look outside, I know that you'll recognize it's summertime

vietnamese sandwiches
from: Bale
price: 8.25
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: flaming lips
comments: so every sunny day, at a certain time, sunlight is reflected into our office off science world. and today, it occured to us that she blinded me with science! (world). click to see it.

and a hummer had:

a prowler.
comments: I guess it ate it? why else tow it around like that? click to see Cirque tents. i like that cloud. odd little cloud.

you really oughta know

thai food
from: pad thai
price: free! (company lunch)
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: led zeppelin
comments: decent lunch today. ran out of rice a bit soon, though. click to see a wiggly gif of a fire truck. I've found a new way to make the wigglys less linear. good? bad¿ what you think?

and dave had:

thai foods, too
comments: click dave's lunch to see the train station all wiggly.

and tommy had:

uh.. also thai food
comments: I had my wide angley lens thingy at work today for some fun. one time, at webct, I did some goofy portraits with that lens. so click tommy's lunch to see a navarik version of it. note: that is not nikita in there. it's just a fido bag.

and ah'm finkin'...

rasta wrap and soup
from: the butler did it
price: $8.50
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: the streets
comments: click my lunch to see a sweet 64 Riv.. so nice. I love those cars. oh, here's something odd. I was watching this dumb movie last night, and I saw this frame. weird, huh? how often do you see your own name on a toe tag in a movie. ominous.

and kate had:

pasta salad
comments: phil's wife and daughter joined us for lunch today. kate had just spent the morning at science world. fun! click to see her getting swung by her parents.

blow up the outside world

burger n rings
from: triple o's
price: $7.77 (I got a free shake)
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: soundsgarden
comments: click to see a wiggly picture. thats all.

and tommy had:

a samwich
comments: click tommy's sandwich to see some amazing photos that hey ritchie sent me.

and I did not eat:

this donut.
comments: but here's a fun game for you. click the donut, then try to spot the difference(s) in the linked pic. fun!

goodbye vivian dracula, hello bicycle?

sushis
from: ichibankan
price: $9.75
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
comments: this weekend marked the end of an era. Vivian Dracula has been scrapped. no more will she and I dart through traffic, listen to the rustle of the plastic bag window, or make the engine scream searching for the next gear. godspeed, vivian dracula, you were a great great car. click to see the last known photograph of her. even the city of vancouver mourns her passing. or so I figure. searching though the news, I could see no other reason the flag was at half mast.

and tommy had:

a delicious looking sandwich
comments: click tommy's sandwich to see why you should avoid broadway and cambie during the day. as I walked along broadway, I watch all those polluters and think what can I do about it? I can spend the $100 the BC government just gave me on gas. I can find another sweet old classic to rip up the roads in. but since I am now a part of the scrap-it program I need to decide which bike to get. a Ronin, or an infinity, or maybe the copenhagen?

so I'm packing my bags for the misty mountain

brioche bun
comments: in the mornings, I always stop at swiss bakery or kam's restaurant for from yummy baked goodsy breakfast. today's brioche bun was just too cute to not photograph. click to see another out of focus photo of louise.

and for lunch I had:

chili con queso
from: Argo's
price: $8?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: zep
comments: the chili was pretty good. click to see just another wiggly gif. yawn.

and travis had:

veggie chow mein
comments: more wigglys. blah blah blah blah.

I told you 'bout the swans, that they live in the park

soup n paninini
fomr: the butler did it
price: $8.50
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: cream
comments: my lunch was out of focus. it made it a little tricky to eat, but I managed. if death disturbs you, do not click my lunch. no knife this time.... hmm... my guess? Professor Plum... the glass door... outside.

and travis had:

sandwich and a delicious looking tomato salad.
comments: tomatoes. amazing, aren't they? I hear all of our tech-ops team loves tomatoes. if you click travis' lunch, you will see Mike's new tattoos. mike has nothing to do with travis' tomatoes. and my money's on the dragon to win.

move over little dog, the big ol dog is movin in

sushi combo with miso
from: Sushi Boy
price: $6
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: george thoroughgood
comments: cheap sushi. doesn't taste bad, just not all that amazing. click to see a wiggly from the roof. there's a coke ad on our building, and it has a ladder leading down to the straw. just a prop ladder, methinks, but maybe if I climb down it I can drink from the straw picture.. hm..

and remick had:

food form home
comments: click remick's lunch to see a gull and city hall.

and sumant had:

a big salad
comments: be careful here. you might not want to click sumant's salad. if you do, you will see what the salad is lacking. but I warned you.

let's move before they raise the parking rate

burger
from: Laura's Coffee shop
price: $5
rating: &&&&/&&&&& (mostly for the value)
listening to: Free
comments: I met phil for lunch today. we ate burgers. click to see a a flickr album I made from photos from the italian car show I saw on the weekend. there's also an Oldsmobile album in there if you look for it.

and phil had:

the very same as me.
comments: click phil's lunch to see Louise, the DJ Dawg. no wigglys today. however, I will provide a link to an amazing firefox plug-in that Tony showed me. seriously, this thing is awesome. you should go install it right now. I promise that your life will be better for it.

talking to yourself like nobody's home

vietnamese subs
from: Bale
price: $8.25 (for 3)
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: guns n roses
comments: on the weekend, I went to some fathers day car shows in North Van. an italian one and one for oldsmobiles. it was very cool that both shows were right next to each other. and I got some hundreds of photos that I'll post on flickr eventually. and today's lunch was awesomely had on a rooftop across the street from Bale. click my lunch to see the view.

and ritchie had:

the same. plus this exciting dessert
comments: click to see ritchie finding the highest ground he could. fun. more rooftop lunches, I say!

down and down and hit the floor

philly cheesesteak
from: Emelle's
price: about $10
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the clash
comments: I was thinking about Emelle's name, and it occurred to me that this was just a fancy french sounding way to say "ML". then I googled it and it turns out that was indeed the case. know what else is interesting about this post? not much. but I'm gonna say it anyway. the spell checker in this blogger thinks that "philly" is not a word, but "cheesesteak", "googled" and "gonna" are just fine. interessant.

and teo had:

the chicken
comments: while I was up on the roof taking pics of the new construction beginning nest door, I was spotted. click teo's lunch to see viearn with an apple and a wave.

and dana had:

comments: click dana's lunch to see #1 Kingsway. that pic is actually wiggly because I had just had a few beers. it's nothing to do with my usual gif process.

soaking up the thirst of the land

jerk chicken roti
from: Cameo
price: $7ish (actually, it was free cuz tommy said he owed me moneys.)
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: ween
comments: a rather sad day at work today, as a handful of coworkers were laid off. and it wasn't me. I'm not sure if it's just jealousy or sadness I feel. either way, good luck to you guys. click my jerk roti to see our building breathe. I don't like when a new sign goes up there, cuz those dudes leave their gear on top of the escape hatch. jerks.

and I drank:

ting!
comments: click the ting to see our posse returning from lunch all reservoir dogs like. but wigglier.

and phil had:

cajun burger
comments: click phils lunch to see a not-so-great wiggly gif of a Tiger I saw walking home.

come around to my way of thinking

triple stacker with fries and a shake
from: bk
price: $8ish
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: urge overkill
comments: at lunch today, I took nikita for a walk on the new sea wall. fancy stuff. click to see the fancy bridge they made at olympic village.

and remick had:

some rice stuff
comments: click remick's lunch to see a mysterious wiggly. what is it? huh? what? I'll tell you something about it, I took it at 1/10000 sec shutter speed. that's what my new camera hack can do. so useful, huh? If you're wondering what daylight looks like at that speed, have a out the window. (I had to really crank up the shadows to see anything in that). fun.

shadows of the morning light, shadows of the evening sun

samwitch
from: Swiss Bakery
price: $6.99 with a snausage roll
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to jane's addiction
comments: so yesterday I learned a lesson about walking around with 2 cameras in my hands. make sure the cameras have the same settings! accidentally I had cranked the ISO on one of them. bah. I thought this ruined my chances of making some sweet wiggly gifs. turns out I was wrong. click my samwitch to see a gif made with unmatched ISOs. I know! it's awesome! maybe it was because my syncing was perfect.

and yvette had:

thai curry
comments: click to see the studebaker I often seeing whilst walking home. the shots are well matched this time... but the gif just isn't as good. hmm... just when I think I am a master of wiggly gifs, I realize I still have so much to learn. aren't you glad you get to witness such learnings?

so don't get any big ideas

chinese foods.
from: Hon's
price: mahdunno
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: radiohead
comments: lunch with ritchie and erin at hons. all the linked gifs are from low tide at spanish banks on the weekend. check out that last one... some crazy little ball or compressed crab parts. fun! I guess this is how some animal passes all them hard bits?

oh and... bonus video!!

makes ya wanna blow the stars from the sky

vietnamese subs
from: Bale
price: $8.25
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: jesus and mary chain
comments: I wandered around at lunch with a camera in each hand. click to see why I need a dual camera tripod, and the sync-software for these types of excursions. actually, the slightly out-of-syncedness kinda work on this one. and this truck too, methinks.

and remick had:

something
comments: click remick's lunch to see an alien pod that we discovered in the office. no, it doesn't wiggle. the wiggly pic didn't work so good.

and check this strange sight I happened across at lunchtime. can anyone explain this to me??!!?

the city's aflood

spaghetti carbonara
from: Argo's
price: $8
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: U2
comments: good pasta. although, somehow it was too much food for me, and I had to take some to go. lightweight. and since today is my dad's birthday, I thought I'd link to a photo of him. he's the blonde one in the middle.

and dave had:

club sandwich, fries and a pool or ketchup
comments: dave loves the club. click to see our Scrum King. the mightiest of all scrum kings, indeed.

Can I touch your birdy wing?

double stacker meal
from: BK
price: $7.18
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: weeeeen
comments: I kept the food simple today. but the double stacker seems a bit light compared to the baconator. next time... triple. click to see a murdered bird. kinda hard to look at, in more ways than one. my guess? colonel mustard. the kitchen knife. the grassy shoulder.

and noel had:

a crazy home made paninini
comments: yes, that is noel torturing his dog in that photo. poor sasha. click to see a video of some very complicated fortune telling. if you prefer, you can watch will ferrell doing it.

and on top of all this, I ain't ever gonna understand

tons of food
from: Bo Kong
price: meh
rating: hellyeah!/&&&&&
listening to: the strokes
comments: today I met with jason, erin and greg for a vegetarian feast du jour. man, bo kong knows how to make vegetables taste amazing. jason is in town for the week. you should see him. maybe he brought you a crazy camera?

more fuds:






and if you saw that last linked video, let me make it relevant... jason brought me my Oregon Scientific ATC2K!!!! from america. so here's the first quick vid I made with it: