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Important Business Lunch by Loki, Lank, Bex., SNORLAX
May 2nd, 2008 12:28 AM / Location: 37.794855,-122.3954
We converged at the intersection of Market and 8th Street, then proceeded underground to take the Muni system into the business district. Along the way we phoned colleagues and argued office politics.
We disembarked at the Montgomery station and returned to the surface, walking along Market Street toward the Embarcadero Center, our destination for lunch. The people of San Francisco proved a friendly, inquisitive bunch, if a tad obsessed with fashion. Several stopped us in the street to chat, but we explained that we were running late for an important business lunch and continued on our way.
We chose to eat at a fine Thai restaurant called Osha, which offers delicious food and friendly service in an upscale, professional atmosphere.
Whilst nestled in the heart of the restaurant, we ate well and talked up a storm. Here are some of the issues we discussed:
- graphs
- forced elf labor
- GPS implants in forced elf labor
- disciplinary issues for forced elf labor
- benefits of replacing elves with monkeys
- replacing forced elf labor with forced monkey labor
- re-branding elf slavery as "involuntary apprenticeship"
- how Janine in marketing is Such a Biatch
When our appetites and our business concerns were satisfied, we toasted on reaching an agreement, and the wait staff recorded the occasion for us.
We were preparing to leave when a man in a suit at a table next to ours asked why we were "all dolled up". We were a bit confused and simply explained that we were working. Hadn't he ever seen people have a Business Lunch? When we stood up, he must have seen our briefcases, because we overheard him say to his colleague, "Oh - they are working."
Then we headed back down Market Street and went back to our respective offices, secure in the knowledge that Important Things in the realm of Business had been accomplished.
And that Monkeys are cute.
Important
We mean Business.
Four businesspeople waiting for a bus.
Nothing to see here. Please move along.
In the MUNI station.
Note the guy dressed in a cyclist costume trying to nose into our group photo.
Pizza getting change.
It's hard to use BART ticket machines when you can't bring your arms together. But then, nobody ever promised professional attire would be convenient.
The MUNI turnstile.
Yet another aspect of modern life not designed to accommodate a human sized slice of pizza.
Waiting for the train
And checking in with the head office by telephone.
Boarding the train
Note Conquistador Lank using his PDA.
On board MUNI.
Flagrantly airing our office intrigue and HR dirty laundry before the other passengers.
Riding MUNI.
"A giant, wearing astonishingly colorful anachronistic clothing, a codpiece, and a helmet? No, I don't remember anyone like that, but it was a crowded train."
More MUNI.
The clean shaven half of a pizza, with creepy Santa in the background.
Escalators are fun.
Market street.
Bystander: Hey, girl, what's up with your out fit? Bex: What's up with YOUR outfit? Freak. Sheesh! People around here do not know how to dress or act professionally...
Self portrait.
Bystander: Hey lady, why you dressed like that? Bex: (Perplexed) I'm going to work. Bystander: Really? What do you do? Bex: What, I'm a super Hero. Duh. Bystander: So what do you do? Bex: Um, like defeat villains, save bears and stuff. Bystander: Right on girl, you keep it up.
In the business district...
...talkin' shop.
Embarcadero plaza.
A superhero. A busy, busy superhero.
Bystander: What superhero are you? Bex: Um, my name's Bex. Bystander: Oh I guess I don't know that one. Bex: You need a Villain defeated? Tower avenged? Give me a call. If you got orphans in burning buildings though, you're better off with someone else.. Bystander: Oh, heh, thats okay, thanks.
Near the Ferry Bldg.
Briefcases in tow.
Waiting
The restaurant was crowded. We should've made a reservation.
The menu.
What goes well with Important Business?
More of the menu.
Big decisions, small decisions. It's all in a day's work for important business people.
Even more of the menu.
Pizza ordering Thai.
Details. It's all in the details.
Lank gets down to brass tacks.
Look!
Look at these graphs! (Thnx, Bex!)
Look!
The data is all right here!
We all had to agree. . .
Bex makes a good point.
Business. Lunch.
Headhunting over seared ahi salad.
Loki considers.
There's no appetizer like novel data visualization.
A Toast
To celebrate successful dealings
Loki
"Look, Thomas, I love you like you were an olive off my own body, but there's just no excuse for incompetence. And don't give me that, 'my mother was a French cruller' sob story."
Bex
Listen Gavin, I want to see more guards on Twin Peaks. I'm getting tired of having to clean up for your oversights... Look, Gav, I'm getting another call... yeah, b-bye... Hello? Arnie?... Great, how's Sacramento?... Um-hm... No, Arnie, I've told you, I don't do robot invasions...
Lowteck
"That's okay, son. The big boys down at head office are all naughty too."
Lank
"Do you want to know how serious I am? Have you seen the size of my codpiece? I'm THAT serious."
Yeah.
That's right.
81 vote(s)
- help im a bear
- anna one
- Kid A
- Lincøln
- Scarlett
- done
- Kyle Westwood
- Saul Z
- .thatskarobot
- Haberley Mead
- Adam
- Not Here No More
- GYØ Ben
- Herbie Hatman
- Evil Sugar
- teh Lolbrarian
- Spidere
- Julian Muffinbot
- Myrna Minx
- teucer
- auntie matter
- Burn Unit
- Bjørn Teuleuse
- meredithian
- Jellybean of Thark
- JJason Recognition
- Optical Dave
- praximity
- rongo rongo
- Sean Mahan
- GYØ Vicki
- JTony Loves Brains
- Fonne Tayne
- Darkaardvark
- Magpie
- Levitating Potato
- Sparrows Fall
- High Countess Emily
- Flitworth
- Secret Agent
- Shea Wolfe
- The Animus
- Malaysian Eddy
- Dela Dejavoo
- Insomniac Walking
- lara black
- Juliette
- Jackie H
- Blue
- AzRaeL
- Minch
- Metsuki
- Joshua A. Norton
- Dax Tran-Caffee
- kristin gish
- *la nerdrice*
- Ladybug
- Ben Yamiin
- Beta Orionis
- Tøm
- Mr. O.
- visivo
- Augustus deCorbeau
- Sam
- Amby D
- Terpsichore
- Xena
- carry_me_Zaddy
- Pip Estrelle
- Tricia Tanaka
- TEA
- Kushiel's Servant
- Nathan Dean
- Jennifer Gergely
- Dan |ØwO|
- Spellman
- Selahsaurus
- MsGoblinPants Extraordinaire
- Indy
- Sir Pinkleton
- Beetle bomb
Favorite of:
- Jellybean of Thark
- meredithian
- Sam
- Tricia Tanaka
- HKEY_Current _User
- Ben Yamiin
- Borgasm
- artmouse
- Amby D
- Beetle bomb
Terms
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I vote for your [Lank's] boss thinking that you were off to a job interview... Nice way to finagle a raise!
I voted as soon as I saw the Pizza Attire. And then convulsed with love and laughter for the rest of it. This goes beyond shplank.
I totally wish that I could have been there. Darn thee Doug (my teacher) and your unreasonable random homework!
I don't get it. Photos of people at a business lunch? What's the big deal?
I was thinking the pizza might order pizza, but I guess that's not really a serious business kind of lunch choice.
Well, it is a dog-eat-dog world out there in businessland....
Which reminds me, why didn't the hot-dog-suit show up?
how did i miss this when the task was created?? this is fantastic!!
Loki = best costume ever.
I would like to know the story about how that pizza came into your possession.
Thanks; however, by any metric except awkwardness when traversing crowded restaurants, I'd argue that the costumes of Lank and Bex are both superior.
When Lank organized this, he was quite insistent that we strive for maximum silliness. He stressed it repeatedly, and used the Bigger Better or More Bizarre hot dog as an example.
After an embarrassing amount of consideration, I decided that the two most fundamentally silly costume categories were fluffy animals and food items. To make a recognizable fluffy animal requires real sewing skill and expensive materials, which left me with food. Among all the foods, pizza struck me as the easiest to assemble from sidewalk furniture and the cheapest possible bargain-bin fabric. (I seriously considered going banana, 'cause I love bananas, but wasn't sure my rudimentary upholstery skills were up to the task.)
Which reminds me, I've got a free pizza costume for anyone who wants it.
Most of it started out as garbage, but now it's value-added garbage and I feel bad about throwing it out. None the less, fifteen cubic feet of foam pizza isn't something my apartment needs.
"value-added garbage"
Dude.
You-
Awesome.
Loki,
Your world view brings a smile to my face every time I encounter it.
Love,
ao
oh look is that my hero? i thought you were off fighting the great war. are you back to sow your oats?
I keep coming back to this bit:
When we stood up, he must have seen our briefcases, because we overheard him say to his colleague, "Oh - they are working."
this is completely wonderful
i hope that you see that monkey on a regular basis
and that he picks the best articles for you
Glad that you took it so seriously, but please, no involuntary monkey apprenticeships...
i vote for anyone who saves bears