photo shows a wall of 2 liter bottles of Coke and Diet Coke at the supermarket. They all have yellow caps, indicating that they are Kosher for Passover and were made with real sugar instead of corn syrup.
A large dog sits on the grass in front of an enormous rawhide bone. The dog is light brown in color, very fuzzy, and looks off to the left with a goofy expression on his face. It’s difficult to just scale in the photo, but the bone is roughly 3 feet in length and 6 inches thick. In front of the bone lines a green rope toy with something red attached to it. This is all that’s left of a “Christmas lights” toy he got earlier in the day. Behind Ace is a pale yellow, banana-shaped toy.
A red, white, and blue sign is stuck in a small patch of ground between a bench and the sidewalk. It looks like an American-style campaign sign, but the text reads "Presidents are temporary. Wu-Tang is forever." Above it is a smaller sign that reads "Take a plant. Leave a plant."
A picture of Liverpool striker Mo Salah with his arms raised after scoring a goal
A small pair of bunny ears poke up out of the grass and brush along the side of a road
The other day I noticed sunflowers looking very out of place in the median at 168th and Broadway. The big ugly beige building in the background is New York Presbyterian Hospital.
A beer in a New York Giants pint glass
A dog and 2 humans are standing on a street corner in Washington Heights, New York. The dog is a small but stocky white and brown bulldog with a sneaker in his mouth. His human stands to the left holding his leash. To the rear a bald man with a gray goatee stands in front of a trash can holding a broom and dust pan.
Liverpool’s 2024-25 Premier League championship banner hangs below a Guinness mirror
Two young men, each with a cylindrical Red Bull bag over their shoulders, wait for their order in a coffee shop.
A blue Ford Edge with the license plate TOOKUS
An old radio, which looks like it was once a nice piece of furniture about the size and shape of a bookcase, is now being used to sell souvenirs.
The side of a suburban building is shown, surrounded by a parking lot. It used to be a bank, but is now a pot dispensary named Honey Stash. The paint scheme is heavy on neon purple and green. On the left (really the rear of the building) the headlights of a car can be seen in the drive through.
This is a shot of a commuter train engine seen from an angle as I’m walking past it on a train platform. It has the Tuscan red and yellow paint scheme of the old Pennsylvania Railroad.
A middle aged man is sitting on a commuter train. Only the middle of his body is visible, and he is wearing an orange short sleeved shirt and olive green slacks. In his right hand he is holding a cellphone. In his left is a half full clear plastic cup with a red plastic straw sticking out of the lid. Inside the cup is a pale amber beverage with a white foamy head.
This is a screenshot of a Facebook post from the mayor of Metuchen, New Jersey, Jonathan M. Busch. The text reads as follows: It’s not every day you get to officiate a wedding from a galaxy far, far away but that’s exactly what happened this afternoon at Borough Hall. ✨ When I spotted the Star Wars emblem on the ring boxes of new residents Thomas Burns (known as “Pob”) and Breanna Schad (“Brea”), I had a feeling something special was coming and sure enough, their Jedi and Sith lightsaber-inspired wedding bands brought balance to the force and the ceremony. As a fellow Star Wars superfan, I was proud to let them know they settled in the right community. May the force be with Pob and Brea: Metuchen’s newest married couple! (End text.) Below it is two photos. The one on the left shows the mayor, wearing a dark blue suit, standing next to young couple in casual summer attire who are holding out their hands. The one on the right is a close up of their wedding rings. It's hard to tell, but they look a bit like lightsabers. At the bottom one comment is visible. It reads "The force is strong in the Borough of Metuchen".
A photo of Mohammed Salah in his Liverpool kit
This is a screenshot of the iOS ESPN live activities notification for a Major League Baseball game between the Philadelphia Phillies and the Pittsburgh Pirates. The game is in a rain delay in the top of the first inning. The score is 0-0. The window shows the cap insignias for the clubs on the left and right side. These are each a capital P in different fonts and colors. There is a 0 to the right of the Phillies’ P and another to the left of the Pirates’ P. This spells out P00P, which looks just like “poop”. (Actually there’s some additional info from ESPN in the middle which partially ruins the effect, but close enough!)
An white oval sticker with the words “I voted” and the image of an American flag is stuck to a yellow shirt
Two young men are shown from behind while walking along one of the New Jersey Transit platforms at Penn Station. They are dressed identically with black cowboy hats, black bandannas around their necks, black vests with black frills on a white sleeveless shirt, black trousers, and white sneakers. They’re on their way to Secaucus, where a connecting train will take them to MetLife Stadium.
A picture of the Passaic River in Harrison, NJ, taken from the window of a commuter train. In the foreground are train tracks. Behind them is a narrow river flowing through an industrial area. On the left a rower in a single-person scull can be seen.
A young man with a ping baseball cap, black shirt, purple pants, and dreadlocks down to his waste is standing on some painting tarps with his arms stretched out. Behind him is a psychedelic mural of flowers in pastel colors. To his left is a ladder, and to his right is a door (in the same color purple as his pants) and an orange traffic cone. The implication is that he is the artist who painted the mural behind him.
An old school paper New York subway map mounted of the wall in the corner of a subway car. Very retro!
A screenshot saying "Cardinals pick is in" from last night's NFL draft. Above it is text that reads "We have a new Pope".
The rear end of a red Chevy Cavalier. It has a small bumper sticker that reads “WARNING ZOMBIES AHEAD”. It has Pennsylvania license plate BRAINZ.
A subway poster reading “SeatGeek controls spend like a rock star with Brex.”
A small airplane is flying over a residential neighborhood. The sky is blue with some puffy white clouds. The plane is trailing a large banner reading “SKI YA IN PA”.
The is one of the two main departure screens. The bottom middle section is flickering and unreadable.
A red Kia decorated for the Christmas holidays with a red nods and huge smiley face on the hood, two Santa heads on the roof, and antlers sticking out of the side. There are also Christmas lights strung across the front of the car. It was quite the thing, and even more so at night when it was all lit up.
A person sitting on a subway car wearing rollerblades. The photo is cropped to show them from the waist down. The wheels on their right foot are pink and those on their left foot are lavender.
A bag of Lay’s all dressed potato chips
A campaign sign that reads “Presidents are temporary. Wu-Tang is forever.”
A sign is taped to a deli case with a drawing of a pig and the words “eat more scrapple” in big friendly letters. Within the case are visible packages of scrapple along with a variety of sausages.
A photo of the night sky with a few trees at the bottom. A faint comet is just barely visible about 1/3 of the way from the left. I turned up the contrast so the sky appears much brighter than it actually was.
A picture of the exterior of a Tim Hortons in Raritan, NJ
Brown bunny in a field of grass and clover
View of the Fort Pitt Bridge and downtown Pittsburgh at sundown from the top of the Duquesne Incline
Two bars of Musang King durian milk chocolate, which someone in my office brought back from a conference in Singapore. The bars have been broken up into squares and placed on a paper plate. They didn’t taste all that bad, but they stunk up the break area for the rest of the day.
The Manhattan skyline as seen from a New Jersey commuter train somewhere between Newark and Secaucus. Low-hanging clouds are covering the tops of all the tall buildings.
A receipt from 1997 when I paid a total of $181.89 for a 3.5 GB hard drive.
Reusable shopping bags for sale at the Wegmans supermarket near my new place. They come in 3 different varieties — 2 with generic Wegmans designs, and the other with the logo of the New York Yankees.
This is a sign for something called a “Kentucky bourbon cheesesteak” found in a food court at a New Jersey shopping mall.
Ads on a train platform for Ruffino wine and Rutgers Health, laid out side by side as if they’re a single ad for both.
This is a photo of a package of Dr. Pepper flavored marshmallow Peeps.
This is a poster for a union rally for Penn grad students which was held on campus last week.