From this As it rings once, I hear a beep and the shutdown music of my phone. The battery is dying. I press ?PWR? again and my phone greets me with a cheerful, ?HELLO!?. The backlight on the LCD dims immediately and the phone dies again. I was going to guess the same as Retro2001, the person you called had caller ID and just guessed where you might be.
I don't know what he did, but I'll bet if you fidgeted around with the batteries and warmed them up for awhile (body heat) you'd get more calling power out of them.
OK I found some clues to this on another forum -
<< No spare keys except the building keys which were useless in opening anything.
Cannot access ANYTHING inside car. So what's inside is pointless. The items I pointed out are all I had.
Ok, one more big hint. The security system in my opinion/evaluation... monitors broken windows, door shock, and other stuff I guess.
No lasers, no motion sensors, and is almost always on during the day time when people are working.... >>
<< No spare keys except the building keys which were useless in opening anything.
Cannot access ANYTHING inside car. So what's inside is pointless. The items I pointed out are all I had.
Ok, one more big hint. The security system in my opinion/evaluation... monitors broken windows, door shock, and other stuff I guess.
No lasers, no motion sensors, and is almost always on during the day time when people are working.... >>
ok, i was pissed when i got down here and there was no answer but here is my guess:
you realized the door was made only of gingerbread and gumdrops and ate your way back in.
you realized the door was made only of gingerbread and gumdrops and ate your way back in.
I used the earphone as wires to which I attached one of the keys at the very end. I sharpened that key with a rock and sheer force of will. I attached the other end of the wire to the nickel. Using the adhesive properties of Coke, I bonded the nickel to a part of the glass door. I then cut, not break, the glass with the sharpened key in a perfect big circle afforded to me by the wires. Kinda like a big compass. Alarm is not triggered as the alarm is only pressure sensitive and there was no significant change in pressure.
And yes, that was just all a lie and I just wasted a few seconds of your life by making you read that first part. Ok, now the real way it happened:
Okay guys, here it is. Xeomage is awfully close and I think polar guy was on the money but not quite.
This was my biggest problem. I somehow always seem to lock myself out all the time so I have some experience opening doors with the credit card trick and even using clothes hangers as make-shift wires.
I found one door that did not have the metal block for one odd reason or another but it was pretty well built so it was flushed exactly against the frame. No room for credit cards.
So what I did first was cut the "rope" that I mentioned on my cell phone and tried to hook it over the mechanical lock but I couldn't force the rope in as there was no space for it.
I dropped everything, and pushed the door as far as it would go with all my might to the left. This created a tiny space in the lock area and I shoved in a nickel so that I have some work space. I then tried to hook the rope around it as there was enough space for it to go in. Unfortunately, and MUCH to my dissapoitment, the rope still simply would not go around the metal catch.
At that point I was severely dissapointed and telling myself sleeping in the woods wouldn't be that bad and the bugs aren't gonna completely eat me alive or anything. Hey, its an adventure.
And while I was wallowing in self-pity, I was looking over the spilled contents and I see:
Ok. Jimminy Cricket! I promptly remove all the keys from the key chain leaving me with simply the circlular metal THINGIE. I then use my battered hands to pry open the metal into a make-shift wire. A very stiff wire and perfect for opening the metal catch.
As I inserted the metal wire and tried to force the metal catch to retreat, it worked. However, it still would not open because as soon as I tried to pull the door, the wire would slip out before the door was fully opened.
So, I took the two pennies and with some amount of patience and dexterity, positioned the two pennies inside the holding space for the metal catch. This held the catch enough for me to only need the wire to coax the catch from opening fully as a blast of air conditioned air hit my face.
At that point, I literally jumped for joy and kept calling myself, "The Man". That the bugs would not feast on my blood tonight. That I would sleep in my comfy bed. The door closed itself during my small albeit glorious celebration. I used the same trick to open it again, this time more careful to go inside before the door closed.
So there you have it. No, it doesn't involve quantum physics nor telepathy. But it was still my small triumph against hopelessness and felt remarkalby re-affirming as I was convinced I was out of options at that point of wallowing and self-pity. Surely this building was not over-looked against every small security detail. But then again, is it really a wonder we lose all these secrets to China and Russia? That I, 19 year old pist off male was able to gain access into a building that held juicy technology?
Anywho, I hope it doesn't dissapoint but like most endings I'm sure many of you will be really pist right now!
And yes, that was just all a lie and I just wasted a few seconds of your life by making you read that first part. Ok, now the real way it happened:
Okay guys, here it is. Xeomage is awfully close and I think polar guy was on the money but not quite.
This was my biggest problem. I somehow always seem to lock myself out all the time so I have some experience opening doors with the credit card trick and even using clothes hangers as make-shift wires.
I found one door that did not have the metal block for one odd reason or another but it was pretty well built so it was flushed exactly against the frame. No room for credit cards.
So what I did first was cut the "rope" that I mentioned on my cell phone and tried to hook it over the mechanical lock but I couldn't force the rope in as there was no space for it.
I dropped everything, and pushed the door as far as it would go with all my might to the left. This created a tiny space in the lock area and I shoved in a nickel so that I have some work space. I then tried to hook the rope around it as there was enough space for it to go in. Unfortunately, and MUCH to my dissapoitment, the rope still simply would not go around the metal catch.
At that point I was severely dissapointed and telling myself sleeping in the woods wouldn't be that bad and the bugs aren't gonna completely eat me alive or anything. Hey, its an adventure.
And while I was wallowing in self-pity, I was looking over the spilled contents and I see:
Ok. Jimminy Cricket! I promptly remove all the keys from the key chain leaving me with simply the circlular metal THINGIE. I then use my battered hands to pry open the metal into a make-shift wire. A very stiff wire and perfect for opening the metal catch.
As I inserted the metal wire and tried to force the metal catch to retreat, it worked. However, it still would not open because as soon as I tried to pull the door, the wire would slip out before the door was fully opened.
So, I took the two pennies and with some amount of patience and dexterity, positioned the two pennies inside the holding space for the metal catch. This held the catch enough for me to only need the wire to coax the catch from opening fully as a blast of air conditioned air hit my face.
At that point, I literally jumped for joy and kept calling myself, "The Man". That the bugs would not feast on my blood tonight. That I would sleep in my comfy bed. The door closed itself during my small albeit glorious celebration. I used the same trick to open it again, this time more careful to go inside before the door closed.
So there you have it. No, it doesn't involve quantum physics nor telepathy. But it was still my small triumph against hopelessness and felt remarkalby re-affirming as I was convinced I was out of options at that point of wallowing and self-pity. Surely this building was not over-looked against every small security detail. But then again, is it really a wonder we lose all these secrets to China and Russia? That I, 19 year old pist off male was able to gain access into a building that held juicy technology?
Anywho, I hope it doesn't dissapoint but like most endings I'm sure many of you will be really pist right now!
Hehe, actually I'm trying to choose between Computer Graphics and Computer Science. I will major/minor in some combination I'm sure.
DannyLove
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/stands up from work seat and applauds.
good job, good writing and smart moves.
You just sucked 15 mins of my work time reading and thinking on this thread. It's threads like these that SHOULD be in the OT forum. You have excellent writing and I enjoyed every single damn sentence which you presented before us. I hope you can come back and post more enthusiastic, and truely detailed adventures, along with your writing. good job! you need to write some short stories!
danny~!
good job, good writing and smart moves.
You just sucked 15 mins of my work time reading and thinking on this thread. It's threads like these that SHOULD be in the OT forum. You have excellent writing and I enjoyed every single damn sentence which you presented before us. I hope you can come back and post more enthusiastic, and truely detailed adventures, along with your writing.
good job! you need to write some short stories!danny~!
Great story and great writing!
Did anyone else read the story in the other forum that Yo-yo posted? I thought it was funny how a lot of the replies were the same...and this one was just too similar to Dam's...lol, I s'pose great minds think alike
<< you hitched hiked home by means of prostituting your body to people driving by.
dam(btw, nice writing)
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Nexus Ars Centurion
From: cincy, ohio, USA!
Registered: January 26, 2000
Posts: 2675
You pimped yourself out as a prostitute for rides home? >>
Did anyone else read the story in the other forum that Yo-yo posted? I thought it was funny how a lot of the replies were the same...and this one was just too similar to Dam's...lol, I s'pose great minds think alike
<< you hitched hiked home by means of prostituting your body to people driving by.
dam(btw, nice writing)
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Nexus Ars Centurion
From: cincy, ohio, USA!
Registered: January 26, 2000
Posts: 2675
You pimped yourself out as a prostitute for rides home? >>
yuo know, you should report that the building is not properly secired and there is a possibility to enter through that door
<< The door closed itself during my small albeit glorious celebration >>
HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
BWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
I KNEW THAT WAS GOING TO HAPPEN!
LMFAO
Hehe. I'm pondering on whether to report the building isn't completely secure. Of course, if I make the same mistakes twice, I'd be really screwed and would have to become a woodsman. Then again, there is that matter of National Security...
National security or your nuts getting eaten down to nubs by annoying little gnats!??
Easy question for me to answer.
Easy question for me to answer.
Absoultly remarkable writtign skills man.. very few times do you ever get to read a post with such great technique.
very enjoyable to read.
-=nate239468
very enjoyable to read.
-=nate239468
<< Great story and great writing!
Did anyone else read the story in the other forum that Yo-yo posted? I thought it was funny how a lot of the replies were the same...and this one was just too similar to Dam's...lol, I s'pose great minds think alike
<< you hitched hiked home by means of prostituting your body to people driving by.
dam(btw, nice writing)
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Nexus Ars Centurion
From: cincy, ohio, USA!
Registered: January 26, 2000
Posts: 2675
You pimped yourself out as a prostitute for rides home? >>
>>
LOL, damn that bastard!!!
dam()
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