In locksport, there’s a parallel. We start with a hook and pick “upwards” to pins above the slot. We all now what that key looks like. It has zig zags along the top of the key.
Whilst I’m definitely not done on that style of lock, here’s my “Blue Belt” lock.
Happy.
Just did a lockpicking speed run on everything in my backpack.
Whilst not “speedy” I got everything open including an American 1100 and a LOTO 410.
Took a bit of hunting, but I found an example to show. Teachers name was Jack Salmon. Here’s a sketch he did for the local history group some 30-odd years ago. He was a good teacher, but didn’t tolerate sloppiness. lol!
And you can’t pick a yellow or orange belt lock.
This is where the American 1100 comes in.
So after 18 months of half hearted trying and failing then ignoring it for weeks at a time before trying for another half hour, this happened.
This is what it looked like 2 weeks ago. Now it’s over waist high. Grows like an inch a day. By mid-summer it’s going to be a 6.5ft tall mess that crowds out everyone, from human to deer, skunk, and coyote.
So I spent some time on this, ultimately disagreed with GPT-4 and then spent some time with the new GPT-4o model trying to decipher.
Not to detract from McLuhan. I just don’t see eye to eye on the one thing people quote.
We got to where I was logically. Which could be confirmation bias.
There’s a phrase I dislike.
“The medium is the message”
It makes no sense to me. But it’s a thing.
In my head this is equal to “The A is the B”.
However in some people’s heads, there’s a magical warp field like “A implies something about B” which contradicts the words “the X is the y”
GPT knew!
I’m reminded of this by a PETA post that crossed my feed today.
Of course, this opens up a can of worms … I’m a meat eater and my first reaction was “if we could have farmed them, we probably would have”.
When setting up my trail cams yesterday I thought I saw the city had been chopping down trees. This morning, I went over to investigate why. Once I got closer, it became apparent the city wasn’t the culprit. 🦫🦫🦫
Took dog for a walk this morning, trying to beat the rain. My goal was to see if anything was still left of the Toronto Don Mills ski centre as the last photo I saw of any remnant (a ski lift pole) was taken over 21 yrs ago.
In 2024, the pole still exists! I found it!
However, whilst YouTube is always pushing creators to make shorts, the views arc is interesting. Here’s a screenshot of a short from a wildlife channel i booted up last week.
It takes like 5 hours to get going, then peaks and dies in like another 40 hours.
Not sure whether to start panicking because of the bird flu articles telling us not to panic, or because those birds look suspiciously bovine in appearance.
We spent several days being told there was a perimeter around the problem. It was only on certain operating systems.
This afternoon I found the compromised version on my own laptop.
I like games, but they’re usually on the PlayStation and work just fine. No joke, the preliminary budget in Canadian dollars is nuts. Problem is twofold - 1) I don’t want to buy it again in 24mths, so budgeted in headroom and 2) he wants it to “look cool”. Ugh! Ha ha!
