black shades, white gloves, lookin' sharp, lookin' for lunch

calzone
from: incendio
price: $16
rating: &&&&.8/&&&&&
listening to: ZZTop
comments: today's wigglies tell a story. a story of a company. this company had a very successful week by releasing a chat tool into their software.  this company is hootsuite. and in the linked gif you can see the preparations for the celebrations. amazing.

and andrew had:

calzone
comments: and in this linked gif, the celebration.  it's a big gif, but it's worth it. over 60 people are shotgunning PBR in it. amazing.

and david had:

pizza
comments: in this gif, everyone just finished.  can you see kirsten endlessly trying to get rid of that beer can?  amazing.

and mike had:

pasta
comments: in the final gif here, not much is happening. just people and empties. not really amazing at all.

I used to think maybe you lunched me, now baby I'm sure

porchetta and macaroni salad
from: big lou's
price: $14?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: katrina and the waves
comments: lately, in the mornings, when I walk by a certain bus stop, there's always a bunch of transit police standing around. it begs the question; how many transit cops does it take to do anything?  it appears that the answer is 6.

and alex had:

pulled pork sandwich
comments: the rest of the linked wigglies are of monty. oh cute monty.

and gavin had:

pulled pork
comments: lookit monty's ear in this linked gif. lookit it floppin there. just lookit it.

and bill had:

some fried veggies from some food truck
comments: last monty gif. and it's deeceezy walking him. yep. that's what it is.

you know my lunch goes with you as your lunch stays with me,

#43
from: hanoi pho
price: $12?
rating: ^^^^/^^^^^
listening to: leonard cohen
comments: in these days of starting to wear jackets, I sillilly forgot to carry my camera to lunch. but that's ok, cuz mike used his fancy new iphone5 to make some lunch photos for me! but also, I made no new wigglies today. meh. I'm just gonna link to some awesome ones from last friday's party.

and mike had:

me point towards his lunch
comments: clickflip.

and someone else had:

that
comments: click for icing.

and another person had:

pho
comments: click for awesome.

are we the lunchers in July?

congee
from: kwong chow
price: $7ish
rating: &&&&.5/&&&&&
listening to: wintersleep
comments: today was the last day of the Charger for the year. so you can click my lunch to see where I posed it for some photos. you can actually see the door of the building moving in that wiggly. that's cuz some dude inside was wondering what all the rumbling was about. ha. here's a couple more wigglies of it. enjoy. I'm not sure how long I will have no car on the road. (spoiler alert... exactly 1 week).

I'm so mad to lunch you and your evil curse

chilaquillas
from: la casita
price: $11ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: morcheeba
comments: today was prom night for hootside high (1987). that's us. that's what today's hootsuite parliament party was all about. I used my 3D camera and it's taken me like two weeks to get all the wigglies made. but you can see them all here.  so many. click my lunch to see the rarest of the rare... me actually in a wiggly.

and andrew had:

that
comments: click andrew's lunch to see eric all 80's out.

and bill had:

that
comments: in other news, Zoltan met me at our party, then I went to a going away party for him. he's going to work for apple. with so many of the other ex-atimiites.  click to see him at the old atimi office door.

and mike had:

that
comments: and in other other news, when I started walking home from downtown, I noticed lots o smoke from mt. pleasant area. of course, I had to go look. and sadly, I saw a favourite restaurant, Thai Son, burning. they say the fire had been going for over 4 hours when I got there. and there was still lotsa flame. so sad. no more thai son for a while... though, the internet just told me that there's another one at 1st and renfrew. far.

because I used to lunch her, but it's all over now

half carolina pancakes
from: deacon's corner
price: $12?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: rolling stones
comments: this morning, on the way to work, I saw some litter. not just any litter.  the first ever (away from the office) hootsuite litter that I ever seen. crazy.  so of course, I made a wiggly of it.

and gavin had:

philly cheesesteak
comments: I think this is gavin, and I think it's a philly cheesesteak. but I been wrong before about this kinda thing. maybe I should get people to hold name tags in front of their food, so when I post a week later, I remember who it is. ha.

and mike had:

pulled pork
comments: if you clicked the last lunch, you saw the newest portrait in the office. it's uji! and the portrait was made to help him run for prom king. of course, it's hard to beat a guy who campaigned by giving out tiny cups of bacon and tic tacs, isn't it??  click mike's lunch to see steve getting into an uber car. fancy!

I tell him how much I used to lunch to watch him smile

meat n veg
from: afro canadian
price: about $10 each person
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: blind melon
comments: today was chris's first afro experience... I think? was it ken's, too?  not sure. anyway, you should click our big shared plate. cuz that's what this blog is all about, man.

and bill had:

a taste of africa
comments: and later in the afternoon, phil and I got fresca medicis from abbi.  it'd been a while.

bye bye lunch, bye bye happiness

beef stew
from: hanoi pho
price: $11?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the everly brothers
comments: I didn't make any wigglies today. but you can click my lunch for one more golfing wiggly. note the classy white plastic beer carriers.  that's what made it all fun.

and bill had:

EV
comments: the linked wiggly is from some shut-down-main-street-and-let-the-people-mingle-in-the-street kinda event.

and david had:

#10
comments: click for another weekend wiggly. gearing up with rollerblades by the charger.

and mike had:

pho
comments: last wiggly. it's a desktop dog! not to be confused with the laptop dog variety.

underneath the velvet skies, lunch is all that matters

bagelwich
from: home
price: n/a
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: eric clapton
comments: on the weekend, I pitched and I putt. putted? either way. I did it. and I get it. it's all about beer.

why do I always have to say "lunch"?

Set B
from: HON's
price: $7ish
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: the beatles
comments: to end a week of what seemed like endless icings... beier got got. know what I'm saying?  and he shotgunned it. hahah. click to see that.

and david had:

set b (with different noodles)
comments: like all fridays at HS HQ, we had some funs. click to see bill fine tuning his exercise ball barrel rolls.

the others had:

that
comments: click to see a wiggly where a flash went off.  I like it. and of course, what party would be complete without baby duck, dancing and um... more dancing?

happy birthday, david!

steak n guinness pie
from: salty tongue
price: $16?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
comments: another birthday. there's a lot of them this time of year.  and this meant more icings.  look closely at the linked wiggly. you see the phone book?  he usually uses that as his mouse stand/pad/whatever.  see the hole in it?  and the ice in the hole?  once he removed the gift bottle that was covering the hole... bam!

and david had:

pie but with fries
comments: click david's birthday lunch to see him taking that first icing like a champ.

and ken had:

the same
comments: I'm gonna link this one to david's second icing. look at it. see monty?  did you notice him in the last one, too?  I guess he wants to be iced.

if not for lunch I would be drowning

#10
from: hanoi pho
price: moneys
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: pearl jam
comments: hi. just another lunch here. click to see a window washer.

and bill had:

EV
comments: on my way to work. I saw the back of bill on a bus. he didn't notice. but the guy across from him sure did.

and mike had :

pho
comments: mike is the newest owl on our dev team.  no wigglies of him yet.but I'm sure there will be eventually. click to see bill perfecting his new move. the exercise ball barrel roll! perhaps you'd prefer the back n forth wiggly of it?

and ken had:

vietnamese coffee for his first time
comments: click to see paul loungin' like nobody lounges.

happy birthday, paul!

daily special wrap with poutine
from: charles bar
price: $12ish?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
comments: today was pauls birthday. this turned into paul's Ice day. click to see him finding his first tice. wrapped up with his keyboard. even though it was 10am, he dealt with it like a boss.

and paul had:

the wrap
comments: click to see how paul was iced the third time. yep. that's his birthday cake. awesome!

and bill had:

that
comments: click bill's lunch to see paul getting iced the second time. right after lunch. someone rigged up a small cardboard ring within which the iced sat. on top of both those, was an exercise ball placed inconveniently in front of his desk. so clever.

and daina had:

this
comments: click to see daina sharing an exercise ball with bill and eric. they don't share so good.

happy birthday, ted!

bagelwich
from: home
price: n/a
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
comments: this weekend was the big langley car show. click to see some sweet rides. if you really like cars,  you can see the whole set.

and ted had:

birthday cake
comments: today was my brother's birthday. happy birthday!  now click to see skylar's amazing laugh.  you can almost hear it just by looking at that wiggly.

the episode in which we all get a tour of our future office

beef dip
from: Pat's Pub
price: $9ish?
rating: &&&&/&&&&
comments: today was a real VEF. a Very Exciting Friday. we had our town hall meeting... in the parkade of our new office!! yeah!  click to see nori welcoming me there.

and bill had:

veg burg
comments: we are all very excited to expand our space so much and to all share the same roof AND to move closer to my house. ha! ok, I'm excited about that last part. click to see some owls checking out the building.

and david had:

perogies
comments: for those who know this city, you might know that this office used to be the organized crime task force headquarters for the VPD. so we were scouring it for interesting stuff. like the bulletproof looking glass in the reception area. or the metal lined closets like in the linked wiggly.

and eric had:

onion rings on his veg burg
comments: ok, time for the most important part. any long time readers of this blog know that I like to get up on the roof of all my workplaces. and this place is no exception. click to see over 100 of us all up on it.

and the police didn't leave:

too much evidence
comments: that's a "strike force" logo that was on the wall.  they'd all been mostly scratched off. click it to see everyone gathering for our group photo. I also split one of those group shots into 1, 2, and 3 closer detail shots. it's awesome seeing everyone in it. look for nori losing his phone from his pocket. awesome.

lunch in the 90's is paranoid

oyster stew (soup)
from: oyster express
price: $9?
rating: &&&&/&&&&&
listening to: blur
comments: I only made one wiggly today. and now you can click to see it. it's the oysters I also ate. yep. that's it.

and bill had:

curry
comments: the curry is a vegetarian, of course. I was the only one who ate oysters. so the rest of the wigglies are from tomorrow. when we get to... spoiler alert... see our future office! click to see one of the buses taking us there.

and ken had:

curry, too
comments: ken thought bill was crazy for putting his rice in his curry, whilst he put his curry into his rice. that's all neither here nor there. click to see our new office. we should be in there early next year.

and the others had:

chilli
comments: ok this last wiggly is actually a bit magical.  when I was on the roof taking pics of the gang getting ready to leave, Sandy was the only one to notice me and wave. what no one noticed at the time was the bird that nearly flew into her waving hand! no ordinary bird, either. it looks yellow or green like a canary or budgie or something.  crazy!  we think maybe it was the twitter bird.