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How to Best Organize Your Mp3 Collection
Sunday, 31 May, 2009 – 14:18 | One Comment
How to Best Organize Your Mp3 Collection

Programs like iTunes, Windows Media Player, Zune etc. organize your music collection by updating the tag structure only. These programs often copy your music collection to a designated folder, leaving duplicates spread across your computer. …

Double Wall Drinking Glasses: The Best Beer Glass?
Saturday, 24 Jan, 2009 – 21:02 | 7 Comments
Double Wall Drinking Glasses: The Best Beer Glass?

For the holidays, Grant bought our mom a set of Luigi Bormioli Duo double-wall drinking glasses. These glasses have a two thin layers of glass separated by an air pocket. This construction apparently provides …

Tim Ferriss, Trial By Fire TV Show Promotion
Thursday, 4 Dec, 2008 – 16:43 | 2 Comments
Tim Ferriss, Trial By Fire TV Show Promotion

 
Update 12/20/08: The Truth Behind This Article
When Tim Ferriss came to our class to speak the day his TV show premiered he challenged us to compete in this promotion, except we were playing for a different …

Brewery Review: Iron Hill Brewery (Lancaster)
Monday, 11 Aug, 2008 – 20:18 | 4 Comments
Brewery Review: Iron Hill Brewery (Lancaster)

History:
Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant opened its first location in Newark, Pennsylvania in 1996 with a team of two award-winning homebrewers and an experienced restaurant professional. Since 1996, they added six more locations in Pennsylvania …

Engineering Week Video 2008
Wednesday, 27 Feb, 2008 – 14:38 | One Comment
Engineering Week Video 2008

I just finished working on my final Engineering Week video at Bucknell. Just like last year, each major must create a video that embodies engineering in their specific discipline. The video is the highest rated …

Guide to Making Stop Motion Photography Films
Wednesday, 16 Jan, 2008 – 18:58 | 5 Comments
Guide to Making Stop Motion Photography Films

This article is a follow-up to my previous article to detail how I created my stop-motion film “Passing By.”

Choosing Your Subject
This part is fairly subjective. For stop-motion films, just about any subject can be entertaining …

Passing By – A Stop Motion Photography Film
Monday, 29 Oct, 2007 – 14:13 | One Comment
Passing By – A Stop Motion Photography Film

Since the beginning of Summer into early Fall, I’ve been compiling photos shot continuously during travel on numerous modes of transportation. All the photos were batch processed in Adobe Lightroom before being imported into NLE …

Summer Plant Projects Part II – Barley Grass
Sunday, 15 Jul, 2007 – 22:37 | 2 Comments
Summer Plant Projects Part II – Barley Grass

Ever since staying at the W Hotel in NYC, I’ve wanted to grow the grass that they have throughout their lobby. The grass is very green and I figured it would make a great desk/office …

Summer Plant Projects Part I – Baobab Bonsai
Wednesday, 11 Jul, 2007 – 20:32 | 3 Comments
Summer Plant Projects Part I – Baobab Bonsai

About six or seven year ago, Grant and I went in on a few seed packs from eBay to grow bonsai plants.  Among these was the rare African (Adansonia) Baobab, which is apprently pretty hard to …

Be Wary of Electric Lawn Mowers
Sunday, 3 Jun, 2007 – 15:08 | No Comment
Be Wary of Electric Lawn Mowers

As a test to see what I’ve learned at college, I was handed a recent lawn equipment catalog and asked to point out the falsities of a particular ad–a typical breakfast in the Pitel household.  The …