I write about the past, present, and future of technology across three sites. imapenguin.com explores retro computing and programming fundamentals, milkcrunch.com covers modern software development and engineering culture, and evadot.com examines commercial spaceflight and the new space movement.
Posts
- Hey, if you guys could just hold this parade until we get a pic, that’d be grrreeeaattt.
- Traffic jam on Splash Mountain.
- Disney is way easier when your kids are adults.
- Saw this cool trick by Jon Croke of homebuilthelp. When working with large aluminum sheets by yourself, it’s easier to roll them up. Reassembling this wing after all the deburring and prepped work to rivet. Then done with this one. #myzenith750
- I generally like metal work. Prep work is easier if you think “I get to” rather than “I have to”. #myzenith750
- Everyone waits until November and it’s in the low 40s before they power wash the deck right?
- Another evening, another couple hundred holes. #myzenith750
- Our mail carrier’s latest trick is to leave our stuff on a garbage can.
- Each spar has 101 holes to be drilled. Then again on the top. Then repeat for the other wing. Oh and since these are pilot holes that need to be expanded I’ll drill each of these holes 2 more times. 1212 holes drilled just for the wing spars. I fully understand the grin people have on their first flight. Gotta earn it. #soreshoulders #myzenith750
- Doesn’t seem like proper Halloween weather here.
- One of the million things to do before the plane flies sometime next year is to come up with a flight test plan. It’s fairly daunting but turns out that EAA just released a guide book and flight test card set. Still seems super daunting but at least now I have an example framework to use. #myzenith750
- What? Like your plane doesn’t need a night light. Don’t judge. #myzenith750
- The most commonly asked question from experienced builders is how well the “match drilled holes” work out. The answer is “pretty good” with the exception of the skins. I had to deal with this on the fuselage in many areas and now the wing skins. #myzenith750
- I’m like a commercial for the ball jar company. This is not an unusual number of homemade things in the works at any given time for me. Any guesses?
- It’s a rough life.
- Business meeting in Gatlinburg today. Always fun to be able to fly myself for work
- Passenger side bottom wing skin day. #myzenith750
- And flip. #myzenith750
- Found out it’s extremely difficult to photograph a heads up display but I took a shot. Kinda see though. One of my side projects :)
- Started using Strides (app) to encourage new habits. My Sept report for 30 mins of moderate to vigorous exercise isn’t too shabby. There are 12 other habits I’m working on with similar success. Sept was a good month.