Orcinus Orca

While in the Coast Guard the ship I was on was requested to do a burial at sea of someones ashes. Ceremony was performed on the fantail deck. After the priest said his oratory, an ensign brought out at 2 quart Tupperware container, opened it up an dumped the ashes over the side. I will *never* think about Tupperware the same way again..

The leaves also usually look "oily" .

On my last visit to our local Container Store I noticed quite a few items that could be used to make unusual containers of all sizes. Just add your own cammo and it's ready to go. They're a national chain [uSA] so there should be a store close to most. Most for a reasonable amount of cache, so you will be able to stock it and not break the bank. The infamous '35 mm film can'. About the same diameter in several height choices from 1/2" high up to 2" high. Bigger and smaller than the 35 mm film one, for the micro cache fans. An abundance of the 'Tuppeware container' in a wide range of sizes and colors, for the average size cache fans. Bulk food storage containers for the oversized cache fans. even this one which might work well on it's own or be used inside something like the pine one.

If the unit has one, try a hardware reset. Moisture [ water ] on the circuit board can cause shorts that can confuse the brain [ computer ] inside. The unit may simply be 'thinking' that it is displaying something and it is not, or it could simply be frozen. The GPSr version of a PCs BSOD. Simply turning it off and on won't fix this. You will loose any data in the unit, but you can't access it anyway with the unit in this state. It is also possible that the unit's firmware could have been corrupted by this same process. Try uploading the current version of the proper firmware.

OK, got the tadpole thingy... so non PM members can't change the geocacher ?

It says the design will be made available if the prototype is successful. It's been a year and a half. Is it successful? Did I miss it ?

A lot of good stories. Now I'll add mine. I have always loved dolphins, ever since watching Flipper as kid. Orcinus Orca [ aka Killer Whales ] are the largest of the dolphins and my favorite. So I try to use it whenever I can or a variation if it's already taken. I have spent hours at various oceanariums that have dolphin petting pools getting to know a few dolphins real well, and they grew to know me to the point that when they saw me they would come to me first over others at the tank. Once, one facilty even had a couple young Orcas in their petting pool, hence the photo in my profile [ hopefuly I modified it correctly so it displays]. I have been involved in a couple projects that attempted to communicate with dolphins. One was Lilly's Project JANUS and another was in Australia. From these experiences and other personal experiences that have happened to me at petting pools I have come to know that these are very intelligent beings. To say more would be off topic and should be a thread of it's own. As to the rest, I'm here to refresh my navigation skills and have some fun. I was a quartermaster in the Coast Guard from 1974-1978. The ship I was on patrolled Alaskan waters checking the foreign fleets for quotas and illegal fishing. Back then, what was to become the current GPS was called SatNav. We didn't have it though as we only got the Navy's 'hand-me-downs', but all the foreign ships did. All we had were Visual Sighting and Radar or Loran-C when we were out of range of land which we were most of the time. The Loran-C tended to drift off-lock a lot, especially in winter when it was cold. The crystal oven couldn't stay hot enough to keep stable. My solution was to wrap a foul weather jacket around the crystal oven and that helped. High tech meets Low Tech. When we would board a vessel for inspection, one of the things that was always done was to report back to the ship the position on their SatNav so we could 'verify' it's accuracy with ours. In reality we were just using it to get a better fix.

I can believe that. It's a GPS and not a PC afterall. It can't multitask... but it can multicache.. Nor is it suprizing that the physical unit op doesn't match what the manual says. Such is the nature of High Tech..

Adding my 2 cents I have purchased a 60cs [ still in the mail ] and also have MS S&T 2005. I was hoping to interface the to so I wouldn't have to order Garmin's maps, at least for a while. My research into the two has turned up these factoids. 1. S&T requires NMEA 0183 V 2.0 or later. 2. NMEA is currently only a serial protocol. 3. When you hook USB upto the 60cs it defaults to Garmin's protocol and not NMEA and is basically the only protocol used on USB [ from the PDF manual ] 4. Other comm modes are still available over serial connection while USB is connected[ from PDF manual ] 5. My experience in connecting other devices by converting the interface type [ like woggs1 did ] often resulted in the same problem he experienced. Sometimes corrected by what Geek-Qualizer did. So it is not solely a MS S&T problem, it is a MS and Garmin and NMEA problem.

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Just to put in my 2 cents worth. Since space on the bug is a premium, instead of using the common URL of www.Groundspeak.com why not use instead Groundspeak.com/[bugnumber] the www is implied anyway and you can get to the address without it when the server is properly configured and it gets you right to the page for the particular bug. It also frees up the space where the number was.

SIG Alert.... New Sig Coming... Whoa... Sig Changes Are Recursive.. messages posted before the change are also affected.

This is a Signage [ aka Signatgure ] test

Why does it say Tadpole under my Avatar? because I'm a new user? re-editing this post

This is a test post. hopefully there will be an avatar with it