WalruZ
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I recently sent a "contact another geocacher" email and received a reply (from earthlink) that it had been directed into a bulk mail folder. I wouldn't be suprised at all if many of the "people won't answer me!" threads are really a case of email shot down by spam assasin and it's ilk. Has this issue been raised before?
(the other contact's email reached me rather than being grabbed by Yahoo's spam filter.)
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this reminds me of a test a teacher gave us once in high school. the first line said, "read all these directions and questions before doing anything". then there were a whole bunch of easy questions. the last item was, "now that you have read everything, don't answer the questions. put your name at the top and hand the paper in."
read badanny's post, the transition between 2002 and 2003.
I wonder if TPTB could come up with statistics on the average "active life" of a geocaching.com member? It would make for an interesting graph too...
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I'm concerned and saddened for all who lost homes or loved ones in these fires.
That said, I'm very curious...
Why is there so much fuel in these areas? I understand some of them are remote, but is there no forest management in areas that contain homes? Yes, I know there are flames 100s of feet high and all, but they would not be that way were it not for fuel underneath.
Up here in NorCal we learned from the Oakland Hills fire that the hills were just loaded with flammables, ready to go. It almost didn't matter how the fire started, it was going to start eventually and when it did it was awesome. Underbrush management is taken much more seriously in that area now.
If I were losing my home to wildfire because of poor land management, I would be pissed. It's like someone stacking kindling around your house.
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The nice thing to do is to explain and/or link to pages that explain the operations you're trying to communicate. It sounds like a neat way to educate people about compass use. I would drive to Gilroy to do a cache like that.
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Now that there are no more spoilers involved, could you describe what the container was? It seemed to have garnered many comments...
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I've left an SBA for a cache that came up with multiple DNFs in a busy park across the street from me. It was *way* obvious that the sucker was gona-a-roonie. The PTB attempted to contact the cache owner and it sat for awhile, then was archived. In such situations, an SBA says "this problem needs to be dealt with."
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Ha. I'm across the bay. Good luck.
The way to be FTF in our area is to check your nearest listings every hour for new caches, particularly 10pm and 5am. Have everything packed and ready to go in advance, as if you were ready to deliver a baby. Print out the cache page and leave at once. Drive there in the dark. Ignore the "park does not open until 8am" signs. Bring a flashlight. Aerobic fortitude is helpful. A mountain bike helps level the playing field if you can manage that.
A new cache came online in Coyote Hills this morning sometime after midnight. I was out there at 9am to find someone had already gotten underway at 7:15. We ended together, but he deserved (and got) the FTF.
It is madness....
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Fewer hours of daylight. October is the month with the greatest loss of daylight per week, as shown on an analemma (look at your globe, or this somewhat crude one). Working people are entering the hive when the sun comes up and leaving as the sun goes down.
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Depends on how close they are. A few new caches came online about 8 miles away and I pretty much ignored them, but this morning a new 7 stage multi came online, early, right in my area. I got everything together and was there before 9am, only to find someone had gotten there at dawn, earlier than I would have thought the park was even open. (urban area, parks 'open' and 'close', tickets and severe tire damage to those who disobey.)
I was on bike, he was on foot. I caught up with him on the way to the final cache. He was not suprised to find that someone was coming up on his tail. Naturally because I was second all the way he got the FTF. The 'race' aspect of the whole thing really gave this multi a whole different flavor.
That's probably it. It's not so much finding the cache first as it is beating [insert name here] who always seems to be there right away.
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Critical mass is very important for any business. Toys-R-Us gained dominance in the marketplace because they had more selection than anyone else. At one time they bragged that they carried every toy made. AFA web based businesses, look at eBay - there are other players who have tried to do auctions (and done pretty well, software-wise), but eBay is where the buyers (cachers) are, thus eBay is where the sellers (hiders) go. Once you have achived critical mass you are golden - unless you screw it up. GeoCaching.com - so far, so good.
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Take it outside and wait for a lock. Mine is Ok, I took it out today.
GPS signals are (among other things) time signals. the sats send out the current time to a very fine accuracy, and it's the delay between transmission and reception that tells the receiver how far the sat is from you. If there's one thing the unit should know it's what time it is.
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I wish the original voting choices had included "I find 'counting coupe' just a little sad and pathetic"
-- which is in fact what I think. Sure, it's a game, they are game pieces, you can do what you want. But that's what I think.
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hmm. 69 found, 4 not found. all not founds were later found to be missing.
BUT. I don't log a not found unless I really really looked, hard, and all indications point to a missing cache. Sometimes I pay a visit and have 'reasonable doubt' that I've done all I could do, so I watch the cache for awhile and see if someone else found it. Either way I eventually pay another visit, and usually the 2nd visit turns it up.
I don't agree that you should log an DNF even if you failed to reach the cache site. A log that reads, "Drove to the trailhead but didn't feel like hiking up there in the remaining daylight" just doesn't do anything for me. It's not a "did not find", it's a "did not LOOK". We care about that why?
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>> Just to be clear: it's a SOUTHERN California thing
It is indeed. Northern Californians can spot a Southern Californian dead on when this usage appears. 101 runs from SF to LA - in the SF bay area we say "take 101", or "it's off 101". In LA they say "take the 101", etc. Southern Californians are puzzled in NorCal - they're suprised that people don't talk that way everywhere.
I'm sure there's a linguist out there who could have (and probably has had) a field day with this.
Good luck, peoples...
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I do it because a year ago a friend got me to visit the eDiets site long enough to cough up my email address. Ever since then I get weekly emails from them saying, "The reason you're FAT is because you spend all your time sitting on your LAZY BUTT.", etc, etc. Every time I get one I get out and visit an N/3 cache.
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This is caused by hot air over the central part of the state being sucked downhill towards the ocean, a reversal of the noraml cimate trend of cool ocean breezes being blown onshore. As the air sinks it heats and speeds up, temps soar and any fire that starts spreads due to a "bellows" effect.
Temps will be in the 90s again today here in the SF bay area. Some of my favorite parks are closed due to fire danger, but we have no fires here.
I have a friend attending Usenix in San Diego who called and said it was like watching the end of the world. Check out this Photo Slideshow
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For something to be a fad it has to be wildy popular and then become passe. GC has not even gotten to the wildly popular phase yet. Other than the run of the mill urban micros, geocaching is an adjunct to hiking. I don't think it will every be wildly popular for that reason. Probably much like orienteering it will be something that some people do regularly and some more people have tried, but that most people are unaware of. The people who stick with it are those who like the idea of humping 5 miles up a steep grade every now and then. Ever notice how geocaches are attracted to hilltops? Why is that?
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"She really wants a color unit"
-- one word. Paint.
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I personally fall in the "micros are boring" camp.
When I pull up a cache page and look at the type, I see one of a number of things. Regular. Multi. Virtual. Unknown (puzzle). and Micro. Micro is already treated as a type, because the word on the page is different from Regular. It's already in the data, so why can't it have a different icon?
I don't really care if pages identify the stages of a multi as micro or not, or a puzzle as a micro or not. I just want to know if the garden variety cache in the search results is a film cannister or not.
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where does one get these "dry bags"
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If you are out on vacation you can usually stop by almost any public library and use the net for free. I've done so many times.
Voice output is terribly low bandwidth compared to the amount of information that is on a cache web page. You don't really want to go there.
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hey, it could be a premium feature!
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More than once I've seen Marky cache through areas near to me, seeding caches with TBs so that other cachers can find them and move them around. Were it not for his frighteningly obsessive (they've found the gene for that, btw) pursuit of this game/hobby/pasttime, the SJ/SF bay area would be very much the poorer.
WalruZ <- no longer a sockpuppet (ie, divorced.)
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it would certainly be nice if that were expandable, like the watch list link.
I have a vaguely related suggestion for a perhaps premium feature. I often see or hear about caches I would like to visit, and the only way I have to bookmark them is to watch them - which results in emails. I would like a bookmark feature very similar to the watch feature. I would use it for caches I plan to visit in the future.
yeah, I know. a project manager works from sun to sun, but a programmers work is never done.
No bumper stickers in the store?
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I had a bunch printed that read "GeoCachers know how to find it" - I use 'em for FTFs.