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His post in alt.rec.geocaching suggests that he "buried" the caches, as well. And in the same post, he gives his name and address. I wonder what his local parks department would think of this confession? (Of course, telling them about it might just lead to a blanket anti-geocaching stance, given the time they have to devote to such petty issues, so it's probably not a good idea.)

You've got my vote if you could just modify that "Before December of 2001" part to read "Before February of 2002."

I use mine in conjunction with Amazon's .NET service to catalog my DVD collection.

Mine too! And here's my cache based on the idea of a token that gets moved from cache to cache. (The laminated cards look like the picture below.)

This is already being discussed over here.

Fruitcake isn't food.

At the very least, he added them to the virtual domains on his web server; they go different places.

I wish y'all would go back to deleting posts instead of closing threads that attract the attention of these jerkwads. As it stands now, the best way to keep the rest of us from discussing something THEY don't like is for them to do this kind of crap and goad y'all into closing the thread. Don't bother; I'll close it myself.

So when are we going to get those killfiles again, Jeremy? notepad e:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts 127.0.0.1 zhang.bu.edu

You know, not everyone does everything they do out of self-interest. Some people do things out of pure altruism, some people do things out of a desire to give something back to the community, some people do things out of some other sense of obligation, some people do things because they make someone else happy, and some people do things because they just get tired of hoping someone else will do them.

Actually, upon further reflection, it's not the nesting that bothers me. It's the quoting and requoting of images, and especially large images.

It does however, do something for Mopar. And if y'all can get away with using these forums for nothing more than your own self-gratification, surely Mopar can too.

Thanks for telling him that for us, CO_Admin. That's what we want him to think. Your check is in the mail.

(Mods: this probably belongs in the website forum, but nobody who needs to read this seems to pay any attention to that forum. Feel free to move it if you disagree.) Maybe it's just me, but I start to have seizures when I see this kind of quoting. If you're one of the people who's doing this, consider editing the quoted text. If you look below the "post reply" button, you'll see a place where you can do that: LOL!Oh, that's too funnyThis is the stupidest thing I've ever seen. I'm just saying this to be annoying, and to be extra annoying I'll say it in green. I agree with him!

Not likely. The "hand on chin" generator would be a lot more difficult. The Doot-It-Yourself Locationless Cache Generator doesn't have to be concerned about things like scale, positioning, or skin tone. Those three things would be critical to any kind of decent "hand on chin" generator. It could be done, but it's a lot more work than I want to attempt just for a joke. The Locationless Cache Generator took me less than an hour to throw together, and it started as a proof-of-concept for someone in the chat room, for a more serious project. I just can't see the payoff for this one; sorry.

First time for everything.

Short answer: not with .loc files. Longer answer: try Watcher to pick and choose just the caches you want to do from your pocket queries.

I'm sending you my bandwidth bill for this month. By the way, fix your bookmarks: my ISP has elected to no longer provide broadband services, so parkrrrr.com is moving as of next month. That IP address will no longer be valid.

A feature. Both routes briefly ended up on the state pages, when the state pages were first introduced. The current system was a compromise with the people (including me) who missed the old way.

I don't know about .loc files, because CacheMate may expect more information than you can get from a .loc file, but you can use bmgpx to get benchmark data from the NGS and convert it into GPX format. Whether that will work with CacheMate is anybody's guess; I don't have CacheMate and haven't heard one way or the other from anyone who does. Alternatively, assuming the .loc file actually does contain all the info you need for CacheMate, you could use GPSBabel to convert the .loc to a .gpx and feed it to CMConvert. I'm reasonably sure that won't work, though. You can ignore caches you'll never get. You can merge together your GPX files, automatically removing duplicates. You can filter a huge PQ down to just the few caches that are near where you're going to be (useful in conjunction with BMGPX because BMGPX will give you an entire county's worth of benchmarks, which can be hundreds of entries.) You can look at just the caches south of your house. You can sort caches in "last found" order, so you can see which ones have gone unfound the longest. It does lots of stuff; you should play with it and see what else it does. I'm sure I've just scratched the surface. Personally, "free and open source" is compelling enough for me. Your mileage almost certainly varies.

Whatever you do, don't buy an artificial tree.

Sadly, it appears that mtn-man was right, and we can't have a civil discussion about the real issue here: that some performance artist thinks geocachers are an unenlightened bunch. Heck, maybe he or she was even right...

As Calvin once said, verbing weirds language. I'm not sure I agree. I know I've read logs on my Clue cache that would indicate the same sort of discomfort with a couple of the waypoints you have to visit to do it, and the idea of geocaching as performance art seems like something we can all think about and express opinions on. There's nothing special about LA in this case, other than that that's where the first such social experiement using us as guinea pigs took place.

Which is exactly what the "artist" behind this piece of performance art was trying to get across, though the web page couched the point in so much pomo-speak that it became nearly unintelligible. I'd love to hear from people who've actually done the cache. Did it have the desired effect on you? How does it feel to be the unwitting subject of a social experiment? Would you go back and spend money in that neighborhood?

http://www.c-level.cc/geocaching.html