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I'd love to have one. I've been to South Africa, in December 2002, although not yet a geocacher, and would love to have one of these.

Looks like a giant mosquito to me!!!

I'm not sure why I haven't seen this thread yet and posted to it. Oh, well. Tom here. I am from South Bend and have been caching only since June 2004 but am hooked, as is everybody else. I have met a few of you at either the St. Pat's Geocaching Picnic Event and or the Potawatomi Wild Cache Event. I have just over 100 finds but am getting very anxious for spring to get here and plan to do lots of biking and caching (combined) this year. There are still many that I have not hunted within 30 miles of my house. I own three caches, all hidden near Bourbon, IN (The North 40, The Andromeda Galaxy, and The World's Lamest Micro). My one goal for this year is to try and take a trip to Alaska and hopefully do some caches up there. Can't think of a better place to look for Tupperware in the woods!!!

I have a favorite place that I like to stop every year on my loooong drive from Indiana to West Texas. It's a roadside park north of Haskell and I would like to hide a cache here. The problem is that obviously, I can't maintain it, and vacation hides are not allowed, but I would like to find a cacher in or near this area willing to hide it and maintain it for me. I'd be willing to make it up and mail it to anyone willing to hide it (if this is allowed.) It would likely be a small cache or a micro but I'd prefer a small cache with some stuff, maybe big enough to hold travel bugs. I want to hide a cahce at this particular place in honor of a friend of mine who made the trip with me last year. A real frustrating incident happened to him at this spot -- it was very funny to me!! You had to be there. e-mail me thru geocaching.com if you can or would like to help. Thanks!

I always thought it would be kinda neat to have a Geocaching "museum" where old logbooks, famous caches, travel bugs, etc. could go after they were retired. I have no idea where this would be located or who would take care of this. But it would be nice to have some sort of repository for these items so they would not end up in the trash at some point. Just a thought I had one day at work when I was supposed to be working.

I, too, have a TB called Get Your Kicks. I think this is the ultimate Route 66 TB. Unfortunately it's slogging its way through Tennessee right now but I'm hoping to meet up with it soon.

Astronomy is by far my number 1 hobby followed by ham radio, geocaching, traveling, gardening and yardwork, home repair, biking, watching Fox News, camping, and many things I have not yet discovered.

I'm in. Thanks

Octane swag: That's the money that people will need to start leaving in caches to help pay for gas now that the price per gallon is back over $2.00 in my area!

OK, thanks for the info. I'll keep this topic open for a while in case someone is looking for this type of card. Have a nice day.

Never used Magellan 16mb Secure Digital Memory Card for Meridian GPS. I have no idea what this is worth so if someone needs one email me and let me know. My SportTrack Map can't use this.

Thanks. This looks like exactly what I need, and the price is right. Thanks for all your help. Just downloaded and tried this. It works great! Thanks again for the info.

Thanks. This looks like exactly what I need, and the price is right. Thanks for all your help.

I want to do a nearby webcam cache but it will be a real pain to work it out with a friend to have them get online and save the webcam picture while I am in it. I don't have a cell phone and it would be difficult to try and get ahold of someone to help me capture the picture. Does anyone know how to have the computer automatically save a webcam picture each time it updates. I thought using Netscape would automatically save each picture but it doesn't seem to work. Just wondering, thanks

The first images from the NASA/ESA Cassini-Huygens probe which just landed on Saturn's moon Titan have just been released. Guess where all those missing travel bugs are!!!! edit spelling

OT, sorry Hi Smaug1 I work for UL too sorry again, OT

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I hid my latest cache The World's Lamest Micro on November 17 and still nobody has found it. So I guess that nobody around here likes lame micros Just kidding. Actually the cache is a multi stage that ends up taking you to a really neat location so the efort is worth it. The final stage is at a place where there is a small wooded area and not many places to hide a larger container. I named is as so just because I like the word "lame" and the micro seems to be controversial to boot. I do plan on replacing the final micro stage with a REGULAR cache once the snow is gone and the mosquitos are back assuming I can find a good hiding location. If you are honest and say your cache is lame people will still look for it. I say go for it!

Sorry, I didn't write this, just posting it from another site. I just thought it was interesting and might be appropriate for this thread. To be honest, I don't understand exactly what or if this would do to GPS accuarcy. It's just that I keep hearing how the Earth's rotation was changed by the quake and how it is affecting everything from the length of our day to GPS accuracy. Perhaps someone who is more familiar with this stuff could explain once and for all how or if GPS accuracy was affected by the earthquake.

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Saw this post in an email from my satellite observers group. I would assume from this, assuming I understand what it's saying, that there was little effect on GPS accuracy for most of the world. There is on the FAQ page of U.S. Geological Survey site the following information regarding consequences of Sumatra earthquake on geoid: http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqinthenews/200...c_slav_faq.html Question: What effect did this earthquake have on the rotation of the earth? Answer: Richard Gross at JPL has modeled the coseismic effect on the Earth's rotation of the December 26 earthquake in Indonesia by using the PREM model for the elastic properties of the Earth and the Harvard centroid-moment tensor solution for the source properties of the earthquake. The result is: change in length of day: -2.676 microseconds polar motion excitation X : -0.670 milliarcseconds polar motion excitation Y: 0.475 milliarcseconds Since the length of the day can be measured with an accuracy of about 20 microseconds, this model predicts that the change in the length-of-day caused by the earthquake is much too small to be observed. And, since the location of the earthquake was near the equator, this model predicts that the change in polar motion excitation is also rather small, being about 0.82 milliarcsecond in amplitude. Such a small change in polar motion excitation will also be difficult to detect. Mgr. Antonin Vitek, CSc. Office: Main Library, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic Home: Kytin 127, CZ-25210 Mnisek p. B., Czech Republic

Positives: 1. All the exercise I got by bicycling about 600 miles total to most of the caches I did this past Summer. 2. Meeting some very cool and nice people at the two Event Caches I attended. 3. I love the outdoors and getting to play with the coolest toy I own while being outdoors just made it all that much better. Negatives: 1. Caches that don't get maintained or cache containers that just won't hold up to the elements. About half the caches I have found were wet inside. 2. People who don't know how to play nice in the Forums. 3. People who take Travel Bugs then either lose them, don't log them, or just don't care what they do with them. TBs are other people's property. If you take a TB, play right or don't play at all.

Three favorite caches: *My first find This One. It sparked my interest to find more caches. This one, an easy find at a rest area in Kansas Piddle Purge. It was raining but when I got to the cache the sun had just come out and I saw a very beautiful rainbow over the Kansas prairie. This one that took me to one of the coolest places I had ever been Black Mesa. It was just beautiful up there. The lamest cache I ever found was one "hidden" in a person's front yard in the bushes. No challenge, no fun, and the neighbors were watching us the whole time. Plus it was in a not-so-nice part of town. *I almost never take anything. Only useful things I have ever taken were a rain poncho and a map of Oklahoma and a Christmas present from this cache. Most stuff I see in caches are toys and other people's unwanted junk. What characterizes for you a cache with quality contents? *As long as it isn't junk I'm OK with it. Toys are OK, but I hate when people put worthless junk in caches. What characterizes for you a quality cache hide location? *Secluded, remote and beautiful, peaceful places. I don't particularly like high-traffic areas. What do you look for in a cache description and/or log before seeking a cache? *Other cacher's impressions of the cache, how hard it was to find, other's impressions of the area, clues. What do you do when you find a less than stellar cache? *The standard TNLN. If really bad or if it is in bad shape I will let the owner know. Have you hidden any caches? *I have three hides: This one This one and this one. If you did, what sort of thought process went into your cache hiding effort? *I wanted them to be easy enough to find but not too easy, they needed to be at a favorite place of mine, accessible so I could maintain them, and I wanted them to be just a little different from other caches I had found. In addition to descriptions, logs, terrain and difficulty ratings, should we consider a quality of experience rating? *No, it's too subjective. Does quality mean different things for a micro, verses a regular cache, verses say a multi-cache? *A micro is nothing more than a small regular cache but without the swag. There is nothing inherently worse about a lame micro than a lame regular cache. Do you like series caches and prefer them over multi-caches? *I like puzzle caches but there are not enough in my area. Do you seek special cache experiences to commemorate reaching a find threshold like 100, 200, 1000? *If I know I'm about to reach a milestone I like to plan what cache it's going to be.

I liked The Article. They did a pretty good job. Didn't mention "burying" caches or "Black Boxes" Probably the best article I've seen yet. Do you agree?

I did the google thing to find out the previous name. If I got it right, then how is it any different from this one? Play on Words