Carbon Math

| February 7, 2007

In a multiply-updated post, Glenn Reynolds talks global warming and the effect thereupon of congressional “private” air travel. In the course of the post, Reynolds cites this statistic from Tourjet (which, as the name implies, is an aircraft chartering agency catering to celebrities): The typical American is responsible for 10 tons of CO2 emissions annually […]

Just When You Thought The Planking Was Finished

| February 6, 2007

I’ve been model-making rather than writing. I’m horrible. So anyway…. The hull planking having been completed, I next turned my attention to the deck planking. The supplied material — .5mm x 4mm strips of something neither basswood nor walnut… maybe tanganyika wood — was a bit disappointing; the color tone was inconsistent, and the edges […]