Welcome to E D Skinner's Website

Make yourself into a target?

The handgun is the air soft 1911 I’ve mentioned before. It’s Sayonara for pigeons and Grackles, but only if I aim very carefully.

… and should be.

We plan to have three sources of income when I retire: the IRA we’ve been building for several decades, an old style retirement fund from an employer many years ago, and Social Security.

(2009 Desert Midwinter Conventional Championship)

My CO2 powered air soft 1911 will deliver a fatal hit to birds, but only if it’s a head shot. That’s about the equivalent of hitting the X ring in Bullseye; if I do my part, it can be done.

I was there last year and had a great time. Bring something to shoot, something free-standing to shoot at, or just show up. There will be plenty of firearms to try and lots of good folks to show you how.

This was the defiant refusal by the greeks at Thermopylae when told to lay down their arms by Persian invaders. While the defenders were eventually annihilated by overwhelming numbers, the three day battle enabled the evacuation of Athens and saved many lives.

We feed, clothe, house and educate our children so they can eventually fend for themselves. “Cutting the cord” happens in stages. Potty training is an event that signals progress along this path. Getting a drivers license is another as is moving out.

It manifests itself in many ways but the root cause is western culture’s profit-focused determination that forms the core of most of our lives. That desire to be better, to make more profit, to beat the other guy, is why products based on closed source efforts will always beat those based on open source.