Ed & Julie

The application icons are kept under different categories (games, main, most used, system, utilities, unfiled, etc). You can choose the "all" category in the upper right corner of the main screen. If it installed onto your Palm, you should see it. Ed

That is a municipal code you quoted...not the California Penal Code (602 PC, which is similar).

I attmpted to find a cache today. As I pulled up to park, I found myself at a canal. I parked on the street by the canal bridge. The cache was hidden in a tree 200 feet down the canal road. At the beginning of the road, was a sign. I chose no to pass or attempt the find, since the cache page stated nothing about permission given. I logged it as a note only since Iwasthisclose to the tree, but couldn't get to it. I read "private property" as "stay out". The next 2 cachers log finds, and the cache owner posted a note stating the sign only conderns swinners and the nearby canal bridge. So...if you had seen thi sign, would looked for the cache, or walked away?

What I have found is the slow degradation of the quality of hides. Like a copy of a copy of a copy. When I began (mid-2003), regular sized caches were the norm. Microcaches existed, but only in small numbers. As time passed, more people began hiding more micros, urban micros became common. The nanocache was born. More time passed, more people began caching, saw all the micros, and began placng micros is huge numbers, thinking that was the norm and expected. Nanos became prevalant, and new cachers concidered anything bigger than a film cannister (AOL tin, medicine bottle, altoids tin) to be "small" and "regular". It became "all about the numbers". Now we are where we are, awash in a sea of micros hidden under every LPS, Wal-Mart parking lot, guardrail, and newspaper box. High-numbers cachers are praised, and high-numbers hiders are revered. I havebeenthisclose to commiting geocide so many times I have lost count, but keep finding reasons not to. Just today, I found 14 caches by a relattivly new cacher, and 10 were at least true small-sized or larger, and took me on a 80 mile round trip out in the country to some nice places...guess I will stick around a little longer.

from http://www.unc.edu/~rowlett/units/dictD.html

In all the history of drug addiction and abuse can anyone show me one case where a doper hid his stash under a light skirt in a parking lot? Not LPCs, but in Chico, California we (Chico PD) have had documented drug deals conducted with magnetic key containers near apartment complexes and public parks.

These are the things that just make me shake my head. Do you find that level of service acceptable with every other entity you do business with? The example I have used in the past is the newspaper. I have a subscription to it. I pay the money and they tell me they will give me a paper everyday. I don't read it everyday but that is my business. What I do with it when I get is up to me. But they still better deliver it. I would not be happy if they would not deliver my paper because one day they ran out of ink, or the presses were just not fast enough that day, or the person delivering it just ran out of time, or the writers just could not get it together enough to type out an article. If you really find those kinds of things acceptable I have a huge list of goods and services I can be selling to you. All at amazing prices. Exactly what I was thinking. What Groundspeak doesn't say, but implies: "You pay a membership fee that allows you up to 5 pocket queries a day, but please run far fewer than that, our resources cannot handle the maximum PQ requests several days of the week".

Geocaching car flags would rock!!!

http://unite.geocaching.com/

Check your local laws. In California, you are required to display your front plate...you cannot replace it with a novelty plate.

Replaced the missing cache with a...styrofoam cup (and logged a find!!!!):

From a time travel-themed cache: Permission to boost your find count... granted.

From a cache which requires the logs be mis-spelled: Even spelled wrong, it's logging a find on a cache that you didn't

I have been using Yahoo as my primary email for years, and have had no issues.

Has been an issue...will always be an issue. From 2003-2004-2005-2006-2007 (paraphrased): pfffft...whatever

You need to check with the land manager for their policy on geocache placements. From the guidelines: http://www.geocaching.com/about/guidelines.aspx#offlimit

Did you not see the reply to the original post that there is a "testing" thread specifically for test posts???

Shirley U. Guest (?jest?) spelled wrong on puropse, or just need a disctionary?

No. Bad bad bad idea.

I saw a picture of an ammo box that ws spray painted with fleck stone paint to look like a marble headstone. When placed on end, it looked fairly realistic. The name painted on the face of the headstone was "Geo. Cache" I think it was posted in the "CCC cool cache container" thread.

Looks like you are looking for a very well-cammoed container, up high, bigger than a micro, smaller than a regular cache. Look for something that looks out of place (fake tree branch? Fake pine cone, or something similar?)

Here is a cache I found...someone even wrote "pipe bomb" on it. Luckily, my reviewer quickly archived it until the owner changed containers.

Maybe it's that permium members are no longer promised to get what we pay for. Keystone wrote in another thread: Premium membership, though inexpensive, has only a limited number of benifits. PQs are the greatest benifit, and we can no longer be assured we will get daily ones anymore.

No need for me to reply...that says it all for me.