Dan Ray

I was thinking the same thing!

It has been an adventure. I’ll have lots to share when I’m home.

It’s a cheap, fun way to see the way American culture has been exported, and they way they change it locally.

New Zealand McDonalds has a salad burger.

It resurrected the franchise in a way that’s hard to appreciate now.

“Never forget” means continuing to teach the truth about what happened on Jan 6.

Coogee Beach, NSW Australia 11/10/25

I’ll be sure to look when I head back there next week.

Active attacker alert at UVA Shannon Library! WTF people? Hope everyone is ok.

Bike parking at Manly ferry terminal. More of this, please!

Sydney Opera House has bike parking! How cool is that!

Australia I am in you

Movies I watched in preparation to my Australia/New Zealand trip:
Strictly Ballroom
Quigley Down Under
The Castle
Crocodile Dundee
Crocodile Dundee 2
Gallipoli (1981 film)
ANZAC girls (series)
Ten Canoes
Whale Rider

DC Metro tap on/off with phone is a huge upgrade!

Welp, I’m off to Australia.

Game six starts with a serviceable Star Spangled Banner followed by O Canada a with crowd singing, bi-lingual, and modulating to the last stanza! Toronto means business!

Happy Halloween morning bike commute!

Sounds like an appropriate place to post a big sign: “work will make you free”

It was a good year. So many favorites already posted, but this kept me happy and dark thru high school.

Walked to work today

I was going to say I don’t think they’d take him, but it looks like they’re off the hook.

Morning commute. Any views of your morning ride?

Can we include a ban on sports betting for everyone while we’re at it?

Maybe he thinks if he doesn’t do anything she’ll end up in the basement with the January 6th Plaque.

Even if they did, they know they have a pardon awaiting them as long as the Dear Leader remains on his throne.

Make a movie food:

That Thing You Donut

In case anyone was wondering, these are my people.

Which context? The convicted felon and adjudicated sexual assaulter who continues to lie about his victims? The bone-spur commander in chief? The loser who had his supporters violently attack the Capitol? Or maybe the fact that he’s demolishing every other aspect of govt and the rule of law.

Cool bit of cinephile history if you need a distraction from the current sh*tshow.