Schuyler
@mrtowne.bsky.social
Gonna start trying to bridge from Mastodon & go from there: https://mastodon.social/@schuyler
Historian & Anthropologist of security technologies, once great lockpicker, now just a great dad.
Impossible to overstate how much I think about locks...
Historian & Anthropologist of security technologies, once great lockpicker, now just a great dad.
Impossible to overstate how much I think about locks...
"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."
October 16, 2025 at 7:11 PM
"I was married but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."
Well would you look at that...
Wish you were here, I suppose!
Wish you were here, I suppose!
October 7, 2025 at 10:48 PM
Well would you look at that...
Wish you were here, I suppose!
Wish you were here, I suppose!
Well would you look at that...
Wish you were here, I suppose!
Wish you were here, I suppose!
October 7, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Well would you look at that...
Wish you were here, I suppose!
Wish you were here, I suppose!
September 14, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Got to take my new kicks out to the city with my girls tonight. Thx @moxiest.art I love them
August 31, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Got to take my new kicks out to the city with my girls tonight. Thx @moxiest.art I love them
Huh. I did not at all expect that...
August 27, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Huh. I did not at all expect that...
Post a non-religious image you think of as holy...
August 22, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Post a non-religious image you think of as holy...
First: thank you so much! Second: I was expecting to be taught, but you totally surprised me.
After thinking, it seems to me like if things had stopped right here:
After thinking, it seems to me like if things had stopped right here:
August 15, 2025 at 8:10 PM
First: thank you so much! Second: I was expecting to be taught, but you totally surprised me.
After thinking, it seems to me like if things had stopped right here:
After thinking, it seems to me like if things had stopped right here:
Don't know if this is just a me problem, but I kept not being able to donate until I was logged in and refreshed the page. For two days I've been stuck on the spinning circle, even letting it go for 5 minutes at once point, but finally thought to log in first & this time it worked.
Good luck!
Good luck!
August 12, 2025 at 10:14 PM
Don't know if this is just a me problem, but I kept not being able to donate until I was logged in and refreshed the page. For two days I've been stuck on the spinning circle, even letting it go for 5 minutes at once point, but finally thought to log in first & this time it worked.
Good luck!
Good luck!
So good! Have you peeped his new show, yet? I haven't yet, but excited for it:
August 4, 2025 at 9:08 PM
So good! Have you peeped his new show, yet? I haven't yet, but excited for it:
Alright!
Here's the clip from Rififi:
drive.google.com/file/d/13NHC...
This is pretty edited, the actual heist sequence takes up about a 3rd of the film. Extraordinary. They do a ton of things INCREDIBLY well and accurately.
I'm hitting the road for Vermont, but I'll explain more soon!
15/?
Here's the clip from Rififi:
drive.google.com/file/d/13NHC...
This is pretty edited, the actual heist sequence takes up about a 3rd of the film. Extraordinary. They do a ton of things INCREDIBLY well and accurately.
I'm hitting the road for Vermont, but I'll explain more soon!
15/?
July 25, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Alright!
Here's the clip from Rififi:
drive.google.com/file/d/13NHC...
This is pretty edited, the actual heist sequence takes up about a 3rd of the film. Extraordinary. They do a ton of things INCREDIBLY well and accurately.
I'm hitting the road for Vermont, but I'll explain more soon!
15/?
Here's the clip from Rififi:
drive.google.com/file/d/13NHC...
This is pretty edited, the actual heist sequence takes up about a 3rd of the film. Extraordinary. They do a ton of things INCREDIBLY well and accurately.
I'm hitting the road for Vermont, but I'll explain more soon!
15/?
Back! Here is the wonderful Jessica Fletcher failing, miserably, to open a padlock:
6/SO MANY MORE
6/SO MANY MORE
July 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Back! Here is the wonderful Jessica Fletcher failing, miserably, to open a padlock:
6/SO MANY MORE
6/SO MANY MORE
Though these chests would be built for transport they were often used in institutional settings as proto-safes.
Eventually safe manufacturers began making consumer-facing home safes & inevitably began furniturizing those secure containers. A favorite example are boudoir safes:
3/14
Eventually safe manufacturers began making consumer-facing home safes & inevitably began furniturizing those secure containers. A favorite example are boudoir safes:
3/14
July 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
Though these chests would be built for transport they were often used in institutional settings as proto-safes.
Eventually safe manufacturers began making consumer-facing home safes & inevitably began furniturizing those secure containers. A favorite example are boudoir safes:
3/14
Eventually safe manufacturers began making consumer-facing home safes & inevitably began furniturizing those secure containers. A favorite example are boudoir safes:
3/14
In fact, some of the earliest "safes" were just big chests. Many of these were made in Germany in the 1600s and are commonly known as "Armada Chests" but that term came much later and were the result of Victorian imaginations more than actual history of Spanish ship-side security.
2/14
2/14
July 24, 2025 at 3:09 PM
In fact, some of the earliest "safes" were just big chests. Many of these were made in Germany in the 1600s and are commonly known as "Armada Chests" but that term came much later and were the result of Victorian imaginations more than actual history of Spanish ship-side security.
2/14
2/14
Post yourself from another era.
June 29, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Post yourself from another era.
@oddletters.bsky.social I know pets are inherently cuter, but here are the kiddos on their way to rob a bank, I think.
June 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
@oddletters.bsky.social I know pets are inherently cuter, but here are the kiddos on their way to rob a bank, I think.
The front row is empty.
Ugh. Feel free to mute me tonight. Gonna try to be cool, but it's not going to go well.
Ugh. Feel free to mute me tonight. Gonna try to be cool, but it's not going to go well.
June 11, 2025 at 2:40 AM
The front row is empty.
Ugh. Feel free to mute me tonight. Gonna try to be cool, but it's not going to go well.
Ugh. Feel free to mute me tonight. Gonna try to be cool, but it's not going to go well.
This guy is just a shaved Bigfoot
May 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
This guy is just a shaved Bigfoot
Oh goodness I LOVED these. Those and bubble gum juice were my absolute favs:
April 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Oh goodness I LOVED these. Those and bubble gum juice were my absolute favs:
Pretty hype to be an electron:
In particular because my 5yo daughter and I talk about electrons ALL THE TIME.
She loves them.
In particular because my 5yo daughter and I talk about electrons ALL THE TIME.
She loves them.
December 21, 2024 at 4:56 AM
Pretty hype to be an electron:
In particular because my 5yo daughter and I talk about electrons ALL THE TIME.
She loves them.
In particular because my 5yo daughter and I talk about electrons ALL THE TIME.
She loves them.