Eric O'Connor

quote:Originally posted by Jamie Z:The "Berkeley" comment gave it away, methinks. Jamie A guy can't get away with anything around here...... But. wait! It's not me.... The only other regular in the forums who might pull this is Chris JuriCache. His work has been placing pressure on him though... so for all I know this could be legit. I've talked about this hobby with hundreds of people and my daughter is usually at my side. Will the *real* Kije please stand up.... I'm not Kije I'm not the real Kije All you other Kije people are just imitating So won't the real Kije... Please stand up, Please stand up, Please stand up becuase I'm not Kije I'm not the real Kije All you other Kije people are just imitating So won't the real Kije... Please stand up, Please stand up, Please stand up -- I'm betting that it was either MarkWell or CourtneyP

quote:Originally posted by GlfWrVt:the dealer thinks your crazy for sitting in the car checking to see if you can get a good Sat lock in there. You try desperately to talk your own mother out of coating her car windows. Even though she lives in Las Vagas and you only visit a few days a year. You hear voices while deep in the woods and the *first* thing that pops in your mind is that other people might be hunting the same cache. You wear shorts to a cache that has been listed as being over grown with poison oak because you placed the cache and want to make *REAL* sure people can't get to it before you archive. You literally push the poison oak aside with a walking stick and make your way to the cache.... Posting that it's fine and come seek... (yesterday) -- Eric O'Connor Author: Pop Goes the Hamster, and other great microwave games.

quote:Originally posted by GlfWrVt:the dealer thinks your crazy for sitting in the car checking to see if you can get a good Sat lock in there. You try desperately to talk your own mother out of coating her car windows. Even though she lives in Las Vagas and you only visit a few days a year. You hear voices while deep in the woods and the *first* thing that pops in your mind is that other people might be hunting the same cache. You wear shorts to a cache that has been listed as being over grown with poison oak because you placed the cache and want to make *REAL* sure people can't get to it before you archive. You literally push the poison oak aside with a walking stick and make your way to the cache.... Posting that it's fine and come seek... (yesterday) -- Eric O'Connor Author: Pop Goes the Hamster, and other great microwave games.

For you clik-stik eTrex users...... After you mark the waypoint, you re-select the waypoint and while using the little clik-stik tell it to resample/reset/zero ... can't remember the exact term but you zero out your distance from that point... Keep pressing the button until the numbers no longer creep up or down very far. This actually worked BETTER for me than averaging on the III+. You can tell right away when you're spot on....

That's because there aren't any friggin street names there..... Everything is four blocks from St. Mary's or two blocks over from Flannigans pub. The three months I spent there were some of the happiest but confusing in my entire life. (Some streets do have names..... just not as many as I'm used to)

Last September I found some freeze-dried raspberries in a cache. They're still sitting on my trophy shelf because I-ain't-eat'n-um. Pretty much any other 99¢ item would be better than food. How about pulleys from the hardware store? I've thought about using pulleys myself... [i think I just left myself open as the butt of some joke with that revelation] Food is a really good thing to bring to a geocache EVENT, but not so great for caches themselves.

quote:Originally posted by RedShoes:I took a look at your photos and I think the blurry is mostly from camera shake. Travis must have been on his third pot of coffee at that point then.... One of my favorite games here in Berekely is called "Guess the Gender" You pick a random person and subtly nudge your buddy and ask what they think... This camera would make it hard to tell if Catherine Zeta-Jones was a woman. (What! No slobbering emoticon?)

I hope I don't open a bag of worms here.... but when I helped put on a cache event with another geocacher I created a new user name for that purpose. Listing the cache under that name, and emailing the other other cacher with the account name and password, meant that we were both able to make changes at will and neither account received more/less credit. If more than one person is involved I can't think of a better way.

You'll be happy with the Venture. IMAO it's the best bang for the back out there. Mapping units involve more money in the unit *and* expensive maps. I just wish the maps and memory to store thm on were cheaper. (mini-fiddle)

Does this mean that the old saying.... "once you go black you can never go back" isn't true?

I don't mean to be a jerk here, you're most likely a real geocacher who's happy with a recent purchase and who just wanted to share with others with the same zeal that is normally reserved for the fundy set. That being said.... your post reads like a marketing ad. You're not by any chance related to Kim?

I don't mean to be a jerk here, you're most likely a real geocacher who's happy with a recent purchase and who just wanted to share with others with the same zeal that is normally reserved for the fundy set. That being said.... your post reads like a marketing ad. You're not by any chance related to Kim?

I just thought I should pop in here and say that I bought a III+ off of Rocky a few months back. He shipped it right away and it arrived in perfect condition. I've been very happy with it. ---------------------------------------- I just returned home from maintaining some caches.... That III+ sure is sweet. Thanks again Rocky! (I'm sucking up to him so he'll buy me a beer the next time I'm in his neighborhood) [This message was edited by Eric O'Connor on July 06, 2002 at 08:39 PM.]

I just thought I should pop in here and say that I bought a III+ off of Rocky a few months back. He shipped it right away and it arrived in perfect condition. I've been very happy with it. ---------------------------------------- I just returned home from maintaining some caches.... That III+ sure is sweet. Thanks again Rocky! (I'm sucking up to him so he'll buy me a beer the next time I'm in his neighborhood) [This message was edited by Eric O'Connor on July 06, 2002 at 08:39 PM.]

I just hope this doesn't catch on with the exercise crowd. The parks are already crowded enough as it is. Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying there isn't room out there for more people, but that those who are already obsessing over any fad that promises to lose XX pounds ( £ I think they must mean British Pounds Sterling £) in YY days. I want people who are motivated by the sense of adventure and the thrill of the hunt. Obligatory safety: "jpbion" and "Paul & Suzanne" both seem like first rate geocachers and I wasn't in any way suggesting that they're not *exactly* the type of cacher I'd like to meet on the trail. All the above being said...I too must admit that the exercise aspect is most appreciated. Many a cache outings have taken me farther and higher than I normally would have hiked without the McMotive. I'm just praying that there isn't an explosion by the health-nuts. All those people paying $50 a month to jockey a stairmaster would just love to find out about this.

and hopefully not the same one. My Venture grew legs about six weeks back and I'd secretly hoped that having my name, email, and phone on the boot screen would send it back to me (I was debating about starting a thread about what sort of reward to offer) Anyway, gnbrotz... You've been caching long enough now to know the drill. You must already have an eTrex compatible data-cable or it wouldn't be optional (My way of thinking) This thread reminded me of my loss and I just wanted to vent. Yes, for those keeping score this was the THIRD GPS unit that has grown legs this year. Vista-Venture-Basic my luck with the eTrex line is on par with my luck in love....but we won't go there..

quote:EraSeek spaketh thusly:Now that's a cool idea if I understand you right...An infra-red electronic log sheet in the cache. Now that would be cool! That's the idea (and it wasn't really mine, it's come up before) but I don't want to have $50 invested in something that's going to be left in the woods. ifyouknowwhatImean There's an ongoing discussion in the news group about an very-weak AM transmitter that people can locate using a standard handheld AM radio. (Fox hunting for po folk) If that's going to be about $20, I can imagine that something that uses Ir and stores the info will be at least twice as much. Based solely on my "This is really cool" cost-ratio rather than any inherent knowledge of components. Don't get me wrong... I like the AM transmitter idea too but the technology is just a tad-bit older than an Ir logger.

I use an m505 myself and love the fact that I always have the nearest XX caches with me for those spur-of-the-moment cache hunting opportunities. I agree that if you are the type of person who is only going to hunt caches at a pre-determined schedule, and if you already had access to a printer (let's be fair, the Palm replaces other printouts as well) then I can see where a sheet of paper makes more sense. Someone like BruceS who is able to hunt 60 caches before lunch might find it cheaper to use a cheap Palm than pay for all that ink. I usually carry a few books in my Palm as well as all my contact information, so adding the cache information only made sense. That I have 72MB of RAM in my Palm helps a little. (64SD) Since we're talking Palms and since they happen to have Ir ports.... How cheaply can an Ir logger be rigged? You find the cache and "beam" a few bits back and forth that list who was there and when. Maybe a few lines for a clever saying.... You get the drift. How cheaply can something like this be made for?

I use an m505 myself and love the fact that I always have the nearest XX caches with me for those spur-of-the-moment cache hunting opportunities. I agree that if you are the type of person who is only going to hunt caches at a pre-determined schedule, and if you already had access to a printer (let's be fair, the Palm replaces other printouts as well) then I can see where a sheet of paper makes more sense. Someone like BruceS who is able to hunt 60 caches before lunch might find it cheaper to use a cheap Palm than pay for all that ink. I usually carry a few books in my Palm as well as all my contact information, so adding the cache information only made sense. That I have 72MB of RAM in my Palm helps a little. (64SD) Since we're talking Palms and since they happen to have Ir ports.... How cheaply can an Ir logger be rigged? You find the cache and "beam" a few bits back and forth that list who was there and when. Maybe a few lines for a clever saying.... You get the drift. How cheaply can something like this be made for?

quote:Originally posted by Ball Bouncer:ordering pizzas tipthepizzaguy.com If you're going to be hiking outside the cities and expect the phone to work, you'll need analog. CDMA, GSM, and TDMA coverage are mostly found in the main arteries of people. No carrier has complete coverage but in the Bay Area I've had decent luck with SprintPCS (five years now). There have been too many changes in carriers names since I bought my first phone to know what the best is around here but I'm pretty sure that AT&T has a pre-pay plan, as does Verizon. Look into the possibility of renting a phone while you're here and getting a calling card for outgoing calls made from the hotel/friends landline... Google-groups is your friend when it comes to this sort of thing..

quote:Originally posted by Sickticket:I gave them coordinates for the best entry point that caused them to cross the least amount of posted land and that if there were any questions of why they were there I have my name in the clue section. As an owner, can you put little geocaching.com logo stickers on/near these posted signs with a thumbs up image? Something to the effect of "Everyone keep out unless you happen to be looking for a cache, and then be careful so you don't hurt yourself and sue me for every red cent I own" or something like that...

quote:Originally posted by Sickticket:I gave them coordinates for the best entry point that caused them to cross the least amount of posted land and that if there were any questions of why they were there I have my name in the clue section. As an owner, can you put little geocaching.com logo stickers on/near these posted signs with a thumbs up image? Something to the effect of "Everyone keep out unless you happen to be looking for a cache, and then be careful so you don't hurt yourself and sue me for every red cent I own" or something like that...

quote:Originally posted by Alan2:If you remove the ability for the cache owner to modify I left out the word "modify" intentionally, the cache owner would still be able to encrypt or possibly even "hide" the log where nothing but the smiley face and finder name is displayed. Spoilers are a seperate issue, but equally as serious, even though I never-ever-ever-ever read the logs prior to a hunt just in case someone happened to sneak in a spoiler or tidbit that changes the experience. All of this is assuming that the Groundspeak team see this as worthy-of-code.

quote:MRCPU - Just print up a nice certificate with the activation code and a letter with instructions and put this in a cache. Was that for a month or a year? The monthly codes automagically renew at the end of the month. Is there a way we can buy a code that will stop working in 30 days? (thus not being charged for later service) A $3 code that I can hide several of would be cool, a $30 code might be given to a buddy as a gift, but it's too pricey to just leave in a cache. How about this.... $20 for 20 (each code valid for seven days...) If you've read the first finder thread you'll already know I'm a broken record* on the buying codes idea. *records were these flat, round, non-shiny plates that contained grooves. If spun at the correct RPM with a specially designed needle being dragged, sound could be passed to an amplifier of some sort. If the record became "broken", the needle would play the same section over and over until repositioned... If you're having trouble imagining this, think of a woman who's prone to nagging

quote:Originally posted by seneca:I believe that ultimately finds should be self-determined by the finder, and certainly not unilaterally regulated by the hider (which can only result in rather ugly p***ing matches). This has been brought up before, but it would be quite trivial to setup a password to log a cache as a "find". Traditional caches could have it written inside the lids, virtuals could use this as the required word to log...etc. The way to make this fair would be to have the log be considered valid if the password was valid. Removing the ability to indiscriminitly delete logs that were properly submitted. (Groundspeak administration being the obvious exeption) The cache hider could change the password as often as they'd like but this would require more work on their part since they'd have to be sure that someone could log it.