NotThePainter
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I'm sure anyone who is a serious FTF hound would really feel good about a gimme like that.
Some tribute.
Caches that are published at events are not at all gimmes. I used to run a weekday night event at a bar in a decent sized city. We would attract between 50 and 100 cachers. We would also release between 5 and 10 caches that night. Not all my work, I just put the word out and the local community saved up some hides. Our reviewer held off publishing until after the event.
The FTFP hounds loved it. Here there were, all in the same place, all at the same time, all handed 5 to 10 caches.
Now they needed to figure out HOW to get the most, or do they try and solve the puzzles and just get that one.
Most were found within half an hour, but I once got FTFP on a mystery cache the next day. I solved it by midnight, headed out and couldn't find it in the dark, so I came back an sunrise to make the finde.
The non-FTFP hounds just rolled their eyes and ordered another beer. Everyone was happy.
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Many people are assuming that others care about their FTF game. The fact is, many don't.
See Hamlet. Act 3, scene 2. Line 230.
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I think we need a new term to help designate what you are. You are clearly the FTFAP (First to Find After Publication).
I coined the term FTFP for this very situation, FTF before publication. Even got the license plate for it!
(Edited to add "FTF before publication" to distinguish it from my specific situation which did not involve the hider giving the coords out early.)
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And of course, while trying to solve it, I thought of one approach that proved incorrect.
But it makes a perfectly fine puzzle cache on its own! I'll be hiding that one soon enough.
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For all those who have looked at every possible angle and NOT found the circles, I suggest that you haven't looked at every possible angle. No, I don't know if the circles are part of the solution, and no, I won't tell you where they are. It is just that us puzzle creators can be pretty crafty at times. Write down your assumptions about the cache. To find other approaches, cross them out one by one and assume that they are wrong. Where else does this leave you?
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And that Phelps guy, he hogged all the gold medals at the Olympics. That's not fair. And Lance Armstrong, you know he could have just maybe slept in a day or two or just pedaled a bit slower to let some others win the Tour de France.
Just Not Fair!
:- )
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forum burp, removed dupe post.
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I mean, come on!
We all know that micros are lame, especially drive by ones, but to have a highway sign for one???
See on 95 driving past, you guessed it, Micro NC. (Sorry for the poor photo, it was night and raining.)
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Whoo hoo! I'm not old. I squeak in by 2 days.
BUT I'M NOT OLD!!
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I was laying out a multi that was 2 miles long and 1.35 miles of that was bushwhacking. It perhaps an hour or two before sunset and even though I had been in this section of woods before at one time I was hit with a true sense of disorientation.
I came across a path and wanted to turn left on it. But my GPS and the setting sun told me to turn right. I really had to fight my desire to turn. I was about to convince myself that the GPS and the sun were wrong.
Very weird feeling...
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One of my puzzle caches has developed quite a nice ALR all on its own. I never asked for it, but I after I posted a photo of my car in the parking area, almost half the finders have also done so. It makes for an unusual photo gallery, just cars and trucks all parked at the exact same spot.
It is fun to see a new log and then see if the finder uploads the parking photo!
(Note, the puzzle is an unusual one. I'm not fond of geocheckers and especially for this puzzle, I suspect some will try to find it without a GPS. The photo originally served as a mild sanity check that you were in the right area.)
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You can create virtual stages, no physical placement of yours, anywhere - well anywhere that's legal and not inside a commercial place.
Except for inside National Park Service land.
I know, I tried... :- (
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Oak is going to be pretty heavy. Someone else suggested using pine. Here's what I would do. I'd construct a case using the same techniques that are used to build cedar strip canoes or kayaks ... Have a look at the pages I created when I built my boats to see the process:
That is a gorgeous boat!
Oh, I don't know much about wood. Oak, pine.... guess they're not the same, huh? :- ) I would think that even pine would be heavy and yes, that is a concern.
Thanks!
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Are you going to a star party? A friend took me to one here in Washington a couple years ago, and it was amazing! Some of the telescopes were HUGE and came on custom trailers. I never thought I'd get to see so many nebulas, globular clusters, and galaxies with my own eyes. Someone even had a sun scope so we could look at the sun's surface and flares in daytime. Too cool.
yup, I am! I've been to small ones before but this is the "Winter Star Party," on Spanish Harbor Key in Florida, just a short drive to Key West. And yes, I'll do some caching down there in the day, including the very odd virtual that claims to be the most southern spot in the USA, which is odd weird because the maps clearly show land south of it.
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Wow!
Thanks for all the ideas. I don't want to reply to everyone in their own post, that would just pump up the thread fatter than the biceps on a baseball player on steroids.
But let me read them all and try and clear up the air.
PVC with caps. Great idea, but I've not found a cheap source of PVC that big. At the prices that PVC goes for I can get a custom case built.
Yes, I very much allowed room for padding. The telescope itself has a 6" mirror and the tube is between 7 and 8 inches in diameter. (You want the tube bigger so there is room for air to circulate so the mirror cools faster.) There are various doo-dabs hanging off the scope but they can be removed if I need to.
Drop tanks - wow, who knew. Cool idea. I did have a friend years ago who transported a 8" diameter tube that was about 9 feet long on top of his car. Yes, he put a nose cone and fins on it. Got plenty of strange looks. I can't imagine trying that today...
Oak box - there is a long history of scopes from the 60s, Japanese refractors, that came in wooden boxes. (I have on, a 60mm Swift.) So this idea has great apeal to me. My wood working skills are limited but I certainly hope to make one someday. I just need this in 3 weeks. It does not need to be waterproof, this is going in my car.
I loved the 31 1/2 inch tall ammo can for $15. That rocks. If only I didn't live in geocaching hell I know I'd place one of those! (I'm surrounded by ocean an National Park land..., hard to cache here.)
Yes, I've seen the Pelican gun case. Very pricy and a little thin.
And no, I'm not leaving this lying around. This will be in my basement or in my car when driving to events. In particular, it is going from Mass to FL in 3 weeks.
Golf club case rock. I have 2. But the problem is, this is BIG. I have 2 but one is still in the box unopened, because this didn't fit. I'm very leery of buying another golf club case. I have an email out on one of them. One website say 50" inside, another says 50" outside. Big difference. They also tend to be sloped on the "top" which is fine for golf clubs, but not cylinders. And yes, I'd stop by ESS in a heartbeat if it was a 6 hour drove, that store rocks. (And when I left town, I'm pretty sure I had the closest cache to it, 300ft of 12 foot diameter tube under the highway, placed right in the middle... heh heh...)
The I-35 cache is actually the type of container I was hoping to find, just bigger.
The Tuffpak guncase - wow! That is weird, I was on their web site last night and didn't see that. Oh wait, I did see that. $355. Ouch! You can get custom cases with custom foam for that price.
The Scepter military cases - neat stuff, but small. 50" is ginormous.
And no, I'm not going to put it out in the woods. But lets just say, if it was cheap (like under $50) and two were available, I'd be sorely tempted. I like big containers. I hide them when I can.
Oh, I asked on a telescope forum also. Their ideas were car top carriers (expensive) and sonotubes (I think they are expensive.) I was just about to give up on a hard case and get a soft sided padded case when a fellow told me about an ATA store on ebay. 50 x 8 x 8. A little smaller than I wanted but it could work, I need to measure the tube tomorrow. (I just got in from observing, Saturn was gorgeous!)
Oh, and some wondered about the telescope, that it wasn't a wally world one. No, it isn't. Those things destroy so many young astronomers they get me made.
I have 4 telescopes. A 8" Schmidt Cassegrain (which rarely gets used anymore), a 5" Burgess refractor (which I use all the time, love that scope), a 60s vintage Swift refractor, 60mm with Japanese optics (for sale, probably) and the baby this post was about, a 1963 Edmund Scientific Space Conqeuror. You can see it http://notthepainter.com/2008/08/1963-edmu...pace-conqueror/ . I only paid $100 for it, it is probably worth about $500. It taught me a lot about what I don't know. It is a keeper.
Thanks everybody!
Paul
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Ok, maybe it doesn't have to be an ammo can, it is more like a rocket can or something. But I know geocachers and they know containers.
I'm looking for a container to hold a telescope. It needs to be, ulp, 50" long inside and at least 9 inches on the other sides.
Now, yeah, that would make an awesome cache, but that's only if I get a good price on two of them.
Any ideas?
Paul
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oh please, somebody do whatever they have to do to get this thread pinned, this has got to be the funniest forum thread here in years.
I think I'll go hide a micro on Timmy's grave, he would have wanted it.
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I live in a tourist area and I've seriously thought about putting out a front yard cache for the multitudes that will pass by each summer. It would certainly be a cache to remember. You see, my wife Jeannette is a beekeeper, and I'd place the container in one of her hives. :- )
Sadly, we're sure that some people might not wait for her to get the bee suit and smoker out and bees could be injured so we've nixed the idea.
But what fun it could have been...
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I noticed the first issue in May, see this thread:
http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=194386
Yes!
That's exactly it! The cache is a premium members only cache. When I turn that off, it renders fine. When it turn it back on, it is buggy.
Can you please add this to the bug list please? Thanks!
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Ah yes, forgot to mention my font. I use Verdana 15 as my standard font AND I've told safari never to use a font smaller than 15. Don't know if that helps debug it.
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Here's a new one.
Check out my new cache (Gargoyle) with Safari and you'll see that all the text is rendered in bold.
If you look at the listing in Firefox it is not in bold.
I'm running Safari 3.2.1 under MacOS X 10.5.6
Second Bug
There are part of the screen that I cannot click on. For example, when I look at my list of Pocket queries, I cannot click in the checkbox for the first 10. This is a bug on the pocket query page, that top left hand corner of any page seems to have problem. If I'm editing an image in a cache log, I also cannot click on the Edit Image Details button or any of the buttons.
It is the left hand upper side that is a problem.
Paul
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And then there is one of my favorite travel bugs!
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That's not really a good excuse now, is it? At one time you didn't know how to geocache and you learned how to do it, right?GCTE869I (I dont know moarse code!!!)I have a cache that has Morse code in it. (And no, you can't really tell by looking at the cache that there is Morse in it, you find it somewhere in the middle while exploring the puzzle.) I don't expect you to know it. I do expect you to learn it. Learn how to decode enough to pass the test? Nope, just enough to hand decode 12 letters or numbers.
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I want the ability to use, as a waypoint only, a location inside a National Park for a geocache.
Yeah, I know, dreaming...
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