Where's Waldo?
I brought my stripey red shirt and stocking cap with me – but where am I? Can you guess from my latest photo entries? Stop when you get to the picture of Robert in his Longhorn cap. Let's see… good sushi, dogs in the elevator, a giant twisted tree, and a hallway directly out of Dr. Seuss's wildest dreams. Take a stab at it.
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November 17th, 2006
at 11:43pm
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Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 5:38pm
oishi lists 6 locations. None of which appear to be in the US. I think it's the Seacon Square branch.
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 5:56pm
Hmmmmmm, Seattle?
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 6:02pm
M$?
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 6:07pm
St. Louis maybe?
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 6:28pm
My guess is Austin TX.
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 6:38pm
hmmmm. i think you're in palo alto. isn't that “pavilions” where the mega fry's is down there? i've never seen an office like that at microsoft, and i don't recall a sushi place called oishii there, so i'm helping to nix seattle.
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 7:11pm
ya know, i was going to add austin myself since im from TX. but…..
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 7:18pm
Boston?
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 8:07pm
I know but I'm not sayin…
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 8:14pm
My basement?
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 8:53pm
All signs point to Beverly Hills 90210
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 9:47pm
san diego??
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 9:49pm
hey wait a minute.. is that lobby the lobby of Nickelodian?? My Dad used to work there and it looks a bit familiar. (???)
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 10:18pm
Guys, he said it was in California in the Windows Daily. I'm guessing from all the Cat in the Hat references, either San Diego, Burbank or Pomona. Ooo, is it Whoville?! Nah, I never saw a Peet's in Whoville. ;)
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 10:18pm
I think your inside Area 51, inside one of the warehouses, inside the Scooby doo van,inside the glove compartment, inside a condom wrapper.
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 10:25pm
I am thinking Pasadena. I used to work near a Pavilions… maybe off of Lake. Just a guess.
Anonymous
June 10th, 2003
at 11:24pm
You're in my dreams Chris. Every night…
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 12:22am
My guess: Studio City, CA or somewhere along Ventura Blvd.
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 3:57am
You took the blue pill again didnt you?
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 5:00am
never never land? Oishi's Box? zion? the construct? oh, oh, is it Peet's Coffee? no? Ill guess again later I gotta have my liquid crack now…
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 6:44am
earth
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 7:04am
He is clearly somewhere in LA. It would appear he made a stop at Buca di Beppo! in Encino…
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 7:04am
I'm gonna have to go with Austin, TX but the Buca Di Peppo didn't help since they seem to be everywhere in the US…
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 8:06am
…Ok my guess is Universal Studios. Perhaps He is there to check out the production facilities or maybe he has a part in the Cat in the Hat picture.
(http://www.bucadibeppo.com/loc_details.asp?ID=0504 seems to match)
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 8:39am
Well I still think he went by Beverly Hills since the picture of the Oishi guy seems to match the guy in the middle of this picture. (http://www.thebeverlyhillscourier.com/04042003/restaurants.htm )
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 9:13am
Well obviously you passed through Woodside, California in the heart of silicon valley….
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 9:13am
At least make it challenging…
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 9:55am
Who wants to play “Where in the world is Chris Pirillo?”
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 9:56am
Universal Studios, Rick Moranis's stunt double?
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 10:50am
Go turn that longwhorn upside down for me…
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 11:11am
My guess would have to be Southern California. I looked at pics of all the locations of Buca's and not one of them had the same angle or sign as Chris has photographed, so that wasn't much help (edit – AP It's not encino, sign is the wrong color). Looking up Pavilions locations, I only found locations in Southern California. None in Texas, Boston, New York, Iowa, or Chicago. I think they're a Socal phenomenon because I have only seen them there. Oishi's Japanese restaurant has a location in Placentia, that is if it's the same place. (edit – Shawn B nailed it…. Beverly Hills!!!!)
The dogs point out the individuality of the average SoCal citizen and the pic of the woman hugging the girl shows the diversity of LA. One last hint is that you see the sky covered with “June Gloom” that is typical down there this type of year. Fritz said it would be like this.
…I'm done
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 5:55pm
have some extra time on your hands fred. damn!
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 6:19pm
This San Diego native has never seen a Peet's around here, although Chris in the southtown would be very cool.
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 6:22pm
And the Buca di Peppo in SD is downtown – looking nothing like that.
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 6:24pm
And so much June gloom down here. But it's leaving us it seems.
Anonymous
June 11th, 2003
at 10:32pm
I know a little late, but this is in response to a blog wayyy back…. Well not way back, but about the first computer…
You (Chris), mention Altoona Public Library. You don't happen to mean Altoona, PA do you?
Reason I ask, I just moved into the area a few months ago.
Anonymous
June 12th, 2003
at 8:37am
I am saying Austin too. but hey i could be wrongo. hehehe. i like your style.
Anonymous
June 12th, 2003
at 10:25am
In your manifest of the things you were mentioning that we were supposed to take into account you forgot the black woman with the massive mammory glands. How does she fit into the equation?
Anonymous
June 12th, 2003
at 11:11am
I'm guessing Woodside, CA
http://www.buckswoodside.com/restaurant.shtml
Anonymous
June 12th, 2003
at 11:25am
you're a day late and a dollar short Darin…..see my posts above….
Anonymous
June 12th, 2003
at 11:28am
You both didn't read the line…Stop when you get to the picture of Robert in his Longhorn cap.
Buck's picture is AFTER “the picture of Robert in his Longhorn cap.”
Anonymous
June 12th, 2003
at 2:15pm
Ok, I'm taking a guess here. I realize I may lose the 35 thousand dollars and I know I should walk away now, with 16. But I think I have the answer here. Chris was somewhere in Los Angeles. Why? Well in the latest blog entry, he asks “what was I doing away from the bay area” and then he goes on to say he was meeting friends. One of them being David from “Online Tonight”.. and he recently moved to Los Angeles. So, ok.. I guess Los Angeles. That is my final answer. ;)
Anonymous
June 12th, 2003
at 2:38pm
Is Lisa one of those analytical genius types? (in a good way w/all due respect of course!)
Anonymous
June 12th, 2003
at 4:16pm
I thought we were done with this, lol. Beverly Hills, check out this map if you don't believe it. I scribbled it down quickly before the chicken men came to get me:
http://namco.home.mindspring.com/chrismap.gif
Every place he went was within a square kilometer…. I know this because George Bush told me through the secret transmitter drilled into my molar tooth. =P
Anonymous
June 13th, 2003
at 4:37am
To Veronica: LOL! ;D So.. did I get it right? Or do I have to use one of my lifelines?? ;)
Anonymous
June 13th, 2003
at 4:49am
Fred: I was around that area today. I should've gone there and taken a pic of the tree. Where is that lobby? Looks like maybe Nickeodean, out here in Burbank but I dont think their lobby is that big. Maybe “Dental Land”?! lol! And I didnt know we (L.A folks) had a Peets! Shows how far under the rock I live. ;p I'm glad because I'd like to compare it with Starbucks and see for myself the difference. Looks like a trip to Bev Hills in the near future. ;)
Anonymous
June 13th, 2003
at 10:56am
errr… that was all speculation. I guessed that that lobby thingy could be the museum of art, and that the tree could be at the park around the corner from Boca's, Pavilions, Peet's, and the museum. But I just thought it was funny how everything he took a picture of could be in such a small area. I still don't know about the dogs and the well-endowed black lady though, LOL
Anonymous
June 13th, 2003
at 12:53pm
Lisa, lisa, lisa! ;-)
Anonymous
June 13th, 2003
at 3:08pm
I looked up Peets website ..wow, we have several! lol! I really need to get out from under this comfy rock a bit more often.
I still say he was at the lobby of “Dental Land”. ;)
Those dogs look like Bev Hill dogs. I dont know why.. but they do. ;)
Anonymous
June 13th, 2003
at 5:01pm
LISA! BEWARE! Don't EVER get the manufacturers cream w/yer coffee from the Peets stores in So Cal!
Anonymous
June 13th, 2003
at 7:42pm
veronica: why? and what would you recommend? I have never had a Peets experience~ :)
Anonymous
January 8th, 2007
at 8:49pm
i think america!!! :D