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Recent Posts

    Any reloaders try these products yet? I’m interested in the stainless steel media. See http://www.stainlesstumblingmedia.com for products - I’m thinking about the 5 lbs of media and, other than washing it occasionally to remove the dust, it should last forever. (But note they say it will not work in vibratory cleaners. You must tumble.)

    Favela
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    April 5, 2012

    “Favela” is the Portugeuse word for a slum, a shanty town often made of cobbled together wood and cardboard shelters with dirt walkways and terrible poverty. Long-standing favelas will migrate toward brick and mortar but this simply “hardens” the situation.

    Geography Test
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    April 5, 2012

    On a map with water, land, terrain but no other markings, how many of these can you place? (Some of these city names are in Portugeuse. Can you figure them out without resorting to a web-based translator?)

    Two To Go
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    April 2, 2012

    New equipment today. Do we have enough of the right power plug adapters? Was anything damaged in shipping? Will it all work?

    Confession
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    April 1, 2012

    I am the inspiration for Arnie’s character in the Hollywood fictional movie, “True Lies”.

    Imbel
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    March 29, 2012

    All Springfield-Armory firearms begin in Brazil. (Paraphrased from Wikipedia.)

    Still Here
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    March 29, 2012

    Postings have slowed because 1) I’m tired in the evenings and 2) things that seemed different at first are starting to feel kind’a normal.

History

EDSkinner.net began in 2023. Fiction and non-fiction publications are included as well as (blog) posts and supplemental materials from flat5.net (2004-present).

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