AuntieWeasel
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A hobo lived how he lived from choice.
That's not necessarily true. Hobos often had no choice but to travel and find economic opportunities because there weren't any at home.
It's a little silly to say there's NO negative connotation to the word hobo. If someone said you looked or smelled like a hobo, would you take that as a compliment?
If somebody told me I looked or smelled like a sheep shearer I wouldn't be best pleased, and sheep shearers are fine upstanding members of my community.
There is an entire body of literature (not to mention song) devoted to the joys of riding the rails and sleeping under the stars. They had their own pictographs, jargon and code of law. I suppose many of them might have preferred a desk job or a fixed abode, but an awful lot of them waxed awfully lyrical about the joys of living on the road. I doubt there'd be a 20th C folk industry, if you eliminated the hobo from their ranks.
...and I hate suburban yard caches, too. I'll only do them if I am dared and called names...
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That is normal for any model. One thing about the eTrex and all models without an electronic compass, is that you need to be moving at a brisk pace for the directional needle to work. If you stop or slow down (which is what most people do as they approach the cache) it will no longer show direction.
Heh. About three miles an hour, which is a fast walk. You made me think of me...dashing back and forth in the woods, trying to get a direction. I smacked into more than one tree before I learned to pick a landmark on the map screen and navigate from that. Though, to be honest, now that I have a built in compass, it ain't all that accurate.
Saying that, I find in the UK the garmin quite close to the cache itself, or I have been very fortunate with the CO who have really stuck the exact co-ords for their hides
I find satellite coverage MUCH better in the UK, for whatever reason. I couldn't believe it the first time my unit picked up the maximum 13 satellites at once. Presumably, more data equals more accuracy.
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You know...I think about one in fifty of the ones I've found were in clever containers. And those tended to be from the same hiders. The VAST majority are tupperware, ammo cans, film pots, keyholders and button nanos.
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The biggest confusion seemed to be my GPS. We're using a Garmin eTrex Legend. It seems like every time we got withing 15 to 20 feet of the waypoint, the whole compass would spin and send us in a different direction up to 200 feet away. It became really frustrating when we were bushwacking through some woods.
They do that -- perfectly normal. Get inside their margin of error, and they can hop about like mad.
When you get within about 50', start paying less attention to the GPS and using your cache-fu.
My first was a Legend and I found upwards of 500 with it -- loved it to bits.
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"Hobo" doesn't (or didn't originally) have negative connotations. A hobo lived how he lived from choice.
Now, a bum...that was different.
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When Uncle Badger and I cache together, we're Team Mustelid. Because duh.
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Pubs here are named things like the Queen's Head, the Royal Oak or the Woolpack. There are often hundreds of pubs that go by the same name with no relationship. There's not, in other words, any statutory ownership of pub names.
But, whatever. List the cache as Her Majesty's Bonce and go for it.
I've done more than one micro outside a pub.
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Come back, Claire! Tell us how you're doing.
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That would be a neat sig item. You know, they make little business-card sized CD's that would probably hold a track. They're often given away at trade shows with catalogues on. You can burn them yourself -- or you could probably have a bunch made up cheap with custom imprint and everything.
I did a cache once that was a CD trading depot. I got some really awful Japanese pop band out of it. I forgot what I put in, but knowing my tastes, it was a doozy.
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You can design a shirt on Zazzle and have them make it for you, but not put it up for sale.
But they are still making money off somebody else's trademark, so it's still not okay with them. Trust me, they take the narrowest possible interpretation. Not to mention pulling products at the slightest complaint (they've just pulled all religious designs on dog shirts, and every single instance of "my Indian name is..." slogans).
There needs to be a shirt with a picture of a lamp post with "skirtlifter" underneath it.
Not bad, not bad. May I steal it? I've got a feeling up lampposts shirt and an Acme lamp post inspection shirt.
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Personal use is granted. You can upload the images to a site like Zazzle.com and make some shirts, hats or coffee cups with those logos for yourself, but you cannot sell them.
No...because even then Zazzle is selling them. They take an extraordinarily hardline attitude about intellectual property rights (sometimes, beyond what is really necessary. As when then took down all products with the word "Twilight" in the description because of that stupid vampire thing).
Of course, there are products there with the GC logo on them in the Zazzle marketplace. But that's likely because Zazzle doesn't know it's trademarked. And/or none of those products have ever sold (which is when they come to the attention of Zazzle's content review drones).
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I'm looking for a T-Shirt that has the Geocaching logo on one side and Letterboxing or Terracaching logo on the other. But my dilema is, which side for which game? In any event, how much and where to find it is another problem!
That's going to be hard to find, because the GC logo is trademarked. I don't know about the other two, but they probably are, too.
In other words, it's not legal unless all the parties involved got together and authorized it. You'll have to go gray market or make it yourself with transfers.
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I don't understand the concept of having ideas for stuff that doesn't exist already. But I do t-shirts! Clicking the link in my sig will whisk you away to a world of things that are definitely on-topic but commercial and therefore forbidden.
You see? "Wrong" comes in many flavors...
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Pardon me but you seem to care what others think about what you are doing, Why?
It's a little thing called "social skills." Some people get a bigger dose than others.
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I hide caches! Honest! Well, a couple. They fell off my stats when I moved and adopted them out.
Not near enough Scotney to hide one there. Sadly, all around me is SSSI.
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No doubt that they are more interesting to read. And much more satisfying to the cache owner as well.
Does that mean that a "TFTC" is a bad log ? That the cacher doesn't care, is bored, etc ?
I just cannot wrap my head around reading that as a total brush-off.
Sometimes a log is communication with other cachers. TFTC all by itself *can* be a way of politely informing people who haven't done it yet that the cache sucks.
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You're reading those parts, Sioneva? Too long for me. Not enough paragraph breaks.
Or pictures.
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You're reading those parts, Sioneva? Too long for me. Not enough paragraph breaks.
Or pictures.
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That worked. Thanks.
Odd...there are none very near Scotney Castle. Didn't I read the Trust was pro-caching?
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I tried doing a search by postal code in Kent, and I was given a list of caches in Canada. I'm sure this is a well-known problem to users of this forum. I wondered if anyone had discovered a workaround; a way to make it understand whose postal codes we're talking.
I'm searching around National Trust sites, and they helpfully give postal codes.
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Retrieving a cache from underneath a boardwalk held in place with two rubber bands -- I slipped the container out from under one side, and the rubber band on the other side went ptwang. I slingshotted that sucker ten feet across a delicate Audubon Society wetlands.
So. The boardwalk was very, very long, sticking out into a wetland. It had a high railing. It was a significant drop to the ground. If I got down there, could I get back up? Would I have a better chance if I left all my stuff (stick, bag) on the boardwalk? But then, if I couldn't get back up, I'd be separated from my stuff.
Yeah, I made it down and back and put the cache back where it should be. But it was one of those times you think, "oh, crap. How did I get to this place?" For one rogue moment, I considered slinking off in disgrace and never telling a soul.
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My husband and I are new to geocaching. We have mainly been hunting together - sometimes he finds the caches (like the one on 17th June when I saw a birdie I thought I could photograph) but it is me that signs the logs. I have noticed that he has logged as found the caches we have done together but he has not signed the log (perhaps I signed from me plus him...), mind you, his writing is atrocious anyway! Would you suggest that I amend my found log to say that I was with him.... and him edit his....?
I wouldn't worry about any you've already done. In fact, I wouldn't worry about the issue in future, either. But when I sign for more than myself, I will sign both names -- I've done it lots.
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I did one that was suspended from a rope high up in a tree. You had to find where the rope was tied off and lower it carefully.
The kicker was, the hider had diabolically put Unnatural Piles of Sticks under dozens of trees. It was a pine forest with no undergrowth, so these things really stuck out.
One of my favorites, that.
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I pour a PQ into Google Earth and look for a cluster in a desirable place. I usually only do a couple, but having a cluster means there's backup if I don't like the look of one or can't find parking or something.
Churches devoid of a micro - are there any...?
in United Kingdom and Ireland
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Most of the churches in my area have a church micro -- except our parish church. I'm really, really hoping that one continues to be overlooked. It's isolated, our parish is very small and protective of it, and it's only recently been left open for visitors. Lots of paranoid eyeballs on strangers.
More power to the people who like them, but I'm way too self-conscious for the church micro series.