Rubbertoe

I just had to remove the credit card / bank account information that I've been using at PayPal - so I knew my subscription here would be cancelled as well... BUT - PayPal made it very clear what would happen if I removed that credit card. In big bold red letters: "Warning: You are removing the default payment method for one of your subscriptions. Removing it will automatically cancel the subscription. If you do not want the subscription to be cancelled, you may change your payment method by going to the "History" subtab of the "My Account" tab and selecting "subscriptions" from the drop-down menu. Click the Status of the subscription in question to go to the details page, where you may choose a new default payment method." So, I don't have any problem with the way PayPal handles things... it is more of an issue of the way the memberships HERE are immediately cancelled without considering when the last payment was actually made. So, yell at Jeremey, not PayPal. My next $3 was due at the beginning of Jan, so I pretty much just cancelled at the end of my regular month - so I'll probably be doing the $30 payment next time so I don't have to worry about it. The Toe Pages

I'm complaining that my charter membership is going to go away in a few minutes here, because I'm removing my credit card information from PayPal. The thing is, I am closing the debit card bank account that funds my PayPal account - and I'm not really crazy about linking a REAL credit card into PayPal's system. As soon as I sell some crap on eBay, I'll probably drop the whole $30/year deal, so I don't have to worry about it. Okay... here goes... The Toe Pages

I got one of those fancy color-screened digital phones with the GPS ability when using 911. I read a couple other posts in the forums about it - and from what I gathered, it isn't true GPS... but some sort of GPS-ish locating system using the communications towers/satellites, rather than the GPS system. Hope someone comes out with a program to allow usage as a simple location indicator. I don't need tracks, maps, and all that crap - but it'd be awesome if it would give lat/lon location if you wanna hide a cache on a spur of the moment and don't have your 'good' gps with ya. The Toe Pages

*laugh* Yeah - I like how people give solutions to the problem... but that didn't seem to be what you were asking for. It is like a post I made in a Nascar newsgroup the other day - asking if it looked like there would be enough full-time teams this year to be able to field 43 cars in every race. Got replies like: "It doesn't matter, nobody says there has to be 43 cars to race" "The TV contracts say they HAVE to have 43 cars to race" "What, if 43 cars don't show up there is no race? You're nuts" Heh... someone finally did end up posting a list of confirmed full-time teams this year, and it looks like there are only 40 confirmed as of a few days ago. But anyway - I would also like to know how the zip code "center" is determined on the site. I'm kinda hoping some insane mathmatics and area averaging are involved in the whole shmeal - somehow determining the mathmatical center of a zip code. The Toe Pages

Sad little stat-motivated sheep... yup. The Toe Pages

quote:Originally posted by welch:I strongly disagree, the thing that makes a Travel bug special is its Serial Number! With this special number they can easily be tracked through the geocaching.com site. Exactly. Any shmoe can take a happy meal toy, slap a tag around its neck, and send it out as a travel bug. Nothing terribly "special" about that. On the other hand, we could have the 'tagless' tracking numbers that could be used in much more creative ways. I mean - people could hand stitch their tracking numbers into a beanie babie, they could use a woodburning tool to burn the number into something, they could use fabric paint, they could even print the numbers onto coins, tokens, or wooden nickels. To me, ANY of those things would be as special as any ol' McToy with a metal tag, if not moreso. Yeah, and I know that people can still order metal tags and then just use the number if they want - leaving the tag off the bug... but that would be silly for a number of reasons. If someone doesn't want/need the tag, they shouldn't have be forced to pay more than if they could buy a reduced cost 'tagless' tracking number like Jeremy is suggesting. If you like the tags, then by all means continue to buy them... and if you see a travel bug in the wild that doesn't have a metal tag, and you don't like it - then just leave it in the cache. I really do find it interesting that some people find the idea of tagless tracking numbers so objectionable. I mean, it isn't like they are going to do away with the metal tags... it is just another option for people. Options are good. Choice is good. )

Something different? The Toe Pages

Let me re-state my opinion that it is quite lame to hide a cache that you didn't even make yourself. The Toe Pages

I've heard people claim as many as half of the people finding the caches don't make a note of it on the site here... I've had a handful of logs in my various caches, that I noticed weren't logged online - but not a bunch. I'm not so concerned with other people being able to see how many I have or haven't found - but it is nice for the cache hider to get notified online every time a cache is found... and it is just easier for me to let the site keep track of my stats, rather than doing it myself manually. The Toe Pages

See - there is something inherently evil about clowns... What kind of username is THIS?!?! And look at him! You can tell he's up to no good. The Toe Pages

quote:Originally posted by GeoPrincess:Hahaha. I made Rubbertoe look just like an elf from The Lord of the Rings. What a shame we can't save them to post here. Yeah - I was trying to figure out a way that people could save their images into a gallery on my site somewhere, but it is beyond my quite lame web coding capabilities. The Toe Pages

I added this bug to my watch list so I could see what happened after it was drug up to the NE side of the continent... looks like it is getting pretty screwy now. Check out this bug's travel - looks kinda screwed up, imho. The Toe Pages

If I had a surplus of income or cash in the bank, probably one of the first things I'd do is make a really neat multi-staged cache that would end with a bucket full of money. Heh - that's just one of MANY stupid things I'd end up doing if I had buttloads of money. Look at it this way... to a homeless person, or a person from a dirt-poor 3rd world country, they'd think that someone putting a $20 in a United Way donation jar must be insane. But to us, $20 isn't that big of a deal. So, if someone has a significant excess of cash - dropping a few hundred in a cache now and then wouldn't be that big of a deal I guess. The Toe Pages

I've got an '01 Elantra GLS - and the dashboard seems suited for holding things. Not just by itself, I mean... but if you jam the Vista vertically between the dash and the windshield, you'll be hard pressed to shake it loose. That rubber strip around the Vista really helps there too. The Toe Pages

This might be covered somewhere else, but a quick search didn't reveal anything to me... but I was looking at the Ohio map, zooming in a few times to the area that I wanted - and then I switched the indicator to "identify" and clicked on a cache I wanted to check out. The page appeared to load, but no cache information was given - just the same map image. Anyone else noticing this right now? The Toe Pages

This might not be a popular opinion, but... I don't like seeing people decorating their houses with "red white and blue" christmas lights. Now, if it is in a random manner, and you happen to only have red white and blue bulbs - that's fine... but don't go wadding up a bunch of red bulbs in one bush, white ones in the next bush, and blue ones in the last. Save your patriotism for another day... this isn't the season to celebrate freedom - this is the season that we celebrate SANTA! Oh, and those are some gross toes... *shudder* The Toe Pages

In the pockets: Tin of Ice Chunks menthol mints 2 wrapped "NIPS" caramel candies 2 ticket stubs from a drive-in showing of Spiderman Carmex lip balm 4 dead AAs 2 empty Dave and Busters gaming cards So, that's pretty much what goes with me when I take a long hike into the woods. *sigh* The Toe Pages

You heard it here first... when I win one, it is going to be a prize in my next cache. Might even be my first multi, if I get ambitious enough. The Toe Pages

I give it two enthusiastic thumbs up. The Toe Pages

I don't like all these poofy air filled christmas decorations... everybody and their brother has a blow up santa, snowman, bear, or tree in their yard. I don't know why i don't like them. I just dont. The Toe Pages

I don't think naming names here is fair to everyone... there are MANY folks who have provided help here for days, weeks, and months - if not even longer than that. I know that if I were trying to be helpful all the time, I'd be a little saddened if I didn't see my name at least mentioned here. Of course, I've never really been accused of being terribly friendly or helpful... but I'm sure there are folks out here who think they've done a great deal of good, but might not be mentioned at all here in this list. The Toe Pages

I notice this thread has a one-star rating. Obviously that means that it sucks, right? The Toe Pages

Free, and fairly idiot-proof. The Toe Pages

quote:Originally posted by Saito:Has anyone else had this occur? I switched credit card information on PayPal, and instantly I had a "new transaction" - and received an email staing that my membership to Groundspeak charter membership had been successfully cancelled! Just curious... did you remove your former card information before you entered the new one? If so, I'm sure the system assumed you were just removing your only source of subscription payment - and it cancelled your account accordingly. Unfortunately, it seems to tie into the memberships here a little too closely... there should be some way for 'the system' to realize how long a subscription was good for, and not assume it is automagically ended because you took away the source of funds for paypal. The Toe Pages

I thought it was Mike Skinner. The Toe Pages