WordPress was released to the world five years ago today. Celebrate in SFO, Sydney, or with me at whatever bar I find myself at in New Hampshire tonight. DM me with any ideas.

Posted May 27, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: birthday, party, wordpress. Be the first one.

Oh decadence! Veterans Day provided not only a chance for reflection but also a rare day free from the classroom. So what to do with this open period of time? The answer was easy, dinner party.
I have wanted to have my colleagues Roxanna and John over, but time is always an issue. I phoned them [...]

Posted November 12, 2007 by TowerGirl
Categories: Kitchen. Tags: avocado, avocados, dinner, fish, fish tacos, friends, Homemade, Meals, party, taco, tacos. One Comment.

We’re huge fans of The New Joy of Cooking by Marion Rombauer Becker, Irma S. Rombauer, and Ethan Becker. Hardly a meal goes through our kitchen that isn’t shaped in some part by the recipes and general information in its pages. A recent discovery was Joy’s description and defense of cocktail parties.
So, when a book [...]

Posted October 7, 2007 by TowerGirl
Categories: Kitchen. Tags: alcohol, american invention, cocktail, cocktail parties, cocktail party, cocktails, drink, entertaining, joy of cooking, party, toast. 2 Comments.

Okay, so this is certainly in the “don’t try this at home, kids” category, but we can all laugh and point at other’s stupidity. Denver’s ABC channel 7 reported last month on a foolish fellow who inflated balloons with acetalyne, the highly flamable and explosive gas used in welding, and drove off to a superbowl [...]

Posted March 3, 2006 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: acetylene, balloon, burst, Colorado, denver, denver co, exploding balloon, explosion, explosive, party, welding gas. 2 Comments.