Sunday: reputable pancakery

Part 1: Chocolate Chip Pancakes

After those pancakes showed up in the links yesterday, I decided I wanted my own.  So I went to Eggs N Things.

Eggs N Things.

 I went with a egg combo thing, as that appeared to be cheaper than ala carting my way to chocolate chip pancakes.  My hope was that I could do something like Julie's sausage potato scramble thing, since that's generally the only egg dish that I like.  Therefore, I got scrambled eggs, potatoes, and Portuguese sausage in the hope that that would add the spice for the missing sriracha.

All that stuff, plus the wonderful chocolate chip pancakes.  Also a glass of POG.

It didn't really work, but it was tasty anyway.  The sausage was good, and they do a very nice job on the potatoes.  They're puffy and light inside, with a crispy crust that splits to release the soft inner flesh.  Imagine tiny knishes.

The aftermath.

It was a bit more than I could finish.

Part 2: Geography of "At the Mountains of Madness"

 Even though I've fallen behind on my tl;dr Lovecraft posts, I've continued to read my collected works.  I've finished book 1, and am now working through book 2, which starts with the aforementioned short novel.  Lovecraft is rather detailed in the path taken by the Miskatonic expedition, so much so that I wanted to see what it looked like.  The great circle mapper can do both airport codes and latitude/longitude pairs, so this wasn't that hard.  Copying the final table it constructed:

From		To		Initial Heading			Distance
8 segment path:							16234 mi
BOS (42°21'47"N 71°00'23"W)		PAC (8°58'24"N 79°33'20"W)		195.2°	(S)		2357 mi
PAC (8°58'24"N 79°33'20"W)		PPG (14°19'54"S 170°42'41"W)		256.1°	(W)		6453 mi
PPG (14°19'54"S 170°42'41"W)		HBA (42°50'10"S 147°30'37"E)		223.2°	(SW)		3159 mi
HBA (42°50'10"S 147°30'37"E)		62°00'00"S 175°00'00"E		149.2°	(SE)		1736 mi
62°00'00"S 175°00'00"E		67°00'00"S 175°00'00"E		180.0°	(S)		346 mi
67°00'00"S 175°00'00"E		77°09'00"S 175°00'00"E		180.0°	(S)		704 mi
77°09'00"S 175°00'00"E		86°07'00"S 174°23'00"E		180.3°	(S)		622 mi
86°07'00"S 174°23'00"E		76°15'00"S 113°10'00"E		283.1°	(W)		857 mi
82°00'00"S 60°00'00"E		70°00'00"S 115°00'00"E		77.2°	(E)		1158 mi
Total:							17392 mi

And then the plot:

And a recentered look at Antarctica.  The red path is the expediation, with the second to last point being the "southern basecamp," and the final point being the location of Lake's westward base.  The Arkham is presumably along that second to last path at the location where the ice floes stop.  The blue path represents the location of the Mountains, which obviously do not correspond to any real mountains.

So you, important stuff.

Part 3: Restaurant neologisms

It struck me that not all restaurants have their own genre specific names.  Pizzeria and taqueria exist, and I've extended cupcakery to pancakery, but that's kind of it.  I guess "pastaria" is real.  Delicatessen probably counts too.  Am I missing anything obivous?  "Chip shop" could work, but overusing the construction "X shop" would be lame.  I'm a fan of soupery and "clambulance," but I'm obviously biased.

Part 4: Links

• Antarctica.
• “Well, tell him to stop lying!”
• Space friend.
• Everyone knows the deficit is shrinking, right?  Just to be clear.
• Psyduck. This is one of my favorite moments.