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the hermit crabs

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  1. Wow. This script is great -- I love it! Thank you so much!
  2. Following this link immediately crashes my browser - both FF and IE. What is PICLENS Cooliris? Does anybody else have problems with the site? What is the website doing for those who can open it? Ditto the browser crash. I'm steering well clear of this. Seems like one more piece of bloatware to slow down my surfing. Mine didn't crash, but I think I will steer clear of this as well. The link brought me to a page full of moving, shifting, zooming images -- I felt intensely motion sick within just a few seconds. Whatever PICLENS Cooliris is, I don't want it -- it makes me queasy. Ugh -- I'm feeling sick again from just remembering the site!
  3. Offer a shiny new icon in one's profile. That's the one thing that seems to do the trick. Maybe the "Brave But Fruitless Attempt" stat. Or the determined "I Shall Return!" stat. Or maybe it could be called "Curse You, Evil Cache! You Win This Round!" stat. If it has a pretty picture with it, people will try to accumulate them.
  4. Just pick a hobby of theirs, and turn the tables. If they golf, say "You poke a ball with a stick and then go running after it? Over and over and over again? What's the point?" Or if they like to watch NASCAR, say "You watch traffic go around in circles? For hours? Why??" I'm sure you could come up with similar things that make their most cherished hobbies or activities sound just as silly as they think geocaching is.
  5. I have, but that may just be because I live in MA. I'm not sure how well-known the term would be outside of the greater Boston/Cambridge area, though.
  6. You need to log a separate "found it". The reason that logging a "Needs Maintenance" doesn't automatically increase your find count is that the two are not the same. Here are a couple of examples: You could be revisiting a cache that you had previously found (maybe to drop a TB off), in which case you wouldn't want a second find on the same cache. Or you might be logging a "Needs Maintenance" because one of the intermediate stages of a multi is unreadable, so you weren't able to finish. You wouldn't want a find credited in that case, since you haven't yet found the final of the cache.
  7. I love this! "How far to go, dad?" "3 Fars" "We'll be there in 3 Nearly There Yets" This reminds me of a telephone company commercial from at least ten years ago, where the kid in the back seat of the car asks his mother, "Is it far away, or far far away?"
  8. Unfortunately that only works for finds. Not for notes, DNFs, TB logs, etc.
  9. I just open up the "my finds" gpx file in a text editor and search for the phrase there.
  10. Your question got eaten by the forum gremlins, so I'm going to take a wild guess that it's one of the following three possibilities, based on the frequency that the same questions appear in the TB forum: Is it okay to start my TB off in somebody else's cache, or do I have to place a cache to start a new TB? Yes, you can definitely start your TB in someone else's cache. I'm taking a trip 1,000 miles from home and plan to star a new TB out there. Will it get credit for the mileage from my house? No. The mileage will start accumulating from the first cache that it is placed in. If you want it to get the 1,000 mile credit from home to the place where you leave it, you will need to visit a cache near your home and "dip" the bug into it. "Dipping" is dropping the bug into the cache and then logging it right back out. There's no "Drop" option on my new TB's page. How do I get it to show up in the cache that I just dropped it in? Logging a bug drop is done from the cache page, not the bug page. When you log your find, look underneath the comment box. There's something that says "Dropped any travel bugs?" followed by a list of all of the trackables currently in your inventory. Select the one you dropped, and then click the Submit button. If you've already logged your find, you can submit another log (a "note" this time, not another "found it") and drop the bug as part of that log. (You can then delete the superfluous note log if you want to -- the bug will still stay in the cache.) I hope one of those was it.
  11. AAARRGGHH! So you're the one! I despise you! Sheesh! You have managed, with your duplicitious double-dealings involving bogus coordinates in the middle of the Atlantic -- in fact, specifically in the regions sporting the deepest parts of the Atlantic Trench -- caused the reviewers to reject over 130 of my Psycho Ocean Cache listing submissions, each of which had sported waypoint coordinates in the middle of the Atlantic. Please expect rants, angst, references to Hitler and Godwin's Law, and lawsuits to follow. I am now seething with anger.... You have cheated me of prime locations in the middle of the Atlantic, and I fear that one day I shall awaken to discover that you have staked out all available cache locations in the entire Atlantic Ocean. Grrrr...! Just wait until you try to put caches at Chernobyl, Bhopal, or Love Canal... Mine, all MINE!!!
  12. Funny how there are so many time-lags in the age of "instant" communication
  13. That link is only for the images associated with that one particular log, not with the full gallery for that cache. That log has only one picture, so the "next" and "previous" links do nothing. To see the full gallery for that cache, go the cache page, and scroll down to the "Visit the Gallery (33 images)" link. edit: Ok, I think I understand your issue. When you're on the gallery page and click on one of the images, it brings you to the log for that image. From there, you can only look at other images that were attached to that same log; to see other images in the gallery, you have to click your browser's "Back" button and select the next one yourself. I don't know of a way to just scroll through all of the images in a gallery without being redirected to the log for each image. Someone recently suggested adding a "slide show" capability to gallery pages -- it's a great idea, but I don't know if it will ever be implemented.
  14. Thanks!! (I had tried that other one a couple of days ago, but for some reason it didn't work for me -- I still got a whole-page refresh when I tried to decrypt a hint. Yours does the trick!)
  15. This isn't exactly what you need, but it might help a little. Before the "H" models came out, the etrex manuals were more extensive. They "simplified" them for the "H" series, mainly by stripping out half of the information. The manuals are now only about half the length they use to be. So it might be helpful to you to look at a pre-H manual. Unfortunately there was no "Venture C" model; the closest thing would have been the "Venture Cx". So the manual for that would have some features that your current model doesn't have (SD card, autorouting). But if you can weed out the extra features, you can probably find a lot of detail that is relevant to your Venture HC that they have left out of your manual. (The Venture Cx manual is 96 pages; the Venture HC manual (which I just noticed is a combined manual for many models!) is only 54 pages.)
  16. You still wouldn't know for sure, since the puzzle could have additional stages that go beyond that range. The same is true for multis. Also, requiring the fake coords to be within .1 of the actual coords would make many puzzles way too easy to solve.
  17. LilDevil and Prime Suspect have said they they plan on updating theirs at some point, but haven't gotten to it yet. I think that they may be waiting for all of the dust to settle from this current update and subsequent fixes before they spend too much time on it. (I especially miss the script that includes links to all of my logs in the upper right corner of a cache page. I'm almost tempted to learn how to write Greasemonkey scripts myself!)
  18. Yes, these types of prisons are quite prevalent, and it's no surprise that unsuspecting new hiders who see them think that that's the way it is supposed to be done, and copy them. It feels like fighting a losing battle trying to stamp them out, but it's worth it for every former prison that has left the Dark Side and joined the forces of Travel Bug Justice. I like the new wording on your pages much better!
  19. Yes, this problem has existed for a few years. It's intermittent, so it's not always easy to reproduce or to track down. Usually it clears up in 10 or 15 minutes. or maybe an hour. Worstc ase, check again the next day. But there is a way to kick-start it into working correctly; it's kind of the equivalent of whacking the side of the TV really hard to get the picture to clear up (if you're old enough to remember what that was like). What you have to do is get out of the bookmark list and then get back to from a different direction. If it's your own bookmark list: Go to My Account -> Manage Bookmarks, find the one you're interested in, and click either the bookmark list name or its associated "View" link. If it's someone else's list: Go to their profile page and click the "Bookmark Lists" tab, and click the name of the list want. Getting at it from other ways, such as the bookmark links on a cache page, doesn't always fix the problem.
  20. I first saw this one posted by zoltig in the "Oddly Named Caches" thread a couple of years ago. It's still quite memorable: Mother Nature's Wardrobe Malfunction
  21. The Garmin MASSACHUSETTS: - It works perfectly because that's where g-o-cashers lives. Buy yours today!
  22. In this post earlier today, Elias wrote: They're workin' on it
  23. We just activated a TB yesterday that has one of the dumbest goals ever. It's a little pair of wind-up walking plastic lederhosen. We named it "my pants", just so that people who leave it in a cache will have to write "Dropped my pants" in their cache logs. (I know, I know... what are we, like, seventh graders? )
  24. Sometimes the easiest goals to get cachers to comply with are ones that can be accomplished as part of their bug pick-up log. They way, they don't feel pressured to go to a certain place or find a certain type of cache, and you get to read the occasional log that says something besides "Found it; will move along soon." Here are a few examples of some of "the log is the goal" TBs that we have. Almost all of them except the geocoins were made from things that we found in caches. "Hey! Where's my jet-pack??": A Different Drum Anniversary of What? Artichoke Head black and white and red all over Bookworm Honeymoon Geocoin Lost in Translation Name a Nut Pepper Jack Postal? Or just crabby?
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