art begotti

oh oh... one new message... got it! thanks!

actually, i said to run it once and delete... (here's where i feel really stupid) ...did i still have to select a day of the week? morning after, and it still hasn't come...

eeh... after reading that, and not being exactly sure what an "SD card slot" is... i think my chances kinda slimmed down.

maybe i'm just overly optimistic. heck if i know. but i have a lowrance globalmap 100 (which, from what i understand, is a very old model). is there any hope for being able to download pocket queries into this thing? if i read the manual correctly, the two ports on the back are for NMEA and DGPS... in all honesty, i would not be surprised if i got a violently loud "NO" response. i'm just looking for a way to try and not hand-enter 100 geocaches for an upcoming trip.

i'm a pq n00bie too... checking mr. clock-on-the-wall, i believe i sent the request for the pocket query about... thirty minutes ago? maybe it's because i'm using a hotmail account, or the fact that i'm on a dial-up connection, but that shouldn't affect when the hotmail server gets it. does anyone else have problems with pq's and hotmail? how big are the attachments when they come in? maybe that affects the time it takes to receive the pq.

this is something i've been fairly concerned about lately... i am a high school senior, and i will be leaving for a college in a few months. geocaching has crossed my mind lately regarding this... (no, the amount of geocaches around the campus did not factor into my college decision... ) i currently have three caches active (with the chance of a fourth soon). i have already talked to another cacher, and i will essentially be entrusting them to him. that's one problem taken care of. but there's a problem still ahead of me... when i get to college, should i plant caches? i can easily find caches, yes, but would it make sense to plant caches in the area? think of it this way: i will be on campus (near the cache) for 8-9 months of the year. if a cache needs maintenance while i'm home for christmas or summer, odds are, i won't be able to get to it. and what about after college? if i do plant caches, odds are, i'll move far away from them (and my original ones too)... i know a cache is supposed to be moderately permanent (not the best word, but you get the point). but to hide a cache for nine months, pull it for three, put it out for another nine... keystone would have a hissyfit on me! and to leave it out there permanently with me far away seems kinda risky... what's yourses takes on the situation?

oh honey, i'm reminded of it everyday.

is there a way to search for archived caches within a certain area, like a zip code? i know that to filter out caches you've already found, you can add "&f=1" to the web address (or something like that)... but is there a way to filter out all of the active caches? i'm interested in seeing what caches have previously been in my area, before i started caching.

Incorrect. Waymarking is a database of points. Incorrect. Waymarking is a database of points that contain addional related metadata that defines each point. incorrect. er... okay, correct. actually, yeah, that's correct. but what's the metadata? the mcchicken sandwich for only $1 (plus tax)? if nothing else, the elimination of webcam caches really bothers me most. there are a couple of cachers in my area who bought webcams specifically for the purpose of having a webcam cache, and i must say that i have had fun at each of them. (one time, i constructed a snowman with a disproportionally large nose to earn the find. oh, and i was in front of the wrong house for some part of my construction. ) i know that they will pull their webcam caches completely if such a transfer to Waymarking occurs. btw, has anyone else noticed how much of a pitch mcdonalds has gotten in this thread?

wow, nothing? okay... i suppose this thread will serve as a bUmp, but also to give a little clearer of an idea of what i mean. what i'm trying to suggest -- you've already got it going.... for travel bugs. yes, i know that when you use the printscreen button, the mouse disappears, but you can still see the box that popped up when i moused over a travel bug icon. my idea is to use that for cache descriptions; when you mouse over the name of a cache, a box pops up with a description. if nothing else, respond to tell me if i used that semi-colon right. i've never been that sure about them buggers.

wow, been a while since i was last on here. i had an idea the other day that's probably stupid. but then again, i figured i might as well bother someone with it anyway. get it out of my system. suggestion: you know how sometimes when you mouse over a link or picture, you sometimes get a small box of text to give a little bit of info? take for example the photos on the front page. at the top of the page, you can mouse over the photos, and get the name of the picture. sometimes it's "watching the evening sunset," sometimes it's "DSC_00159237". my suggestion is to do the same thing with caches. when you mouse over a title of a cache, you get a small box to give a short description of that cache before you open the page. this could be entered in seperate by the cache planter, or just be the first umpteen-to-50 characters of the cache description. for example, when you mouse over a cache called "lazy river ride", you might get a box that says "an hour-long canoe trip over easy water". or you could post other information like "part of a series of 5" or "recommended night cache". similarly, another idea is to have simple cache subtitles. while yes, this will clutter up the search-for-caches page even more, it serves the same purpose as the above in a probably-more-html-friendly manner. did you see the subtitle for this post? probably caught your eye when you came here, didn't it? for example, a cache listing might read as follows: Lazy River Ride by joe shakalaka (GC0000) Arkansas "an hour-long canoe trip over easy water" and.... well, that's my idea. so have fun picking it apart.

where did you find this at? it sounds like the person who wrote it either (1) didnt do their homework (it's called geocaching, not geo-cache), (2) is already cynical of the sport or doesnt care all that much ("someone puts stuff in a box"), or (3) is in third grade. (no definite example here... it just sounds like that.)

okay, there are many threads out there about "i see these letters and have no clue what they mean" out there. and most of us DO know what they mean. but what else could those acronyms mean? FTF TNLNSL TFTC or... can you make caching related meanings out of these acronyms? ABCD LTBS POINSETTIA BFTOTFOTE and... bonus points for the one who can guess the meaning of the acronym in the subject line...

16, and formerly in scouts... then after hitting the rank of life, i realized... scouts is not to be enjoyed... its to be tolerated... (seriously, you dont know the perverted idiots in my troop.) (heck, the perverted idiots in the entire county for that matter.) girls and caching... i have dragged with me a female friend to many finds and a couple hides. she's fun to have around, freakishly good at climbing trees, and a good critical thinker. alas, that means we wouldnt stand a chance married.

thats for me to know... and you to not.

i say its perfectly fine. i've seen it done (linketylink), and since i already had a slight bias for that particular restaurant, i have to say its fine. besides, when you get a few caches in a row on a particular route, a nice snack break is good

yeah, i know what you mean. (well, not really.) the hiders in my area are actually pretty clever with their hides. you might get a lame urban micro every once in a while, but people are getting more creative. (or demonic. same thing. )

eh... never mind.

lovely. a premium member cache. really for me, getting out to cache is a rare commodity anymore with time being the way it is (read:time?). im happy for any cache i can find. its just ones that are kinda overhyped that can get me down. (like the "this is the toughest cache ever!" cache that takes only one hour to do)

the cache at the corner of the earth... where the sidewalk ends... the restaurant at the end of the universe... or, i guess the ultimate cache would be the one at heaven's pearly gates. granted, the whole discussion of what is "ultimate" and "penultimate"... wonder how you log that find...

whoops... maybe thats not quite the first.

the ultimate cache would definitely be one that incorporates cachers from all over the world to solve. not like one or two like the "whats in a name" caches, but a whole mass of cachers, like hundreds, even thousands. good luck planting it.

a caching friend of mine wrote a countrywesternish song called "dont tell my wife im out geocaching". its really funny. "dont tell my wife im out geocaching she thinks im gettin drunk at a bar..." and thats all i can remember.

a thread gone HORRIBLY wrong. locking.

hm... just curious... what if geocaching were to global in a little different way? as in, are there any possible records in the guiness book of world records that geocaching might be able to fit into? the only idea i can think of off the top of my head is "longest distance travelled by an object" (which could be just about any travel bug). i dont know, maybe it wouldnt work. but what else could geocaching score in the book for? or has it already done so?