Microplastics

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/02/03/microplastics-human-brain-increase/


It seems like perhaps microplastics are the lead pipes of our Roman civilization!


Not knowing any better, the Romans used a lot of lead to create pipes to bring in water to their cities. Lead was also in a number of other daily objects. This has been cited as one of the reasons for civilization's collapse at the end of the Roman Empire.

Perhaps microplastics will be our demise in a similar way. It's hard to imagine a world without plastic, but it might have to come to that to preserve our minds and avoid some of these horrible brain disorders/diseases that seem to be on the rise.


LIRR love

Sometimes leaving early is bad and obviously you don’t want to be late for something, however hitting the sweet spot during massive delays is pretty good. This should be cleared out by the time I leave. 

I missed the train I planned for because, well, uber, traffic and all that comes with living so far out. I was a little sad but now it seems that it is going to work out much better. 

An Appeal to Costco

I am frustrated that I cannot buy a cup of coffee at the Costco Food Court when I'm shopping there. Why not? 

I wrote a letter to my local store's management about this terrible issue. They haven't responded, so I thought I might share it here and see if someone reads it who might have some power to do something about it.



I did find this picture on Reddit, which makes me wonder why this machine isn't everywhere. 

https://imgur.com/EmQF0Bu

I do hope I get a response soon! I sent this maybe a day after the date posted in the letter. 


Another Manhattan Trip

Had a great time meeting up with some former students of mine for dinner in Manhattan. This is my newest hobby, going to Manhattan and staying over in an inexpensive hotel room. 

We had a great time at dinner, one of my favorite places to go called Da Umberto. Check it out if you are ever close enough to go!

Here we are, probably on bottle 2 of a very nice wine:

Here are some of the random shots I took. I don't like my iPhone camera; it looks pretty bad compared to my pixel phone I used to have. So I carry around my old point and click Nikon camera and take pictures of whatever I think is interesting. Mostly it's lightposts and other places people put stickers. I also take a lot of building pictures.