drfred

Hey, I know some trees that like to have tacks and nails stuck in them (and they really like the way they glisten in the moonlight). Why can't anyone stick up for the pain as pleasure crowd? Try thinking of that while lying awake with your windows open!

Any cachers who live in Seattle please e-mail me - I am a lone cacher in a family of 4 - wife and kids 6 and 4. They really want to go whale watching. My wife and I have been to Puget Sound before and saw orcas and gray whales and lots of bald eagles and had a great time. We are headed up that way for GWVIII, but I am a lone geocacher and need some help as to what to do with my family while we are in the area. I understand if you redirect me to a site for GWVIII but please make it a relevant page. I know we'll have a great trip, but any help is appreciated! e-mail me directly at thos.nielsen@gmail.com. Thanks!

Good to know. My point is now doubly poignant. Reviewers need some guidance as to how to deal with newbies that don't know better....

"Easy Cache" killed me, too! Really it was not so easy, either terrain or find, and today may be a 3/3, although it was listed as a 1.5/1.5 at the time...too bad the hider dropped out...(or may be good?)

"winter" is a relative term here in AL. "winter" generally means no poison ivy... "winter" occasionally means snow, but usually just a dusting... "winter" is only about 1-2 months of the year here... So yes, poison ivy free is a great thing, and moderate temps are a great thing too - not many people relish caching in 95+ weather. But caching year-round is the ultimate end...

Just a quick related question - can you add a picture or background to the cache site without uploading a picture to the site? My caches have a "linked" picture to the page, on the page...see GC1NHAD Of course we can link to pictures off gc.xom, but as many have found out over the years these links are tenuous, at best... So what is the best way to upload a background or other picture to GC.com??

Lots of newbies don't understand the rules fully - hey, I didn't and mistakenly archived a cache I wanted to check on back about 7 years ago...the reviewer took pity on me and reactivated it. Anyway, I think one issue that keeps coming up here in the forums is related to the tone of the form messages. I've been using the web since before it was the web - and e-mail even before that - and have recognized the danger of the lack of context and body language. 1) GC should make their form messages more user friendly by making them nicer and less likely to be misconstrued. So put in possibly a few phrases such as... "we greatly appreciate your placement of a cache, but..." "your cache placement may be perfectly acceptable, but the information that was provided does not make your intent clear..." or even "although your idea of a cache may be acceptable to a perfect nut-job, we..." 2) Reviewers need to be more understanding of newcomers and be friendly, see #1

Besides, any of the above things could now be posted as a "challenge cache". Challenge: Get married, be FTF on another cache and tell the story here, tell your log in an intelligible alliterative story. My challenge: If ALRs have to go, then challenges have to go. That's my story and I'm sticking to it, and I can meet just about any challenge in my area so that is not the issue...

Lets see... of your examples Wedding story: Wouldn't do alliteration: Wouldn't do FTF: Wouldn't to Make a fool of yourself: Wouldn't do See, I don't think any of those are fun. If it was fun, I may or may not do it. I guess this is why ALRs were banned. What the CO thinks is fun, the hunter may find extreamly uncomfortable. OK, I'll bite. So why not? I am not a big fan of ALRs that are ridiculous, but these seem harmless. If you don't want to do them, fine, and you can still sign the log, but really, are you that insecure? Come on - most of us really just want to share something while playing this game, and a few stories back from finders are a big motivation for hiders. So from above: Wedding story: sure, if you really want to hear about my celebration 17 years ago, I'll talk your ear off... alliteration: log a large legally located lode and laugh laudably! FTF: I've got hundreds and am proud of the fact (although GC could not care less) Make a fool of yourself: Hey, its an every day occurrence for me, so don't make a big deal of it! So give me a BFB! (e-mail me if you are so clueless!) The ALR "ban" is fine, but largely benefits cachers who either 1) are too rigid, fuddy-duddy, or stupid to know better or 2) live in an area where the hiders are #1

You should know better - Pai Mei should have taught you better. Unless you are not who you say you are...

Huh? What does posting facetious comments have to do with daffodils? I believe drfred was referring to narcissists, who are essentially huge egomaniacs... They think only of themselves. That still doesn't make any sense. I was making facetious comments about setting arbitrary restrictions on who can geocache. How does that have anything to do with a serious personality disorder? Even if he thought I was serious (which would be very, very sad), his comment makes no sense. Nothing, maybe, no, yes, and perhaps. I really didn't think you were serious. I hope you didn't think I was serious either. To sum up my position regarding hides: Kids: sure, with supervision. Adults: the jury is still out, and it depends on the hider. Maybe we should have a "hider quality" vote in the system and kick out people who just don't make the grade!

Don't even go all "Starbucks" on me - haven't set foot in there in years. I typically carry a load of AA batteries in my pockets when out caching. I'm the guy you go ask when YOUR batteries run out. Anyway, I really LIKE the fact that I can plug my iPhone in at home, in the car, and at work and almost never run into power problems. Again - WHY OH WHY can't the GPS companies "get it"??!?!

Yes what you say is true, but.... Any argument you can make I can make a defense, only better!

I agree that my phone should be a phone. My GPS should be a GPS. And my camera should be a camera. So if I don't want my GPS to be a phone or a camera, what should it be? I think it should be capable of handling tens of thousands (if not all) geocaches at one time. It should be able to handle reasonably detailed maps from the whole country at one time, and detailed road and topo maps from a region at one time. Real-time access to GC.com would be a plus. Once again, I say that memory is cheap, and I don't understand why Garmin says that the 2GB and 4GB cards will work in their products, but anything more may not. _____________________________________________________ A little story: I used to work for Compaq when that company made top end server products and not the crappy home computers they have become known for lately. We made a high end server product in the 1980s that used a RAID with 1GB drives and these could be chained together. The unit with 16 drives filled a PC case. You could then chain together multiple instances of these units to your server. The bottom line: up to 64 GB of storage space for your server! At the time that was beyond the comprehension of most computer experts, and many people told us we were wasting our time developing disk storage that would be beyond the needs of most companies, if not governments. Now, of course, this type of storage requirement is considered minimal, at best. So WHY OH WHY do Garmin and the other GPS companies not realize that the TB (thats terabyte) GPS is only waiting to happen. I think my phone will have a TB available before my GPS, and that is very sad, indeed. You may claim "BATTERY" which is what I hear over and over. But with USB plug-ins becoming available almost everywhere this is less and less of a concern.

Alright, I confess. My bad. I didn't do a search for Apartheid and missed the reference. I apologize for making a point of it. Still...

See post #10. You have never sent anything for publication in The Online Geocacher. You never sent anything for publication in Today's Cacher. As far as I know you've never sent anything for publication in FTF Geocacher. So, while I respect your right to tell us how we should operate, please pardon me if I don't take it too seriously! Thank you.

If you're talking about for the forums, then click the forums link along the left side of the page where you changed it. Hey, wow, that did it. Whoda thunk?

I think I'm going to be sick...and NO, that was not what I was referring to...

and narcissas...BTW, very appropriate name...

some changes take while to bubble through the system...i changed my sig line 2 days ago and no change yet...

Alright I went back through the posts and didn't see anything like this. Give me a break. If someone even types the word "race" now we have Apartheid references?!?!? I think that White Urkels shouldn't be allowed to cache.

Well lets just add a maximum age requirement and species requirement while were at it. Maybe we can add a motor vehicle access requirement too. Maybe also a minimum requirement for how much free time people have to cache. There problem solved right? Ooh... Ooh... Can we add a race requirement too? And make sure that all cache owners are good Catholics? Apartheid FTW! CCRF How about an intelligence requirement. That would probably get rid of 90% of the LPCs.

Got not only a NM log, but also a NA log because the cacher didn't like the location of one of my caches! Being a radius clearer/slave/whore myself, I can't let a cache lie that is close to me, but I'd never put in a NA because I just don't like the spot.

I know several 50+ year olds who play this game and should never have been allowed to place a cache. My son "found" his first cache with me at age 4 months. He has been there through years of tough finds. He now has a hide, although he is only 6 years old. He, more than most adults, understands the idea of maintaining a cache, as only a child can - he says that it would be "wrong" or "bad" if the cache was not there when someone else was looking for it. Are you telling me that he should not have this cache listed?

Yes we saw the next generation iPhone in its not-so-glorious debut after being supposedly found at a bar. I'll leave the details of that encounter up to the prosecutors in CA. Anyway, a great chipset is key to the ultimate GPSr. Anyone have insight into the best chipsets and why they are not in all modern units?