The Minnesota Cajuns

Will be visitng my brother-in-law in Rapid City, SD and was wondernig what most consider to be the top caches there. Just to give you some restrictions, I don't really want to do one in the city or in a city park, but would prefer for it to be somewhere out a bit where a nice view might be had or just a beautiful place to hike. Thanks in advance.

I've got New York and Texas plates sitting around here somewhere. Maybe one day I will make a trip down there.

quote:Originally posted by Zzzoey: Oregon Cajuns: New Orleans! I would love to visit. Are you the one putting all those funky mardi gras beads in caches? I have been known to leave beads and doubloons. I have so many from my childhood and so I had my parents ship me a bunch one day. I don't always leave them; only when in the mood.

You forgot a choice for those from the deep south. I have lived many a place, but I call New Orleans home since I spent the majority of my life there. I guess I can also call it home since my parents still live there, as do most of my extended family. Loving life here in Oregon, though. My mom has been searching around here for land, so she likes it too, even though that like is just based on her couple of visits.

quote:Originally posted by nmartin: Doing it this way is most likely not for everyone and may be a waste of your time. But if you have excel and want to, i can send you a copy to try OK...now you got me interested. Shoot me an email and we can arrange getting the Excel file to me. I gotta see what you are talking about.

Was it in their pocket?

I should probably clarify that even though I have XP, it was an Explorer update, so probably applies to multiple OSes.

quote:Originally posted by bubble_luscious: quote:Originally posted by Kodak's4:This whole idea of using pi as a key to unlocking something sounds irrational to me. Whoaa Kodak's4. It is called a game. Chill. He is actually making a math joke. A bad math joke, but a math joke nonetheless. Actually, now that I think about it, can one really joke about math?

Here ya go.... "The Trouble with Trimbles"

quote:Originally posted by Jeremy (Admin): quote:Originally posted by The Oregon Cajuns:Maybe my references to other web sites was the problem. Oooooh...wouldn't that be interesting? It's common knowledge that we put messages in the moderation queue for posts to navicache.com - We were plagued with Jeremy haters (which is seriously true but tragic) who would spam the forums repeatedly and disrupting the site. They do go through if they are within the context of the discussion, however. There's also the alt.rec.geocaching newsgroup which is also a good Jeremy hater place to visit, if you want to join the club. It's a wonderful feeling to be the target of so much vitriol. Jeremy Irish Groundspeak - The Language of Location LOL...apparently not common enough. I have visited this site for a while now and never knew that, though I didn't always read the forum and took a geocaching break for a bit, so I can see how I might have missed it. Anyway, in case you missed my remarks above, I definitely don't hate you, and in fact feel the opposite way (remember, the opposite of hate is not love, so don't go getting any ideas....), so you won't see me on the newsgroups any time soon. I see you approved my post, which I am glad of. Incidently, Jeremy, what IS your opinion on people who want a little web site with just their local caches on it such as the one that TeamWMSF proposed? Is this breaking the TOS? I would imagine there are some more of these around with links to your web page.

Interesting...I just made a post commending you on your thoughts toward putting together a Portland geocaching site or PDA file, giving links to other examples of people doing so, and some other general, non-aggressive talk. For some reason, my post was flagged and is awaiting approval, so we will see if it ever shows up. I really said nothing negative in the post, so I am not sure why it was flagged. Maybe my references to other web sites was the problem. Oooooh...wouldn't that be interesting?

I definitely understand your concerns. I am not familiar with any attempts by Jeremy to take legal action on those representing Geocaching stuff on other sites. I do know that Buxley has had this site up for a long while which interfaces with Jeremy's. Not sure if he had to get permission or whatnot, but I do know it exists. Another site I am aware of which is not affiliated with this site is Navicache. I found out about this when I lived in western New York, though I never use it. Another page I visited when I lived in western New York was Wyoming County Geocache. I had found a cache or two of the gentleman who runs the site and he has some linsk to other caches he really likes in western New York. Now hopefully I haven't brought down some kind of wrath onto this man for having this site, but I do know it has been around for a while and still exists, so maybe Jeremy doesn't have too much issue with this stuff. I would say if you wanted to have a Portland geocaching reference to post either just go ahead and do it or, if you will be linking to the Geocaching.com web site, ask Jeremy for permission to do so. I am not sure if you legally have to or not, but getting permission is the more courteous thing to do. I do hope you put something together since I live a little south of you and would enjoy viewing it.

TeamWMSF, couple of things I wanted to say. It is interesting you talk about how Jeremy wants to keep everyone else from tinkering with Geocaching and then state later that GPX is the key to openness, all the while apparently forgetting the fact that Jeremy makes that available to us through Pcoket Queries (He is giving you the ability to tinker as well). Then, he stated that everyone has their own choices about what they want to use (to each his/her own) and there is no point debating about it and you again act like he is some kind of control freak. Now here is the really cool thing. Everyone who doesn't like this site and what is being done with it have the ability to go start their own site to rival Jeremy's. The Internet gives you that freedom and if you live in the U.S. (as well as other places, but I live here, so that is the country I knwo best) you are also afforded that freedom. I am willing to bet many will follow along and still others will use both sites. I would have the utmost respect for you if you did such a thing as it would show some kind of backing to your words. In the meantime, I applaud everyone's efforts to come up with useful tools for their fellow Geocachers and I especially applaud Jeremy for putting together a great site that serves as a hub for lovers of this activity. I thank him for adding new content over the past year or so and I look forward to more innovations. I know he listens to the community and the recent post asking about locationless caches is an example of this. Jeremy, I just wanted to let you know I appreciate your site, I know TeamMWSF does as well, and I look forward to seeing the work TeamMWSF will contribute to geocaching in the future.

Did we use pi in the Contact cache? I can't remember anymore. I gave up because I ever got around to seeing the movie. I had the cubes built and everything.

The minute we stop caching, the terrorists have already won.

LOL...what do you expect from a free watch?

I think the main reason for desire to revamp them is they are really easy to "hide." You don't have to actually go out and place something somewhere and because of this the approvers probably get swamped with them. Also, Jeremy considers the approval guidelines vague and I agree there should be some concrete, easy to follow rules in place before they continue on. I think this is a good move on Jeremy's part that could very well result in locationless caches getting a little more acceptance than they do now. I have no doubts that locationless caches will be back, so I wouldn't get to worried about it and you can continue to do the ton of them that are out there already. Also, I doubt microcaches are going anywhere because they are just like traditional caces, only smaller. In other words, they don't differ enough from traditional caches as to result in them getting put on hold. Sometimes microcaches are the only way to hide a cache in certain locations due to heavy traffic or lack of places to hide an ammo can or tupperware container. Anyway, I honestly have no opinion on locationless caches and they bother me in no way. I still voted to put them on hold, though, because I felt like getting a less-vague set of approval rules was probably a good idea.

I just had one but it was because after clicking the post button, the next page was taking ten years to load, so I hit the Post button again. When it finally went through, there were two posts. Maybe there just happens to be a lot of morons like me.

Whoops.

There was a recent Windows XP update (and I assume the other WIndows OSes) which had something to do with updating Internet Explorer for some kind of new HTML code. I can't remember the specifics anymore but it was last week some time. Basically, it was when this started for me, so I wonder if that is the cause.

quote:Originally posted by GrizzlyJohn: quote:Originally posted by The Oregon Cajuns:Wow...Actually, you make perfect sense, but your rant was a little uncalled for. I never questioned people's freedoms to have choices, but merely stated why I don't have a problem with Mobipocket and asked a question why someone needs more than 500 caches when I find me getting 100 is probably going overboard. Looks like I got my answer. I do understand that the states are smaller over there and I guess other programs out there make it easier to plan out a trip. I would have other ideas about trip planning, but I won't divulge lest others think I am taking their freedoms away... Wow I did not see that as anywhere near a rant. I was just trying to explain it as much as possible so you could understand where I was coming from. I get that many people would find it unreasonable to do it how I do and really that is OK. I never said you questioned peoples freedom to have choices. My point was your way makes sense to you and my way makes sense to me and we should be able to have that choice. You asked a question I tried to answer as best as I could. If the current things out there work for you that is great. But you asked why anyone would have a need to get a listing of 500 caches in a rather sarcastic way. I just want the choices. The data does after all originate with all of us we should have the ability to get at it how we like. Unfortunately any time anyone dares to question the wisdom of TPTB they are seen as people out to cause trouble who don't know what they are talking about. LOL....no problems....TROUBLEMAKER!! Just kidding. Anyway, I am really glad that you told me why you use something other than Mobipocket. It is sometimes hard to see things from out of our own perspectives. I hope I don't ever find myself with the need to use another program other than Mobipocket because I like it just fine and it works nice and quick for me. I am glad there are alternatives out there for those who have needs beyond that program.

I lied. It just happened again.

I had seen this up until last night, but today I have not witnessed it. Maybe it went away.

quote:Originally posted by GrizzlyJohn: quote:Originally posted by The Oregon Cajuns: I do have to wonder about the person who says they need more than 500 caches at a time. Do you go through all those in a weekend and feel that 500 is just not enough? Maybe that makes no sense to you and is not how you would do things and that is OK. But that gets to the point. We all do things differently and approach this from a different way. And it is all OK if it works for the individual. I would just like to have the option to not have to do it how one or a few people see it. I just don't think it is that big of a deal to let people have they choices they want. Then all of these questions about viewers, etc. goes away. We all get to do it the way that makes sense to us and works how we do. With more options we could make our own solutions or pick from a wider range of choices from people that make them The bottom line problem is getting the data to work with. Wow...Actually, you make perfect sense, but your rant was a little uncalled for. I never questioned people's freedoms to have choices, but merely stated why I don't have a problem with Mobipocket and asked a question why someone needs more than 500 caches when I find me getting 100 is probably going overboard. Looks like I got my answer. I do understand that the states are smaller over there and I guess other programs out there make it easier to plan out a trip. I would have other ideas about trip planning, but I won't divulge lest others think I am taking their freedoms away...

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