Hugh Jazz

This may already have been posted but (forum search feature not working)... http://www.garmin.com/pressroom/corporate/011006.html

Much of the commercial-content angst I see in this thread could be avoided if TPTB would establish a Paid Classified Ad forum on this site. I have posted a detailed suggestion on this in the Geocaching.com Website forum: http://forums.Groundspeak.com/GC/index.php?showtopic=120604 I posted this morning and so far no replies. The phrase "going over like a lead balloon" comes to mind...

The only proper cache container is the 50cal Ammo Can.

Rock and Roll! Thanks for the new feature!

In response to the new Geocoin Forum policies concerning the (now prohibited) selling of personal non-trackable coins, and in my desire to see Groundspeak succeed wildly as a business, here is my proposal, offered free of charge and without obligation: Groundspeak to create a Paid Classified Ad forum. Set the payment scale as you will, I would propose as an example, a fixed fee to start: something on the order of $25-$50 for one ad, to run for one month. Possibly could have two rates of service, one for individual sellers (just a guy selling off his excess limited edition coins), doesn't have his own commercial website or anything, and one for businesses (coin makers with their own dedicated websites, etc.). The individual-seller ads could be maybe limited to 300 bytes, and the business ads could get maybe 1K bytes and a 400x300 image. Who would place an ad in the Paid Classified Ad forum? *Sellers of personal non-trackable geocoins *Sellers of Trackable Geocoins *Companies that mint geocoins, to Advertise their Services *Sellers of Geocaching related Supplies and Equipment *Providers of Services related to Geocaching ...and many more. I would limit the screen-size of the ads (either byte count or image size) so that someone couldn't monopolize the whole page with excessively lengthy posts. Ads would be posted in a first-in-first-out manner, posting to be done only by a Groundspeak moderator, and there'd be no ability for anyone to reply or BUMP the ad back to the top. Potential buyers (pretty much everyone with forum access) would have free access to read the forum, but posting to the forum would be done by a Groundspeak moderator and only after payment was received in advance. With the establishment of this new Paid Classified Ad forum, a very strict policy of no commercial postings or linkings could be enforced in the rest of the forums, with each forum moderator kindly pointing violators to the Paid Classified Ad forum. The establishment of this forum would not require any new software. A dedicated moderator would do all the ad-checking and posting, after payment had been received. It is my hope that the establishment of this forum would 1) allow the geocaching community to have a place to transact their geocaching-related business and 2) end the 'free ride' of the forums by commercial forces at Groundspeak's expense and 3) compensate Groundspeak for the use of their forums for commercial purposes. -HJ

Here's the initial swag-load from The Hugh Jazz Cooler Cache: Total cost: $2 at a garage sale here in "The Best Kept Secret in the Midwest," Wichita Kansas. From March through November, every Thursday through Sunday is Garage Sale Day. Bargains abound. You can get some really good swag.

Our approver for Kansas approves new caches on Sundays and Thursdays. Once you figure this out, it's no big deal. They're volunteers, not being paid a nickel for their time. If they got a buck fifty to approve a cache, it would be different. But they don't get anything but scorn and derision in reward for their efforts. My hat's off to 'em.

... unless you call your event a CACHE MACHINE, and have as your stated goal to find as many caches as possible, in which case it's OK to list that as an event. BTW for the record I like the 2-week rule. It makes good sense, give everybody time to plan for the event. Not everyone hangs out on the computer 24/7 like some of us do.

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I see it a lot. In caches I visit and the many I've placed. On one hand, as a finder, it's nice to see the comments from folks who've stumbled across the game. On the other hand, as a hider, maybe it's a sign that you need to hide your cache a little better? A good geocache hide should be invisible to muggles even when they're staring straight at it. An excellent geocache hide should be invisible to muggles even when they're sitting on it.

The OP's library cache has the "Hugh Jazz" former librarian stamp of approval. "Dewey" use our GPS to find the library? Yes. We go in, unshelve the book, sign the log, quietly. Shhh! As long as it's placed with the full knowledge, permission and cooperation of the head librarian, I'd say let's put this one into circulation and get on with the hiding and finding. Librarians actually want people to come in to visit the library. Who knows, while in there you might just check out a real book, and maybe read it, and when finished you'll return it, on time and in good condition for the next patron. Every library cache I have found has been a blast to find, and for each I used my GPS to navigate to the building. -HJ

Yes you are absolutely right. I stand corrected. Since Pastafarianism is a valid religion, no the Atheist Geocoin club will not be producing a coin for it.

And there are some who might find the "Flying Sphagetti Monster" offensive since it is the deity of a parody religion. I am not one of those who finds it offensive. If it were a flying "frog eating popcorn" monster, why then I'd be offended.

Instead of an Admin Brick, you'll simply be touched by "His Noodly Appendage," then disappear.

I deployed a CD-RW disc a few years ago as a travel bug with the same idea. It disappeared.

I know where you're going with #5 but are we neglecting the fuel required for the trip? Currently there's only one plane that can do it nonstop and I think it's in the smithsonian.

I promised my investors (those who pre-ordered my Lowracer coin) that I would mint only a fixed number. 250 of bronze, and 50 of silver. I'm sticking to that. If I want to do more personal coins, I would create new artwork. I'm not planning another lowracer coin until next year for my 5th caching anniversary. The design and artwork will be completely different from this years' coin. Of course by then this whole geocoin craze may have blown over, like the hula hoop and the big wheel... Or maybe not.

I always do a search to make sure that my cache names will be unique. For me it's a quality issue. A good creative name is part of the quality of the cache placement. I also always do a quick check to make sure I haven't hidden a micro in a lamp-post. Again, it's a quality issue.

I invited my whole inside sales team out to go caching one Friday at lunch. I went caching by myself that day. They all backed out. I won't ask again. I've been able to drag some of them one at a time out to go bag a cache while we're out on business trips in another city. If you've got a couple hours to kill between customer visits, it beats sitting in Starbucks the whole time, checking emails.

All cachers are required to make a pilgrimage to the spot before they find their 1000th cache. It is said that if you place your GPS on the plaque, it will acquire super-powers of cache location. Edit to add: Your GPS gets the powers, that is, not the plaque.

Are these trackable?

Shouldn't this be moved to the Off Topic forum?

It always annoys me when I go to the trouble to take my photo with one of these cache cameras, and then I never see the pictures posted anywhere. I must have taken about fifty pictures of myself near various cache sites, yet I don't think I've seen more than one of them posted. So yes, I agree with the previous comments, post them! -Hugh Jazz

YEE DAWGS! (runs off to download it now before they're all gone)

Google this phrase: "Tragedy of the Commons." It's not a new problem.