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I am curious. What was it that motivated you to post this?

'The Colonel' was from 'Out There'? I was always just a bit suspicious of that guy. I mean, that little wussy mustache and making people lick their fingers all the time. Strange stuff, other-worldly even. And now he has turned his little self into a cinder block? Yeah well you can tell 'The Colonel that he ain't fooling me for one little second. Colonel = kernel? Just more proof in my book. The man was just weird, too weird.

When I go for what should be an FTF, after all it was published yesterday and no online log, and find a signature in the log I simply rip that page out of the log and go home and log the FTF. Let that other fool try to claim a FTF when his signature is not in the log. That will teach them. Why on earth would you do something so silly?

I just received a Disabled Cache listing in my email for GC1T0WW, "Fore" by TonkaMN. Reason: Log missing. That's in your area, isn't it? The miracle of uncanny timing. Gotta love it. Funny, That cache was on my to do list last time i was out there. never got to it. So, does that make it the third one to have the log stolen? I wouldn't know. As luck would have it, my Canny Timer just went down. Is yours still working?

I just took a picture. Don't know about the others but it does seem to be a tradition of sorts. I personally did not add to the collage, but I did take a picture as well. It sort of just seems to fit in with the local culture around there... Okay... here's some of my pictures. Humboldt Flier, Patsu and I at the sign Humboldt Flier, Patsu and my husband at the infamous mailbox Another view of the same mailbox An interesting stop on the way; Reiffs Gas station Great pics, thanks. We has just gots to make it over that way one of these days. You guys might possibly have made a BIG mistake in not blacking out your faces. The Nevada Sticker Patrol is gonna get yas!!

My back hurts. Next time you go out, try putting on some sunscreen. Thanks for that helpful suggestion. Unfortunately, I don't think that sunscreen would be particularly helpful for MY specific type of back pain. Please do let me know if your are or any of you're friends and associates discover that the science on that changes. Kay? Your the best, thank you.

I guess if vandalism is committed by enough people, (including, it seems, at least one geocacher), it must be OK. That just does not seem to me to be correct. Have you ever visited NYC/NE Joisey? There are hundreds, maybe thousands, of subway cars there. From my personal observation, there's one heckofalot of 'em that carry significant graffiti. I doubt that the tax payers there think that this is "ok". Maybe there is a parallel universe where anything that exists, must by definition be, "ok". People that I know, do not live in that particular universe. They do however seem to have other things of significance that they assign to their ration of 'worry time'. Must be a slow 'news' day.

My back hurts.

This person can probably take care of this for you: http://support.Groundspeak.com/index.php?p...page&id=200

Recently unemployed, are you? Toe hurts, does yours?

This............I love.

yes. only that any single reading under such circumstances will also give you bad coordinates. in fact statistically they will be worse, because you have no data to compare it to. so how can averaging "make it worse"? if there's a specific reason such as multipath for getting bad coordinates, then yes, but otherwise no. the errors are quite random, and even under optimum conditions every consumer grade GPS receiver will "wander" around GZ while sitting in the same spot. but whatever the reasons may be, the point previously made remains: a single reading will never be better than an averaged reading. actually it does, because averaging does exactly that, it gets rid of such error spikes. when you look at your GPS, observe the coordinates shown and try to ignore obvious error spikes and instead take a reading of coordinates that you think are close to what they should be, you're actually doing a kind averaging in your head. you might as well just let the GPS unit do it. taking a single reading without averaging is doing it blindly. when you do that, you have nothing to compare it to, and you won't know if it's anywhere close to where it should be. in order to get a feel of what the coordinates should be, you need more data, more coordinate readings, and see which coordinates they hover around. and that's exactly what averaging does. of course you need a good averaging algorithm for that to work, weighted and ignoring obvious errors. from what i hear, the garmin 60 series may be doing a bad job at it, and that may be the reason why people believe that averaging is a bad thing. This dialog, I like. I like a whole lot.

Now there's a word you don't see very often in these forums. I like it! Wow! Get that excited by the word, 'quote' does ya? Astounding.

I just received a Disabled Cache listing in my email for GC1T0WW, "Fore" by TonkaMN. Reason: Log missing. That's in your area, isn't it? The miracle of uncanny timing. Gotta love it.

Huuuummmm, Mojave, eh? I know a supervisor who lives there who might just be available to assist. You know, when he is not supervising.

An Army Surplus store near here used to sell them for $4.00. They do not sell them for $4.00 any longer. The next time that I drop by, I'll get a current price for you if you want.

no, because a reported 10 feet from one receiver may be as good as a reported 30 feet from another receiver. or 60, or 90, etc. 10ft.? That beats most gpsr's..

10ft.? That beats most gpsr's.

Remember to visit Minnesota and leave them on the logbook of these caches. For non glitter you can print your own with Avery ID labels. No experience with custom printed ones - Google turned up a bunch of printers. At least they'd have to have more than three of them printed up. At least they'd have to have more than three of them printed.

If you own an iPhone, you can't possibly be in favor of environment preservation or recycling. Because if you try that trick everone is gonna see the hypocrite that you are and then just ignore anything that you say, regardless of how right and helpful that it might be. I know that I'd do that, doesn't everone?

I have often wondered if there were caches in similar locations that possibly might have been placed without the hider having obtained proper permission. There seems to be one. I find this to be very disturbing.

God forbid that you make such a gigantic sacrifice for the benefit of your family who you know does not share your interest in geocaching. If someone's family actually "forbids" them from doing a reasonable amount of geocaching while on vacation and a geocacher who, when on a family vacation, cannot make reasonable accommodation for the wishes of his family, then you has gots yourself a family with waaaayyyy more deeply seated issues than finding a piece of tupperware in a bush. It was more of a don't ask don't tell thang with me. I got her point. The caches I got on my no geocaching allowed honeymoon fit my convenient caching style. I didn't go out of my way for any of them. 3 of the virts were part of our destination and the one physical cache was picked up while she was immearsed in jewlery overload. Win-Win. She knew I had my 60csx with me and was even interested to see our ship's track log. Caching is always on my mind even if I don't go out to cache every day, I have literally 20+ hide projects going on or I'm planning an event, or on one geocaching forum or another. It wasn't too much for her to ask for a break from all the geo-talk and planning for our honeymoon since she doesn't share my enthusiasm. Don't ask don't tell worked well there. God forbid that you make such a gigantic sacrifice for the benefit of your family who you know does not share your interest in geocaching. If someone's family actually "forbids" them from doing a reasonable amount of geocaching while on vacation and a geocacher who, when on a family vacation, cannot make reasonable accommodation for the wishes of his family, then you has gots yourself a family with waaaayyyy more deeply seated issues than finding a piece of tupperware in a bush.

Am I Bad? I only attend professional workshops where I know there will be a cache-rich environment. It breaks the monotony of listening to someone speak about things that I am only half-interested in. Plus, before and after, it helps pass the time. Does the family seem to enjoy those workshops too?

If your personal time is worth more than $0.10/hr, that right there will be a gigantic money loser. Are you particularly adept at fashioning rubber knives.