I like pretty much everything Paula Wirth puts up on Flickr, but this afternoon I could do well with a dive like Scolari’s Office in San Diego. But, that’s probably because it mixes “office” and “cocktails” in the sort of way that has anonymous tipsters slipping photocopies of the alcohol policy from our HR handbook under my office door.
Eh, here’s to happy hour.
Posted March 15, 2006 by Casey Bisson
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What didn’t work out because of our problems with the hotel was our drive to Barstow to see Sandee’s friend Joanne.
I don’t know much about the town, but Wikipedia told me to look out for the original Del Taco, Rainbow Basin Natural Area (site not loading now, try this instead), Calico Ghost Town, and the [...]
Posted December 28, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Travel. Tags: baker ca, barstow, barstow ca, california, desert, drive, i15, road trip, sight seeing, sightseeing, Travel. 2 Comments.
Treehugger alerted me to the rather surprising story of this light bulb, burning continuously since 1901. Yeah, at least that’s the story here, at the Centennial Light Bulb Committee’s website (a partnership of the Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department, Livermore Heritage Guild, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, and Sandia National Laboratories).
The bulb is said to have been made [...]
Posted November 4, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless., Technology, Travel. Tags: 100 years, 4 watt, 4 watts, california, centennial bulb, durability, electricity, fire department night light, illumination, light bulb, livermore, livermore ca, livermore fire department, livermore pleasanton fire department, long lasting, treehugger, watts, world record. One Comment.
Jake Halpern’s Braving Home (also in softcover) easily took my interest. Here’s how John Moe described it for Amazon.com:
As a cub reporter at The New Republic, Jake Halpern earned the unofficial job title of Bad Homes Correspondent. Braving Home tells his stories of places where people really ought not live and the people who live [...]
Posted July 7, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Books, Movies, Music, Travel. Tags: alaska, braving home, california, danger, dangerous places, grand isle, grand isle louisiana, hawaii, home, homemaking, jake halpern, kilauea, kilauea hawaii, lava side inn, louisiana, malibu, malibu california, north carolina, princeville, princeville north carolina, underwater town, whittier, whittier alaska. One Comment.