I wanna buy you leather

grilled cheese w/ chicken
from: swiss bakery
price: $6
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: the who
comments: intersting grilled cheese sandwich. it was kinda like there was chicken stew inside that bread. definitely needed heating. and after work, a team navarik event took a bunch of us bowling at Rev's. good times. click to see me about to nail a strike. hoo ha!

and beier had:

dukboki
comments: beier was our star bowler. I think his 141 was the top score of the day. or maybe tommy beat him at the end of our session. I can't remember his top score, but I do know that he pulled off 3 strikes in the tenth frame of the last game. much better than his first game of 63 or so :P those 3 strikes were totally max rad!. oh yeah, and it was otis's day in the office.

I had a passion to experiment, but I was torn

whopper combo
from: burger king
price: free
rating: bah/&&&&&
listening to: the hip
comments: a while ago, I called and complained to burger king that my indy burger was missing a patty. this was remedied by them sending me tha coupon for a free whopper meal. yay. however, I was just as disappointed with this meal. the whopper and fries were cold. bah. I even asked for the burger with no onions thinking that they'd have to make a fresh one. but no. it wasn't. oh well, it was free. that part was good.

and remick had:

pasta
comments: so phil tells me he's going to ride his new ducati down my road, so I go out and wait for him, hoping to get a good pic or movie of him passing by. he took too long. I got distracted. by many things. click on remick's lunch to see one distractor. finally he rode by but I wasn't at the ready so much and got that bad photo. bah.

I got a heart fulla soul

sushi
from: ichibankan
price: $8.25 (2 rolls n gomae)
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the yardbirds
comments: no guest lunch today. what you gonna do aboot it, eh?! click to see the compilation of the video clips I made from the REM concert last week. I was rockin that 40x zoom. hoo ha. coming soon, modest mouse clips.

Ima do the things that I wanna do

ham sam n soup
from: sweet basil cafe
price: $6.25?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the new weezer song
comments: everyone's seen the new weezer video now, right? it's pretty cool. click my lunch to see some puffy clouds a puffin'

and really closely here's:

my sandwich
comments: click to see Vivian Dracula after she was washed. in all the years I had her, I never washed her. dirty girl.

I'll be the sky above the Ganges

vietnamese subs
from: Bale
price: $8.25
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: rem
comments: good subs, as usual. click the pic to see yet another wiggly gif of where they're setting up the cirque de soleil. perhaps you'd prefer a bagman? oooweef, ooh-pla-pla.

and sumant had:

a sausage roll?
comments: click the sausage roll to see Toby getting his belly rubbed. aaaaaw.

SUPER AWESOME MEGA BONUS VIDEO!

there was another model-shoot in our back alley last friday. of course, I got some footage. and I mixed it with a local model of ours. and this kool keith song was just perfect for it, no?

I'm going to New York City, and that's in New York, friend.

angus burger
from: McDees
price: $8ish for combo
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: Modest Mouse
comments: guess what was today? The National, Modest Mouse and REM at Deer Lake Park. pretty cool. of course, REM played too long and MM not long enough, but you can't win em all. I guess REM has a new album out, cuz I didn't know more than half the songs. click to see MM rocking out 2 frames.

and tony had:

samwich from Argo's
comments: click tony's lunch to see REM, complete with michael stipe's judo chop! and if those are too wiggly for you, you can see still pics of isaak brock and michael stipe too. and if you need mooore wiggly, have a look at otis blinkin. if you want to see more from the concert, I got a couple short video clips that I'll try to post soon. but for now, you can check youtube for other peeps' vids

Birthday party, cheesecake, jelly bean, boom.

fajita burrito
from: best burrito
price: $6ish
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: REM
comments: good buritto. big and filling. and totally halal. click to see the park just behind best burrito. boring. I know.

and remick had:

a samwich
comments: click to see what I would wear on a safari.

are you still listening?

half a reuben and half a philly cheesesteak panini
from: the butler did it
price: $3 (andy had a coupon)
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: crosby still & nash
comments: the food was good, but not really filling. last weekend, I explored a bit of Richmond. weird, huh? well, the linked photo is from Finn Slough, a cool little fishing village out at the end of number 4/5 roads.

and andy had:

the other halves
comments: click andy's sandwiches to see one of the houses at finn slough. we didn't get a lot of pics, cuz we were just doing drive by shootings.

and meanwhile, in Washington DC, Jason had:

veggibimbap
comments: jason offered some pics of his lunch and the crazy korean food cart he got it from. crazy jason.

I wouldn't live there if you paid me to

3 items
from: T&T
price: $5.24
rating: &/&&&&&
listening to: talking heads
comments: ew. gross lunch. when will I learn not to get lunch from T&T. the rice was good. that was the best part. the 3 items I got on top of it were all bad. poor quality meats, over cooked and soggy beans, and overly oily sauces. bah. anyway, click the pic to see some pics from the very local car show I saw on the weekend.

and dave had;

a laser in his eye
comments: ok, it never hit his eye. it only got as close as you see in this pic. sorry it's outa focus, but I was trying out an old lens on my camera today. click to see an interesting wiggly gif made with said lens. zoomy effect is fun. know what else is fun? a 10 frame gif of my walking the early construction of le cirque de soleil.

and yvette had:

a shoe.
comments: she said it was rather chewy. click for yet another wiggly gif. I think I need to change the name of this blog to lunchatthewigglygif.blogspot.com. you think? if you need a change of pace, check out this hilarious clip that jason sent me.

cuz summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy

bacon cheddar
from: triple o's
price: the high nines.
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: the stones
comments: ed and I went and et in the sunshine today. and I got pretty nastily burned. bah. click to see how bad our fire exit is blocked at work. bad flower people.

and Ed had:

some kinda veggie burger with lots of salt on it
comments: click ed's veggie patty to see tony and darren on the rooftop at work. nice day for it, no?

I don't know why sometimes I get frightened

bibimbap
from: Sweet Basil Cafe
price: $6.50
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: split enz
comments: today summer hit. so hey ritchie and I et outside. for the first time I sat at those odd little picnic tables outside the giant laundry factory. where I found some glasses on the ground. you like glasses? click to see em.

and hey ritchie had:

a turkey sandwich
comments: click the sandwich to see these pic-a-nic tables I speak of.

and dave had:

tacos/salad/taco-salad?
comments: I think louise wanted the tacos. click to see vancouver's new environmental solution for filling potholes.

Monkey see, monkey do {away} Grab at me to be cool {away}

"indy" meal
from: burger king
price: $8something
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: Nirvana (fitting song for this post, huh?)
comments: overall, the indy meal was a big disappointment. afterall, it was whopper wednesday, and it wasn't any cheaper. wherewithall, and I got ripped off.. only 1 patty. so I called and complained, but they said I had no proof. they took my address. I'll see if I get rewarded for complaining. click to see a crazy awesome photo of my flying over the new skytrain bridge. and if that ain't enough for ya, have a look at air jordan here!

and neil had:

some doritos in a baggy
comments: click on Neil's chips to see... omg! what the... is that a... err..... he's got a... whoah. that ain't right.

and for dessert I had:

A NEW CAR!!! (for me, anyway).
comments: yeha, I got me a new car tonight. this means I now own 3 cars. w00t! the newest one is 17 years old. a '91 Jetta. newest car I ever owned. now, I'm not sure what to do with Vivian Dracula... anyone have a need for an integra with a messed up transmission? or any suggestions as to what I should do with her? I'd love to try to drive it across the country... just to see how far she'd make it. I think she'd get to Ontario, no problem. might be a bit tricky in the rockies, though.

I get eaten by the worms, and weird fishes.

vietnamese sandwiches
from: Bale
price: $8.25
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: radiohead
comments: just another lunch fulla food. click to see wiggly pics I took on me walk. and if you wanna see an amazing animation, clicks here.

and the sea monkeys had:

nothing
cuz they all died. an investigation is underway. foul play is not ruled out.

most typically my dreams are dreadfully boring

steak sandwich
from: the butler did it
price: $7
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: grandaddy
comments: I joined the tech ops fellas for their steak sandwich day. we were just in time. we took 5 of the last 7 steaks. w00t. click to see a small car show I checked out on the weekend. 33rd and MacKenzie. weird, huh?

amd travis had:

the same
comments: click to see a wiggly '55 Bel Air. sweet.

and dana had:

more of the same
comments: click to see the canuck's mascot trying to eat a 327.

and phil had:

the same... but with different salad!!
comments: click to see Cafe Medina, where I et on the weekend.

true story: the burger below came from McDonald's.

angus burger
from: McDonalds. yeah, McDonalds!!
price: $6 for the burger
rating: &&&&.4/&&&&&
comments: holy crapsicle! the photographed burger above was indeed made at McDonald's. and it even tasted as good as it looks there. but you can't really tell from that wiggly gif. click on it to see it bigger. my only complaint is that the bun is a bit small. I think that's their way of showing off real food stuffs inside it. yeah, that's CHEDDAR! but overall, McD's has created a really good burger. f'reals.

and loong had:

some goofy little burgers, when he coulda had the Angus burger.
comments: click this pic to see me stalking Teo at the bus stop a block away. bwa ha ha.

and neil didn't have:

a huge pile of ketchup. or is it catsup?
comments: click neil's condiment stash to see andy playing Halo in cooperative mode. hahaha. co-op. ha.

palace of the brine!

sushi et al
from: the clubhouse
price: nuthin.
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the pixies
comments: today's lunch was brought to me by Navarik. yum. we had a team lunch for a smaller team that I work on. it was great. beer. sushi. sashimi. holy rolls. all for free. thanks to shiho for organizing! now click the pic to check out a site that killerX57 was telling me about. they got 101 versions of stairway to heaven. if you listen to the SCTV one, you will see who's idea this was in the first place.

this is just more of the food:

click this gyoza to see a macro shot of my sea monkeys. and if you wanna see them in action, just watch the video below. complete with relevant music:

without lunch, where would you be now?

whopper wednesday
at: burger king
price: $6ish for two + shake
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: doobie brothers (gwilli version lyrics)
comments: after work today, I went and test drove a car that I think I'll probably buy. click to see it. 1400 bucks. can't argue with that, really. and vivian dracula's time has pretty much come. this one has a sunroof. ooooooh.

and tommy had:

some chicken burgers.
comments: tommy had a coupon. that's the only reason he can be forgiven for dissing whopper wednesday. click tommy's lunch to see the car I saw a couple blocks away from the car I was test driving. what you think, should I get this one instead? it's only 1/2 a mill US. but it can do 0-60 in 3.2. I think the stanza would do it in more like 13.2. I suppose I could live with extra 10 seconds on my day, considering the $504,450.00 that I'd be saving (based on current exchange rate). hmmm.. then there'd be the $25,000 in GST, as opposed to the $70 I'll be paying. and I imagine the stanza would be a bit cheaper to insure. overall, I guess my mind's already made up.

whoah, I gotta gotta have ya

hot n sour soup and a rice roll
from: congeenoodlehouse
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: deep purple.
comments: me eat soup. me feely better. click on the prooawn above to see some sweet shatner/zmed/locklear action.

and andy had:

congeeee
comments: click andy's lunch to see yet another everyday, ordinary, typical problem solved by... MONTALBAAAAAN! or, if you've had enough old tv, you can check out these dudes' homemade waterslide. I wish they included the parents' home coming in the video.

sick day

kung fu noodles!
from: my cupboard
rating: meh
comments: me sick today. some viscous cold got a hold of me on saturday and kicked my ass. fun. the linked pic is one of the views from jenna's apartment. where I watched the girls play guitar hero as my sickness increased at lightning speed. one problem with that wiggly gif... the outsides of the windows were kinda dirty. I shoulda opened the window for that one. oh well. gonna go cough up some phlegm now. mmmm phlegm..

but gravity always wins

a baconator and a frosty float
from: wendy's
price: about $10 with fries
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: radiohead
comments: oh man. this baconator almost kilt me. freals. to tell the truth, I was unable to finish it. my excuse for that was that I went for lunch too early. noon is just not lunch time in my world. specially when I had double my usual breakfast an hour before. ok enough excuses, I was defeated by the baconator. fact. now click to see cambie street.

and dave had:

a baconator, as well.
comments: looks terribly appetizing there, doesn't it? click to see a very odd thing I found in the bushes on the way home from work. it's one thing to find that odd object in the city, but much much much odder to find it atop a pamphlet explaining itself. zug.

do you believe what I say now?

beef brisket chow mein (and congee and deep fried squids)
from: congee noodle house
price: about $8 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: weezer
comments: andy, tommy and I went to congee noodle house. it was good. end.

we also had:

chinese donuts in our congee
comments: you know that old saying 'let sleeping dogs lay'? well, when the sleeping dog has their favourite toy in their mouth, I reckon it's better to take photos than let them lay. click to see just that. I thought the still image worked a little better than the wiggly version.