Hulleye Comes By!

A lock is like a puzzle you have to pick to solve it.
So many films show hackers opening electronic locks in a few seconds, the same for James Bond and others on mechanical locks.
There are so many websites and clubs around the world about lockpicking it’s considered like a sport and it’s very funny and addictive.
When you build your own picks, open your first lock, then you want to move to a more complex lock and so on. Videos and books can help you improve your technic. But practice, practice, practice is the key. (no pun intended).

which reminds me of that old story. there was a man who entered a local paper’s pun contest. he sent in ten different puns, in the hope that at least one of the puns would win. unfortunately, no pun in ten did.

or the one about the two boll weevils that grew up in south carolina. one went to hollywood and became a famous actor. the other stayed behind in the cotton fields and never amounted to much. the second one, naturally, became known as the lesser of two weevils.

the current edition of john brockman’s online sci-tech thinktank EDGE features a debate between harvard psychology professors steven pinker and elizabeth spelke on “the research on mind, brain, and behavior that may be relevant to gender disparities in the sciences, including the studies of bias, discrimination and innate and acquired difference between the sexes.” link to words, illustrations, streaming audio and video, and online slides.

if you’re not familiar with pinker’s work, i highly recommend reading “the blank slate: the modern denial of human nature” his fundamental message in the book is there is a human nature. people of all cultures are born with a host of inborn predispositions - to acquire language and music, to favor kin over strangers, to desire sex and to be ashamed of it, to value even trades and to punish cheaters, and dozens more. our common nature springs from our common biology; it is not very malleable, and it is not “socially constructed.” cultural diversity is marvelous, but it is all a variation on an immutable theme; and there have never been any human cultures free of war, of greed, or of prescribed gender roles.