E D Skinner
Fiction, facts, and philosophy
Ed with Chinese lion statue, Wuhan China, Oct-Nov 2003

Anecdote

The Wiring
Posts
3/11/11

East encompassed kindergarten through senior high school. The elementary, East Elementary School, had the right half of the …

Fishing Chickasaw Lake
Posts
3/4/11

The near-wealthy lived in Chickasaw Gardens just a few blocks from Picardy.

In Chickasaw Gardens, the roads curved and …

Calling The Line
Posts
2/26/11
"Attention! Attention on the line! Your three minute preparation time begins ... NOW!" …
Software Breaks the Hardware
Posts
4/30/10

My first programming job was for the American Express Space Bank at the end of the 1960s. “Space Bank” was a …

Once Upon A Time
Posts
3/24/10

Once upon a time, there were three RTOSes named VRTX, pSOS and VxWorks.

VRTX and pSOS were special because they were written …

Special Meat Dumplings
Posts
12/2/08

Thanksgiving is over and I’m back on the road but not to teach. Instead, I get to update the master images of the …

Not-So-Nice Classroom
Posts
7/21/08

Rented Space

Our classes – some would call them seminars – run two to four days and are presented in company …

Surrogate Shooting
Posts
10/23/05

A Bullseye-L email list member wrote:

"It is an absolutely perfect sunny Saturday here in …
Young Bucks
Posts
9/20/05

(Posted in http://forum.m1911.org/ by “edski”)

I often practice at an indoor range in Scottsdale AZ. It’s a …

Brass Catcher D’ecolletage
Posts
8/17/05

My brass catcher consists of a three-legged folding, all metal music stand as the base and its telescoping tube for height …