Serial Finder
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You can choose which caches to avoid.
But what if you suffer from OCD? And, unlike deadly peanut allergies, that is an affliction that is epidemic in the caching community.
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back to the original point...
Wait. You mean there was one?
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I think he is missing out on the fact that the forums are a social experience. Many of my posts are an attempt at levity and certainly only made 'for the sake of being heard'. Others are an attempt to communicate a specific point of view. Certainly, these also were made for the sake of having my position heard, which, I guess, could be said to be 'for the sake of being heard'.
His implication is, I believe, that some people are willing to post just for the sake of being heard, whether they are wrong or right. I believe he is correct here, but it seems that, in this case, he's pointing a finger that should be directed at him.I honestly don't understand why you think that lots of posts equates to limited knowledge. Please, please explain that one.My neighbor says something like that about his dog humping my leg.
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After reading this thread for the past couple of days, I came across one of our local caches. A finder logged that the cache container was ruined and said "I happened to have had an empty peanut butter jar with me so I replaced the container." ROTFL. Uh oh. Here we go again.
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That must be the cache where I found the dead cacher with the unused epi-pen in his hand. Good thing there were lots of pine needles around to cover him up with.
Its against guidelines to bury a cacher isnt it?
Well, I wasn't planning on posting the hide. It's not like I'm all about the numbers.
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numbers ... are in no way an accurate representation of ones caching or posting ability.
A common opinion among those with a double digit post to find ratio.
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After reading this thread for the past couple of days, I came across one of our local caches. A finder logged that the cache container was ruined and said "I happened to have had an empty peanut butter jar with me so I replaced the container." ROTFL. Uh oh. Here we go again.
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That must be the cache where I found the dead cacher with the unused epi-pen in his hand. Good thing there were lots of pine needles around to cover him up with.
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Wow! This thread has run the gamut. First a question about a problem that no one knows has ever occurred. Then posters opining on the quality of containers they've never used. Escalating to posters criticizing the cache quality of areas they never cached in. Now its reached the point of posters criticizing the hides of people whose caches they've never found.
But hey, that's just another week on the gc.com forums. It's all about the numbers... of posts.
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How about this...
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You forgot the part about "This container may contain items that may have previously been in a container that may have contained peanuts or may have been found and handled by someone who has previously eaten peanuts, found a container that may have contained peanunts or may have contained items that may have previously ben in a container that may have contained peanuts or may have been found and handled by someone who has previously eaten peanuts..."
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1000 caches in say Jacksonville, FL is more like 150 miles of driving over the course of a nice weekend, hopping out of the car ever 600ft or so to grab a hide-a-key or film canister off a dumpster.
Which you know because you've found so many there.
Ahhh, see the problem with judging by find counts?
Look again at mine. You'll see I stopped logging online over 2yrs ago, yet I still cache. Did a bunch just today. Nobody but me has any idea what or how many I have or have not found.
Well good for you buckeroo. The beauty is that nobody cares how many you have or have not found so everything works out right. Just the same, I can tell by your description of caching in Jacksonville how many you've found. But then you've never been one to let lack of knowledge stand in the way of of your post count.
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What do the numbers have to do with anything?
They told me there wasn't going to be any math...
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If you have a allergicsy (i dont) to peanut butter can you get it by reaching into a peanut butter jar cache container?
oh to end all this ranting..
The answer to your question in YES
To help back up your point there was a teen that died from kissing her boyfriend HOURS after he had eaten a peanut butter sandwich. Oh, wait, never mind. Her death wasn't cause by a peanut butter sandwich.
A cousin of a friend of a gecacher I met at event once (or was it in a bar) got kidnapped by space aliens shortly after eating a bag of trail mix that contained peanuts.
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While this debate rages on perhaps there is some middle ground that can be reached here. On the one side we have some of us deprived of our liberty to hide used food containers while on the other we have those who want to defend any cause currently running. Perhaps the best solution here would be a simple one and I am surprized the answer has yet to be raised. We simply ask Groundspeak to place a new attribute on the cache page to make people aware the container was used for food storage in the past. Then any allergy can be covered and no more possibilty for incident. It then places the responsibilty back on the cache seeker where it belongs in the first place in accordance with the guidelines.
Ah! A wise voice of moderation. Technology can solve the problem. First soap and hot water to clean containers and now a new Attribute Selection. Perhaps we could have different attributes for the various types of allergy sufferers that could be killed by logging a cache. I personally abhor shrub hunts. They get me so frustrated I come close to stroke and/or myocardial infarction (alas, cardiovascular ailments run in my family). A shrub hunt icon to warn me off would be nice. Unfortunately, we'd need to expand the limit beyond the current 10 allow. Perhaps a seperate page. GSAK could event be programed to download it separately like child waypoints.
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They can take my nuts from my cold dead hand.
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Yikes! Maybe that explains all those bodies I've been finding.
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57Chevy's 2006 USA 1/15/06 12,885 Miles
Go JayBee's Experiment PoSAM's 2006 USA Geocoin #3 - 1/12/06 - 7781.2 miles!
Go Jaybee's Experiment - Damenace's Caching Around the World Geocoin - 01/21/06 - 7219.5 miles
Go Jaybee's Experiment - Damenace's Georgia Geocoin - 01/11/06 - 5995.1 miles
Go JayBee's Experiment PoSAM's 2006 USA Geocoin #2 - 1/12/06 - 4789.9 miles
AG's Traveling BikeDog Geocoin #2 - 4/7/2006 - 4612 miles
Serial Finder's Personal Geocoin #8 - 03/24/06 - 4143 Miles
Where is JoeMerchant? - #017 - 12/3/05 - 3525 Miles
Where is JoeMerchant? - #029 - 1/14/06 - 3350 Miles
Team LightningBugs' 2006 Traveling USA Geocoin - 2986 miles
Kealia's Maryland Coin - 2/19/06 - 2,666 miles
Serial Finder's Geocoin - 10/28/06 - 2522 Miles
Shilo's Phone-a-Friend Geocoin -3/17/06-2413 miles
AG's Traveling Camo Cache Coin - 2/1/2006 - 2174 miles
IceCreamMan's Personal Geocoin #13 - 1/14/06 - 1839 Miles
IceCreamMan's Personal Geocoin #15 - 1/14/06 - 1764 Miles
RBC's California Micro #1 - 4/7/06 - 1040 miles
Southbayday's Grand Canyon 2 - 2/1/06 1006 mi
ScoutingWV World Traveler 1 - 2/26/06 - 851.5 miles
Tdecell’s Mississippi Geocoin #1551 – 743.3 miles
Free's Pengy & Tigger coin released 28/2/2006 (or possibly 2/28/2006 for everyone else since Im British) 262 miles
Loggerhead LE: release 4-2-06 151 miles
Sawblade5's Frozen Bone Geocoin (Frozen Bone Bronze) - 1/17/2006 - 150 Miles
NSLP Travelling China Coin: March 27, 2006: 95 mi
Free's Lamppost Geocoin released 4/4/2006 93 miles
Sundailman's March Goecoin CLub released 4-6-06: 75 miles
Finland Geocoin 3-10-06 37.4 miles
Hogwild Cointown 3/7/06 26 miles
2006 CITO: released 4-21-06: 2.1 miles
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So far I've released 12 coins, including one USA coin, five of my "keeper" series and six Serial Finder personal coins. Not counting the Keeper coins, which are designed to be kept, I haven't lost one yet. Interestingly, event the keeper coins are getting moved about quite a bit.
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I have a couple of the Serial Finder Pewter LE (only 50 Made) left.
I'm looking for the following coins --
Missisippi LE (Black Nickle or Copper)
Michigan Winter 2005
Michigan Winter 2006
Avalanche Event
Sweet Lake Night Cache
Midwest Geobash
Also, I would trade a Geowoodstock 3 coin for any two of these.
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Thanks Serial Finder for the contest!! Suprised the you-know-what outta me to see your e-mail. I now officially have a coin "collection" (2).
Nice to see you started your collection at the top.
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BTW, I'm Guessing the story will run 2 or 3 chapters more. Possibly 4
I had a fat finger on the first waypoint. Figure it should've counted, but oh well, my notes are correct. Really though, out of the gazzillion possibilities for a cache location, missin the last 2 numbers on one line, that should be a "gimme". Obvious what happened.
It wasn't the waypoint you had wrong, I would probably have given you that as a typo. You got question 2 wrong.
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Here are the correct answers - I've put notes with the questions that anyone got wrong
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1. What are the actual coordinates of the geocache where Serial Finder finds "the list"? (HINT: It's a real cache)
N 30' 09.011 W 081' 55.548 (Forest Oasis) - the name of the cache alone was insufficient, you needed to give the coordinates
2. According to Serial Finder, Maps are for ____________ (fill in the blank).
girls - This was one several contestants got wrong.
3. What is the number of the Forest Road that Detective Bryd gets stuck on?
Forest Road number 5
4. What year is Serial Finder's Tracker?
1995
5. What small structure does Luke Duke find his first cache under?
a Gazebo and/or steps
6. JoeMerchants home is located at the dummy coordinates to what puzzle cache?
Perky's Favorite
7. What are the actual coordinates of the geocache where JoeMerchant finds a skull? (HINT: It's a real cache)
N 30' 27.566 W 081' 26.075 (Jungle Cache) - the name of the cache alone was insufficient, you needed to give the coordinates
8. What is the name of the event that JaxPosse and Luke Duke attend? (spelling counts)
StressMaster's Meat and Greet
9. What coin does Serial Finder find?
A Federation coin
10. What do JaxPosse and Luke Duke have for dinner at the event?
Steaks
11. What tool does JoeMerchant employ to open a lock?
A car jack - when they used the winch to break open the gate, they busted the latch, not the lock.
12. Who owns JoeMerchant's house?
JM Advisors, INC.
The three actual active caches mentioned in Serial Finder are...
Forest Oasis
Jungle Cache
Alien Listening Post
While there is a cache named "Crossroads" mentioned in the story, there is no actual cache of that name in Jennings Forest, where the cache in the story is. The cache in the Jax area that bears that name mentions in the description that it is at a beach access in Ponte Vedra.
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And the winners are...
For the Waypoint Contest posted in Today's Cacher
Team CoyChev (2:24) won a Serial Finder LE Pewter geocoin
kusanagi (4:28) won a Serial Finder Bronse geocoin
One person responded prior to either of these, but one of the waypoints was incorrect. I will be posting the correct answers shortly.
I will be emailing the winners and asking them to response with a mailing address to send the coins.
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And the Winners are....
For the 12 Question Contest
The following will recieve a Serial Finder LE Pewter -
Redleg139 (8:45)
sept1c_tank (8:54)
dresseldragons (8:58)
The following will recieve a Serial Finder Bronse -
zombie (9:10)
slumbersix (9:17)
mintaka (9:26)
There were five others who answered before the last winning reponse (9:26 PM) but who had one or more incorrect answer. I will be posting the correct answers shortly.
I will be responding to the winning emails with a request for a mailing address to send the coins.
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If a coin is trackable, that's enough of a connection for me. Some of the non-trackable ones are questionable tough. The most questionable ones seem to be those that are only available on ebay.
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1. What are the actual coordinates of the geocache where Serial Finder finds "the list"? (HINT: It's a real cache)
2. According to Serial Finder, Maps are for ____________ (fill in the blank).
3. What is the number of the Forest Road that Detective Bryd gets stuck on?
4. What year is Serial Finder's Tracker?
5. What small structure does Luke Duke find his first cache under?
6. JoeMerchants home is located at the dummy coordinates to what puzzle cache?
7. What are the actual coordinates of the geocache where JoeMerchant finds a skull? (HINT: It's a real cache)
8. What is the name of the event that JaxPosse and Luke Duke attend? (spelling counts)
9. What coin does Serial Finder find?
10. What do JaxPosse and Luke Duke have for dinner at the event?
11. What tool does JoeMerchant employ to open a lock?
12. Who owns JoeMerchant's house?
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