First Lock Picked!
A long time ago I ordered a set of keychain lockpicks, but never really tried them out. The other day using the sweep tool, though, I succeeded in opening a tiny practice lock!
Lehman Brothers Electronic Display Problems
On my way to work I pass by Lehman Brothers, and every day its electronic sign that spans the entire front of their building seems to have one problem or another. First it was just random corruption of a few LCD displays:
Then, on September 28th and today, the 29th, we noticed that their date had stopped working and was stuck on 27:
Weird, no? I wonder when it will get fixed…
Musk Cologne & Perfume
Today I had the pleasure of a man dressed in a black skirt introduce me to a men’s cologne which combined vanilla, amber, and musk to attract a maximum number of ladies. My reason for being at Macy’s was actually to acquire a pair of shoes that a lady could appreciate, so I let him stop me and spray his expensive french cologne over various limbs.
It was then that I realized that a musk-based cologne simply simulates the odor produced by a sweaty male body. Wikipedia writes on the topic:
Musk is the name originally given to a perfume obtained from the strong-smelling substance secreted by a gland in the abdomen of the male musk deer, and hence applied to other animals, and also to plants, possessing a similar odor.
It was at that point that I wondered why–besides the hot euro-salesmen in black skirts–would anyone buy the stuff. Personally, I prefer a much more subtle scent.