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Following a hiatus in which I was mad busy, I feel compelled to make time for sandwich blogging. Young upstarts are coming with better, more relevant reviews, and I need to step up my game.

Eventually. For now, I'll content myself with posting old, unfinished content with a bit of polish to make it presentable.

To bring you up to date, since my post lamenting my iPad envy, I've somehow acquired one myself. Now I too have the Amazing Sandwiches app. Is it as amazing as its title suggests? Maybe. You'll have to wait for my exclusive (doubtful) review to find out!

That review is coming ... now. It's not that amazing. But it's full of pretty sandwich pics. To their credit, they do run an amazing blog, and having an iPad app is more a feather in their cap than a practical offering for sandy eaters to use.

Frankly, I'm too busy playing Osmos and managing my fantasy football team and T-Paining songs to be bothered. Yes, I'm in a sandwich malaise, but I can't complain.

One current thing to comment on: tonight's Simpsons featured Flight of the Conchords and made me smile on many levels. It's special to see childhood and currentish comedy loves combined. Of greater note to this blog, Bret and Jemaine's day jobs in the episode were as Sandwich Artists. I've long been fascinated with the doings of Subway's Sandwich Artists, so this was a nice moment for me.

Yes this is a sluggish blog. But I did, to my credit, upload a header image. It's still a placeholder mind you, but at least it's a sandwich. And now, here comes the months-old content!

Comments

ANders said…
Hi, I'm Anders from AmazingSandwiches.com, and I'm sad to say it looks like I just broke the iPad App (Sorry everyone). It was a wordpress feed that got...mangled... So until we're back up and running, you won't see any new sandwiches on the iPad app, or, indeed, be able to run it after downloading it (Which is why we took it off iTunes for now). Sorry again, we screwed up.
Alex Headrick said…
Hi, Anders. Don't you worry about it. Although this is disappointing news, frankly, I'm still impressed you have an iPad app to begin with. I'm sure sandwich fans can wait until it's back.

I just tested it and it does still display one amazing sandwich on the title screen, so it's not a total loss.

Keep up the good work and we look forward to the return of the app!
Anders said…
Thanks Alex, we'll fix it, but maybe update the app at the same time... Bummer still, and totally my own fault :(

Still, thanks for noticing it :)

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