phildonnia

Is there a way to search by difficulty, say for all 1 & 2 difficulty or 1 & 2 terrain only? We are considering doing a mini-blitz and want to get as many as we can along our path. I noticed that the other site (navicache) does have this capability, but it's not very useful since they don't have nearly as many caches.

I must confess also to the guilty pleasure of leaving mine on as the plane was landing. We were only going 120 on landing. Generally, I respect the rules even when I don't obey them, and I'll even obey them when I don't understand them, but this all just smells like some random restriction. I agree with you; if electronic equipment were really a problem, then terrorists would be leaving their nail clippers home and sneaking cell phones on the plane.

I've always found it fun to play with the GPSr while on a plane trip. You don't have to just sit in your seat like a zombie; you can check out your speed, altitude, and see all the names of the rivers and towns you pass. This has never been a problem. I turn it off during takeoff and landing like you have to do with all electronic stuff. So I was flying from Florida to California on AA (I usually take SWA), and the flight attendant was appalled to see a GPS unit in use. I mean, I must have been trying to bring down the aircraft or something. They told me to turn it off immediately, and consult the magazind for the list of forbidden items. Sure enough, it specifically prohibits "Global Positioning System". I was of course unable to shut down the entire Global Positioning System (which might indeed have affected the plane's navigation systems), but I turned off my little Garmin. It was my understanding that the GPSr just receives signals, and shows you stuff on the screen. Does this really pose a threat to the airplane systems, or is this just a plot to turn us back into mindless passenger zombies, nothing more than cargo that occasionally demands ginger ale? Is this trend unique to American Airlines? Turning into a zombie again. "This is your captain.. we'll be cruising at an altitude of grsmumbble mubbrrel. If you look out the right side of the aircraft you'll see something or other, you mindless passenger zombie. Please avoid being fascinated with flight and navigation, and leave that to the trained professionals. When waiting for the lavatory, please do not congregate around our holy door you filthy cargo."

Note the similarity to the edible Blackberry, which often grows together with Poison oak. It can be distinguished by the thorns and by the leaves not being quite in threes.

I used to think this was a good idea until I had a set of batteries die, and then I had to take a picture of the GPSr for a virtual...

This one looks pretty cool: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewI...01&category=310

Good line. But why lawn when there is a handy head to land on? A good forum suicide is no place to self edit! Exactly, why not have it crash through the roof onto the reviewers head. Maybe throw in a metor shower for good measure. Ok, it wasn't serious. It was just a cry for help. Deep down, I didn't want to totally burn my bridges by wishing the satellite on his head. I deserve the '3'.

Well, my virtual was rejected once and for all. It was at _least_ 10 feet from a nearby physical cache, and it had the additional challenge of being in the middle of the interstate. Fine, if you all want to do your stupid easter-egg hunts on the sidewalk, go ahead. You all suck. I hope a satellite falls on the reviewer's lawn.

(Geek speak ahead) Someone at Groundspeak left a security hole open. If they would put this key in the web.config: <customErrors mode="RemoteOnly" /> then we wouldn't all get a stack trace showing these intimate details every time the server crashed.

You know how many steps are in one thousandth of a minute, Your car's glove box has emergency flashlights, and emergency pogs. You've ordered crap from Oriental Trading Co. You've left office sticky notes at a cache because you went during lunch and didn't have any suitable trade items. Lbh pna ernq rapelcgrq grkg anghenyyl.

Hey, that's me! I always do that.

For many of the historic (i.e.: run-down, neglected, overgrown) cemetaries, geocachers may be the only visitors the dead ever get. I've been to probably six or seven cemetary geocaches in my area, and none of them actually required a shovel or running around screaming to find.

This is probably the exchange that angered the neighbor in the first place. ... I believe this particular geocacher goes hunting in their police uniform, so maybe that's what they're referring to.

The Geocaching Gods have now issued their opin^H^H^H^H command that I should move the cache.

Wow, that's like 30 replies in a couple hours. Since this thread was on its way to turning in to an anti-dog topic, I may as well mention that as a dog owner myself I can honestly say that many dog owners really p!$$ me off. Especially when I can feel the hard stares of people who incorrectly assume that it was my dog that barked all night or crapped on their lawn, etc. But just as some irresponsible dog owners might ruin it for the rest of us, enough instances of bad community relations could really harm the sport of geocaching, which is supposed to be just fun. The kind posters here seem to generally think that I'm right, and that's really all I wanted to hear . I'll probably go ahead and archive the cache.

I have a cache that is causing some neighborhood trouble. It's our first hide, so I would expect to screw it up in some way. Looking for advice on whether I should archive it or not. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=112050 Basically, someone is disturbed by the barking of their own dog, caused apparently by geocaching activities in an adjoining public right-of-way. So I'm thinking that this is in no way my fault or any geocacher's fault that someone who chose a house next to a park is being disturbed by their own dog because of comings and goings of people. That said, I don't want to be a total jerk about it, and I certainly don't want fellow cachers to be yelled at, or the cache vandalized. Should I just move the thing? Any advice appreciated.

Thanks again for a fun event. Personally, I'm glad it wasn't a "real" CM because I would have been too tired! I took some photos of the final cube and the pumpkin, but they are on a borrowed digital camera. When the pictures come in, I'll post them under my log on the BCM page. BTW, in case you didn't recognize me from my avatar, that's the other half of Phildonnia.