NickPick

I use metric for everything except driving speeds and distance (although my satnav is set for metric so it tells me how far away a junction is in meters). I loved someone's quote on the news about the UK being a 'modern developed country' but still wanting to use an archaic imperial measurement system. It made me laugh, because I work a lot with american engineers, where they still do a lot of engineering in imperial, and one of the american software packages I use has a measurement unit of 'millifeet', which I always find amusing. the funniest system of measurement I've come across recently was at The Register Of course, there's always Size Of Wales for all your unit conversion needs!

Only disadvantage is that you need to be the one to buy him all the beer on the night out!

OK, Where is the world's tallest flagpole? As a clue, I'm currently looking at what was the tallest flagpole, until they built another one a bit taller on the coast in the same country. I know it was the tallest, as the map the hotel gave me has a label marking it saying "World's Tallest Flagpole" They really ought to update their map to "World's 2nd tallest flagpole" Clarification point - by flagpole, I mean unsupported flagpole which looks like a pole, not a structure which looks a bit like the eiffel tower with a flag attached to the top (So not the one in North Korea then!)

I wasn't aware of a "Robo Digger" in Bob The Builder, so other than Scoop and Muck, the only other digger I can think of is Benny.

Or, better still, you could say, "My GPS gave a reading that adds 12 to the Northing and 17 to the Easting" That would depend on which side of the greenwich meridian you are! I suppose that strictly speaking we should say longitude and latitude, but if we said "Adds to longitude", then should that mean "Moves it east" as positive longitudes are east of greenwich.

Have you considered asking the canadian forums what sort of paper maps they use? Obviously don't put the 'like our OS maps' bit because most of them won't have used OS maps.

My computer won't let me cheat at patience, and I haven't played it with real cards for about 14 years! I've seen a few webcam caches where people have been to the location, but found that the camera wasn't working. In this case, I think it's acceptable to prove you've been there by taking a photo of yourself and your gps, and logging that cache. I think most webcam cache owners feel the same and will allow this. Edit to add: If you're having problems getting the webcam picture, and don't want to have to phone a mate or colleague to get them to capture it for you, there's a great free facility that a german guy (Elachimo) has set up where you set up his service in advance, then when you're at the cache, phone his number, let it ring 2-4 times and then hangup(so it doesn't cost anything), and his server will capture the photo and email it to you. Elachimo's Webcamservice

Or you can look under the owner's cache stats and find the cache listing that way.

Tsk! When I was a kid, we didn't have fancy in car DVD players! We used to entertain ourselves playing "I-spy", "Yellow Car!", "See how annoyed Dad can get if you keep leaning on his seatbelt and kicking the back of his seat." and other classic favourites. And our family favourite - "Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet?" And singing - all of my family know a song about virtually any topic because we used to play "Sing a song about..." Mind you, when I was a kid, it used to take us all day to drive from Southampton to Kent, and on the way home, my parents used to put the back seats down and lay down a couple of duvets so that we could sleep in the boot like it was a bed (Obviously that was before chidren needed properly fitted child restraints). The same trip takes me about 2.5 hours now (on a good day)

lol. I was suprised that ebay have a category for 'geocoins, trackable coins'

I recently bought a pill holder (to hold pills actually) for £3 with free postage from a uk ebay seller. Looked identical to the ones from usa sellers. It's got a rubber ring seal so should be waterproof. I'm not sure about the material - whether it's stainless steel or coated brass or what, so corosion may or may not be a problem.

Is it Down in Fraggle Rock?

There's no official way, but we do see people posting topics like that on this forum. I think the most recent ones I've noticed are 'Taxi to USA', and possibly one who was going to Malta.

I still haven't managed to find a yellow one yet! I brought a green one back from the usa last year, found a white one near the M25, but the yellow one I was chasing got 'lost' from a cache in the few days between being dropped and me finding it. now I've got 2 types of jeep to chase!

I can't believe that 'angrynewbie' could be bothered to make a new account, then wait the 24 hours that the forum software leaves before you're allowed to post, in order to post such a rant. They must be really angry! Honestly, if you really believe in what you say, then you really ought to make your post under your real name rather than hiding behind a sock puppet. When I was a newbie, I found other cachers, both on the forums and in logs and emails, very helpful. More recently, I can't say I've noticed that many incidents of 'newbie bashing'. Relating to the OP, I shouldn't think that any reasonable person would mind receiving a polite email saying "I noticed that you logged my cache as 'found' twice. Although it's not written in the guidelines, it's generally accepted that a second find on a cache is logged as a 'note'. This also means that the cache statistics shown on the site count the total number of caches you've found rather than the number of times you've visited them or posted notes"

DING I thought the Blanc might cause more problems than it did, its the best under 25 year old. If the leader of the race is also king of the moutains, leader in the sprint points and under 25, do they have to wear all 4? Wouldn't that make them a bit hot?

Breath, Calm Down a bit, and take Dan./Rocky Balboa's advice - "It's just a hunt for a lunchbox. Don't take it so seriously!"

Marriot Hotel, Los Angeles hmm, guess - the wachowski brothers? Christopher Walken

Your turn Ayondin. Stop lurking in the shadows!

Great pp calculator! I hate to be picky (those who know me will call me a liar there), but I've spent two weeks doing audits and I get pickier the more I do. You'll also be charged 3.4% of the increase, so your numbers should be: 1 £6.42 2 £12.63 3 £18.84 4 £25.05 5 £31.26 Otherwise you'll make a 1p loss on each calendar.

If you have a premier account, if you sell less than £1500 per month, you have to pay 3.4% +20p, so for a payment of £6, you will be charged 40.4p (3.4 x 6 = 20.4p + 20p). They'll probably round this up to 41p. I don't think you have to re-join after any length of time. There are no set up fees. Paypal's fee table is here, but i think you need to be logged into your paypal account to see that page.

Well Done Alibags! Congratulations!

Ding - your go again!

I can only suggest that yours upset the others by re-radiating some of the signal. All antennas re-radiate the signal they are receiving (this is how a TV detector van can detect if you're watching your tv). The others must have detected this signal and accepted it as a valid signal, which has confused their calculations. I suppose this would be similar to the effect of multi-path where a signal gets bounced off a wall or cliff (used to show up on TV as ghosting, but shows up on the GPS as receiving the sattelite signal slightly later than it should for its location). That's my thoughts on the possible reason. I'm sure that the Forester will come along and correct me if I'm wrong. (and I'd be happy if he did)

Ding With 46 overall victories, and winning the constructors championship 6 times in a row (1987-1992), the Lancia Delta is correct. And I once had the pleasure of owning one.