The manly burger at unami burger: “beer-cheddar cheese, smoke salt-onion strings, bacon lardons.” What else do I have to say?
This might be the best burger I have ever eaten. It’s that good.
We also got the beet salad (in the background), and some thin fries. The ketchup is made there and had an interesting flavor - very vinegary, maybe a little truffle oil?
We were just in Philadelphia, and stopped by the Reading Terminal Market in search of the roast pork sandwich at Tommy DiNic’s. You may have seen it featured on Man Vs. Food.
What a sandwich! This is definitely one worth going out of your way for. The official way to get it is with sharp provolone and greens (broccoli rabe). They were out of the rabe, so we had to go with spinach, which is prepared the same way.
The pork is incredibly juicy and delicious, then you have the nice bite of really good sharp provolone, and the garlicky bitterness of the greens. Delicious!
Breakfast sandwich from Sandwich Shop in downtown LA.
Egg, cheese, and bacon on ciabatta. The interesting part is that it’s typically served “with vegetables,” which means grilled onions and peppers, jalapeños, and tomato. It’s very tasty and makes me wonder why I don’t see more jalapeños at breakfast.
I’ve been making my own version of this sandwich the last couple weekends and I’ve been really happy with it.
The peppers and onions take awhile to cook, but it’s worth it.
My one regret is that I didn’t get a chance to try out the Bulgogi Cheesesteak at the Sandwich Shop… Next trip.
Cole’s Sandwiches in downtown LA.
Cole’s sandwiches claims to be the originator of the French Dip sandwich. Of course, so does Philippe’s.
Either way, it’s worth a stop. The sign says “since 1908” and the bar inside looks pretty authentic. It’s got a great feel. There’s a great draught beer list.
The menu is simple: french dip sandwiches, with your choice of meat. They’re served with some ridiculously spicy mustard and an equally spicy pickle that’s been pickled alongside some jalapenos. There’s something about the spiciness that goes really well with a meaty/bready sandwich. It just works.
I went here for lunch twice while I was in downtown LA. I ate at the bar: beef one day, and pastrami the next.
I can’t recommend this place enough. The sandwiches are good, the beers are good, and the place itself has a great feel.
I recently took a laser cutter class at the new techshop in sf.
A few weeks later I booked some time on the machine and made a bunch of random things including these retro 8-bit space invader type characters. They’re based on this design from thingaverse. They’ve just been sitting around on my desk, but today I finally decided to do something with them. I had some magnetic tape lying around and thought they would make great magnets.
Made some cool, wireless analog meters for displaying web request stats.
More info at my work blog.
More arduino hacking… got it to trigger my camera using an IR led. pretty cool! This is hooked up to a button, but I am thinking of hooking it up to a motion detector to get some random pictures of the cats throughout the day.
Meters Sweeping
I got these cool analog meters… hooking them up to the arduino to test ‘em out…
Melissa and I went to the Maker Faire in San Mateo last weekend. It was a lot of fun (I’ll post some pictures soon). I was inspired to finally start messing around with some electronics projects. I picked up an Andruino kit, and here’s the first example project — a simple push button controlling an LED.
