Friday, March 27, 2009

if only you could eat technology too

update: well after a couple days passed, i tried my extra special technique again, only to curious see a picture of the location with a bus passing by -- again. then of course, it dawned on me that street view was not being updated in anything close to real time. so, no epiphany after all.

if i were a good boy who saved his pennies, i'd bring my lunch to work. i'm not.

which means my daily routine at about 2 p.m. is to wonder what to have for lunch. one of my favorites is a hot dog cart called, da beef. i don't eat the dogs, but get a delicious italian beef sandwich, which is a thinly sliced steak sandwich drenched in au jus and topped with spicy peppers. that's good.

the problem is that these cart people don't show up consistently. and since they're a cart, they don't have a phone (they need to make use of modern telephony, i.e. a cell phone). which means, i walk -- fortunately, it's only three blocks -- only to find them not there. then i'm upset.

but today, i decided to use my brain instead of my feet and that's where google maps, street view comes in handy. punch in the address and voila, i see the location where the cart is supposed to be, but today is not. no fruitless walking for me today.

now my next epiphany needs to be what i can eat. and there it is. today's the day to try 'good pizza'.

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