Hugh Jazz

Irving (Dallas/Fort Worth) Texas: 3846 Austin Texas : 1944 Wichita (The largest City in) Kansas: 683

I have it on good authority that the initial puzzle that leads you to the purported 'dead-drop' is actually insoluble, being based on a 500-year old encryption coding scheme known as 'Voynich' of which the initial manuscript has been widely accepted to be a 15th-century hoax, and all attempts to solve it, even by experts using modern computer technology, have met with no success. Quantum Leap therefore is a creative cache idea but as it is not actually findable, all the finds posted to it are vis-a-vis null and void, and all purported 'finders' should have their smiley count reduced by one and have all the attendant prize moneys confiscated. Snoogans is to be congratulated at perpetrating a hoax of biblical proportions on the entire geocaching community and especially in recruiting hundreds of cachers worldwide to perpetuate the hoax. It is also well established that Snoogans operates dozens of sock-puppet accounts, including those of many known as prominent Texas cachers. He is a master puppeteer in that regard, and it has been statistically estimated that fully nine-fifths of those finds posted on Quantum Leap are actually Snoogans himself, operating behind the curtain so to speak.

I've attained my considerable bulk by eating all the food I find in geocaches, especially any popcorn or quiescently frozen shaved ice treats. Because the food items are placed there vis-a-vis a violation of the rules, I don't feel bad about consuming the food and not leaving an equivalent trade item, or as you may call it, "swag." All told, I have gained about two hundred and forty pounds since the early days, and despite my attempts to exercise each day, every pound of it has come from eating food that I found by one means or another, sometimes in trade, sometimes freely given to me.' Fortunately despite my Hugh Jazz size, my wife Lara Jazz loves me just the way I am. We are alike in that she gained every pound of her bulk by eating food too. We both acknowledge that it's an addiction. When we try to stop (and we have tried many times) we end up getting faint and weak, our hands tremble, and then we always break down and go to find more food. It's some kind of chemical imbalance I think. There is no known cure. Not even Scientology. -Hugh Jazz

I'm offended by the popcorn smilie No one had posted it yet, I thought I'd try it out. I meant it in a humourous, non-offensive way.

Thanks for the lighthearted banter folks. I'm sure you're just doing it to, as we say here in Kansas, "razz" me, because deep down you know these hurtful emoticons hurt others' feelings too, and we all do that from time to time since we're all humans and we sometimes unintentionally or intentionally hurt those we care about the most. And when we realize we've hurt those who we care about the most, we sometimes engage in humourous banter with them to help mask the pain, itch, and discomfort of the situation. And that's just what's happening here. But in all seriousness, just please don't post the dang popcorn or violin thing anymore. It hurts my feelings. If you persist in doing it, I'll forgive you of course but I'll still be hurt by it. Please be nice to each other. And if you get the chance and find yourself in Portland Oregon, please do visit the original cache site, where you'll find a nice tribute plaque set in concrete, marking the exact spot for posterity. Thank You, Sincerely: Hugh Jazz

Nope, because that would encourage the spawning of more micros which I won't hunt. What I have in mind is a 5 gal paint bucket with the body painted black and the lid painted grey. Inside is one of those industrial rolls of continuous brown restroom hand-towel paper, and a home-made pencil that's about half the size of a baseball bat.

In Kansas, everyone drives 55 when the posted speed is 60. I can't figure out why. It can't be conservation because there are plenty of gas stations everywhere, we're in no danger of running out. It can't be fear of getting a ticket because there are never any cops around. I've stopped trying to figure it out. As long as they let me blast by in the left lane going 80, I'm fine with it. Old Bill Clinton did two great things. He signed the law removing the Selective Availability from the GPS system so Dave Ulmer could invent geocaching, and he signed the law repealing Jimmy Carter's nationwide 55 speed limit. Drive the double-nickel if you want to, but don't force the rest of us to drive slow if we're in a hurry and don't mind paying extra for the gas. Gas is cheap. It's bottled water that we need to conserve on. That stuff's really expensive.

I would like to amend the topic to include the protest of the use of emoticons featuring frogs playing violins or other stringed instruments. Those too are offensive and disprespectful and in violation of forum guidelines concerning respectful conduct vis-a-vis others, and I respectfully submit that these too be rescinded from the site. Emoticons featuring frogs playing the saxophone would be preferable, as the saxophone has never been associated with anything disrespectful in any form or shape. I may need to create yet another personality to deal with this situation. Your disregard for forum decorum is in itself disrespectful of all site users.

This was one of my favorites. Of course I wasn't there myself but one of our other sockpuppets was... GC G6GG - Sign My Cast and Grab an Ammo Can! by Moosiegirl There were 500 government surplus-auction ammo cans for sale at about a buck apiece. There were fifty cachers from all over the region including some as far as two states away. There was bbelk's 'unsinkable' party boat which would take a dozen cachers at a time upriver to a remote park to log a cache that was hard to drive to. The unsinkable boat almost sunk. Grajek dropped his GPS into the river. We all took up a collection (passed the ammo can) to buy him a new one. There was picnic food and home-made venison sausage and a roaring campfire. There were old friends and new. There were dogs running free and swimming together with small children and their parents. There was Moosiegirl's broken arm in a purple cast which had to be signed. There were travel bugs. There was Snoogans before he got all old and cranky and typing in all caps and making demands and stuff like that. It was the heyday of Austin caching. There hasn't been an event like it since. Gallery link here...

Thanks Jamie, that's going to be tough to follow. ...but we'll see who can do it. By utterly overwhelming popular demand and more than a few threats of bodily injury, I am cheerfully re-opening the topic. Please just whatever you do, don't post any popcorn emoticons. They offend me. Thank you. My name is Hugh Jazz, and I closed but then later cheerfully re-opened this thread.

Hugh Jazz, lowracer, and Darth (formerly Judy) Jetson are not disturbed by this any more than your having two names combined in a single account. You combine two separate personalities into one screen name. Hugh Jazz is part of one person with three (or more) separate personalities, each vis-a-vis their own screen name. What's more disturbing? At least we know where the boundaries between our personalities lie. We respectfully submit that you, however, seem unsure.

Those of you who know me in person know I've made no secret that I'm actually lowracer in the flesh. But before you cry foul, Hugh Jazz is no SockPuppet. The lowracer account was self-terminated some months ago. A new persona was desired, more in keeping with my current interests and patterned after the smooth yet intellectually stimulating Jazz of Hugh Masekela. In keeping with the 'smooth' theme, the persona of Hugh Jazz (sorry this is not intended as a non-family friendly name as you'll see "Hugh Jass" was already taken and by a fellow austinite no less!, though the reference is there for those who will see it and I admit it is kinda funny) does not incite statewide geo-secession (what, Kansas secede? get real, where would it go and who would have it?) and Hugh does not cache on other listing sites besides this one, though he is knowledgeable about the features of each site and will tell rebel-rouser Texans like Snoogans to go cache there instead if he doesn't understand or accept how this one operates, and leave the rest of us to enjoy things the way they are, the way they always have been, and be respectful to each other and never ever shout or use derision, or call for any site volunteer to be fired. Hugh is respectful though perhaps a bit pompous in the forums and does not flame others nor is he ever disrespectful vis-a-vis the owners of this or any site. (Hugh also thinks the French phrase 'vis-a-vis' is patently stupid and so therefore tries to interject it into any place where it really doesn't belong but sounds like it might.) However, that being said, and steering this back on topic, Hugh really does find the popcorn emoticon offensive and would like to request that others not use it in a derisive and disrespectful way, as has been done today (a fine example to prove the point of the original post). Oh and the Hugh Jazz persona does not hunt micros and will never place one unless it is a really, really, BIG one. Yes it is possible to place a huge (and by huge I mean five gallon sized) log-only microcache. As you will see. BTW Judy_Jetson is no more. She fell to the dark side of the force, effected a gender and species change, added some cyborg metal tech stuff, and was reborn online on Unreal Tournament 2004 as "Darth_Jetson," and now nightly kicks butt in Onslaught, usually on the clan server known as "House of Pain." Sorry but the IP address escapes me at the moment. Look it up if you want to try your ski11z against Darth_Jetson. Hugh Jazz doesn't play online games. He caches in Wichita KS, where they're still caching like it's 1950, with Wally and The Beav. Really, there's no other way to describe it. If you haven't cached Wichita, come try it. It's quaint. It's refreshing. Bring the kids, bring a nickel for the movies... ...and Pass the Popcorn.

I find it egregiously disrespectful and hurtful of others feelings when some posters use the animated "Frog Eating Popcorn" or 'drama' clickable smiley, as it is known. Use of this particular "emoticon" as such graphical icons are called, says to the original poster basically your concern or request that you have posted in the forum is simply a frivolous or entertaining drama and we shouldn't take it seriously but rather we should instead have our enjoyment of the resultant forum drama at your expense. I think the powers that be should seriously consider redacting this smiley from the retinue of choices as its current usage does not seem to be consistent vis-a-vis with the forum guidelines regarding showing proper respect for individual posters. For reference, this is the "emoticon" to which I am referring: I do not place the emoticon here as a comment on this thread in any way nor do I invite respondents to simply respond with this emoticon as a personal insult, as some are certainly most likely to do anyway, despite this request. My name is Hugh Jazz, and I approved this message.

Mark, Was that really necessary? Please don't use my thread as a means to grind your ax. No axe grinding here ol'buddy. You demanded to fire an approver here (if typing in all caps isn't demanding then I need to go back to netiquette school and re-study the chapter on advanced use of the caps-lock key), and that just isn't done here. You're getting your sites mixed up. Complain about the verbal abuse if you will, complain about the guidelines themselves even, but trying to get your approver fired just doesn''t work here. It works somewhere else, just not here. Here you get who you get and you deal with it. My name is Hugh Jazz, and I approved this message.

I believe this may shed a bit of background lighting on this subject: http://www.texasgeocaching.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=2896 There is an alternative geocaching website where you can summarily dismiss your approver(s) and hire suitable replacements. This site simply does not operate that way, and demands for it to operate that way are widely considered to be futile. One must operate within the rules of this site when submitting listings here, just as one must operate vis-a-vis within the rules of alternate listing sites when listing there. -Hugh Jazz

I for one enjoy the swag. I like looking through it, pawing through the contents, seeing what others brought to the site to trade, even if not an expensive item, even if a broken toy, someone thought to bring that item here. Sometimes I find a so-called 'signature' item, and these are interesting also. Someone went to the trouble and expense to have their geocaching name screen-printed on a batch of green carabiners, or whatnot. Then left one in the cache. Sometimes people leave money. For me it's always been about the treasures I find, even if that treasure has zero monetary value. I also like garage sales and shopping on eBay so there may be a connection. I lament the explosion of swagless caches. For me it robs some of the joy.

hi, here's a yahoo group for cachers in and around wichita : Wichitacachers Yahoo Group