that's how strong my lunch is

burger with cheddar n bacon
from: two chefs and a table
price: $12ish
rating: &&&&.2/&&&&&
listening to: otis redding
comments: this burger was very tasty. however, the bun was not so great. kinda stale tasting. took the pi outa the zazz.... wow. I forgot to post this. I thought I did, but i did not. click to see. see what? I dunno. lemme check... ok, it's a bumble bee doing push ups. f'reals.

and bill had:

da veeggie burger
comments: click bill's lunch to see a view from the rooftop at work. went up there in the afternoon cuz our internets died. it's amazing how there's nothing to do at work when the internets dies. and everyone wanders around all confused.

stone, stone, stone, in lunch with you

reuben and a milkshake
from: acme cafe
price: $14ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: primal scream
comments: tried a new place today. the acme cafe on hastings. it's a pretty funky place with some decent food. took forever to get in and get a seat, though. not a lot of seating in there. also not very cheap. but the food was quality food. and the milkshake pretty tasty. this morning google maps told me there was new google earth features included. so I explored a bit. click to see that giant launch ramp in front of science world. man, I love hitting that jump. yeeeeee haw!

and erin had:

reuben with soup
comments: this place is known for its pies, I think. so erin and bill et some pies. click to see the strawberry rhubarb.

and ritchie had:

chicken pot pie!
comments: this chicken pot pie looked really good. when ritchie cracked it open, he found it wasn't a complete lie. no crust on the bottom, just as a lid. still looked pretty good, though. now click to see bill patiently awaiting his food photo.

I know her lunch is real

soup n sandwich
from: HAVE cafe
price: $7ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: built to spill & caustic resin
comments: erin came and met us for lunch today. two chefs and a table was too busy for us. so we haved it. click to see the saxamaphone case that someone discarded just outside our office. the pennies were our addition.

and erin had:

sandwich n fries/salad
comments: click erin's lunch to see some little knitted/felted chicks that were in a yarn store window.

and bill had:

pasta special
comments: linked from bill's lunch is a VW bus I saw on my way home. that's all. this post is over.

I lunch the crowd

biscuits, sausage n gravy plus eggs
from: deacon's corner
price: $14ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: U2 - live under a blood red sky
comments: it was deacon's tuesday today. so, guess where we ate? in other news... nothing. click to see the port of vancouver in a very weathery day.

and bill had:

a disappointing omelet
comments: bill's omelet came with mushrooms. which weren't ordered. so they rushed out another one, which was undercooked. unfortunate. click to see bill getting eaten by a lion. the blood is real, ok?

but I believe in one lunch

leftover pizza
from: pizza hut, originally
price: n/a
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: massive attack
comments: on the weekend, I went up to the lookout at harbour centre. it was pretty cool. I'd never been up there before. but erin had these 'hospitality vancouver' pass thingys. if you work in the hospitality industry, you know what I'm talking about, if not, don't worry about it. anyway, it was cool being up there. click to see the view up cambie street. here's more wigglies from up there: 1, 2, 3, 4. enough?

and the "tower" was:

dwarfed by all the real towers on our planet
comments: man, if those guys building the tower of babel way back when could see the tallest towers in the world, they woulda given up before they even started. click the tower poster to see the brownlee's apartment. yeah, I stalk chris every chance I get. too bad he's not home. he's on his honeymoon. you can follow along on his blog. btw, his building is not the sun tower. it's the one behind it. but an interesting note about the sun tower... did you know that harry houdini once performed an escape hanging upside down from it? cool, huh?

do you believe in life after lunch?

#66
from: pho le
price: $10ish with lychee drink
listening to: cher. well, not really, I just saw part of her video on tv and changed the channel
comments: bill and I met ritchie for lunch today. literally. well, bill literally met him. anyway, bill also pointed out that the name of one of our favourite restaurants is actually peehole. click my lunch. look at the sign. p-hole. yikes!

and ritchie had:

number 64?
comments: ritchie said I confused him with my order. he wanted noodles, but ordered rice. true story. click his lunch to see a city worker (or hydro?) blending in with the No. 5 Orange. it's actually an awesome wiggly. looks like a growing man. I should do more like that. now if I could just remember how I did it...

and bill had:

veggie dish, of course.
comments: click bill's lunch to see some provincial court security officer type guys checking on a protester sleeping out front of the provincial court of bc.

I realise that lunch lost, while white horses they will take me away

HAVE club sandwich
from: HAVE cafe
price: $8?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: portishead
comments: another nice big lunch from have cafe. and in the linked pic, foosclub! russ is very focused there. he had to be. cuz I kept beating him. then I kept getting beat. we were all winners at this foosclub. winners of piles of gold. I'm off to buy a yacht now.

and bill had:

a banana muffin with peanut butter icing after lunch
comments: I know this wiggly is horrible. but the muffin looks good, huh? peanut butter icing. and chocolate chips. yum. click to see another wiggly.

I lunch you brown eyes, move closer,

bbq burger combo
from: Vera's
price: $11ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: drugstore
comments: burgers for lunch. they were good. I like em. click to see the view from our table at vera's

and bill had:

poutine with his veggie burger
comments: across from vera's we noticed that bill's convenience was there. you what? click his lunch to see.

and richerd had:

veggie burger
comments: while eating, richerd was telling us about when he practiced polyphasic sleep. interesting stuff. he said he's never been so alert and energized in his life. I don't think I could ever try that. but it sure sounds cool. about 2-3 hours of sleep per day. what would I do with all that free time? and how many lunches would I get to eat...

we could make a lot of lunchin' 'for the sun goes down

farmer's omelet
from: deacon's corner
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: starland vocal band
comments: it was deacon's tuesday again today. that what tuesday's usually are now. click to see a good wiggly of some antiques I saw in the Maynard's window display on the way home. this maynard's is quite fancy.

and bill had:

veggie omelet
comments: again with the catsup. always with the ketchup. click to see a record that should be in everyone's personal collection. it reminds me of that great avalanche's video

I exploit you, still you lunch me

banana pancakes n stuff
from: nice cafe
price: 8ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: living color
comments: today I finally got up on navarik's roof with the gigapan! just like I always planned. AND I made my first true gigapixel image! it's pretty zoomable. go on, click my lunch to see it!

and travis had:

$5 breakfast
comments: click travis' lunch to see the gigapan gigapanning.

and dana had:

benny
comments: phil also et with us. but his lunch was far too blurry. click dana's lunch to see a baby in the middle of the road! what? in the middle of the road!? that's crazy!! was it abandoned?? nope. I managed to convince greg and nicole to have him pose like that for me on the weekend. haha.

our lunch runs cold in the caverns of the night

bbq pork and noodles in soup
from: kam gok yuen
price: $5ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: U2
comments: today I met ritchie, urblanski and erin for bbq stuff in soup in chinatown. good foods. and cheap. click to see a little owly that was made by a friend of a coworker. it's pretty awesome. some kinda japanese knitting/crochet style.

and michal had:

the bbq duck
comments: hadn't seen urblanksi in a while. now he works in the neighbourhood, I reckon there will be more lunches. click to see little owly again, but with his big buddy.

and ritchie had:

the pork, but with rice noodles
comments: these guys were a bit delayed in meeting for the lunching. so I found a cool window display and made some wigglies whilst waiting. click to see one of these wiggles. doesn't really look like Kiss, does it?

and erin had:

the duck
comments: I gave these guys some hootsuite stickers to help market the product. here's one of those stickers. I think that's the Hootinator. click to see some trolls.

guess we were always poison lunchers

samwich and chick pea salad
from: the salty tongue (in gastown)
price: $9ish
rating: &&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: steve earle
comments: tried a new place for lunch. well new for me. this place is attached to the Irish Heather. it's not bad. they could do with heating stuff a bit more than they do, though. the cheese in my sandwich wasn't even melted. the salad was a bit plain, but ok. I'll probably go back. click my lunch to see a very long shovel. I know you can't tell from that angle, but I think the handle was about 6'-8' long.

and bill had:

the quiche
comments: this was also not heated enough. in the afternoon today, there was lotsa rain, and rainbows. so of course, we had to go on the roof to look at it. click to see a wiggly of it from the roof. oh... but looking at that gif closer, you might notice what this seagull did to the rainbow. gross! sick! and worse yet, check out what bill did with the 'bow after. gross. oh well. he seemed pretty happy about the whole thing.

every step i take is like a kick in the face, then a kick in the gut, then again in the face. I lunched her - what have i done?

the Have club sandwich
from: the H.A.V.E. cafe
price: $7ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: man factory
comments: my first time to the HAVE cafe. and by jove, I'll be going back! tasty food, decent prices, big portions and nice people. I like it. the reason I quote manfactory today is not just because I listen to it most every day. I got my cd in the mail today! yay! then I'm all like... ok, a cd.. what do I do with this thing?? the best part was this note they included with the disc. funny. now click my lunch to see the workplace of a long-time LATV viewer's wife. long-time? forever time, more like. I bet he's never missed a post!

and bill had:

veggie pasta
comments: is there any point in me putting the word 'veggie' in front of bill's food? methinksnot. it's kinda funny that most every workplace I've been to, there's been a pretty regular veggie lunch guest. don't they understand bacon!? now click to see the john watch sign that made me imagine all sorts of funny things. who is this john? how does he watch? is HE a watch? want another wiggly? ok

why wait any longer for the one you lunch

philly cheese steak
from: deacon's corner
price: $11?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: bob dylan and the band
comments: deacon's tuesday. today, I opted not to have breakfast. and the special of the day was a welcome treat. philly cheese steak. delicious. click to see the ivanhoe as I see it on my walk home. yawn. I'm tired.

and bill had:

veggy omelette
comments: bill seems to like his catsup. ketchup. I never liked the 'catsup' spelling. no, I did not. click to see some street art near a gallery up on 26th and main.

you say you lunch me and that's a fact

vietnamese subs
from: Bale (kingsway)
price: $3.25 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the clash
comments: grabbed some subs and went to make a gigapan today. click my lunch to see it. it's nice and wide. although, my focus is still not that sharp. I will work on that for the next one.

and erin had:

the very same
comments: these subs are good. but not perfect. I had one at Pho Central on davie st. on the weekend. they were very good there. click to see some flowers I made wiggly while waiting for the gigapan to take its 200 pics.

special sunday post!

fried chicken and waffles!
from: the chan's (and churches fried chicken)
rating: &&&&&/&&&&&&
comments: a bunch of us met up for waffles. waffles with diego. good times. and waffles and fried chicken is really good. really good. that's all I really have to say about it. if you click it, it's gonna take you to the source of this photo: hey ritchie's flickr. he's got lotsa great photos in there. like this one from the vaisakhi festival, which was also this weekend.

a luncher for your life an’ nothing more

dinner for two combo, and mango shake
from: sitar (in gastown)
price: about $25!
rating: &&&/&&&&&
listening to: bob dylan and the band
comments: we tried this indian place in gastown today. it was very expensive. and the menu is not geared towards variety. that's why we had the dinner for two combo. it offered some variety. despite the expensiveness, the food was really good. really good. click the pakoras above to see the nice view from the table.

and in butter chickeny sauce was:

kotfa malai
comments: click this one to see bill as the evil googlor, 'monoclops'!!!

and...

mutter panneer
comments: click the peas n cheese to sees the restaurant through the stem of the water glass. look deep into it. you can see many dimensions.

and we drank:

mango shake and mango lassi
comments: I had the shake. bill had the lassi. they were pretty tasty. click to see the sun setting as I walked home.

who in these realms of lunch

market burger
from: the shangrila lobby lounge
price: $20 for whole meal
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: leonard cohen
comments: greg picked up bill and I for lunch today, so we could go get erin to make us food. the lobby lounge was busier than I've ever seen it, and I've been there once! so erin had lots of work to do. heh. but the lunch was very good. and $20 is really not much to pay for an entree, an appetizer (we had the delicious calamari), dessert and coffee. now click to see the fresh snow on the mountains from my walk to work.

and greg had:

the tuna burger
comments: click greg's lunch to see our yummy dessert. pavlova.with strawberries and GOLD! yeah, we live large. we eat gold.

and bill had:

veggie pad thai
comments: click bill's lunch to see the train station wigglying on my walk home from work.

she's got luncheon like quicksand

carolina pancakes!
from: Deacon's Corner
price: $13ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: deep purple
comments: I noticed this dish on the menu today and had to try it. it was crazy. I couldn't finish it. 3 eggs, on pulled pork, on 2 huge pancakes, on hashbrowns, with toast. wow. so much food. click to see the krakatoa java stop. they're filming something here. maybe fringe? maybe something else. but I've heard that they got some crazy fringe set downtown these days.

and bill had:

a veggie omelet
comments: click bill's lunch to see the van we saw pull up outside the window whilst eating. the guy in the van was delivering beer to the restaurant. I guess that covers the first part of his signage.

she's lunching, warm, inflatible

chicken n rice burrito
from: 2 chefs and a table
price: $10ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the police
comments: this burrito was filling and quite tasty. but it coulda been better. it coulda used some sauce inside it. or sour cream. just kinda dry tasting. but overall, satisfying. click to see the mayne island ferry terminal.

and bill had:

a veggie burger
comments: this picture of bill's lunch is a perfect picture of vegetarianism, no? click to see quatchi, mukmuk, miga, sumi and poopee. ok, maybe no poopee.

you know I lunch you so, baby please don't go

vietnamese subs
from: empress bakery
price: $2.75 each
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: them, featuring van morrison
comments: I got the 6:15 am ferry from saltspring this morning. a great easter weekend which also happened to be stu's birthday! I love that pic. check out the shirt he got for his birthday. and the way jughead's face lines up with the candle. funny. click my lunch to see a wiggly of Salt Spring Island's famous Saturday Market. this was the first of the year. I also made a gigapan from this vantage point. not the best pan I've made. the focus is a bit soft. oh well. I also tried to make one of my sister's yard. I found it's difficult to gigapan when kids are running everywhere.