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Someone do me! It is late and I can't quite work out the mechanics of figuring this out very easily. The NEW Toe Pages

In their defense, that thread has turned into a discussion about dogs and their owners. Not exactly a national paranoia type topic. The NEW Toe Pages

quote:Originally posted by BrianSnat:We Geocachers are always concerned about the impact our sport may have on the surrounding area. Accordingly, we are are eager to address any problem that has been brought to our attention. Bull ****. Just because we are all grouped in a particular hobby, you can't just assume everyone is going to do "the right thing" all the time. Just read back through the forums, you'll see many people who don't care what they have to kill or cut down in order to find a cache. And as for cachers being willing to address any problems... well, that is a big crock of **** as well. Sure, MOST geocachers are considerate of people and places... but not all of them. Hell, just look at that recent thread where someone was removing caches that they thought were poorly placed. You can tell from many of the heated replies in that thread that people aren't always going to be helpful and considerate if the caches they have placed are question or accused of being illegally or poorly placed. The NEW Toe Pages

Like some other people have said and suggested... there are enough american crazies to keep us watching our backs most of the time. Adding a few more from other countries isn't gonna make it that much worse. ie: I'm not worried about being blown up by an Arab nearly as much as I'm worried about the white trash in this apartment complex busting into my place and taking all my stuff. The NEW Toe Pages ( I'm still thinking back a few days to the OSU campus riots... a prime example of american moron behavior. Middle class white guys can be just as scary as 'crazy' isreali suicide bombers sometimes. )

Yeah... go here and convince those damned politicians that I have a right to carry my .45 when I'm going geocaching, dammit! The NEW Toe Pages I live in central Ohio, home of the rioting moron OSU campus people. Things might not have gotten quite as bad if the cops could have shot a few of those folks in the knees when they started tipping over cars. *laugh*

1. Do you ever use the hints, i.e., is it bad form to use it, or do you always use the hint? Just to make it challenging for myself, I try not to use the hint unless I'm completely stumped. In fact, I'm a little bit stubborn about it - and it has cost me a couple of finds. I'll download a bunch of waypoints and head off without any hints or descriptions, and I'll end up not finding a couple of them that I could have found for sure with the hints. I guess I'd rather go without hints and fail, first - and then use the hints if I really have to. I feel like it is more of an accomplishment to do it without hints. 2. Do you use the GPS exclusively, or do you just use the description to get the booty? I almost always use the GPSr all the way up to the hiding spot. There have been a couple where it wasn't needed, but I still tend to leave it on all the way up to the spot. 3. Do you ever e-mail the cache hider for clues if you cannot find the cache? I've done that a couple of times... not only to get hints, but to let the hider know that just because I wasn't able to find it - that they shouldn't worry that it isn't there anymore or something. I know that when someone logs a "not found" on one of my caches, I get concerned that it was stolen or damaged. When I post a "not found" on a cache, it is probably due to my lack of hunting skills - rather than a missing cache. The NEW Toe Pages

His non-updating cam image reminds me of the early days of webcams on the net - I'm sure most of us remember the popular "toilet cam" which was later proven to be bogus, and very static. The image, that is... it didn't change. Umm.. anyway... The NEW Toe Pages

Nope, your eyes weren't tricking you... Mort ended up spending an extra weekend here. My wife actually took him in to the pet hospital there, because they were supposed to pick him up on Friday - but the lady that comes to get the animals had a family emergency and wasn't able to make it that day. So, we had the option of leaving Mort in a cage all weekend at the hospital, or letting him come home with us for a couple more days. He left this morning, though - the lady hasn't picked him up from the hospital yet, but by the end of the day Mort should be on his way to Dayton. Kinda sad... I just woke up this morning, wife had already gone to work - and took Mort with her. *sniffle* The NEW Toe Pages

Homewatcher and Gotcha are good programs for this kinda stuff. One of my buddies actually used Homewatcher (free) to catch someone that was screwing around in his cubicle at work. That's what prompted me to use it on my webcam page. It is kinda nice in that it doesn't waste bandwidth / HD space on the same picture over and over... only reacts when it notices motion. Sorry if this was already mentioned - I didn't read every post in this thread... just trying to catch up real quick. The NEW Toe Pages

Yeah - I've been picking up a bad habit lately... if I am responding to the last post in a thread, I don't quote - I just reply. Kinda like you did to me, which was why I wasn't sure if you were talking to me. *laugh* The NEW Toe Pages

Yeah, people suck. The NEW Toe Pages

quote:Originally posted by Markwell:Nope - you missed the point. Umm, if you are talking to me... my last post wasn't in response to anything you said. My reply was to Big Red One's post right above mine. And the way I read it, it looks like he was saying some cache owners will remove other people's bugs from their caches - in hopes of increasing traffic due to people wanting to get the bug. But actually, after the first person doesn't find the bug - they'll post about it in the log, and other people wouldn't come for the bug after that anyway. If you weren't talking to me, then I apologize. The NEW Toe Pages

I don't think it would be unwanted. If I saw that there was a bug in a local cache that was made up of several dozen keychains from around the world - I think I'd actually go out of my way to go get it. Sounds pretty neat to me. Believe it or not, I've actually got a cache in my car waiting for a good hiding spot... its only contents are keychains. Good luck in not having someone swipe the bug and all its keychains, though... you'd be lucky to get 10 months travel out of that one, let alone 10 years. The NEW Toe Pages

quote:Originally posted by Team GPSaxophone:A "Printable Travel Bug Tag" appears to be a de-evolution of the metal travel bug. I think we need something to make them better. Making them cheaper, and quicker to receive... that seems "better" to me. Besides, just because you can print the tracking number out on paper, it doesn't mean you have to do that. You can engrave it, use permanent marker, embroider it, whatever you want. I still think it is a pretty good idea... although, apparently moved to a back burner. The NEW Toe Pages

Yeah, I've been lucky with avoiding animals most of the time. I hit a deer a long time ago, and this was the only thing I've run down since then I think. I ran over a rabbit last spring, but it did one of those "under the car, but not under the tire" things where you see him go rolling down the road in your rear view mirror. My wife happened to be following me at the time, and she said he got up and hopped away after he shook away all the cobwebs. The NEW Toe Pages

I was watching TLC or Discovery Channel or something the other day, and they were showing these folks in the middle of nowhere - base jumping into this giant hole in the ground. I wasn't awake enough to catch the name or location, but it is this huge cave/hole/whatever - people jump in, then get pullied back out. I was hoping one of them would place a cache there. The NEW Toe Pages edit: I think it was this place.

I discouraged a large possum from doing much of anything anymore, just about an hour or so ago. (See my post in the complaint thread.) The NEW Toe Pages

Whatever they are called, they're dadgum stupid. I'm the only car going down this crappy country road, around midnight - not another car for miles, and this stupid possum decides to try and cross the road in front of my car. So, I'm complaining that I had to spend the last 15 minutes hosing the blood and fur off of my right front wheel / wheel well. The NEW Toe Pages

Sounds like the best thing to do in a situation like that is to let the owner of the bug know, so they can reclaim it if they want. Although, I have to wonder, how is it that a person would know when a cache owner has actually taken the bug from the cache themselves, without logging it? The NEW Toe Pages

Yeah, I've seen that article... but it still doesn't get down to the blood and guts of the systems and programs used. I'm going for the real nerdy info here - you know, processors, system specs, all that crap. Good job on the markwelling, though - I probably wouldn't have looked at that thread with such a generic subject line. The NEW Toe Pages

True. I'm pretty much just a dork, and I still replaced the tie rods in my 1979 Olds Delta 88 several years ago. Not because I wanted to, but because I was stinkin' poor at the time. The NEW Toe Pages

If you've seen any Nascar races over the past couple of years, you probably have noticed how they have realtime tracking of a car's location on the track, speed, distance from other cars, etc. Of course a lot of this data comes from GPS based technology, but I haven't been able to find out much detailed info about the systems/software that they use. Just wondering if anyone has any inside info. Very basic description of what I'm talking about. The NEW Toe Pages

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quote:Originally posted by Dekaner of Team KKF2A:The difference is that this could be a low cost alternative to be able to track signature items. Oh. I gathered from the original post that they thought running a tracking site would be fairly expensive, and therefore I assumed that the cost to use the site (or buy the geothings) would be expensive as well. Aren't there already several "asset tracking" web sites? I haven't seen them, but I've heard them mentioned in different threads around the net... er... seen them mentioned, rather. The NEW Toe Pages

When you make a log on the cache where you placed the bug, you have to select from a little pull-down menu at the bottom of the page, and select the travel bug to be "left behind" in the cache. When you do that, the little bug icon should show up next to the cache name/icon - as it will then know that the bug has been placed into that cache. Hope that is what you needed - good luck. I'm sure someone will post a faq or another thread or something too, that will have more detailed info if you need it. The NEW Toe Pages