Eric O'Connor

quote:Originally posted by evilrooster:I'd like to see public transport information included (at least on urban caches). Not all cachers drive. People come from different directions at different times though. How would this work?

quote:Originally posted by evilrooster:I'd like to see public transport information included (at least on urban caches). Not all cachers drive. People come from different directions at different times though. How would this work?

quote:Originally posted by yrium:I hate to admit that early on I took a pencil sharpener from a cache then sat with my ears burning in front of my monitor when two or three cachers later someone mentioned that they couldn't log a cache cuz the pencil was broke. I bought the 300 geocaching ballpoints the same day I walked up a steep-steep hill only to find a cache that contained no writing utensil. I'm a little curious about something though, It doesn't freeze in Berzerkeley or Escondildo so what's up with the pencils? I fully agree with their use where temperatures fall outside a certain range where pens might rupture, but you don't live in such a place. Is there something about pencils I've not thought of? I miss those summer nights in Escondido with Brenda the blonde. If on the off chance you see this Brenda I miss those...um...conversations we used to have.

quote:Originally posted by yrium:I hate to admit that early on I took a pencil sharpener from a cache then sat with my ears burning in front of my monitor when two or three cachers later someone mentioned that they couldn't log a cache cuz the pencil was broke. I bought the 300 geocaching ballpoints the same day I walked up a steep-steep hill only to find a cache that contained no writing utensil. I'm a little curious about something though, It doesn't freeze in Berzerkeley or Escondildo so what's up with the pencils? I fully agree with their use where temperatures fall outside a certain range where pens might rupture, but you don't live in such a place. Is there something about pencils I've not thought of? I miss those summer nights in Escondido with Brenda the blonde. If on the off chance you see this Brenda I miss those...um...conversations we used to have.

quote:Originally posted by StayFloopy:On the other hand, I did use Kernbob's electrolyte drink mix, which was much appreciated on a hot sweaty day up in the hills of Harriman State Park. That's different, Kerbob is one of the good guys. He and I have spoken on the phone on many occasions and he's the kind of guy you want as a next door neighbor. Street vendors in Mexico? Now that is taking a chance.

Everyone is always on my case and others that this is a family oriented Spobby (Don't majicman...just don't) This kid came in here to intruduce herself and was given a cold shoulder. So she doesn't know her way around the tools of this forum... big stinking hairy deal. Give her time to try out her wings and knock off with the negativity. I've got a rabid hamster that's just itching to stretch his legs over this.

Everyone is always on my case and others that this is a family oriented Spobby (Don't majicman...just don't) This kid came in here to intruduce herself and was given a cold shoulder. So she doesn't know her way around the tools of this forum... big stinking hairy deal. Give her time to try out her wings and knock off with the negativity. I've got a rabid hamster that's just itching to stretch his legs over this.

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quote:Originally posted by mikechim:That's too good, it would be even funnier (though I'm sure you weren't trying to be at the time) to have the parts on stealing bookmarked. That's just classic, if I was very religoius I'd probably start doing that, not only gets your message out but it really is funny. The funny thing was that I was getting flack from my fundy friends for "leading others into temptation" Cue Rodney Dangerfield: I remember I was so depressed I was going to jump out a window on the tenth floor. They sent a priest up to talk to me. He said, "On your mark..." I had a lot of pimples too. One day I fell asleep in a library. I woke up and a blind man was reading my face.

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You all are probably going to be shocked by what I'm about to say.... I used to teach Sunday school and I could thump a Bible in three part harmony back then. I never did care for Chick tracks or many of the bumper stickers that they sold at the Christian bookstores. I used to buy those inexpensive New Testiment Bibles and gift wrap them, accidently on purpose leaving them on the roof of my car. I must have averaged about 100 Bibles a year with that method, but I figured that anyone who would steal a present off a car roof could use a little talking to. My phone number was written inside with "Call if you just need to talk with someone" If you really want to reach out to heathen dog geocachers such as yours truly. A personal testimony of what your life was like before, why things are better now, maybe a FAQ of the questions we all ask... Combine all of that into a nice printout on decent paper. Fold it into something that will keep the weather off of it and use that as your geocaching signature item. This might seem like a weird thing to say in this context but make sure you don't put anything in that testimony that would be alarming to children.

It's been six minutes... Haven't you figured it out YET? You mean a photo in the message body?

It's been six minutes... Haven't you figured it out YET? You mean a photo in the message body?

quote:Originally posted by majicman:Meybe it wasn't you who kept using the multi-word descriptors like Activity / Sport / Spectacle (it was probably some less-famous (or infamous) poster but I like you and your name is so easy to type, that a lot of times I just substitute your name for whomever I am ranting about at that time... OR!!, I am an idgit! (Probably all three...))) Oh, that was me.... But I've still never ran across a post by "Eric O'Conner" Pedantically Yours Eric O'Connor

I was all ready to chime in with my standard.... "No, not a good idea, and stop running with sizzors you children" post when suddenly I had a flashback... :::wavy lines::: It was the summer of 1988 and I was taking a gentle canoe ride up lake Hodges. (Hi Yrium) A couple buddies I was going to school with were manning the paddles, this gave me a chance to relax and enjoy the beautiful weather. Life was good back then because the only worries I had were about the future. The past had not yet just begun it's mercilous haunting of my soul. We climbed all over the dam, inspecting the various passages and trying not to let each other see our knees knock as we walked across the top. :::wavy::: Whoops! Wrong flashback. Last November I was in Lost Wages to strap on a the holiday feedbag at Mom's. I decided to try out some of the local caches and found one with some leftover candy from Halloween. If I trust halloween candy from complete strangers than trusting a geocacher doesn't seem any different. These were Tootsie Pops in the "Happy New Year" cache. If the person that placed them there happens to read this, thanks!

Any cache you can walk away from was a succesful one.

Any cache you can walk away from was a succesful one.

quote:PRHGS 0/0% It was PHRG (pronounced "frog") quote:Originally posted by majicman:(Yeah, I know it's silly - Eric O'Conner Who? I don't believe I've ever once saw a post by "Eric O'Conner" and I would tend to notice such things. I agree that the concept is silly but so is using a series of words to describe the genre of our activity. Maybe a morphing of words is in order? Hobbort? Spobby? Pastortation? Recreligion?

quote:PRHGS 0/0% It was PHRG (pronounced "frog") quote:Originally posted by majicman:(Yeah, I know it's silly - Eric O'Conner Who? I don't believe I've ever once saw a post by "Eric O'Conner" and I would tend to notice such things. I agree that the concept is silly but so is using a series of words to describe the genre of our activity. Maybe a morphing of words is in order? Hobbort? Spobby? Pastortation? Recreligion?

I heard on CNET radio yesterday that MAC users were smarter and better educated than the national average. That must explain why I've never owned one. (if you listen quietly you'll hear ClayJar softly grumbling about yet another off-topic post in his chat thread)

What the PHRG? So, are dreams just screen savers for the brain?

quote:Originally posted by TeamCNJC:What's the time frame for "time to respond?" The week before the 11th was the week of the 4th. Due to vacation, etc., two weeks in July may not be an adequate period of time to respond. Personally, I'll be out of touch for 2 1/2 weeks later in August. I'm out of reach for weeks at a time myself, just not lately. TCNJC, there is a little "Temporarily disable this cache" toggle that you have access to from the edit menu. How would you feel if you returned to find that your cache had been disabled in this way so that you could verify it's condition and report the results back to the page? Seems like a fair compromise to me and would welcome the opportunity to be held accountable in this fashion.

quote:Originally posted by Rye_and_Leigh:Perhaps James got sick of his reputation and has created a new username. I've never understood what draws some people to do these things. -- The printer within the dry stadium is the carrot that cooks familiarly.

quote:Originally posted by Rye_and_Leigh:Perhaps James got sick of his reputation and has created a new username. I've never understood what draws some people to do these things. -- The printer within the dry stadium is the carrot that cooks familiarly.

How about an "Archived Alert" so we'll know to remove GC numbers from our GPS waypoint collection? I'm usually walking around with at least 100 cache waypoints, if one has been archived it won't be reflected unless I purge and refill.