GeneralBracket

quote:For me it was "It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World"which I feel is the all-time best geocaching movie of all time. Time Bandits. THAT was a good caching movie. No GPSr. All they needed was a map.

Ah the high school days. <sigh> The person below me once stomped a burning doot bag on their porch.

I'm so fantastically bored at work today. Days this boring are rare. Sooo... here's what I spent my time doing. Write your own geocaching song. ---------------------------- Sung to the tune Jeremy by Pearl Jam At home Loading waypoints Of caching spots With his laptop Caching to be done Arm raised to receive Said "they, need a portal" Said he wanted to list some caches And the coordinates of exactly where King Jeremy the Admin's Vision unfulred Jeremy's website, is Geocaching Jeremy's website, is Geocaching Clearly I remember Caching with the boy Always left a Hotwheels truck The dollar store's where he'd buy them Cached all day and did his best How could I forget Then he hid his very first cache Marked the coordinates Of the ammo box He hid that day That day in the dirt The memory was in suspension He knew this was something, he wanted to share King Jeremy the Admin's Vision unfulred Jeremy's website, is Geocaching Jeremy's website, is Geocaching Try to log this Try to cache this With the right coords Jeremy's website, is Geocaching Jeremy's website, is Geocaching

I was actually posting in reply to the rolleyes post. And I wasn't trying appear as if I was calming you down. I was trying make you appear as if you were taking more stock in this dopey conversion than you were, thereby making you appear as an extremeist, reinforcing my original statement, and making me look superior. Did anyone fall for it? Of course they did. I have them all under my spell. Who's trolling now? You I guess. Was just me near as I can tell. (Maybe you thought I was refering to someone else when I said it was a troll??) Those little icons are for WEAKLINGS!! A well tuned sense of humor need no help from lowly emotes! They leave no room for the extremeists, fundamentalists, and PC people to interpret incorrectly and get upset! WHAT GOOD IS THAT??!! <ahem> Carry on.

Hmmm... Doesn't jive with THIS list (look under "Web Total" for hides + finds). Granted this is only for finds in Arizona, but some of the folks on this list ought to be on the Leaderboard (as near as I can tell) and aren't. Team Wyle"E" for example. I didn't research it so there may be an explanation.

EDIT: Nevermind.

quote:Originally posted by worldtraveler:Now _that_ is humorous, whether intentional or not. Isn't it funny how we tend to automatically think anyone who doesn't share _our_ worldview is an _extremist_, and how quickly we resort to _name-calling_ in an attempt to discredit those with opinions contrary to our own? Hmmm... That is funny. It was a troll. Don't get all bunged up. This thread is a great pot to stir. Have a little fun for crying out loud.

You're closer. The person below me is even closer.

The person above me is paying very close attention to the divorce thread. Taking notes even.

Blah blah blah blah... Everyone is taking this thread way too seriously. Wise up T360. You should know better. A topic like this always calls out the conservation extremeists and religious fundametalists. Then there's the no-sense-of-humor "PC is the way to be!" bunch, but any topic that has the slightest hint of controversiality calls them out. quote:Well, there's always next year. ROTFLMAO! How refreshing. [This message was edited by General Bracket on July 10, 2003 at 11:09 AM.]

quote:It's a silly and simplistic argument. Ahhh, but true none the less. It depends soley on your frame of reference.

Oh yeah. Don't forget THIS. Be prepared to be offended. If you're easily offended, run for your life and DON'T CLICK THE LINK!!! EDIT: THIS ONE applies too somewhat. Not as bad, but still potentially offensive. Not for the timid in ether case. [This message was edited by General Bracket on July 09, 2003 at 09:18 PM.]

quote:Originally posted by worldtraveler:I agree completely with your conclusion that our geocaching activities have minimal immediate impact on the environment and zero impact in the long run, but I disagree with the premise on which it was built. The same source that gave the world knowledge of a person named Moses in Egypt also states man was created on the 6th day, that we are considerably more significant than just a blip in the great scheme of things, and that we will still be here for the end of the story (which could be considerably less than 10,000 years from now.) Worldtraveler The source you speak of also gave the world knowledge of a person named Carl Sagan, who's cosmic calendar shows that we are but the last second of December 31st of the cosmic year. As that calendar further condenses as time goes on, we, and the earth for that matter, will eventually cease to exist in any meaningful way in the history of the universe. Not a blip, less than a blip. Less than less than a blip. Not even a microscopic scratch on the universe. The source also gave fourth knowledge of the great Stephen Hawking who said, "What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary."

This is what we have here. Pretty cool. You can get video feeds of the freeways before you leave work/home. Yeah. I know most big cities have freeway cameras.

quote:Originally posted by The Gowen Family:I may get groaned off by the guys. But if my husband went out and bought a $300 dollar GPS, without talking it over with me, I would have a few choice words for him. We go together and take our two girls with us. (10 months and 3 1/2 years) We have a Garmin 76, and we have been taking turns using it. I would talk it over with your wife, As much as I love GeoCaching, I love my husband more and would work it out, before I divorced him over it. <heh> Yeah. Groan. I'll spend $400 on anything I want and no discussion is necessary. Just like when she drops $400 at Victorias Secret without discussing it with me. My money is my money. Her money is her money. Being married doesn't mean you have to share a checking account, savings account, or any other finances. Married people who can't be individuals too is a big pet-peeve of mine.

My first screen name was Col. Bracket. I used this because WAY back in the day me and a friend of mine used to play a computer game called LHX. It was a helicopter sim game. When typing a name into the game I began to type "Col." and accidently hit the "[" key. And so it was "Col. [" (bracket). We'll after a few years it became clear that nobody got the joke. At the time it didn't occur to me to just type out the word "Bracket". So, I went in search of a new nym. Back then one of my favorite movies was Planet of the Apes (the original). I wanted to pick a character name from the movie. Thinking (correctly in retrospect) that a remake could happen one day, I wanted to choose an obscure name that would be unlikely to make it into a remake. So it was to be General Ursus, the ape general from the second movie, Beneath Planet of the Apes. I used that for a long time. Recently (a few months ago) I discovered a rather unsavory character had been using the nym. I traced it back as far as I could but was unable to prove who used it first. I just decided to abandon it and look for a new one. I remembered my old nym and this time it did occur to me to just spell it out. So, I decided to reclaim it and keep the promotion I had received when changing the first time. So it's General Bracket.

Oh I know what they are. They're just like virtuals. Hides for lazy people. The person below me thinks virtual caches are the greatest thing since the Internet.

Probably your web browser cache. Clear it and see what happens.

"Uncover the cache boy! Uncover it! Gooood badger." "Hmmm... looks like someone destroyed this cache. Better recommend archiving." The person below me likes to badger their caching partner about the fact that they never found a cache by themselves. The person below me thinks that without them, their caching partner would be just another muggle in a sea of muggles.

Why not use a LEXAN Nalgene bottle?

<heh heh heh> I didn't think anyone would actually do it. The person below me hopes this thread will go on to 20 pages.

This has been a test of the emergency caching system. The geocachers in your area in voluntary cooperation with federal, state, and local cachers have developed this system to keep you informed of a caching emergency. If this had been an actual emergency, the posts you just saw would have been followed by official news, information or instructions. This concludes this test of the emegency caching system.

That's like the fourth time I've seen that one. Great episode. I looooove SG1. I'm not much for sitting in front of the idiot box, but my Monday and Friday nights are booked on the SciFi channel. SG-1 is on at just the right time on Friday to head out to the bar afterward. One of my favorite shows for certain. Thinking of making an SG1-based cache, but I'm kinda lazy. Reminds me, I miss FireFly.

Ah. My bad. Misunderstood. You want a cache nearby you can hit in a few minutes without getting in the car. I feel your pain. I have the same problem here. I work down town and within walking distance there's nothing but blasted virtuals. Ugh.

Orlando has no parks or lakes?! Cripes! It just came off my list of places to go. It doens't actually have to be in a park or a community area, it only has to be accessible without trespassing. There's a cache here behind some trees on the other side of a canal next to a power station. It's actually an ok cache. Just get creative. Put in the leg work and I'm sure you'll find a great spot.