Matt Hiller

@hillernyc.bsky.social

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husband, dad, longtime NYer, sensible transport enthusiast, and bicycle adventurr he/him

Your author in front of a mural stating "greetings from Pennsylvania" (with the "ylvania" cut off) and the mural showing other Pennsylvanianna, bearing a quizzical appearance.
Cover art for "four" by Blues Traveler
The standard movie promo-poster for Kazaam, an awful 1996 movie starring Shaquille O'Neal ("Shaq") as a genie
White text on a black background that reads: Fuck off. Then keep fucking off. Keep fucking off until you get to a gate with a sign saying, "You can't fuck off past here." Climb over the gate, dream the impossible dream, and keep fucking off forever.
The Schuylkill River and expressway at early twilight
A photo of a wild pineapple, which is very red/pink, the fruit itself is small, about the size of two human fists, and intensely spiny, both near the fruit and away from it, almost with an agave-like appearance.
A graphic with the abbreviation "MILF" in the upper left, a frog facing towards it in front of a setting sun, and the subhead below everything reading "Man I Love Frogs"
The Drake no/yes meme, where the "no" text reads "125-MILE DAY RIDE FROM MANHATTAN TO PHILLY CENTER CITY & MAIN TRAIN STATION MEETUP" and the "yes" text reads "137-MILE 2 DAY POINT-TO-POINT BIKE TOUR TO THE WORLD-RENOWNED PHILADELPHIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT"
A photo of the departure board for AirTrain at Jamaica station, showing a train departing in 3 minutes and the next one not for another 25
A gravel bike hanging on an indoor railing by a handlebar with its rear wheel on the ground
An SUV yellow taxi sits perched akimbo on its right two wheels and a bollard with its left wheels about a meter above the pavement. New York City streetscape is visible in its surroundings
Sorry, use a screenreader for this one
Four pastries on a tray
A man holds a dark colored beer alongside a mini pumpkin on a tiled surface
Ocr this it would be a lot of work to retype
A screenshot from the Lyft app showing that a 2.5 mile trip on an e bike in Portland, OR cost $3 even
The "is this a pigeon" anime meme template, showing a man with glasses gesturing at a butterfly. Text under the butterfly reads "is this walk sign for me?" Text under the man reads "^ the driver I tangled with today, who had a red light plus no-turn-on-red signs
A screenshot from the Strava app, showing the very end of a ride near the train station. The line gets very thick -- indicating multiple scoots, at least 8 or 9 of them forward, back, and forth again -- just at the train station.
Gru from Despicable Me explains a plan for salvaging a ride meetup that goes wrong
Two panels. A man with a general late-18th-century appearance is looking intensely at a sheaf of papers in a pamphlet in the upper frame. In the lower frame he then looks at the viewer with a quizzical and lightly disgusted mien
Enhanced HD screen captures of the Strategic Air Command B-52 bomber crew Survival Pack seen in Stanley Kubrick’s “Dr. Strangelove,” 1964. The cloth cover reads, “Survival Pack, Aircraft FT 107/35, All Purpose, Strategic Air Command.”
A gif from The Big Lebowski where Walter says "Say what you want about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it's an ethos"
A meme template showing a superhero-looking man with his fingers poised over two buttons, enable to decide which to press. Two frames: the first shows the indecisive figure and the buttons, the second shows him sweating profusely and angstily at his indecision
A road bike locked to a tandem parking meter with a meter-high pile of snow and ice at the base of it, bike perched on the snow
President Teddy Roosevelt in a fiery woods holding an American flag on a pole with his left hand, right side of the photo, a machine gun in the right, firing on and making several hits on a sasquach in the left foreground
Persian cat in a person's arms through a glassdoor window
Two doughnuts on wax paper on a tray from doughnut plant. To the left is a square peanut butter & jam yeast/filled, to the right a round carrot-cake cake
Overview map for my Sunday ride, which was 106.8 miles long, 2405 feet of elevation, and took 7 hours 5 minutes moving time
Sunset over train tracks
A plain bagel with scrambled eggs inside, cut lengthwise and held with the flat surface oriented to the camera