Dot Com Pho After Hours Heads to Cloverdale

Sometimes we end up in the middle of nowhere by accident and sometimes on purpose. Whether it’s because you had a flat tire, or run out of gas, we always end up there sooner or later. Yesterday, we ended up there (as in nowhere) for another thrilling Dot Com Pho After Hours adventure!

This week, nowhere had a name and it was Cloverdale, which is sometimes the backdrop to popular TV shows like Smallville and Supernatural. I guess if they screw up and blow up the town by accident, it’s not such a big deal. It’s also close to where our Pho Phriends Gary Jones and Rainer Schmoll live. Since they often come out to Pho in Vancouver, enduring the long drive, it was only honorable that we come out and do an episode there at least once…and we could never do this with John Chow around as it would violate his five minute rule. Five minutes as in how long it would take him to drive from his house.

I thought I was alone till Ed Lau showed up…late as usual. But I have to give him props for showing. I did page Leo Chiang, but he said he was…umm…working. I think that was his code for “Fracking a Six” as he is, after all, our friendly neighborhood “Raptor Wrangler” on Battlestar Galactica. I’m sure being on the last episode got him some “play”. This week is also the episode where Michael Kwan returns in another thrilling “Kwan’s Korner” segment. Enjoy!

I think this is all the adventure I can take for a while. This weekend, we’re coming back to Vancouver and I feel like hitting a greasy diner. Any suggestions?

Dot Com Pho After Hours – Double Feature Presentation

Wow, I can’t believe it’s been over a month since my last update. You see, I’ve been trapped in this world called the “Twitterverse”. If you’re following me, you’ll probably see that I’ve been quite active over there. In fact, most of the time, I’ve already worked off my ranting and opinions which used to be exclusively the domain of my blog. I’m pretty sure it’s just a phase so once I get bored of it, I’ll probably come back to my rock which is my blog here. I’m actually mostly busy with Futurelooks though as we’ve been having quite a bunch of new reviews and articles go up in the last while.

At any rate, I haven’t stopped with heading out to Dot Com Pho and this week, while John Chow has been imprisoned by Chinese Authorities, I’ve brought the Dot Com Crew to my own backyard of Coquitlam, BC. It was actually here last week, but not enough footage was shot, so I’ve combined last week and this week’s meet ups together into a Dot Com Pho After Hours – Double Feature Presentation! That’s right! You’re getting two for the price of one!

It’s really nice to get out of a routine and explore new places. Even though people don’t call their meet ups “Dot Com Pho” it doesn’t mean that other peeps don’t have meet ups too. It was really cool to meet new people, catch up with old friends, and see what others are up to besides your favourites from the usual Dot Com Pho pool of favourites.

Next week, I’ll be heading out to Cloverdale to check in with Gary Jones and Rainer Schmoll to see what’s happening in their backyard. As you’ve seen in the video, they’ve been doing their fitness challenge so we’ll get to meet other participants in their ThinkFitness Challenge. We’ll also have the return of Michael Kwan with a quick gadget segment. Till next week!

Dot Com Pho After Hours – The Pilot!

This week’s Dot Com Pho was held at Happy Pho. Though it was a small crowd, we still managed to have Ed Lau not show up late. Greg Morgan traded places with him for the last spot. If this was amazing race, Greg would have lost this week, but then again, Ed would have lost every week before that so he probably wouldn’t be on the show by now. Also in attendance was Moneca, Wolfgang, Ray, iPhone Gary, and of course John Chow.

John cuts out the first five minutes of the video on his Flip Mino and presents it to us as this week’s Dot Com Pho Episode which includes something something contest, some gadgets and something twitter shout outs…

So now that the boring stuff is out of the way, it’s time to switch gears to the “After Hours” edition of Dot Com Pho which takes place after the first five minutes. Just when you thought that all Dot Com Pho was about is eBooks and Twitter Shout Outs, Dot Com Pho After Hours rescues it from this purgatory of boredom by exploring all the stuff you actually care about and cranks things up to a NC-17 rating. This of course is where all the funny and entertaining stuff happens as John stops talking about making money, and the rest of us start talking about things like more gadgets, more useless iPhone Apps, Jack Bauer, movies and TV Shows. Enjoy the pilot episode!

Next week, Ed Lau will find a way to record and produce the next episode as he has been telling us since the beginning of last Summer. I’ll be attending Kelly’s Nutrition Clinic where she’ll show her attendees how to eat better and avoid passing gallstones. In John’s case, it was probably the diet pop that sent him to emergency. Kelly will be going through a lot of different topics including how a lot of these so called “Healthy” versions of food are actually bad for you and why it isn’t the fat that makes you fat. If you’re looking for practical ways to improve your nutrition, come to this clinic. It will be the best $25.00 you’ve ever spent.