Paulano

Bikes equipped with an electric motor are green alternatives to cars If you don’t know already, tomorrow will be the 40th annual Earth Day.   Hoo-ahh! Easy to Install, Fun to Ride Earth Day is a good time for us each to do a quick self evaluation, to see what changes we can each make to be a little greener. Not quite yet a candidate for eco-Martyrdom, but not a total eco-jerk either, Paulano has been seen riding around Livermore lately on his new electric bike.   By cutting down on car trips and using the electric bike instead, I’m making headway towards being leaner and ... Read Full Story

Caption: Be the coolest one in the Math Department. Click on the picture to get your golden (and silver) ratio Fibonacci Sequence gift items. Kyle has business card cases and much, much more. The Golden Ratio is demonstrated most simply by dividing a line segment into two unequal pieces, a big one and a small one. I f the ratio of the big piece to the small piece is the same as the ratio of the original segment to the big piece, then:  Congratulations! You have demonstrated the golden ratio! A quick check with your super-accurate ruler will allow you to calculate that this ratio is approximately 1.6180339887-to-1. The golden ratio has also gone ... Read Full Story

I made a simple High Jump Bar out of PVC pipe for my girls a couple of summers ago. They still pull it out of the garage, re-assemble it, and use it all the time. To enhance their front-yard jumping experience, they put an inexpensive mini-tramp in front of the bar, and a motley collection of mats and mattresses on the other side to serve as a crash pad. Our neighborhood record is 4′5″ by Jake, age 10. When you add the 9 inches of the mini-tramp, the height of the bar he cleared is 5′2″ off the ground. Check the video clip. He ... Read Full Story

Solar Power Magnet Clip is so hot The April 23rd, 2009 edition of the Livermore Independent has an article about the newly installed 18,000 sqaure foot array of solar cells on the rooftop of the Livermore Cinema . The installation is expected to provide about 190,000 Kilowatt Hours of electrical energy to the Theater per year.  This is comparable to the amount of energy needed to supply the yearly needs of 18 average households. Electrical Savings make Every Day seem like Christmas The cells were designed and manufactured by Solyndra Corp of Fremont .  Their cells are unusual in a several ways:  1) They ... Read Full Story

Want a Chihuahua Nightlight? Click here on the picture! The trailers for the upcoming Disney movie “ Beverly Hills Chihuahua ” are readily available on sites all over the internet… Disney or YouTube just to name a few. My nine year old daughter Kayden thinks they are hilarious…. (ok, so do I). So much so that over the summer, the theme for her birthday party was “ Aztec Chihuahua “. Aztec Chihuahua Birthday Party Decorations Not surprisingly, party favors and party supplies that have an Aztec Chihuahua theme are a little hard to come by, so we had to improvise . We made our ... Read Full Story