This email from my dad just made my day. If you know him, or even if you don't, this is SO HIM.
"A couple of months ago I found a lock on the bike path while riding through Marymoor Park on the way to work. I picked it up and brought it into work. I looked on youtube for instructions on how to crack the lock, but I couldn't crack it. I decided to simply try every combination. Each day at 10am we have a team standup status meeting that lasts about 15 minutes. While standing there, I sequentially go through all the combo possibilities, usually getting through several hundred numbers each meeting. I started at 3000, worked up to 9999, and then back to 0000. This morning in the middle of the meeting the lock opened when I hit 1502. Everyone laughed. It took a month or so to crack the lock."
He's always multi-tasking, can't sit still for a minute, always has to be doing SOMETHING, even if it's trying to crack a lock open by going through every possible combination.
Love you Dald :)
This is so typical of dald. What a funny story.
ReplyDeleteLOL! I love it!!!!
ReplyDeleteOh my...that is so funny! And a month?! He sure was persistent!
ReplyDeletehaha, i absolutely love this. so hilarious. also... what was his reasoning for starting at 3000? not like he could have known, but he could have cut to the chase a bit faster starting at 0000. i think that added to the story for me. that he exhausted 85% of the possibilities before finding the winner. so many kinds of awesome in this story.
ReplyDeletehilarious!
ReplyDeleteWho won the AC blog hop with you please? Have I missed it? Thanks
ReplyDeleteThe reasons I started cracking the lock at 3000 are:
ReplyDelete1. when I followed the cracking instructions on youtube, 3 in the first digit seemed to loosen the lock a little.
2. no one would start a combo with zero, since that would be one of the first numbers tested on a sequential brute force attack like mine
3. any random number is as good as any when starting
Dald