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Cool trick for finding the combination for Master padlocks
I found this rather interesting video on youtube which I will embed here, and also typed it out (for my own reference) as well, which will make it easier for you guys to copy/paste this into word or something for your own saved reference. I found this one helpful as every other “trick” I found to discovering your combi padlocks numbers involved having the lock already open and basically just watching the wheel pack, which really isn’t a trick at all. Thanks to HeaviestJ on YouTube for sharing this trick!
Note for Step One: (Faster) This takes a bit of practice and feel, but I have found it is much faster to determine the last digit of the combination as follows.
Use the below steps for finding the stop points on the dial, using tension on the locking bar. Starting from 0, work around each stop point putting just enough pressure to find the middle digit as listed, but continue to apply tension until you feel “drag” on the dial, you should be able to eventually lock up the dial in fact.
Continue with this all the way around the dial. However, one of the 12 stop points will have NO drag no matter how much tension is applied (as the fence is hitting the contact points on either side of the wheel notch.)
This is the final digit of the combination.
Written steps for above video. (Pretty sure I got them right)
Step 1
Use tension to find the numbers that the dial will stop on during a full rotation of the dial from 0 and back to 0. Write these numbers down. You will end up with 12 numbers.
Write down these numbers, we will use this lock from the video’s numbers.
| 3 |
| 6.5 |
| 9.5 |
| 13 |
| 16.5 |
| 20 |
| 23 |
| 26.5 |
| 29.5 |
| 33 |
| 36.5 |
| 39.5 |
You should have 7 numbers ending in .5 and 5 integers.
Take the 5 integers which are.
| 3 |
| 13 |
| 20 |
| 23 |
| 33 |
| 3 |
| 13 |
| 20 |
| 23 |
| 33 |
| Now remove all numbers that end in the same digit, which in this case would leave us with the number 20.
This is the 3rd number in your combination. |
We now have the number 20 as our 3rd number.
Step 2
Using the number you received from step one above, (in this case 20) divide this number by 4.
So 20/4 = 5.
In this case we received no remainder.
If you DO receive a remainder, write it down. It will either be, 0, 1, 2, 3.
If for example we had an ending digit of 18, when dividing by 4, we would have a remainder of 2.
This is the number we will use to find the final two digits of the combination.
Since we had no remainder with our number of 20, we will start with 0 (using the 0,1,2,3 corresponding to the number of remainders in the 3rd digit division), and add 4 to it until you reach the last number possible in the master lock, which in this case would be 39.
This gives us: 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36
If we had a remainder of 1, we would have started with 1 getting: 1, 5, 9, 13….
With a remainder of 2, we would start with 2 getting: 2, 6….
Step 3
Now working off of the numbers we acquired earlier we have ten numbers.
0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36
Any of which can be the first number of the combination.
Now
If the remainder we had earlier from the four division is either a 0 or 1 add 2 to that number. Giving:
0 = 2
1 = 3
If the remainder is either a 3 or 4, subtract 2, Giving:
3 = 1
4 = 2
Now since we had a remainder of 0, we will start with 2, and 4 to each number so:
2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38
Which gives us ten numbers, any of which can be the 2nd number of the combination.
We have now worked 34,000 possible combination’s down to 100. So:
First Digit is one of these ten digits.
| 0, 4, 8, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36 |
Our 2nd digit is one of the next ten digits which we worked out with the remainder addition/subtraction step:
| 2, 6, 10, 14, 18, 22, 26, 30, 34, 38 |
And our last digit is 20.
Start from the first digit and work your way through them, with the started combination being 0, 2, 20, the next being 4, 2, 20, 8, 2, 20 and so on, until you have your combination to your lock, this will take a few minutes but is certainly faster than trying 34,000 combinations!
Thanks to HeaviestJ from YouTube for this awesome trick!
Mid-Town Drive-In & Movie Reviews (Harry Potter 6 & Public Enemies)
Just for the sake of the drive-in in Mid-Town, and the mis-print of the Roane County news, I wanted to post here that they are not in fact closed now, after the 1st of Aug. They will be open as long as attendance permits (which I am sorry to say was very low for a Friday night and a new release movie), however they will at least stay open until Labor Day. Anyone in the area, I highly recommend checking out the theater if you haven’t already, two movies for $6 a person cannot possibly be beat in this day and age, and while the restaurant is closed, the concessions stand is still open with burgers etc. If you have a child you would like to take to the movies, but they are too inattentive or whatnot to sit for 4 hours, this is the perfect venue. Bring a blanket, a cooler full of your favorite beverage and have a night out at the drive-in. Vans or pick-up trucks are perfect for these theaters which are a dying breed. Unfortunately, after speaking to the ticket clerk / owners family, we found TVA spill that made national headlines has hurt tourism / out-of-town income to the local business’s more than I originally thought it had. Yes the spill was completely awful, but I hadn’t realized just how hard it had hurt local business’s like the drive-in until speaking with them personally. Unfortunately the local paper used this issue plus the drive-in’s closing to spin some ratings on their paper and were inaccurate, and didn’t make an effort to correct themselves. It is a small county, and my friend loves the drive-in, so I wanted to post this here for anyone that happened upon it through any search engines. Help save it by attending if you can, or at least enjoy it before it’s gone, or buy it if you have the money (it is available for purchase for $275,000) 
Anyway….about the movie reviews.
We just went tonight to see the new Harry Potter 6 (& the Half-Blood Prince) and Public Enemies.
Public Enemies was the first one up, and as far as movies go it was fairly decent, with me personally scoring it a 3/5, with as usual, great acting from Depp. Christian Bale, who plays the supporting role as the FBI agent Melvin Purvis, gives a so-so performance equal to his performances in the Batman franchise, which just could have used more emotion, unless both characters were fairly bland, emotionless people. Depp was his usual self, who played outstandingly as the charismatic Dillinger. While there were several other gangsters from this era portrayed, the emphasis was most certainly on Dillinger and the exploits he went through. Most of the movie deviates from historical accounts to make the plot flow more smoothly, and give the sequences more action, for which even I noticed (even though I am far from a buff of this time), but didn’t mind. The plot moves along quite nicely with nothing that detracts from the main storyline, or other scenes that would otherwise detract from the movie. While the supporting role of Purvis seemed rather bland and emotionless, nonetheless, his performance was convincing, and for anyone that enjoys depression era gang stories, or is facinated by such, I think would find this movie enjoyable. I would certainly recommend to anyone that enjoys action/drama movies to go see it, and in fact, it has enough romance in it with Depp’s girl in this movie to make it worth going to see with your girl if she just cannot decide on a flick, and you want to see something you can both enjoy. There are several gunfights, with, from my experience, have Very realistic gunfire sounds and wounds. Unfortunately, for those of you familiar with the Dirty Harry movies, or brains on the screen, you may be dissapointed, but fact is, real gunfire and wounds just don’t look like Hollywood. These gunfights however are very realistic (as far as Hollywood goes), with little (shooting without aiming), or (this magazine holds 2,500 rounds). All in all, this movie was worth paying to see, however it’s re-watchability (if that is a word), would be in the lower range. It’s just not a movie that I would enjoy seeing more than one time. For most of you that aren’t either in love with Depp (as my friend was), in love with gangster movies, or depression era films, you can probably wait till this hits video and save yourself the $50 bucks.
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, was decent, as are all the Potter franchise movies, however with the 6th installment, being that the books increse in lenght as they go along, they had to seriously cut up the film in order to keep it’s time down. As is, I believe I remember it to be 154mins long. Almost every scene was chopped down to the point that my friend attending with me had trouble even following the story and would constantly ask what was going on. She is one of the ones that hasn’t read any books but has seen every film, and she still had trouble following what was going on. Maybe because I had read the book so recently, but I seemed to notice every mistake they made, which I didn’t do as much on previous films that only seemed to cut plot filler out. Unfortunately they either cut or re-wrote major plot points of this film, including a fairly long scene towards the end that didn’t even take place in the book at all (first time for a Potter movie I think), and it didn’t even make any sense nor move the plot forward in any way. Unfortunately, I give this movie the lowest marks of any of the Potter films, being chopped up to pieces the way it is, and that deviates from the book in too many points for anyone that reads the books to enjoy as much as the other movies before it. which is sad being that the five films before it stayed with the books plot enough to be almost straight on. 2/5, but I still recommend any Potter fan to see it in the theatres (which I am sure you already have as this is probably the two-thousandth review on this film.)
New favorite Dvd encoding application!
I am always looking for new and easy to use Dvd encoding applications as my workload in that regard is usually quite high, with children on the loose destroying purchased Dvd’s in a few days time, I am not going to spend 24.99 + tax on a Dvd to buy another one in 48 hours because the kids scratched it to pieces.
The software that I ran across is called ConvertXtoDVD. This software is incredibly easy to use, and offers quite a lot of features. This is not freeware, but the company (VSO-Software) does recommend to try their trial version before purchasing, as I would also recommend as you never know how it will stack up against what you have. I have in the past had the unfortunate habit of “acquiring” software, especially if I plan on only testing it out, or using it for a one time project. However after picking this software out of some torrents (and picking off the usual trojan viruses that accompany such things), I decided to purchase the software legit after only a couple of days.
I have ran into a few offerings from VSO in the past, but never found much use for their products. When recently looking for something I could teach a new friend of mine how to use in encoding Dvd’s and such for use by the kids, I gave this one a try. As far as software goes, you cannot get easier than this one, literally “drag-n-drop” the file you would like to burn to Dvd onto the file area and your off.
This software will out of the box encode .avi’s converted from previous Dvd’s and will encode Blu-Ray rips some of you might “cough” be picking up off the net including the newer .mkv file format. By default it inserts chapter stops every 5 minutes, but this like every option you could think of is adjustable. There are several pre-set menu screens to choose from, or if you want to spend the time, you can construct your own. I have personally just kept to naming the title, and using the default included menu system, which is quite usable, including a scene selection area with animated scenes.
If you are creating more professional Dvd’s from personal movies or avi collections, you will not miss features here, being able to pick lead-in / lead-out animation points for all scenes and custom times on all scenes. The menu also is almost completely customizable with only features missing for those used to constructing Dvd’s in more professional level setup’s. Setting up a custom animated menu with a lead-in / lead-out animation is very fast and easy to manage, as well as custom audio to use during the menu and scene selection screens. Audio, subtitle and such are also easily selectable for defaults etc, root menu default or auto-playback, and other small features that other software that advertises feature-sets such as this one usually tend to forget or leave out altogether are also included by default. Besides being able to select lead-in / lead-out for menu and scene selection animations from the film you are encoding, you can select previously set up animations from premier pro or other such encoding software for a more professional feel.
This software will also burn straight from the program, offering true “drag-and-walk” functionality, (as I have always called it). I personally prefer to handle heavy encoding jobs during the night when I am asleep so that I am not cutting into my CPU time during day working hours, and this software will easily let you drag a file over, pick a few settings, throw in a blank disk, and walk away. However it is very able to do most encoding jobs quite quickly since this new version includes multi-core support. A heavy encoding job working from a 12 GB blu-ray rip to 4.2 GB Dvd-R on Excellent conversion quality takes around 20mins to 1 hour depending on the CPU time available and the cores available for the software to take advantage of.
Hands down, this is my new favorite Dvd authoring software, letting users quickly and easily convert .avi, .mkv,.mp4 and other files downloaded from common torrent searches as well as home movies and other DV files you may have laying around to a professional looking Dvd in a few minutes. So far I have not found a file format I use constantly that this software will not readily encode to Dvd with outstanding quality. If anyone runs across files this software cannot handle, post in the comments by all means.
10/10 – $49.99 from http://www.vso-software.fr/
Funny Ass Product!!
Who the fuck comes up with this shit. In all my days I would have never bet that I would see such a product as this… but I thought Anyone reading this would get a fucking laugh.
Bliss’s FatGirlSleep…. WTF@!!!… Who comes up with these products…
Taken from the actual items description:
Product Description
Get a full night’s ‘booty’ sleep with this supercharged sister to our famed FatGirlSlim. Formulated with our encapsulated slenderiZZZe complex that releases dimple diminishers and soothing lavender for up to 6 hours, this ultra-rich cream helps make the most of your body’s overnight restorative process. Good night, sleep ‘tight’ and don’t let the beg ‘blubs’ bite. Recent studies have shown that not enough shuteye can cause weight gain, as sleep deprivation causes an increase in the hormone that makes you want to eat, and a drop in the one that tells you you’re full. And since the National Sleep Foundation found that just 25 of Americans get at least eight hours of sleep on weekdays, chances are you?re one of the bleary-eyed 75% who could be sabotaging your own slenderness by burning the midnight oil.* Since the odds are so seriously stacked against you, you need all the help you can get. FatGirlSleep not only helps you fight the good fight against cellulite overnight, but it?s also infused with a lavender scent, which has been shown to have a relaxing, aromatherapeutic effect. Sweet ?creams?! *Results reported in the January issues of Allure and Self magazines.
Sure… I really need “booty” sleep, and if you are overweight and Really think some bullshit rubbing cream like this expensive ass shit will actually make your cellulite disappear and make you slimmer,, you deserve what you get. I understand that the weight loss industry is a multi-billion dollar industry and all but, are there really that many ignorant people to believe something like this will make them lose weight while they sleep??
Just for reference here guys.. EXCERSISE + DIET (not starvation,, actual diet) = Weight Loss. Yes,, you HAVE to work for it,, you will NOT get it in your sleep with a magical pill or body rub bullshit. For some reason this seems lost on like 50% of the American population, for reasons I will never understand why, unless 50% of the nation is retarded… which wouldn’t surprise me at all in fact..
4th festivities and a new wine!
Posted by Zeno in General, Wine & Liquor on July 7, 2009
I hope everyone had an enjoyable 4th of July. I have been so busy afterward, that I haven’t had much time for blogging, but am working on new stories and articles to post up for those reading them I did try a new wine this weekend that I thought I would post up here anyways.
The fireworks this year were good as we’ve come to expect from our small town. Because Knoxville does their large fireworks display on Memorial Day (called Boomsday), they do not have a show for the 4th. Because of this, and the general all day festivities that they have in town, including all day boat races from racing boats around the south-east, custom craft vendors and local artisans, and usually a car and motorcycle show (which was missing this year, though they did have a small motorcycle show with awards). My girlfriend and I were lucky this year in that when picking out our alcohol for the weekend, the proprietor of the spirits store had VIP passes as an event sponsor that she wasn’t going to be using. I’m not sure why she picked us out of the hundreds of customers that came into the store that day (there were at least 10-15 that came in just during our 15 minute visit) but I am very appreciative. While I am not sure, I believe that to get sponsorship you had to donate one thousand to fifteen hundred dollars to the event, and there were very few others in the VIP area. We also received VIP parking that was very close the the festivities (usually you end up walking almost a mile from where you park to the actual events).
Unfortunately, not only was our four year old in tow instantly terrified of the concussion of the fireworks (they were being fired less than 150 yards from our location), but I also wasn’t
White Burst Shell
familiar with working the fireworks / long shutter time of my camera and ended up with nothing but a few very blurred photos of the show. Only one which you see here turned out halfway decent, with the rest looking like some bad acid trip from a grateful dead show
I hope everyone else had a safe and eventful 4th of July as well as a great weekend!
Wine – Night Owl – Merlot (Vintage 2004)
This wine was a gift from my girlfriend for the 4th holidays that she picked up because she liked the bottle This wine is out of Monterey County in San Bernabe California. This is a bold wine, but is also very smooth tasting as well, with the usual blackberry and plum flavors that you would expect from a merlot. Right off I found this to be a very good wine, with a less earthy but smoother tone than what you get from the Fetzer, (which has been my recent favorite merlot), and for it’s price range, which is still under the $20 mark, this wine comes highly recommended. 9/10 – $12.49/avg for standard bottle.
New guitar tab to come soon!
I’ve played guitar for over a decade and then quit for several years after losing my guitar and just not getting a new one. After way too much time, I’ve started picking one up again, and in trying to find accurate tabs around the net for various artists, I’ve found that most are anything from horribly inaccurate, to just being off a few notes. I’ll probably be submitting tab to the popular tab sites as well to fix others mistakes, but have found writing tab with the correct musical notation and speeds to be more difficult that I had expected (I do not know how to read or write actual music).
So, once I get tabs written I will be posting them here, and will start a new category for them. At the moment I only have an acoustic guitar to work off of, so I am avoiding songs that either don’t translate well to acoustic or have extensive solo work played above the 12th fret. I hope someone finds what will be posted useful, and if anyone has any requests for tab they either cannot find in accurate notation, or cannot find at all, I will see what I can do, however my time is very pressed at the moment.
Man forges check for 360 Billion!
This is a bit of an old story, but when I seen it on TV last night, I couldn’t stop laughing.
Charles Ray Fuller
A man has been accused of attempting to pass a $360 billion check, which he claims was given to him by his girlfriend’s mother to start a record business, Fort Worth police said.
Charles Ray Fuller, 21, of Crowley, was arrested on April 22 on an accusation of forgery, police said.
Police responded to a report of a man attempting to pass the check about 4 p.m. that day at the Chase bank in the 8600 block of South Hulen Street, Fort Worth police Lt. Paul Henderson said.
The personal check was not made out to Mr. Fuller and when the bank contacted the check owner, the woman said she did not write a check for $360 billion.
Mr. Fuller was also accused of unlawful carrying of a weapon and possession of marijuana, Lt. Henderson said. He may also face a theft charge in Crowley.
So, we all know when forging those checks, with pen above paper, the inevitable question always comes.. “How much should I write this for anyway? Yea, how about 360,000,000,000.oo, that should be enough.”
The teller at the Chase bank apparently noticed something was wrong when the amount exceeded more than most countries gross national product.
This should be enough...
I would pay to hear what this guy said in the interrogation room when confronted with his nine zero check. Even better is that the bank actually called the account holder to see if she had written any multi-billion dollar checks lately, upon which the man was arrested, and found to also have some weed and a .25cal handgun on him. Never mind the amount exceeded the market value of the entire bank.
One other funny part you don’t find on the web stories much but was mentioned on the TV article, the guy had actually written in the memo line that the check was for “rent”.
He was later released on $3,750 bond, and oh yea, we don’t accept personal checks.
Lt. Henderson said he did not know if Mr. Fuller and his girlfriend were still together.
This asshole has a girlfriend? Not to complain here, but jesus, maybe I should lower my standards or something. Or maybe try to rip off a bank with some weed and guns on me, if that’s what women are looking for these days…
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