I'm ready to go anywhere, I'm ready for to fade

lamb shank noodle soup
from: Legendary Noodle House (26th n Main)
price: $7ish
rating: &&&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the byrds
comments: today we had a car to take us to lunch. I demanded that we all eat one of my favourite dishes. and so we did. YUM. click to see what I saw when I looked out the window of the office.

and phil, teo and travis also had:

the lamb soup
comments: click this one to see phil's motorcycle. he rides to work. rain or shine. must suck in the rainy rain, though.

and we also had:

a green onion pancake
comments: click the pancake to see a mushroom that was growing on my parent's lawn.

****mad props to russ for correcting the title of this blog.

Every corner abandoned too soon

sushi, and a baconator
from: ichibankan and wendy's
price: probably $12
rating: &&&&&/&&&&&
listening to: joy division
comments: before I went to lunch, I saw some photos tommy had taken of some sushi. it looked good. then I saw this webpage and I needed bacon. so I... what's that word? when you decide to have a bit of one.. and a bit of .. oh yeah... I compromised. got sushi and a baconator!

and andy had:

some kinda bun
comments: the S is for Andy! click to see them making snow on grouse mountain... as seen from 2nd and Quebec.

bonus video from yesterday's random footage (sorry, no music):

I was dreamin' of a steel guitar engagement

pho
from: pho le (above Bale in chinatown)
price: $6
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the stones
comments: today hey ritchie and I went for pho, then took lots of slo-mo video of him riding his bike. I have learned a lot having this slo-mo camera. 1) only shoot the real action in slo mo, otherwise the clips are way too long and useless. 2) you need a lot of harddrive space for all the slo-mo clips you will take. 3) you need a lot of time to edit all the footage you will inevitably shoot. so, n ovideo today. click to see the classic titl shift wiggly.

and hey ritchie had:

pho as well.
comments: click to see hey hey hey hey ritchie ritchie ritchie ritchie!

and in our soup we put:

this stuff
comments: click. it will wiggle. you can count on that.

she mostly hates me

beef stew, rice and a sub
from: Au Petit Cafe
price: not sure.
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: Tricky
comments: today, yvette had a craving for Au Petit Cafe's beef stew. that meant she'd be driving up to 33rd n main to get it. yay! a different lunch place! and the vietnamese subs are reputed to be the best in the city there. it was very good. so was the simple beef stew. it was a lot of food for me, but I had to try both. click to see louise a wigglin.

and yvette had:

the beef stew
comments: click to see a wiggly that makes no sense. or, don't click. it's not really that good, anyway.

and tommy had:

a sandwich
comments: click to see neil on the rooftop. again, makes no sense. this new camera does weird stuff. weird. like you.

I go to work, like a doctor

vietnamese subs
from: Bale
price: $2.75 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: kool moe dee. really.
comments: oh hai. I have a new camera. again. and oddly, it's a Casio. it's got a lot of interesting features. like that photo of my sandwich there? that's just one sandwich, I dropped it. the camera picked up all those images of it. neat, huh? click to see a wiggly, cuz you're probably jonesing for one, right ritchie??

and jackie had:

a sandwich, too.
comments: so did Jerry. it was jerry's last day (again) so we went for vietsubs. click this sandwich to see jerry made fancy by the new camera. also, I took a couple shots like that at the skatepark.

and the camera has:

mad zoom.
comments: that's the peak chair. on grouse mountain. not very sharp, I know, that's full zoom + digital zoom, I think. click to see the same subject, but on the camera's widest

oh, did I mention that the camera shoots high speed (which means slow motion) video? enjoy. (and yes, I know about the 10 seconds of black at the end, I was rushing it... sigh.)

it's a matter of principle

samiches
from: not sure.
price: free!
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: man factory
comments: we had a lunch n learn today. so that meant catered sandwiches for lunch. whilst learning, I used a pomegranate and a toothpick to paint my paint. wanna see? just click. no wiggly. that's right, no wigglys today.

and remick had:

samiches, too
comments: on friday, after work, we rocked the office. indeed. unfortunately, I didn't really get any great photos cuz the rock room was so dark. but you can click and see andy killing sumant. not in rock band, just regular killing.

camera - battery = :(

club housen
from: Argo's
price: $7ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
comments: so today, I bought my camera to work... alas, but I left my battery at home. so I had to borrow Neil's camera for these lunch pics. thanks, neil! click to see a pic of Hiram. not wiggly. not even looking at me. but he's a good dog. who's a good dog? you're a good dog. yes you are.

and yvette was defeated by:

argo's burger.
comments: of course, the day I forget my camera, there's all this awesome weather, crazy sunshine, rainbows, lasers, flying monkeys and turtles, and me without a camera. aiyuh. click to see bill's pic of chris taking pictures of the rainbow. you can't see my, but I was sliding down the rainbow. good times.

so I cry, I pray and I beg

3 items
from: T&T
price: $6.99
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: the cardigans
comments: guess what? today erin turned 30!! yah! whooo! click to see her in (possibly) the best wiggly ever. or you can look at this one of her at qualicum beach.

and andy had:

2 items
comments: click's andy's t&t lunch to see some creepy dolls I saw in a store front the other night.

and this time yvette was defeated by:

argo's pasta
comments: click to see a seagull on the roof. that's all.

my friends would think I was a nut

burger, cajun fries, ginger beer
from: Cameo
price: $11 ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: peter gabriel
comments: the image linked here, is sort of a contest. ed lambke made this collage. your mission is to try and name the 50 ed, edwards, or eddies in that pic. ok, I know, that's way too hard. no one could ever name all 50. technically, there is 1 without an "ed" in his name. but he's got the "ward".

and dana had:

chicken souvlaki special
comments: dana said the souvlaki was really quite good. click to see phil spinning a hard drive upsidedown.

and louise had:

some broccoli stalk
comments: with dave away this week, Louise has been in the office twice! once with nikita and once with hiram. although, she keeps searching the office for dave, and looking really sad, I think she's doing alright. click to see a pic of Hiram totally uninterested in playing ball.

I am a traveler of both time and space

burger, shake, rings
from: triple o's
price: $11.42
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: led zeppelin
comments: click my lunch to see the view of science world I had whilst awaiting my food. there was some cool weather today. there was even clouds with rainbow linings

and yvette was again defeated by:

her Swiss Bakery sandwich
comments: so it seems that pregnancy makes you easily defeated by sandwiches. click to see the shoes nathan wore to work today. in his defense, he said it was pitch black and he just grabbed 2 shoes outa his closet. it wasn't until he got to work, and randy pointed it out that he noticed his mistake. hahahaha

I'm here on a mission to put you outa commission

buncha stuff
from: Green Lettuce
price: fair
rating: &&&&/&&&&&&
listening to: man factory (E Honda's Concern)
comments: today we drove to lunch. very rare treat. and I got to try a great restaurant. the stuff we ordered was mostly normal chinese food, but with indian spices. very tasty. it's on Kingsway near victoria, if you've never been there. you should go. it's good. click to see Neil being a model.

and kevin had:

the same
comments: kevin just returned from an 11-week work trip to venezuela. I think he's pretty stoked to be home. click his lunch to see my local fire station's captain old mercury. pretty nice... for a ford.

and sumant had:

the same! we all shared, ok!?
comments: so, there's this thing that tommy and I do at work. shoot rubber bands at each other. my way of doing that is to try to bounce my shots off the ceiling, and hopefully get them in his drink. doesn't happen very often. but we always seem to have less and less ammo. today I climbed up to the ceiling and looked in this little beam that's up there. there's maybe a 1 inch opening atop this beam, and that's where I found 21 elastics!!! crazy. click to see.

just a soul singer in a session band

green pork curry
from: pad thai
price: free! office treat!
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: bright eyes
comments: today, 2 employees retuned from 11 weeks of working in venezuela. so we all got thai food. makes sense, riht? click to see me just after being blinded by science world. see that glare behind me? science. tons of it.

and someone else had:

more thai foods
comments: click to see toki wartooth on my monitor. he, too, is lit by science. word.

and, well, everyone had:

thai food.
comments: click this one to see the car wash across the street with both the tilt shift AND wiggly treatments. oh, and there's a sweet pontiac in it.

you must risk something that matters

vietnamese subs n steamed buns
from: Bale and New Town
price: uh... I dunno, really
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: Tom Waits
comments: today, a walk to chinatown. click to see the funny police trailer we saw. look out! he's gonna shoot you with that employment gun!

and travis had:

the same
comments: click travis's lunch to see what it looks like when a stack of newspapers get abandoned in a lane, in the rain, not far from Main.

and andy had:

tortellini swimming in oil
comments: andy had leftover pasta from Barney's on monday. he was kinda grossed out by all that oil. I guess the 3 cheese turns into 3 cups of oil a couple days later. yuck. click to see a sweet '68 Skylark I saw form the roof. no, it's not wiggly.

and all that you eat, and everyone you meet

steak sandwich, fries n Guinness
from: Caffe Barney
price: free
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: pink floyd
comments: today we had a big team lunch. yay. steak n guinness. click to see one of those 'art' bears that I noticed recently on top of the optometrists. what's he doing, anyway? clearing his throat? pretending to sing into a mic? about to flip off the city?

and phil had:

butter chicken
comments: phil said the butter chicken was pretty good, but when asked if he would order it again, he said no. that's the real test. click to see the moon.

and liezel and louisa both ordered:

wrap n soup
comments: click to see some flowers I walk by on the way to work.

weekend bonus lunch

benny-o-crêpe
from: doux crepes (near yaletown)
price: $8.50
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
comments: generally, I don't post weekend lunches. but hey, my blog, no rules, and this lunch was awesome. I really like this little "doux crepes" place. it's a tiny little place on richards, but if you're ever in the area, ad hungry, try it. so good. they also sell $2 lattes.

and erin had:

the breakfast pizza
comments: yum. breakfast pizza good. the linked wigglies I added for this post are just sad ones that I noticed have had 0 views on flickr. not for long... go on, click em! see sumant trying to be british, see a farewell to arthritis!

buncha food
from: Swiss Bakery
price: about $8
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to:
comments: I didn't even eat all this food. I forgot the little sandwich in the work fridge. :( oh well. click to see a mushroom. go on, I'm sure you wanna see a mushroom.

and dave had:

some chinese food
comments: dave and tommy went to Kam's Chinese to get lunch. I never been there other than for the baked goods. they said it was good. I'll have to try it sometime. click to see an interesting head in a tree.

and tommy had:

salty fish n chicken fried rice
comments: click tommy's rice (he said it was very good), to see the same head, after running it through to HDR treatments. it's not really the HDR-ness that is interesting. it's more the way the hdr program tried to line up my unaligned photos, then I made a wiggly of that. it might hurt your brain to look at.

enter your age, your weight, your height

southwest chicken burger
from: McDonalds
price: $8ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: man factory
comments: huzzah! I have internets again. so now I can sit and watch big streaming videos all I want. the 600k/s I'm getting right now sure beats my old 170k/s. click to see a movie that helps explains parts of the internets to you.

and dave had:

angus burger
comments: dave seemed pretty satisfied with his first McD's angus burger experience. click to watch another HD-like video. that's all Im gonna be watching with my fast internets. maybe I'll make some wigglies tomorrow. we'll see how gloomy the weather is.

in these days of evil presidentes

yam fry poutine
from: Argo's
price: $9 (with the chicken... only 6 without).
rating: &&.5/&&&&&
listening to: the clash
comments: this should be my last post without internet. there's internets at my house now (uh... er... 'tomorrow' - since I'm blogging from the future.. or is it the past. too confused). w00t. click to see main street this morn.

and Teo and Dave both had:

clubhouseseses avec les frites
comments: click to see wiggly + tilt shift. fun!

and travis had:

a huge lack of focus
comments: hey ritchie recently directed me to this blog. it's pretty interesting reading, and tonight, I took a couple photos through the windows of the V6A presentation centre. heh. click travis's blur to see a wiggly of what's left. ok, there's more left in another room. but this room made me laugh.

I need rock n roll everyday.

miso ramen avec un oeuf
from: Menya
price: $8ish?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: oddly, the new AC/DC
comments: blogging on windows sucks. it confuses me. click to see wiggly of a product that was named after a Huey Lewis song. what the hell?! is Huey getting royalties for that product? I bet not.

and phil had:

gobbledegook
comments: actually, phil had ramen. for his first time ever. he seemed to enjoy it. click for another wiggly.

and dana had:

well, we all had the same thing.
comments: blah blah blah... click = wiggly... go.