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The Dark Star Gazette: September 2008
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The Dark Star Gazette. Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse. Tuesday, September 30, 2008. Mortgages had one key advantage over junk bonds: they were rated AAA by the major credit-rating agencies. The U.S. government felt that home mortgages were important and it subsidized them, not only allowing taxpayers to deduct interest payments, but by implicitly backing the payments on mortgage bonds. Frank Partnoy, Infectious Greed. Frank Partnoy, Infectious Greed. September 19, 2008, describing the ...
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The Dark Star Gazette: Rudder issues
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The Dark Star Gazette. Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse. Saturday, February 21, 2009. I recently finished the rebuild, and it was time to do the trailing edge again. The last time I did this, I used fuel tank sealant and had a whole bunch of the stuff left over, that I wound up tossing because, let's face it, how often are you going to use fuel tank sealant around the house? Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Follow-up on the rudder. Driving in the Rain. A Perfectly Cromulent Blog.
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The Dark Star Gazette: Sealing the trailing edge
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The Dark Star Gazette. Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse. Sunday, March 08, 2009. Sealing the trailing edge. Also, to ensure the trailing edge came together fairly tightly (without the wide gap I ended up with before), I decided to clamp a second piece of aluminum angle along the narrow space between the rivet holes and the very trailing edge of the rudder. You can see that here. This comment has been removed by a blog administrator. January 6, 2012 at 3:36 AM. Sealing the trailing edge.
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The Dark Star Gazette: February 2008
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The Dark Star Gazette. Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse. Sunday, February 10, 2008. OK, so pretty obvious. But if you don't figure it out, you can spend an hour puzzling over why the fan won't come on. Trust me on this one. Links to this post. Here's a picture of the work in progress:. Anyway, it came out looking a lot better than it had before I started, but there are still more drips and runs than I'd like. I'm debating whether I want to let it harden, sand them out, and put on ano...
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The Dark Star Gazette: Useful Things I Learned This Weekend
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The Dark Star Gazette. Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse. Sunday, March 15, 2009. Useful Things I Learned This Weekend. 1 World of Goo is a very cool game. 2 An hour playing with World of Goo will give you a better intuitive feel for stress analysis and the effects of resonance in a structure than ten hours reading a textbook will. 3 The ramshackle buildings you wind up with in World of Goo remind me of a lot of some source code I've seen. November 10, 2009 at 10:33 AM. November 13, 2009 ...
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The Dark Star Gazette: Airlines "Hedging" Fuel Prices
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The Dark Star Gazette. Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse. Wednesday, January 21, 2009. Airlines "Hedging" Fuel Prices. During a lull at work, I was skimming the financial headlines and came across an opinion piece with this provocative headline: " The perils of plunging oil prices: UAL's effort to fight fuel costs backfires. What's odd here is that hedging. A look at United Airlines' quarterly report. For the quarter that ended September 30, 2008 reveals a somewhat different story:. If yo...
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The Dark Star Gazette: February 2009
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The Dark Star Gazette. Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse. Wednesday, February 25, 2009. I spent some time last night taking apart the rudder's trailing edge. Links to this post. Monday, February 23, 2009. Follow-up on the rudder. I heard back from tech support this morning. They recommend drilling out the rivets, cleaning it up, and redoing it with fuel tank sealant. It'll be a pain, but I agree with them. I'm still working out how to clean the epoxy off the aluminum parts. I recently fin...
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The Dark Star Gazette: October 2008
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The Dark Star Gazette. Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse. Wednesday, October 22, 2008. More on prop 7. Research and discussion on Prop 7 continues, both on this blog and in the comments here. Here's where things stand now. 1 I've managed to convince myself that Prop 7 will not affect the legal status of distributed power generation (such as rooftop solar) that's operating under a net metering program. Has a useful article. Pdf) on California law governing Renewable Energy Credits. Sec...
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The Dark Star Gazette: July 2008
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The Dark Star Gazette. Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse. Tuesday, July 22, 2008. This post was originally going to be an analysis of Al Gore's energy challenge speech. And some of the criticism. If you view the speech. That denies human impact on global temperature change, which is at least fodder for debate. (More background on that paper here. Links to this post. Sunday, July 13, 2008. Redundancy and unexpected interdependency. Links to this post. Sunday, July 06, 2008. Ii BY PROCEEDIN...
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The Dark Star Gazette: August 2008
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The Dark Star Gazette. Boldly going forward 'cause we can't find reverse. Thursday, August 14, 2008. More on inverting the pattern. I've been thinking a bit more about inverting the pattern. Moving from a blog-like pattern of lots of talking and not much listening to something with more listening and less talk, or at least more meaningful listening. So what would it mean to bring a conversation-like pattern into the Internet? Links to this post. Tuesday, August 12, 2008. What would such a thing look like?
