What I Ate: April 13, 2009 (Top Dog)

I drove up to Berkeley to meet Dave Patterson for a short chat in the morning. I can't help but think of it as a nice bookend to this portion of my life - I started my career at Intel after chatting with Professor Patterson about the pros and cons of going to a small company versus a large company immediately after graduation. Now that I'm getting ready to leave Silicon Valley (for hopefully a more laid back pace of life), I thought it was fitting to have a chat with Dave again before I leave. After we were done, I wandered the campus a little and through the dorms that I lived a decade ago. I bumped into Professor Hilfinger (shook his hand), went up to the top of the Campanile (shook the hand of Lilian, the woman who has manned Sather Tower's elevator for as long as I can remember, and promised her I'd go up the UT Austin Tower), and told some random guy about the mirrored Fiat Lux underneath the Campanile awning. When I was ready to leave, I ate a German Frankfurter (3/4 beef, 1/4 pork, fresh garlic) from Top Dog (2503 Hearst Ave, Berkeley, CA‎ - (510) 843-1241‎) on the Northside of the Berkeley Campus.

I then brought home several dogs for Tina's lunch (and apparently our dinner).

I started my dinner with a hot link (all beef, four kinds of pepper) which was mouth burning hot (the way I like it!). Almost all our plates are packed, so I'm eating off plastic now.

Then ate a bockwurst (1/2 pork, 1/2 veal, milk, and eggs).

Then later (late at night) I had a bratwurst (all pork with marjoram).

Just to give you guys an idea of what my life is like right now, here's the bratwurst in the environment of which it was consumed.