I’ve been keeping my eye on the Olympus Stylus Tough-8000. It’s reportedly durable and waterproof to 33 feet. But I’ve just discovered the Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1, also supposedly tough and waterproof (though only to 10 feet). The Panasonic, however, can shoot HD video and has a higher maximum ISO. The Panasonic also does some funky [...]

Posted April 6, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog. Tags: adventure, camera, digital camera, Lumix, Olympus, Olympus Stylus Tough-8000, Panasonic, Panasonic Lumix DMC-TS1, Stylus, underwater camera, waterproof. Be the first one.

Richard Moore’s Pac-Txt is even more brilliant than his Paper Pong (which, ironically, you can play online).
Here’s a transcript of my best Pac-Txt game to date:
Pac-Txt!
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You awaken in a large complex, slightly disoriented. Glowing dots hover mouth level near you in every direction. Off in the distance you hear the faint howling of what you [...]

Posted January 14, 2009 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: adventure, game, gaming, pac-man, pac-txt, video game, zork. Be the first one.

I learned of it last night on The CBC’s As It Happens: Miles Hilton-Barber, blind since age 30, has flown from Biggen Hill, south of London, to Gosford, outside Sydney, by ultralight in a journey that took almost two months.
Aviation regulations required he take a sighted co-pilot, but in the As It Happens story he [...]

Posted May 1, 2007 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Planes, Trains, & Automobiles, Technology. Tags: adventure, blind, blind as a bat, flight, flying blind, inspiring, Miles Hilton-Barber. Be the first one.

It started with The Plastics Museum and Museum of Bad Art, progressed with a visit to the International Bowling Museum and Hall of Fame and continued with a tour of Donut shops in Lowell, MA.
Now I can report that the MaisonBisson Weird Travel Archives include the Thermometer Museum, the Edward Gorey House, and the Paper [...]

Posted October 17, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Travel. Tags: adventure, bowling museum and hall of fame, donut shops in lowell, ma, edward gorey house, museum of bad art, paper house, plastics museum, thermometer museum, tour, weird, weird museums, weird places, weird travel. 5 Comments.

Donut Shack

Eat-a-Donut

Still Hungry

Top Donut

See the full What’s Up With Lowell And Donuts Flickr photoset with slideshow. Follow that with the Post-Donut Tour photo set.
Story/explanation/narrative to follow. Sometime.
Road-trip Music:
We compared the Magnetic Fields’ original version of Book of Love [...]

Posted November 15, 2004 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Photoblog, Questionable...funny. Pointless., Travel. Tags: adventure, donut, donut shack, donuts, doughnut, doughnuts, eat, eat-a-donut, fat, lowell, lowell ma, massachussetts, sugar, top donut, tour. One Comment.