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Aberwak

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  1. How bout this? I took the liberty of cropping and resizing for a 100 pixel limit avatar. Unfortunately, geocaching.com converts everything to .jpg, which doesn't allow animations. What would probably happen is the first frame would show up and remain static. We know GC converts all avatars to .jpg. But other sites are nice enough to allow animated avatars. It is on those sites that the requested avatar would be used. D'oh! I missed that part. It seems I'm not very good at paying attention to little details like that.
  2. How bout this? I took the liberty of cropping and resizing for a 100 pixel limit avatar. Unfortunately, geocaching.com converts everything to .jpg, which doesn't allow animations. What would probably happen is the first frame would show up and remain static.
  3. An option... That looks great. I would think the lightning bolt should rotate a little bit more though. It reads as "span" for me. To me, I didn't even realize the lightning bolt was a letter at first. I thought it said "Joe Spa" as a result. Then I scrolled up to see the actual username. Otherwise, it looks like a really nice icon.
  4. I'm not in the midwest (out in New Mexico), but I unicycle. I do quite a bit of my caching on my 36" Coker. It seems a lot more fun to take out than my bike. Plus, my bike isn't really great for taking off-road. My unicycle's better for that :-)
  5. There are also a few forums in the past that have cropped up, so we're not alone in looking for other GLBT cachers. Glbt?, For geocachers in the GLBT community GLBT Cachers in WA? Gay Geocachers, geo-gay-gps (he introduces himself as the first gay geocacher... or "homocacher") I'm sure there are other threads, but those were the first few that popped up in a search.
  6. I never thought of using acronym's as code, but to someone unfamiliar with them, I can understand how it'd be confusing. It's just a lot easier to type four letters instead of, "gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered." It also is less cluttered on the page that way. There are lots more LGBT cachers out there. I'm sure that only a small percentage actually come into the forums (as with the "normal" caching population). I've actually met a couple (literally, one couple) once when I attended Geowoodstock. It surprised me. There are probably lots of others out there, too, but it's not always easy to identify them (could that caching partner someone's always with be a "partner" or just a friend? Hmmm...). I'm sure even here in New Mexico there are a few others. I just haven't managed to figure it out yet.
  7. It looks like I have a bug to report. I was trying to edit one of my caches using Google Chrome, but I couldn't finish the edits because the checkboxes weren't showing up. I didn't have any box to click next to agreeing to the terms and guidelines. I had to load up Firefox to do my editing. Also, I was surprised that for editing an event page, I was required to check off reading/agreeing to earthcache guidelines. Edit: Nevermind. I restarted Chrome and it worked just fine. Edit-2: Nevermind that nevermind. The last time, the checkboxes appeared. I wasn't able to save my updates, however. I would click on "submit." It seemed to go through... except the page actually didn't change. I never got any message saying the page was updated. Any changes I did make were reverted. I restarted Chrome again to find the checkboxes weren't there. I guess I do have Chrome troubles with editing a page, after all.
  8. It seems most of the peaks around here have caches on them. Twelve of them make up a very fun cache series: The Twelve Labors of Hercules. I've managed to find 11 of them (the last one I've attempted, but didn't quite get to it- planning another trip). Some of the caches on peaks here are true 5-terrain and require equipment to get to: Checkboard Wall, The Wedge, and North Rabbit Ear, just to name a few. I have yet to do one of those.
  9. Horay! A counting game! Let's see if I can figure out what comes after 7. Ah, yes. I'm number 8, then. *waves*
  10. I'm just curious what you mean by "that's kind of dense?" Do you mean it's a lot of work to take on for finding the cache? If so, I'd agree. I just need to find some sort of compromise between having an extremely difficult cache (or near impossible or too time-consuming no one would be interested in it), verse actually having [/b]some people attempt it (note: I still want it to be a challenge... it'll end up being a 5 difficulty). I had thought about doing that- it seems simple. I don't like this idea because it'd be easy to bypass learning much of the language, and simply look for written-out numbers to play around with until coordinates make sense. I'd like a bit more challenging than that, preferably requiring some kind of translation into English. From there, it'd be another puzzle to get the coordinates (a puzzle in the puzzle).
  11. I can understand wanting to enforce "one find per cache," but I think it'd be a major pain to change the code simply for when a person finds a cache without much extra benefit. The only "pro" would be that everyone could only log a cache as found once. I just don't think it's worth the hassle of rewriting the code for that. It seems that when multiple finds are listed, it's not really a big deal- maybe a person accidentally logged it as a find, or doesn't know how to change it (I'm sure this happens a lot with those starting out). I don't think it harms anyone to have a cache as being found twice. Perhaps for some people, particularly at an event, they might purposely log a cache multiple times if there were temporary caches... or they might actually find it multiple times.
  12. Whenever I'm looking at a bookmark list, the header on my browser always reads, "Geocaching - View Bookmark List." This isn't very helpful, as I sometimes look at a multiple bookmark lists at once or go through my internet history to find something I've looked at recently. Would there be a way (perhaps a Greasemonkey script) to change that to the actual name of the Bookmark list? That'd make it much easier in identifying a page.
  13. That's only if they see the sign. Once it gets dark, those signs just seem to hide themselves.
  14. Thanks for the encouragement. I'll be plotting many conlang-related caches in the not-so-near future. Any suggestions for the actual puzzle (once the description is translated)? I'd like it to be a word puzzle or mystery of some sort, but can't quite think of a way to sneak in the coordinates.
  15. This is what makes puzzle caches great. While you can't necessarily find the final part of the cache from your house, you can at least sit down to solve the puzzle.
  16. Klingon is silly. Actually, from what I've read of the language, it's more designed to be annoying. The entire written language is case sensative (so ThIs, thiS, tHis, and ThiS would all be different words), amongst other things that make it appear unlike any Earth language. It's just plain bizarre. The other reason I wouldn't want to use another conlang (I could easily do Esperanto, Lojban, Interlingua, Láadan [oh, except I'm not a woman, so this language might be difficult], or any other) is simply so I should use the language I've created (or am creating). I guess it would just add in that personal touch, giving the whole cache a lot of meaning to me. For anyone solving the puzzle, it probably wouldn't make much difference: they'd still be learning the basics of a constructed language to solve the puzzle. The advantage of using an existing conlang would be the amount of resources available (most active conlangs not only have multiple tutorials available, but web forums, a Wikipedia in that language, and many other forms of community). There'd also be the advantage of having an established language that actually is actually in the "working" phase, as opposed to one that's fresh and would likely need touching up on as I studied my own language and got feedback. Using another language wouldn't be as meaningful of a cache for me to hide, since I wouldn't be quite as "involved" in it. If I do make this into a small cache series, I probably will end up doing something with another conlang (but a more simple, scaled down version of the cache with my language).
  17. As much I would like to have my language added as a page on Wikipedia, there'd be a few things that would not make that possible. Any article on Wikipedia has to be notable- this includes constructed languages. The article would get deleted, as it's a personal language project. If this language had news articles about it, a substantial community in using it, appeared in multiple media settings, or other ways in which it was not just a personal project, I could do it. A Wikipedia article would also be limited in that it only offers to be a summary of a subject. I would need to have a full tutorial in order for geocachers (or anyone else) to learn the language (or aspects of it), in order to solve the puzzle. I will have to e-mail my reviewer before doing this just to make sure it'd be acceptable.
  18. That is a good point, and I would probably check with my reviewer on this puzzle before setting it up. I think pointing to a website tutorial would be okay, even if authored by me, since it would be a non-commercial publicly-accessible site that is available at any time... and the coordinates would be solvable without verification from me.
  19. They're common here for containers, especially painted or wrapped in camo tape. They're cheap containers that are readily availble, but also can disappear fast (if they're lightweight, can float away, or be carried off by animals). I find they work well for stages in a multi.
  20. One of my other hobbies outside geocaching is constructing languages (conlanging). I was thinking of creating a puzzle which is based around one of my conlangs, or something about language creation in general (such as the history of famous conlangs). It's likely this could become a small cache series. If I did create puzzle based on my own language, I would have a paragraph written in this language. I'd provide a link to my website that goes through a tutorial to learn it. The idea would be to translate the paragraph. In that paragraph would then be a normal puzzle to try and solve (haven't figured out how I'll do this part of the puzzle yet- not super great with word puzzles that could lead to coordinates). I had also thought about the coordinates leading to the first stage of a multi, in which you'd have to translate the numbers or do some basic math in this language (this part would be pretty easy)... then you finally get to the final cache. Would it be a lot of work? Yes. I would really want to spend a lot of time to make it worth all the effort by placing it in a really neat area that requires a bit of a hike in. If all of the above makes sense, what are your thoughts about this puzzle? I realize that because of the time required to do it, I would not have many people looking for this cache. That's fine. I would at least hope that someone else would find it enjoyable (I know I'd have fun putting it together).
  21. Aberwak

    Search Help

    This has been something I've found as I started browsing the forums. It's made the forum search feature very limited and almost non-functional, since there are so many useful words that are fewer than five characters. I've found myself using longer, sometimes much less common words, to do a search. My solution? Google. Add in "site:forums.Groundspeak.com" in front of the search words. Using the OP's example, it'd look like: "site:forums.Groundspeak.com poi nuvi 660" You could also just add keywords "geocaching" or "Groundspeak" to whatever the search is: "geocaching, poi nuvi 660" Google has no trouble with word limitations. I also tend to find what I'm looking for easier this way than using the built-in forum search. I'm sure using Yahoo or any other search engine would work just as well.
  22. I also tried the site from my home computer, only to see this: Error 404: NOT FOUND! Your browser cannot find the document corresponding to the URL you typed in.
  23. Wouldn't a solution be to create a Twitter account specific for your geocaching activities? It might be somewhat of a hassle, but then your geocaching friends can subscribe to that. That way, you have an audience that's more likely to be interested in caching-related blurbs (and your non-caching friends won't have to be confused by the updates).
  24. I would suggest checking out the forums at nmgeocaching.com. You'll be able to find lots of Santa Fe cachers there.
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