Dot Com Pho – Day Trip Edition
I recently had a few things to take care of in the Vancouver area, and had a credit with my favourite airline Westjet that needed to be used. So hi ho, hi ho, it was off to the wet coast (or left coast, depending on how you look at it) I went on Saturday. But I couldn’t make a stop in the GVRD without meeting up with everyone for Dot Com Pho.
Using the power of Twitter, we set up a meet-up at Pho Lan in Richmond. The crew included Stephen Fung, Ed Lau, John Chow, his wife Sarah, his daughter Sally, and Jennifer Unruh from Citrus Pie. We then proceeded to poke fun at Vancouver-based hippie feel good conference Northern Voice, discuss Twitter as the newer better IM system, and point out the foibles of doing business in Richmond. Oh and the Pho was pretty good too. Check out the video below.
Dot Com Pho – National Edition
I first heard about Dot Com Pho what seems like at least 100 years ago. It was in my early days with The Tech Zone, and I had heard about it only after leaving the Wet Coast for my home city of Edmonton. According to John Chow, it was this legendary meeting of Dot Com peoples from around the Lower Mainland. They got together every week for lunch and talk of tech.
It was never as serious as it sounds though. Those who have been around John, Stephen Fung, Michael Kwan, Ed Lau, and the rest know that the last things these guys can pull off is "serious." Myself and many others got to witness their serious-deficient ways in the first ever video of Dot Com Pho. Now, through the magical internet box, I get to join in on this meet up of goof offs. Luckily I bring no additional sanity to the table. Only my enjoyment of good food and…interesting conversation comes with me.
This is only my second time having Pho, so I’m still a little rusty with how to consume the wonderful soup. However, while Michael makes his home here in the land of sun and cold, I’m sure you’ll see a fair bit more of me in future videos. Perhaps a Dot Com road trip is in order for the Vancouver team. Besides our women are more beautiful (Ed I’m talking to you), and our streets are more easy to navigate.
One Big Chocolate Bar
Peer pressure brought about what is my first food post. Recently whilst walking through our local Costco, my friends and I saw this HUGE Toblerone (wiki) bar on sale. Apparently it was the post easter, post any-other-holiday-you-give-candy, we must get rid of this sale. Everyone was busy thinking what the hell you would do with such a huge candy bar. I was busy counting my cash.
Now spur of the moment purchases like these are the type of insanity we usually reserve for John Chow, especially in the purchase of extremely large stuffed polar bears. But I was under pressure to be the go to guy in this crazy endeavour. Now I’m left with the above chocolate bar sitting on my living room table. I’ve pictured it with the Guitar Hero Wii controller. You…know for size comparisons.
If your curious exactly how much chocolate such a bar is…well…here you go. That’s almost 10 lbs of chocolate, for those of you still using your archaic pounds to measure. Now I’m left asking myself what the hell I’m going to do with this mammoth slab of chocolate. I couldn’t possibly eat it; at least not in it’s pure form. Perhaps I’ll have to give it to someone I know who likes baking. They’ll make it into cookies or something.