Mopar
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Why do moderators close a "humor" post?
Mopar replied to Inmountains's topic in General geocaching topics
A guy walks into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder, and a geocacher named Inmountains under his arm. He tells the bartender that he needs 3 beers. The clown in the back sitting next to the gorilla gets up, walks over, and says to the man, "I didn't know parrots drank beer". Just then Inmountains said, "They don't, but tonight we're celebrating our Google stock going up after Google bought geocaching". -
Why do moderators close a "humor" post?
Mopar replied to Inmountains's topic in General geocaching topics
Well, there was the "Disney is buying Geocaching.com" one, but the best was when letterboxing.org and geocaching merged to form Boxcaching.com! -
Why do moderators close a "humor" post?
Mopar replied to Inmountains's topic in General geocaching topics
Will this do? -
Why do moderators close a "humor" post?
Mopar replied to Inmountains's topic in General geocaching topics
Oh, i get it. The joke was he believed wikipedia is always accurate! No, the MOST important part is..... Get the punchline correct. In other words, Dave Ulmer is not the founder of geocaching.com. Dave couldn't sell something he never owned. Also, Geocaching.com is based in Seattle, WA, not in Oregon. Since pretty much everyone here (but you, I guess) knows these two facts, your closed thread was sad, not humorous. -
Geocaching on Washington State Ferries
Mopar replied to chuckbiscuits's topic in General geocaching topics
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Commercial Cache Guidelines....
Mopar replied to Silny Jako Bek's topic in General geocaching topics
I'm guessing deceit. The cache owner had posted something basically yelling at everyone who was complaining the cache was commercial. He said the cache hadn't slipped through the cracks; that he and the reviewer had discussed the commercial aspect, and that the reviewer had discussed the cache with Groundspeak and Groundspeak gave the OK for the cache. Like I said, if all that were in fact true, I don't think they would have archived it a day or 3 later with a not so nice note, and they certainly wouldnt have gone to the extreme of totally removing the listing so you can't even see the archived cache if you have the link. -
Commercial Cache Guidelines....
Mopar replied to Silny Jako Bek's topic in General geocaching topics
Looks like us curious types got our answer. And one minute later.... I'm guessing if it really had permission from Groundspeak like the cache owner claimed, they wouldn't have archived it. They certainly wouldn't have retracted it (meaning we cant even see the cache anymore). -
This must be some sort of record
Mopar replied to ThePetersTrio's topic in General geocaching topics
DONT stop hiding caches. DO find better places to hide future ones. I'm looking at your cache, and I can't help but see this cache didn't stand a chance. And this is where google puts the cache. If that's right the cache was less then 20ft from a house? Remember, consumer gps is usually only accurate 10 9-12ft under the best conditions. The combined inaccuracy of you gps and the hiders gps means people can be looking 30ft away. If you hide a cache where muggles can observe people searching for a cache it's not gonna last. -
Lost Vista, looking for a cheap or free GPS
Mopar replied to Phil&Phil2008's topic in GPS technology and devices
Sure. I bet lots of people would "waste" a hour or 2 looking for a free GPS, even if you think someone should just give you another one rather then you go look for it. -
Commercial Cache Guidelines....
Mopar replied to Silny Jako Bek's topic in General geocaching topics
There very well could be more to the story. I haven't had a cache denied for commercial aspects, but I've seen several local ones that were shot down and seen examples in the forums (see Canadian menus). Of course TPTB can grant the exceptions. It would be nice if some explanation was given as to why THIS cache is ok with such a big exception, but another simple one is absolutely forbidden. Do they HAVE to disclose why they granted it? certainly not...but it's rather frustrating to see a glaring example of something way outside the norm approved and what seems rather simple gets shut down without reason. Again, everything with this exception is allowed by the guidelines and I'm not about to ask for a hard RULE about things. Flexibility is a good thing. Groundspeak can ok a commercial cache because the logo has pretty colors if they want....they just can't be surprised when hiders feel it's pretty unfair. One thing I've noticed is usually when Groundspeak does grant an exception to the guidelines it says that right in the cache description. This cache doesn't have that which makes me (and others) think maybe the cache was changed after it was published. -
Commercial Cache Guidelines....
Mopar replied to Silny Jako Bek's topic in General geocaching topics
Groundspeak makes the exceptions. When hiding a cache with a commercial aspect, the owner needs to write to Groundspeak for advance clearance. Volunteer cache reviewers are not empowered to grant exceptions, only Groundspeak. For a "museum or tourist attraction," part of the answer depends on whether it's a profit or non-profit location. For example, caches hidden in a state park that has an entrance fee are not considered as "commercial" under this section of the listing guidelines. A cache hidden in a for-profit amusement park with an entrance fee would be. Those make sense, but the cache in the OP requires you to go into a commercial business and make a purchase to be able to find the cache. Historically that's something that's been quite a no-no in the past. -
Many ISPs still have size limits on your mailbox. Say for example, you have a 20meg mailbox, and have 18 megs of PQs and other mail already in there. Plenty of room left for typical text emails, but a 2.2meg PQ would get bounced by your ISP.
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Next time you find one of those let me know. I'll come over and help you decide what to do with it..... I once found a can of beer in a cache. The hole the cache was placed in was actually a vent for a cave that usually has ice in it all year long. Even though it was summer the ammo can (and the can of beer in it) were about 45°F. Of course I did the right thing and removed the bad swag. It was a long hike back to the cars, and the beer can was kinda heavy, so to make it lighter I had to drink the bad swag on the way down.
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Congrats! No logging micros or virts on the wedding night. We did something like that for our wedding. Here's the cake: OMG! That is an AWESOME idea! I am so sorry we didn't think of that for our geowedding!
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Earn a living geocaching? Your suggestions appreciated.
Mopar replied to Starbuck&Apollo's topic in General geocaching topics
You are of course, welcome to try whatever out of the box ideas you want. However, if you want to use Geocaching.com's website or forums to promote your idea, there is a whole TON of "what you can't do" rules, especially when it comes to trying to make a profit. They have pretty strict rules about people using their services to try and turn a profit. Whatever out of the box idea you think up, I would suggest making a phone call and discussing your idea with them before you invest too much. -
Earn a living geocaching? Your suggestions appreciated.
Mopar replied to Starbuck&Apollo's topic in General geocaching topics
According to your profile, you haven't even logged into the geocaching site in almost 3yrs? There are very VERY few people who make any money at all by geocaching. Forget any type of cache for profit, it's not allowed. As far as professional blogging goes, I doubt most bloggers make enough in a year to pay for a tank of gas unless they first get very popular and get hired to write for a media outlet. You would have to be an exceptional writer, and build a large following (10s of thousands of daily readers) before that is likely to happen. I seriously doubt that at this stage of the game there are that many people interested in reading the daily adventures of someone with 5,000 finds much less someone with 50. There are a few people who have made a small profit in writing and video related geocaching projects, but like PBT said, that money comes after the fact. Don't get me wrong, I'm envious of your adventure, but I am pretty sure you won't be able to feed your dream through geocaching. You will have to look toward the more conventional methods of income relied on by other full-time RVers. -
I just ordered this one yesterday. Once I've used it a few times I'll post my impressions.
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3 for 3.
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Wow again is right! It appears once again your reluctance to learn how to properly use the website is the root of your problem. I just did a test log of a cache using wap.geocaching.com and only used a few thousand bytes of data to do so. A far cry from 1.2Mb.
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Are you ever worried about your safety?
Mopar replied to Andy73's topic in General geocaching topics
And I am happy to report that I have never needed to use the Fire Extinguisher that we keep in the kitchen, but I keep it there anyway. RWW, Dont you know fire extinguishers are a fire hazzard while geocaching? The 2nd item is a seatbelt. I always wear one while driving from geocache to geocache. Even though in almost 30yrs of driving, including a few yrs involved with race cars and many yrs of 50k+ miles a yr , I've never needed it. -
Are you ever worried about your safety?
Mopar replied to Andy73's topic in General geocaching topics
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Just to echo mtn-man a bit. I too was in the market for a cheap PDA for caching. I end up killing at least one a year caching, so no need for top of the line. I also have a good idea of what these things are worth since I've been through 6-7 of them caching. Anyway, someone suggested to me that I email one of the people here because it seemed like other people thought he had good prices. His "good deal" was $60 for a Palm M500 to my door. That seemed pretty steep, especially considering almost 3yrs ago I bought a M500 from someone here in the forums for $35. So, I did my usual ebay route instead, and got a Palm M500 and a Palm V, with all their assorted cradles and cases etc, for a grand total of $32.50 with the shipping.
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Wow. Just WOW! People who are supposed to enjoy expending some effort to go out and find geocaches are too lazy to click a mouse button? Who knew?
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Wow, fast FTF's. Did you mean to say "now available for armchair logging?" 7 smileys to find one cache? I guess what we really need now is an International Lamp Post cache. Find one LPC and you get to log a find on 1,000 other LPCs! I understand lamp posts come in all sorts of different styles and designs so this should be awesome. Who's in?
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That's because GCM0H0 wasn't pure chance. We made a huge effort to time the cache submission just right to get it, and actually failed and missed it by a few caches. Luckily, we were able to "swap" cache pages with the person who did get it. Basically we adopted his GCM0H0 cache and he adopted ours. The fact that Brian's was just sheer luck is very cool. I assume he hid the cache first and just got really lucky with the GC#. I've seen a few caches with really cool sounding GC#s and the cache was just a plain jane geocache. I always wondered why the owners who lucked out on the cool GC#s didn't play it up.