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Tidalflame

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  1. So I know Geocaching gets featured in the press a lot, but I thought this one was pretty interesting and I don't imagine many people will know about it.

     

    Geocaching was recently mentioned in Game Developer magazine - a magazine which covers, what else, video game development (programming, design, art, etc.) It's not a whole article or anything, but I still thought it was an unusual place to see Geocaching mentioned... On page 40 of the September 2005 issue in Noah Falstein's article, "Don't Cell Out," there's a little blurb about Geocaching...

     

    "I've since learned that even if a developer is willing and interested to make a game for one specific model of phone to exploit its capabilities, another type of fragmentation - that of the many cellular carriers who provide distribution of games - means that many of these carriers won't even accept a game unless it can run on nearly all phones. So that means that your killer idea for a geocaching game using GPS may not be picked up by any major carrier."

     

    So, I guess Noah must be a cacher... anyone have any idea what his user ID might be? I don't want to sound stalkerish, I just think it's a really cool reminder of how broad the spectrum of cachers is...

  2. I read with some amusement a while ago where a cacher found a bunch of marijuana plants near the container. They didn't do anything about it but those plants were gone the very next day when the next cacher came. I guess someone online got a quite a cache of hash, as it were. :unsure:

    The cacher came back at night and snagged 'em! :anitongue:

  3. My guess is that the server's a bit busy. I don't have too much experience with Windows Server error messages though. I always use Linux servers... they hardly ever generate error messages! :laughing:

  4. The Garmin Rino is really neat - it's a GPS receiver and a two way radio in one! Not only does it allow you to talk, but you can also see the location of other devices by syncing them over radio frequency. I don't actually own one, but it sounds really cool.

  5. I'm a bit familliar with the fake rock cache. I have one! :laughing:

    Tidalflame knows about it! ;)

    I found my rocks on ebay. $14US for 3.

    I'm writing a segment on urban camo caching for episode 5. Stay tuned!

    To see the rocks -WARNING SPOILER!!!- click here.

    Cheers!

    Heh, I was thinking "What fake rock cache?" until I looked at the photo, at which point I immediately knew which one you were talking about. It was a fun cache. The GPS wasn't working so well, so we were climbing all over the big wheel thinking it might be hidden on that!

  6. That's awesome! Except for one thing...

     

    Turns out there's no text messaging in Canada so I'll be out of cell range for a couple of days.

     

    We have all the same cell phone technology as you guys, but perhaps your carrier doesn't support roaming up here... and then, of course, some of the smaller towns may not have more than one tower, so if your phone isn't the same frequency then you're out of luck. Just nitpicking.

     

    Anyway, that aside, that must have been one hell of a journey. I love the photos. (By the way, what does the sign say in this photo? What's up with the cliff in this photo?) Incredible sights. Must have been a tough journey... congratulations.

  7. Just learned about Pig Farm.

     

    This cache should never have been archived. The cache owner was not trying to sensationalize or degrade the history represented at the site. He was simply pointing out a piece of BC history. I'm sure all the morality police who worked hard to shutdown the cache will be surprised to learn that history is composed of both morally acceptable eventss as well as immoral and heinous events. In representing BC history, one cannot (and should not) be able to pick and choose between the historical events that are most appealing to them.

     

    Good work Xopster. We should never forget what happened at the Pickton farm. And the memory of it will hopefully allow us to be more vigilant against such crimes in the future. I viewed your cache as a memorial of sorts.

    I don't know. I agree with you to a point, but this is hardly seems like a piece of history when it's such a recent event. I think there's a difference between putting a cache up in memory of someone who died long ago and putting a cache at the scene of several murders before the trial's even finished...

  8. I don't have the terms of use memorized word for word, but I can't see any reason why this would be a problem. This script just reads the GPX file and puts the points on a map. The GPX file doesn't stay on the server, by the way. It's automatically deleted as soon as the script has finished running.

     

    If Jeremy has any problem with this I will shut it down immediately, but I can't imagine why he would.

  9. Second, How well you and I are doing has nothing to do with whether it is appropriate for others to live however they darn well please.

     

    Hooray for intolerance! Human rights? Who needs those? They're only for people with money, 'cause if you don't have money, you certainly aren't human.

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