fluffy&itchy

October 11, 2010

Bug alert!

logs are "lost" in the background images on the cache pages, i.e., no white space for the log text to show up. The text is right on top of any background image that is on the page.

February 12, 2010

We are willing to host an Event in the West Palm Beach/Jupiter, FL area.

Do we need to notify anyone (other than the Reviewer) that we will host?

January 12, 2009

I noticed that there is a geocaching application in the apps store. It doesn't give a real detailed explanation of what it does. Has anyone used it? will it allow me to download a pocket query and read it on my Itouch?

No, not at the moment.

They are supposed to be working on that for a future update

A lot of people have been using an application called "Air Share". They say it works OK, but I've yet to get it to work on my iTouch.

I've written some of the ones who have posted on here that Air Share will work, and asked them for help setting it up, but none has yet to write me back

November 19, 2008

I've been trying to easily get Pocket Queries onto my iTouch and use them when not connected to a network. I found AirSharing on iTunes and it is very easy to use. Open you PQ's in GSAK , export them as an HTML file , then drag that file to the AirSharing folder in My Network Places and it is sent via WiFi to your Touch. All setup info about this ap is on your Touch once you have installed it. Agreat $7 purchase.

Do you have to send the html data via wifi, or can you just load it via transfer wire from your PC?

July 8, 2008

Where have you been? Yes, it was I who took the pic from the shoreline. No mystery there. I snapped pics all day and does that make me guilty of anything. Maybe being a poor photographer but participating in the deed? I think not.

Uh yeah, that makes you guilty of participating in the very deed you are bashing others for. You did not do anything about it, therefore at the least you are guilty by complacency. The group didn't swim to the island, you took them there. It was interesting that you didn't post that anything had happened to that cache until you had a disagreement with someone in the local group.

I also do not sit in judgment of anyone's lifestyle and I would never, never encourage anyone to take/vandalize someone else's cache. NEVER, under any circumstance should that happen. Your fiction writing should be used for a novel.

Now you are just getting silly. Everyone locally here knows you have been trashing a certain alternative lifestyle cacher in the area for who knows how long. Anyone who has been to a local event in the last year and a half to 2 years has had to sit through your rantings and tirades on the subject. There is certainly no shortage of local cachers who can verify that fact for sure. I know you've bent my ear many times on the subject. I also seem to remember an email that was forwarded to me by the 911 crew, where you begged for them to "out" the cacher in question, by sending an email to the mother of a young boy whom the cacher in question had been caching with.

You are right, it never SHOULD happen, but you definitely have advocated doing just that, on NUMEROUS occasions. You and I both know there are MANY witnesses to that also.

You think anyone here is going to conveniently forget having to listen to you go on, and on, and on, about "we need to do this to him, and we need to do that to him, and we can't let him get away with what he is doing". Yes you did advocate all the above against that cacher in question. You relayed it to me and a whole pile of others, constantly.

Folks, isn't it kind of interesting that we have gone from the 'other side of the story' and other denials to pointing fingers at someone else. If the incident didn't happen, as some has claimed, then why blame it on a innocent person who also happened to be there? No one can take part in a cache vandalizing if it didn't happen!

In this thread there have been TWO accusations of TWO separate incidents thrown out here. One having to do with an alleged incident that supposedly happened during GW5 and one having to do with the wetting of a cache log (yes folks it was a cache log sheet, not the cache itself) while you were taking people around to get the lake caches.

You and I both know THE LAKE incident DID actually happen. BUT, you have been trying to pin it on a person who had nothing to do with it. And that statement comes from the person who DID dip the logsheet in the lake!

Now, if you were only present, but from afar, how in the world could you even have seen what has happened, much less be able to get a clear photograph of ANYTHING going on there? The cache in question was a micro. Did the parrot on your should spy it with his much clearer eye site, then whisper it in your ear or were you perhaps standing on your boat, telescope in hand, watching the every move the offending party was making?

Please folks, don't throw rocks and also note I have made no attempt in identifying anyone. Please keep personal identifying info out of these posts.

You have, behind the scenes, tried to do just that. You have threatened , cajoled, whined, bitched, and moaned about all this stuff for going on 2 years now. That is why you were finally banned from PM's and posting on the local club site... you just wouldn't stop with the crap. Just this week, through PM's and phone calls to local cachers, you have threatened to post the said picture, AGAIN, for the umpteenth time. Even here you have threatened to post a picture of a cacher(s) purportedly destroying the lake cache. Well, post the dang picture already. If it is really the proof you say, POST IT!

Of course you and I both know posting that picture will implicate the person (your buddy) that actually wet the logsheet. Isn't that why you told him you weren't going to post it? Because he is in the picture? At least that is what you told him when you talked to him last.

If you are so naive as to think the rest of the group does not share what goes on with each other, you are sadly mistaken.

The only thing I am guilty of is using bad judgment in picking and standing by certain 'friends'.
The whole reason for me posting this topic is not to reveal actual bad caching behavior but to get a mind check on my thoughts and actions. Groundspeak has published some nice rules on the ins and outs of geocaching behavior but in their wisdom, they haven't published a rule covering the original subject of this thread. Why should they? When it gets down to common sense and morality doesn't the Golden Rule or another version of it apply? You certainly wouldn't want your cache taken and/or vandalized so shouldn't you refrain from doing it to others? Thanks.

Geez 'o pete, KK, are you not old enough to know what is correct behavior and what is not, no matter what the subject? Do you really have to come to a public forum and lay out your obsessions, so that someone can tell you what is right or wrong?

Give me a break. You OP'd here because everyone back home had finally stopped listening to your rants and you had no one to rant to anymore.

If you so starved for attention that you have to get your moral compass from the gc.com forums, you are in sadder shape that we all thought.

The best thing for you to do is:

1. go on about your business and disassociate yourself from the ones whom you think have done wrong

or

2. apologize for all the fiction you have been spewing for nigh on to 2 years now, and start to heal the wounds you have so kept raw over these last 2 years.

Number 1 would probably be your best bet as I know FOR SURE everyone here would look forward to that happening.

Note to Coyote Red:

Yes the other incident about weeds was a cache that was not put back exactly where it was suppposed to go. It was put back on the ground, in a bush, as opposed to being put back over head.

Now I'm going to go out and cache. I've got better things to do that to sit in here and listen to the rantings of a person who is so obviously lost his marbles.

KK it is you who needs to go away and leave everyone alone. The whole local area would be better off for it.

July 8, 2008

Honest to goodness I thought I was reading about a bunch of teenagers with all of this and these people are retirement age?

You mean grandma and grandpa are acting like out-of-control adolescents?

Whoa...that's just...so wrong.

He don't know me too well do he Rambler

July 8, 2008

Fluffy,

I was on the boat for a while that day too....

Heeb...

The cache he is referring to, you were not on the boat for. If you were you would have seen who actually did what KK said was done. (along with KK laughing and taking pictures of the person doing it, then bragging about it later on)

July 8, 2008

There is a posted picture but you do not know what you are talking about. It is the same day but not on the island. The cache was vandalized in another pic. That pic has not been posted!...yet! You were not there so how would you know? There have been others who were eye whitenesses to the loss of caches but again, you were not there either.

Obviously you are friends with the vandal and that's is fine but you do not know what you are talking about. What is your opinion on the other topic of deleting legit cache logs?

KK, Post the dang picture if it will make you feel better. I might warn you though, who was it that took the picture in question? You perhaps?

If you are so against such alleged behavior, why did you participate by taking purported picture of the deed? Could it be that you were the ring leader now trying to back peddle and gain favor with the last few remaining souls who might take pity on your twisted mind?

You and I both know that IF a cache was put in to the drink that day, it was not a "she" that did it. It was a "he". Everyone who was at that cache that day knows who wet that cache. Are you willing to "out" your buddy to make your point?

Bottom line is, you took the picture of the alleged deed. That as much makes you as guilty as your buddy is.

July 8, 2008

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Seems for a Lurker you know quite a bit about your friends side of the story and her spin on it. I locked the thread because of her friend baiting KK, which happens alot. I think you should climb down from your soapbox and open your eye's. I think the threating attitude you take is alot worse than KK's and those threats are in writing, I also have good friends on the police force here in Bristol, big deal. I have spoken to two cachers who saw the party you praise toss a cache into the weeds and laugh about it if thats who you chose to cache with and praise it does not say alot about your judgment or ethics, so why dont you go back to lurking, it seems to suit you.

Ah BLabman, you doth assume TOO much...

I know so much because I pay attention.

I was not in any way, shape, or form defending a "her". Your statement above shows me you DEFINITELY have NO idea what KK has been doing behind the scenes.

About the 2 tattlers you so often refer to... did they bother to tell you the "weeds" were a bush and the reason the cache got put back there was because the 2 tattlers got spooked when CC came walking up to the cache? They ran off, thus leaving the "she" holding the bag, so to speak. She had no choice but to replace the cache in a bush, below where the cache had been originally hidden because the male part of the group, that tucked tail and ran, were needed to put the cache back where it belonged. It had to have someone that could climb. She couldn't climb, they did the climbing to get it down. They needed to climb back up to put it back. She put it back as best she could given the circumstances.

Heck it was a cache that was on a GW5 run last year in the Raleigh/Durham area. The fact that the cache got put back within 30 ft of the original hiding place should be considered a success. Anyone who has been in or around A GW knows, after the thundering herd comes through that weekend, a cache could be anywhere.

These 2 also accused the said "she" of logging caches she did not find on the same run. That was/has been proven to be false information also.

Also, you state "I locked the thread because of your friend baiting KK, which happens a lot". Hmmmm, that's not the reason you told everyone at the time. Selective memory must be kicking in. KK has that too. He must be rubbing off on you.

I was not bragging that I had friends on the police force. That shows how much you know. Harassment, liable, defamation, etc are civil law matters. I don't need any police involved in that. Just a really good lawyer.

I made no threats to KK in my post. Unlike what he has been perpetrating, I stated facts. I fully intend to follow through with everything I posted if he starts in on me the way he has harassed several of the members of the group.

No threats here. I will take action.

Another thing you seem to be in the dark about is that KK himself, back about a year or so ago, was encouraging people to trash, throw away, or destroy all the caches of a certain PITA local cacher. There are many witnesses to that tirade, including myself. I don't know how many events I went to that he just wouldn't shut up about CC's behavior and that somebody had to stop him, one way or another. heck, he even sent out emails to local cachers urging them to "out" the cacher in question, telling everyone they should tell all who would listen about the cacher's lifestyle choice. Now if that is not the rantings of a vindictive, person who's lost his marbles, I don't know what is.

The really sad thing about your post and your continued backing of KK in this matter is that YOU TOO have been the target of his wrath, behind your back of course. That's the way he likes to work. He tells you one thing, then another person a different thing, then another, and on and on.

So sad to see you defending someone who so blatantly has been trashing so many members of the group, including you behind your back, for many, many months.

He has been playing all of you all against each other and you all have fallen for it.

As I said before, IF you really want the whole story, then you should ask, in person, ALL of the people KK has been accusing of whatever he has been accusing them of. By ALL I mean there is more than a "she" in the defamed group.

July 8, 2008

Ok, I've had about enough of this. While I dearly LOATH even coming into these forums, this thread is/has become a COMPLETE abomination perpetrated by the OP.

I am a member of the local group and lurk on the group website quite frequently. The OP is the one who started stirring this pot locally. He was banned because of his threatening PM's. Also, there were at least 3 threads that were locked by 3 DIFFERENT moderators or admins, including BLabman (who has posted above and seems to have selective memory on the subject) for being out of line and publicly attacking others in the group. I have seen a copy of at least 1 of the PM's that was written on June 22. It was threatening and referred to blackmail you were going to carry out if you bothered, when it was you doing the bothering.

I have seen the blackmail picture the OP has continued to threaten to post the the cache in question. In fact he posted it today on the cache page.

The truth of the matter is, the picture was taken at a totally different cache, not the one in question. Additionally, it shows no vandalism whatsoever. It just shows 3 cachers having fun. The cache the OP is referring to has no trees where the container is hidden as other pictures on the cache page show. It's an island with shale and scrub, some trees but not close to the cache.

BLabman... if you want to know the other side of the story, why don't you ask the other parties in question? And that is not the group site admins. They are just trying to maintain some semblance of order and have guidelines to cover misbehavior, which you and I both know the OP has been GROSSLY guilty of.

BTW, do not forget the OP has been banned from the group site only for posting messages and PM's. He can go in just like any other guest, and read all he wants, except for 4 threads. The site is open to anyone for that. He just can't post because he can't behave.

This had gotten way too long. There is way more to be told though. Now I am going to leave it at what I have said and get the heck back to the "real" world.

In closing, I want to say to KK...if you think a certain few in the area are unethical (as you define ethical) then you should go your own way and leave them to their so called, mischief.

If you want to be the geo-police and replace containers you think have been compromised, follow behind everyone with your nose up their tookus trying to dictate behavior, deem yourself the Great Caching Guru of the area, then do so. Go your own way, and be done with all the drama.

But the problems the group is having locally should be handled locally. Bringing all this drama to the gc forums, is a waste of time because there is no way anyone outside our local community would be able to know all sides.

You need to get on your high horse and ride it somewhere else. Riding it here will just keep degenerating into a flame fest by people who have no idea what is actually going on locally, good, bad, or indifferent!

One last caveat to the OP... if you start sending me threatening emails like you have done to the others you have been referring to, I will not sit on my laurels as they have, and let things slide, hoping you will just go away. I will take copies of any threatening/blackmailing emails sent to me and hand them over to the local authorities and start proceedings to prosecute you for harassment. liable, defamation of character, and anything else I can dig out of the State Penal Code that fits. I have already spoken to local law enforcement about this subject and they assure me I would have no trouble getting a prosecution if you start writing the same threating things to me as you have the others. I'm retired just like you and have lots of time for such projects.

So you have a decision to make... Bow out gracefully now, and go your own way, playing the game as you see fit and leaving the so called "derelicts" beneath you, setting an example for what you call "ethics",

OR

Continue to try to justify some highfalutin' notion that you have been granted the crown and scepter to police all caching activity, good or bad, in the local area, NC, and in anywhere else you think you can stick your nose.

Which will it be?

Note to Moderator:

This thread should be closed and locked before it gets any worse. This is a local matter.

March 17, 2008

Let's see...

Mouse traps set to go off inside caches at GW3 in Jacksonville

used chapstick (more than once)

live M-80's

live bullet

razor

and..

I thought I had seen it all until today...

a prescription female hormone patch.. unused and still in its wrapper thankfully, but still <_<

December 21, 2007

Oops

December 20, 2007

Several of us were with Tony this past weekend and he acted as positive as ever showing his coins and hiking up a mountain to find a ammo box with his youngest boy. Not one of us would of thought anything like this would ever happen to him. While Tank, Tracy and their boys are at such a terrible point in their lives both Fluffy and I pray that our thoughts are with him and his family. God be with you and bless you Tank!

Well spoken Jed.

Get well soon Tank! Hang in there Tracy!

June 8, 2007

Already been done before:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0818650/

I must respectfully dissagree with your statement above. I saw the "Adventures in Geocaching" documentary at the screening on Friday night before GW5. While I did enjoy it, in my opinion, it was a bit negative on the sport and made us look like a bunch of OCD buffoons. It was entertaining though and I sure wouldn't have wanted to be Ventura Kids at the after party

David Liban's "Geocaching" documentary, while not totally positive, was not totally negative either. It was a bit misleading when the County Mountie was talking about geocachers causing wilderness distruction by making geotrails. Then it cut to the cache run at the reservoir and had R.O.B. saying "we can cut across the field and take a short cut, or go on the road, but that will take a little longer".

I was on that run and the place we were at (Benbrook, just outside Dallas somewhere) was a completely open place where we could basically go wherever we wanted to get to the caches. Geotrails were not an issue at all.

Since I was there when it was filmed, I knew the difference, but for anyone else who wasn't, it looked like we had made the point of the Officer for him.

But in the end, the NWRA guy ended up saying geocaching was good because it got people into the back country and help teach them about geography. I thought his statement about that was kind of funny since he had spent the rest of the film talking about why geocaching was bad for the backcountry

In the end, I was just glad they got a record of me on film for the day we went to Benbrook on "Rob's Run". Since I nearly died of heat stroke near the end of that run, (we walked for 8 hours in 104 degree heat), having something on film at least would have proved I was there before I went 10 toes up.

BTW, I did buy David's DVD. Couldn't pass it up since I knew there was a distinct possibilty he might have made me and itchy/Jed movie stars

Little did I know, I would be in such exhaulted company

After seeing what the camera did to my obviously non-exhistant girlish figure, I now wish I had hidden behind the bushes and kept my mouth shut.

Yeah, that's me... the BIG blue blob. But, hey, I was in the early stages of dellirium brought on by the fast approching heat stroke.

Man, did I have a great time (at least what I can remember of it)

June 8, 2007

Could someone post a picture of this awesome quilt that I keep hearing about? Was it a traditional quilt?

Just curious!

Ask and ye shall be given...

http://img.geocaching.com/cache/log/83378c...a65a328906d.jpg[/img]

Mighty Purty!!!

June 4, 2007

This GW was very well organized. There was plenty of room for the around 2000 people who attended at some point during the day on Saturday to mill around, trade, talk, galk, or just sit and watch the action.

It was realy interesting to watch the kids who were playing in the BINGO game running around asking who was wearing a thong

The Documentary screening Friday night was a nice touch. Guess I now know why I saw Ventura Kids hiding under that picnic table.

Friday night at the Ramada, I got to sit in the "geocoin widow and widower's corner" and talk with some of the other "widder's". Had a very nice conversation with Cymbaline and the He-Doxie there.

Commiseration is always much better in numbers

I didn't get to socialize as much as I would have liked. There was just too many people there and I didn't seem to have enough time to talk, with all that was going on. However, I did get to meet some new people and catch up with some old friends from far away.

I only got to cache one day out of the 3 we were there, but that was just fine with me. It was a nice balance. We laughed so much we had Chunky Chipmunk rolling on the floor of the car and Altosaxplayer entertained us via his geocaching name change abilities

Thankfully, Chunky got all the ticks and Poison Ivy on her and I didn't get any.

Oh, and I never thought I would see a group of geocachers be as quiet a church mice until it came to making sure they didn't miss the bewiching hour to hear the "voice from the great beyond" tell them where the cache was at "Midnight" You could have heard a pin drop out in those woods when the clock struck 12:00 am !

One thing that I did notice... everyone who attended seemed to be in a positive mood. All seemed to be having a great time doing whatever it was that interested them. I didn't hear one negative comment from anyone that I talked to. Quite a feat with that many in attendence for sure.

I know Itchy (Tennessee Jed) and Pepper were estatic when they found out how much the quilt they had worked so hard on for the last 3 months, went for $550.00 in the silent auction. It sold for higher than any other item in the auction by far. It was a fitting tribute to all the work and logistic planning they had done just to make the quilt a reality.

The food was very good and the lines moved lighning quick. Was nice to see Jeremy and Shauna taking time out to volunteer in the serving line.

Since the GW6 venue was announced at GW5, I guess we are on a quest to save enough gas money to make it to the left coast next year.

What a cache run it will be making our way 2500 miles cross country to see what the West Coast Geocaching Community has in store for us!

June 4, 2007