yesterday was awesome. i spent the afternoon picking locks in a spy shop in skokie. we've got a pretty healthy lockpicking contingent at our 2600 meeting here in chicago...in fact, the meeting is concurrent the chicago meeting of toool , the open organization of lockpickers. i had tried picking a lock at a previous meeting, but never really done much with it--and got very frustrated, because i could not get a supposedly easy lock open to save my life. i didn't pick any locks at the meeting friday... read more