Hugh Jazz

Baby Got Swag I like big swag and I cannot lie You other finders can't deny That when a cache dumps out with a biggie load o'swag And a log book in its bag You just smile, Wanna trade awhile Cuz you notice that the cache was stuffed Deep with goods for trading I'm hooked and I can't stop saying Oh, baby I wanna swap wit'cha And take my pit'cha You hiders say I'm needy But with that swag you got Makes m-me so Greedy (with apologies to Sir Mix-A-Lot)

Further proof that the Ammo can is nature's ideal cache container. You don't realize how good these are until you visit a cache where the owner didn't have the courtesy to deploy an Ammo can. The Ammo can is the only proper cache container. All others are inferior and should be replaced. The cache reviewers should have this as one of their guidelines for approving a cache. Caches not deploying Ammo cans should simply no longer be approved. There should be a checkbox at the bottom of the cache listing when you submit it: [] Do you agree to the TOU? [] No, I mean it, do you *really* agree to the TOU? [] Did you place this cache using an Ammo Can? You'd have to check all three before your cache listing could be published.

You need the new satellite driver first. You can download it from my website. Paypal me $10 for the link...

Not sure what that statement means. You wrote January 05. You meant 06. Next year is 2006. The poster was utilizing a dry sense of humor.

This makes me wonder why people keep buying tracking numbers for their geocoins. Aside from being a donation to the site (nothing wrong with that), most of these coins don't seem to end up in caches at all (probably due to the problems identified by the OP).

This explains why I've suddenly and consistently been experiencing 8ft error on my 60cs. I've also in the last two weeks had incredible luck actually spotting the containers in the field, something I've never been good at, and which effect I believe is due to the increased power from this new satellite beaming the locational information directly into my brain, since I have lost my tinfoil hat during thanksgiving meal when it was badly needed to cover the turkey in the oven to keep it from getting too brown.

Palm Zire 21 - got it for $40 on eBay a couple years ago, a factory refurb. It's fast enough for caching with cachemate, yet cheap enough that I won't care if it gets smashed or lost. I don't use it for anything but caching.

Another possibility is to sign up for some 3G cellular data service. Then no matter where you go (more or less) you'll have access to the gc.com site and can just plug in your current coordinates and see what's available.

I had my first bout of snow caching this winter. I went out yesterday in 5 inches of snow. That doesn't sound like much but I have never cached in snow before. I found all of the caches I searched for. Yeah it was darn cold, but you dress for it as best you can. I enjoy it. There are no ticks or mosquitos or horse flies or bees to worry about.

100% of the caches I found today looked just like the one in the photo.

My apologies. Enjoy your tornado coin everyone. Don't mind the "Hugh Jazz" with the 'twisted' sense of humor.

The tour is held at the Allen Lambe house. It's a tour of the house itself, inside and out.

The Allen Lambe house is at Roosevelt and 2nd in College Hill. The Corbin center is on the north side of the WSU campus. We live just a couple blocks from the Allen-Lambe house. It's one of our favorite places to take outta-town visitors. They hold tours there by appointment, but you can log the virtual (while virtuals exist) without paying for the tour.

I got a pack of five or six for $3 at my local ace hardware store. About the size of a dime, twice as thick, sticky as heck, yeah you could hurt yourself with these if not careful. I made the mistake of sticking them to my fridge. Now I can't get them off. No, they aren't stuck there due to their extreme magnetism, my wife just prefers them for fridge-posting big stacks of photos of the nieces and nephews. No matter how frequently you go into the fridge, these will not dislodge and send the photos skittering to the floor, like other cheaper magnets will.

I'm not a lawyer but I'm pretty sure if you registered it with the USPTO, it's yours. Edit: (back on topic) I too like Snoogs' sig line about George Carlin and Frisbeetarianism.

A search of the US patent and trademark office (uspto.gov) shows that Grounded Inc. has indeed registered a word mark on the word "geocaching," but that no one has registered the word "geocacher." So relax, it's OK to print a shirt with the word GEOCACHER in big bold letters on the back so we don't get shot by the cops whilst groping for film cans.

My 'tornado' post was intended in jest. Perhaps I did not use enough smiley faces. I'll re-edit.

Sounds like maybe I'll do a much smaller run of each series since there's likely to be mostly a local interest in these. Maybe just a hundred of each series or less.

I've slapped together some artwork for a geocoin series and wanted to gage interest before committing the artwork to be minted. The artwork is still preliminary and subject to change. I've been ruminating on an idea for a series of coins highlighting some of the really cool things about Wichita Kansas, the Largest City in Kansas (yes go ahead, look it up, I'll wait here. When you get back I won't make you feel stupid for not knowing this, I was surprised when I first heard it too). Yes we have much more than wheat, sunflowers, and tornadoes. Really. And much of what's great about Wichita (though not all) has been documented through the magic that was once known as "Virtual caches." Each coin will be 3D engraved, with raised letters, and large size, 2" or so. Exact same front die for each series to save on costs and to tie the series together. Back of each coin will be different for each series. Each series will feature a different Wichita Virtual Cache. Hence the name, "Wichita Virtuals Series." These are not the 'evil' (and now banned) virtual geocoins you've read about, but rather geocoins which feature virtual caches. First series will feature the Allen Lambe house, a Frank Lloyd Wright house designed in 1915 and currently serving as a FLW museum. Second series will feature the Corbin Education Center, another Frank Lloyd Wright building from 1957. (That's "Wright," architecture fans, Wichita has not one but TWO Frank Lloyd Wright buildings.) Third and subsequent series is To Be Determined, but there are many likely candidates from Virtual caches past and present. Oh and fear not, no virtual cache spoilers will be visible in the artwork or on the coin itself. I'd expect to do a run of 200 or 300 each, depending on demand. These would be serial numbered but not trackable. Likely to be done in two metals (one a LE metal of say 50 coins) with an antique finish, no paint. Any interest?

Pretty much every time I go on a business trip I do a little geocaching. Every time I go on a business trip I fly to my destination. It's simply faster than taking the train. Each time, before they let me on the plane, they make me walk through a metal detector. So yes, you could say that metal detecting and geocaching are two activities I do quite frequently together...

If I'm caching on my home turf, I log right as soon as I get home. If I'm caching out of town like on a business trip or vacation, good internet safety practice dictates that I wait until I return home before logging.

that's GEOCACHE-R, not ING. Isn't it past your bedtime anyway?

If you think geocaching is addictive... whatever you do, do not pick up any geocoins...

As long as the back of that shirt just says GEOCACHER in huge white block letters, I'll buy it. Oh and it has to be 100% cotton and come in XL, and not be more than about ten bucks.

A much simpler system would be to only allow rating of caches that you have PLACED, not those you have found. Heck even I could write the code for that one. Not sure what the results would mean, but they would be non controversial, that's for sure.