E D Skinner

Fiction, facts, and philosophy

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Encinal Yacht Club, Day 1
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12/2/08

The fog has lifted and the morning sun on the pelican’s wings is warm and welcome.

Special Meat Dumplings
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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 computers we use in the classroom with new licenses for next year.

Relative Importances
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11/25/08

To my article, “Be A Straight Shooter”, an anonymous reader objected:

Drive or Fly?
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11/24/08

We’re just back from LA. I say “we” because my wife went along for this trip, too. (Sounds like she’s got the “wanderlust” after our east coast trip?)

Martindale Gauge
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11/24/08

If you reload 45 ACP for automatics (but not necessarily for revolvers), you need one of Bruce Martindale’s gauges.

The Big Orange
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11/19/08

At the 2700 last Sunday, I discovered an irresistable stimulus / response; when the dot slows its wobble inside the 10 ring, my conscious brain yells, “Now!” And as any Bullseye shooter will tell you, that’s almost guaranteed to be a jerked shot, low and left for right-handed shooters like myself, or low and right for lefties.

Ugh!
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11/17/08

Some days start good and then go bad.

Others start bad and stay that way.

Magic, Miracles or Myth?
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11/13/08

The second question I’ve been pursuing is did [Jesus] perform acts that we, today, would agree are miracles? To answer this, I’ve been hoping to rely on sources outside of the New Testament because I am uncertain of its historical accuracy. Because it was written by Christians and for Christians, and because it has been translated and its contents adjudicated multiple times, I just don’t feel it to be an un-biased source.

An Honorable Man
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11/11/08

The saying goes that if you like where you’re at, you better enjoy it because it will soon change.

Holy Roman Catholic!
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11/6/08

Bill O’Reilly, executive producer and anchor of The O’Reilly Factor on Fox News, is, to put it lightly, completely unafraid to say what he thinks and, if people don’t like it, he’d almost certainly say “Tough.”