Somehow, my wife and I have manage to share a car for the past five years. This arrangment has worked because we live in a small town, both work at the University, and are attached at the hip. However, I am about to graduate and will need a car to commute. My wife still has […]

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 and Delaware with plans for more. They are among the top 100 brewers in the United States according to RateBeer.com […]

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 event, culminating a week of intense competitions between engineering majors. All the points prior to the video are tallied and […]

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 in stop-motion, but in limited quantities. Harping on the same location or subject for a long period of […]

This morning Grant was cleaning out some green peppers. He found a surprise: a fully-formed, miniature green pepper growing inside of one of them!
So we took pictures.

The tiny pepper was cute, and I regretted having to cut it open. However we felt compelled, in the name of scientific discovery, to check if there was yet […]

Today our dog Bode, the mascot of PitelSpot,  celebrated his 10th birthday. That makes him 70 in dog years, therefore he is now officially retired, and about old enough to be my grandfather.  To celebrate the occasion I decided to make him a nice breakfast of a few of his favorite ”people foods.” I must admit that […]

Battery Selection
Battery life is often measured by cycle life, the number of full charge/discharge cycles before the battery reaches 80% of its original capacity. Keeping the discharge current relative to the battery’s amp×hour capacity low and the discharge shallow improves battery longevity. Typical 12 V sealed lead acid (SLA) cells, like the ones found a […]

If you are reading this post, you probably are experiencing decreased range and speed on your Go-Ped electric scooter. I too have experienced these problems, but I am going to share some solutions I came up with. I purchased a Go-Ped ESR-750 scooter this summer for transportation in Mountain View, CA for a summer internship. […]

A few years ago my wife Sheryl and I were very involved with freshwater fish.  In our 120 gallon show tank we had what are refered to as the “King of the Freshwater Fish,” the Discus.  A couple of our discus are shown on the left.  One of the greatest pains in maintaining a Discus tank is their finicky […]

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 software. All the photos were taken on a high resolution digital camera versus my standard DV cam, allowing me to […]