all around the world, everywhere I go, no one understand me, no one knows what I'm trying to say

derailer burger
from: the railway club
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: Morphine
comments: today was whitecake's brithday. from the linked picture, can you figure out how old he turned???

and tony had:

chicken burger
comments: in this linked photo, you can see what a polarizer does, through the magic of the almighty animated gif. gifs 4 life!

I pass idle days wif my idle ways till the twelf of always

daily sushi special avec Miso
from: Spin Roll
price: $7.37
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: tricky
comments: you ask what is this? mind your business. click mah sushi to see some HDR tomfoolery I been fooling with.

and Zoltan had:

sushi, too.
comments: yeah, Zed was trying to feed his sushi to a microphone. silly zoltan. click it to see more goofin around with hdr.

and the mic had:

nothing. it wouldn't eat, yo.
comments: click this pic of the unhungry snoball mic to see some sign they put over the Penthouse sign for some tv show they're filming. and in case those little pics of Zoltan and the mic are not big enough for you, you can see the big versions here and here.

quit me job today!

pulled pork sandwich
from: DIX BBQ and brewery
price: --
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
comments: yeah. so I quit my job. fun. yeah. and this lunch was my 2nd interview for my new job. which I got. more on that in a couple weeks. :) I forgot my camera at lunch. hmm.. what do you do when you have: a) a lunch blog. b) a lunch-interview and c) you forget your camera? well, you get your new boss to take the pictures. thanks dave! and if you click my lunch, you will see the zombie we call Zoltan right after his presidential assassination attempts. I think he survived, though. so yes, a bunch of work people (current job, not new one) went to the paintball fields to get covered with little bruises. fun.

and dave had:

chicken club sandwich?
comments: I think dave liked his lunch, too. I guess he can't really bring louise to lunches too often. but I'll get to see her at my new office often enough. and if you click this pic, you will see the Illuminares lantern festival that happened on the weekend. tons of people milling about trout lake park. very hard to take good pics, though. if you use flash, you lose the lanterns' effect. if you long expose, nothing wants to hold still for you. oh well. it was pretty cool to wander around the lake.

they don't know what I know

pizza
it's thursdsay
listening to: killerX57
comments: pizza. meh. click the pic to see what we watched while eating our pizza. I think the craziest drivers in the world, are in saudia arabia. like in this linked video. it's not the driving, but the passenging. crazy!

and the cake was:

ice cream!
comments: click the cake to see another example of a crazy passenger. ha. but really, I had no idea there were such crazy drivers in saudi arabia. if you watch some of their drifting videos, you will probably be as amazed as I. it's like they have too much money, or maybe they've just played to many racing video games?

such a rotten thing to say, such an awful thing to say

satay and spinach on rice and pad thai noodles
from: Bali Thai
price: $6.30
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: modest mouse
comments: the thai food place is really good at harbour centre. except I always ask for 3 items, and only get 2. but they only charge me for 2, and it always looks like enough food then. so I quietly accept it. yum. now click the pic to see the mayor I saw this morning slumming it in the DTES. wonder what samwise sullivan thinks about chocolate rain???

and scott had:

food from the amazing wok.
comments: click the pic to see why scott is a very good person to follow in a crowd. and one more blurry pic for ya, I saw the saddest thing on the road tonight. a '63 or '64 riviera. One of my all time favourite cars. and now they need body work. so sad. I cried a little. *sniff.*

ooooh yeah! aalright! ok. aaaw yeah! aaaaaallright!

curry
from: curry express
price: $6ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: Cake. couldn't you tell?
comments: good curry today. we went to the beach to eat. click to see the little pond at the beach. who'd a thunk that was the downtown east side, huh?

and ed had:

thai food
comments: click ed's lunch to see the challenger we saw parked at the seabus terminal. sweet sweet challenger.

just an earth bound misfit, I.

box C
from: Momo's
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
listening to: pink floyd
comments: hello. I'm greg. this is my blog. click the pic to see what is NOT a good drink combination. (yes that's coke. no, I didn't finish it. only about 1/2)

and nicky had:

gommae and edamame
comments: if you click this pic, you will see the fun I had with photoshop. whee.

I'm half crazy. Eyes are heavy.

derailer burger, fries n beeeer
from: the railway club
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&&/&&&&&
listening to daniel lanois
comments: burgers n brew. makes a friday even better. click the pic to see how crazy gloomy the weather's been lately. North Van was perhaps stolen? just gone. poof. oh well, I'm diggin' it cuz I'm not too hot walking to work. what's also neato about the linked pic is the format of it. I never knew you can just export pics from photoshop like that. go on, zoom in.

and kevin and mike both had:

the california burger (they didn't share this one. there were two)
comments: click this to see more zoomified pic. I was also trying to learn about HDR photography with this one. it didn't work right, but I like the effect.

and hemel had:

a panini
comments: click for even more zoomified and HDR playing. ok I'm done.

and be a simple kinda of man

thai food
it's thursday
listening to: Skynyrd
comments: good thai food. yum. now, for the linked pic, you will see rocks and a toonie. maybe you remember a couple months ago, when I blogged about leaving rocks in my shoes? well. I thought 1 week wasn't a good enough test. so I hadn't emptied them since then. 2 months. stupid? crazy?

and the cake was:

pie
comments: so, I thought I was in the software business until I read the billboard linked in this photo. careful, if you read it, your career will change, too. and if these linked photos aren't exciting enough for you, here's another super gif for you.

Bang your head like a gong, cuz it's all filled with wrong. clang clang clang!

pork sopes
from: mexico rico
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to:
comments: good food. and now click the pic to see main and broadway 4hours after this accident occurred. strange. reading that article, I can't help but wonder why they had to shut down such a major intersection for 5 hours (through rush hour), just to determine that it was "quite possible someone blew a [traffic signal] light." !!?!? wha?? looks like vpd is watching too much csi. it is amazing to see that SUV, after reading that it was on its side and someone was ejected from it. I mean, from my angle, it looks undamaged. but you can see the passenger door frame is scratched up.

and cliff had:

tostados
comments: click to see cliff and clif.

and ed had:

veggie buritto
comments: click to see a rushed video I made from my Tour De Gastown pics.

and zed had:

tacos
comments: click to see mike shooting tour de gastown pics, too!

and the cause of this is evident

jumuk kimbap?
from: kimbob and ramyun
price: $6.31
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: built to spill
comments: on my way to work this morning, I saw these guys working on the street. I recognized my good friend Mike, so I pulled out my camera. he hadn't recognized me quite yet, so if you click the photo, you get to see what it looks like when you walk up to "strangers" and take their photo. 'specially the other guy. he has no idea who I am. hee hee. they were fixing a broken fibre optic cable. tricky work. the food was pretty good, too. like kimbap run gently through a blender, then made into balls.

and stephane had:

bulgoki!
comments: if you ever wonder how your food sees the world, click stephane's lunch. today we ended up at kimbob and ramyun, not our first choice, but momo's was too busy... even at 1pm.

and SANngmi had:

dukboki and kimbap
comments: so I actually ended up eating everyone's lunches today. click to see me right after that incredible feat.

oh, and what's this?

she said call me now baby, I'd come a runnin'

two items
from: Bali Thai (at harbour centre)
price: just over $6
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: kings of leon
comments: back to Crab Park for lunch. yeah. and I tried the Thai place at HCFC. it's good. very good. and it seems to photograph quite well. city skyline not included. if you click the pic you can see why there's no ocean swimming with our lunches.

and nicky had:

salad
comments: click nicky's lunch to see some other folks we saw having their lunch break. what's in the soouuce? crack, I guess? if you still got itchy clicky fingers, check out Ed fighting his shadow or just parkouring, a la matrix.

just because you're not wrong, doesn't mean that you're right

sushi
from: the sushi place in harbour centre
price: $7.75
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: built to spill
comments: the sushi was good. but the service was bad. it took forever. oh well. they do that sometimes. now click the pic to see gregchan's new car laughing at his old car. true story. and yeah, it's a damn cute little car. if you want to see it in action, click here for the shorter gif and here for the longer, director's cut, gif. they take a while to load. but I think they're worth it.

and mike had:

some food.
comments: click on mike's lunch to see meg and ryden dancing in the figaro. yeah. weird, huh? that little ryden is quite the cutey, huh? good work meg and colin!

ice age comin' ice age comin'

pizza
it's thursday
listening to: radiohead
comments: panago. nothing special. now click the pizza to see this cool little app that craig found. in the photo you can see stephane as both an angel and devil. the horns and halo stay with him as he moves around in front of the iSights. neato stuff.

and the cake was:

ice creamy
comments: click this pic to see how hot its been lately. how can you tell how hot it is from a photo of the sun breaking through clouds? well, look closely at the bottom right. there's the molson clock displaying 32º!! yikes. and this was there was a bit of cloud cover and after 6pm. not typical vancouver weather. and for me it's crazy hot. if you also look close to the sun in that shot you can see a hawk that flew over me on the bridge.

non-stop korean food-a-thon!

honey bunches of oats
from: click to see
comments: ok, a lot of food here today. I start with the free breakfast I picked up from the honeybunchesofoats motorhome parked by science world. yum.

and lunch was:

spicy squid on rice
from: H-Mart food court
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&&/&&&&&
comments: we went to the food court in the Korean supermarket "H-Mart". it's an amazing place to get lunch. such good food. yum. now on ot everyone else's meals

sangmi had:

uh.. some noodles?
comments: sangmi did the ordering for us. so we didn't screw it up. she done well.

and zoltan had:

some spicy noodles
comments: click to see most of the crew walking back and the Bay with it's Bay-like disguise.

and cliff had:

bibimbap
comments: note how the bibimbap is properly served in a super hot stone bowl. this lets some of the rice get all yummy and crispy. click to see a titlshift miniature pic I took on the way home.

and ed had:

veggie bibimbap
comments: click to see some sorta driving school bus I saw on the way to work.

and for dessert we had:

free slurpees!
comments: as the date was 7-11, free slurpees were given away. yum. it was also greg chan's birthday. happy birthday gregchan!

maybe on the street. maybe on the beach. maybe I'll see you at the mall.

"super chicken" buritto
from: Taco Del Mar
price: $8ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: Frank Black
comments: good buritto. we went to the east side beach again for lunch. so nice. we even saw a jellyfish which was about 2 feet in diametre! I ain't never seen a jelly fish that big locally. crazy. you can also click my lunch to see the spot where Cobra Commander has been practising his graffiti. or maybe it was Destro?

and ed had:

tofu n veggies
comments: you want to click Ed's lunch. this is the coolest website I saw today. maybe even all month. draw a dude, then watch him dance. simple. yet endlessly exciting. and if you are insane, and that is not enough entertainment for you. I got one more pic. but before you click, make sure a) you are not eating. and b) you can handle being amused and grossed out at the same time. if you can't handle it, do not click here. Cuz I don't wanna hear about it.

when I say boom boom boom you say bam bam bam, no pause between, come on let's jam!

sushi yum
from: the sushi place at HCFC
price: $7.75
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: parappa mp3s :)
comments: I was happy with my sushi. it was tasty. but even better than that was where we ate lunch today. Crab Park, I believe it's called. it's a beach, and it's very close to work. I think we'll be going there more often. just click the pics to see.

and nicky had:

some food from Bali Thai at HCFC
comments: nothing more to say. look at the linked pics.

so cool in her new camaro

bacon cheezburger
from: the cambie
price: no idea. I blame the beer.
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: kings of leon
comments: it was a goodbye lunch atthe cambie for anmar today. he leave the company. the burger was ok. but the beer was quite delicious. click to see the onion jesus impression.

and scott had:

a calzone
comments: click scott's lunch to see anmar on his last day wiht atimi. bye anmar. keep on truckin!

I'm driving my car too fast with ecstatic music on

korean food
it's thursday
listening to: bjork
comments: yum food. click the pic to see what it looks like to sit at my desk. yeha. the beans are my desktop.

and cake was:

made of icecream
comments: click the cake to see cement trucks lining up to build the new woodward's building. that's all. boring. I know.

***oops. I meant to add this picture for that 2nd link. hee hee!

though his mind is not for rent, don't put him down as arrogant

butter chicken and pakora curry
from: curry express
price: over $7
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: rush
comments: I forgot to take food pics today. weird. then craig was like, you forgot to take food pics and I was like no. but I had only thought I had taken them when really I had only remembered to bring my camera. anyway, these are old recycled pics of the foods we ate. click this curry to see a pic of a nice skylark cruising gastown. the funny part about this car is that I once asked that guy how much he was selling it for. and he said 33,000. and I said you mean 3300?? and he said no 33,000. funny. old dude is dreamin.

and craig had:

taco salad del mar
comments: click this pic to see the pretty view I saw after walking home from the transformers movie. I was a little confused, I thought it was going to be a lou reed documentary. boy was I wrong.