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    Looking For Cachers In Czech Republic?

    in All Nations

    Posted

    I'm looking for a cacher who would be able to find a cache for me in Karlovy Vary (Karlsbad) in the Czech republic. A new cache has become active in Carlsbad, California which is paired with a cache in its sister city of Karlovy Vary.

     

    The clues on the cache for the one in California (GCNHZY) point to finding a cache there. Conversely, the clues for the sister cache (GCNJCX) which can be found in Praha (Prague) point to a cache somewhere in Carlsbad, CA.

     

    I think I have worked out the final coordinates for someone to go out and log the cache in the Czech Republic. If you can work out the coords for me from the clues out there, I will go find the cache for you in the US.

     

    Please e-mail if you can help.

     

    --TucsonTHompsen--

    The San Diego Thread

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    I organized and hosted the San Diego year of the National Wheelmen Convention at San Diego State in 1979. The movie "Breaking Away" was premiered in Montezuma Hall at the convention and went on to win the best-picture academy award.

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    Actually Breaking Away won only the oscar for Best Original Screenplay, though it was nominated for Best Picture in addition to several other Academy Awards. It's a great movie and much better than "Kramer vs. Kramer" which won BP that year.

     

    Hey Chuy, how hard is it to access that cache of yours down there via car? There are about 7 or 8 caches between the border an Ensenada and I'm considering doing the "El Sur de la Frontera" cache run soon.

     

    --TT--

    The San Diego Thread

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

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    How d' y' like that cool T25 stapler?

    Hey Harmon,

     

    Can you edit him to put a red Swingline stapler in his hands. Then I think I can almost hear him say,

     

    "...and I used to be over by the window, and I could see the squirrels, and they were married, but then, they switched from the Swingline to the Boston stapler, but I kept my Swingline stapler because it didn't bind up as much, and I kept the staples for the Swingline stapler and it's not okay because if they take my stapler then I'll set the building on fire... "

    The San Diego Thread

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    Keep your eyes on the approval status of my new one (no puzzle involved), submitted 9.40am today:

    Valley's End

    1:25 PM still waiting......

     

    Oh yeah. I'll have another batch of puzzles to be released shortly in the next week or so.

     

    (4/1.5) Somewhere in San Diego (GCN9N0)

    (4/2.5) Quit Poking Me! (GCM3BC)

    (4.5/2) Searching for Bobby Fischer (GCMJWN)

    (5/4) Unnamed Cow Spots and TT Puzzle Cache, though we like so far the title:

    "Mommy! Mommy! Make the bad puzzle cachers stop!!!!"

     

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    :(

    The San Diego Thread

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    There certainly seems to be a run of SD cachers going to New Orleans recently.

    I was there first week of this month, and Dr. Boggis was there last weekend, and now FlagMan is going.

     

    I must say, that if you are going to New Orleans you must MUST

    MUST do the cache View Carré (GCE02C). The experience of it was unlike anything I've ever done in caching. My fav'rite of all the 20 or so I did in while i was in Nyaw-luhns.

     

    There are maybe about 10 virtuals in the French Quarter, many with historical signifcance, and a few challenging micros by Bamboozle by Harrah's and along the River Walk.

     

    For the Dan-oh style cache experience, take the green trolley line out to Audobon Park in the Garden District, and start smacking yourself with a 2 x 4 in looking for some of mausdad's hides.

     

    Here's a photo after hitting the View Carré cache:

     

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    Be sure to get coffee and beignets at Cafe du Monde.

    And Tom, no matter how many beads you think you deserve, remember your limit is two hand grenades per night. :laughing:

     

    -TT--

    The San Diego Thread

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

     

    Maybe there should be a special award for FTS ( First to Solve ) for Puzzle Caches

     

    What I propose, is when you figure out the coords to a puzzle cache, Write a message, email the coords to the owner. The owner verifies the coords and awards the FTS.

    I'll echo what Team Nazgul said on this, and that a solve is only half of the story when it comes to puzzles, and that a FTS is really just an "Incomplete". First to solve garners to me no more cachet than say...first to look at the page. I as a puzzle maker put the stock in FTF. I design puzzles to be solved and found, and that anything less than that is really just not my intention. It's FTF that matters to me (and may others as evidenced by the FTF races going on 'round here) if you want "bragging rights". I say this, as well, in the spirit that a lot of puzzle-cachers don't bother to ask for coord verification with the owner before going a-hunting, as part of the challenge with yourself, in that regard, is to see if your coords are good. If they are, bully for you! If not, you botched the puzzle solution. Back to beating your head with a 2 x 4 for inspiration.

    I think it's fine if people want to claim FTS, but it's not relevant to me and my puzzles, so I'll refrain from awarding any "FTS" rights on mine. So you may know the solution, but as a wise man once said:

     

    "Knowing....is half the battle."

     

    --TT--

    The San Diego Thread

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    You think Major General's Song is bad, I've had this one going through my head all day....probably cause I had to sing it once at a Frat event. Ahh...the memories.

    :lol:

     

    It's simply the names of the chemical elements set to "The Major General's Song."

     

    ``There's antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium,

    And hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium

    And nickel, neodymium, neptunium, germanium,

    And iron, americium, ruthenium, uranium,

    Europium, zirconium, lutetium, vanadium

    And lanthanum and osmium and astatine and radium

    And gold, protactinium and indium and gallium.......

     

    And iodine and thorium and thulium and thallium.

     

    ``There's yttrium, ytterbium, actinium, rubidium

    And boron, gadolinium, niobium, iridium

    And strontium and silicon and silver and samarium,

    And bismuth, bromine, lithium, beryllium and barium.

     

    ``There's holmium and helium and hafnium and erbium

    And phosphorous and francium and fluorine and terbium

    And manganese and mercury, molybdenum, magnesium,

    Dysprosium and scandium and cerium and cesium

    And lead, praseodymium, and platinum, plutonium,

    Paladium, promethium, potassium, polonium, and

    Tantalum, technetium, titanium, tellurium........

     

    And cadmium and calcium and chromium and curium.

     

    ``There's sulfur, californium and fermium, berkelium

    And also mendelevium, einsteinium and nobelium

    And argon, krypton, neon, radon, xenon, zinc and rhodium

    And chlorine, carbon, cobalt, copper,

    Tungsten, tin and sodium.

     

    ``These are the only ones of which the news has come to Harvard,

    And there may be many others but they haven't been discovered.''

    The San Diego Thread

    in West and Southwest

    Posted

    Good for you QD-Man...You are correct it is not part of the constitution...even though 99% of Americans think it is. It is part of the Bill of Rights...or at least the intent...

    Not to be a complete civics nitpick, but the "Bill of Rights" being only the first ten of twenty-seven additions to the Constitution are actually called Articles of Amendment -- which supplement the original seven Articles. The amendments proposed by the first Congress were sent out as "Articles in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America," and the term "article" is used in self-application in all the amendments since the Twelfth, except the Seventeenth, which uses the term "amendment." This would seem to give official sanction to calling the amendments "articles," but as it causes some confusion, they are better placed by the use of "amendment" only, with the proper number. According to the Archivist of the United States, they are a de facto part of (and not seperate from) the Constitution.

     

    So Dr. Boggis is technically correct. I wonder what his O-levels were in Civics?

     

    --TT--

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