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quote:Originally posted by Rygel:That sounds really cool. I read the FAQ on that site. Too bad there's nothing near Jersey! Actually, the original chapter for the game is in Massachusetts, which doesn't seem all that far.

Do the geocachers in your area ever have get-togethers? Maybe if your wife met a few of the people who hide the caches, she wouldn't worry as much.

quote:Originally posted by Gwho: Has anyone heard of any other parks with this problem? And I'm not talking about a lovers lane type thing where people park & cuddle in their cards, I mean out in the open sex. Not in a park, but a hetero couple in my apartment complex once decided to use their parking spot for something other than parking. Without their car. After a small amount of discussion with the neighbors, my husband was nominated to call the cops. (No, the discussion was to determine who was going to call the cops! Shame on you! )

quote:Originally posted by Gwho: Has anyone heard of any other parks with this problem? And I'm not talking about a lovers lane type thing where people park & cuddle in their cards, I mean out in the open sex. Not in a park, but a hetero couple in my apartment complex once decided to use their parking spot for something other than parking. Without their car. After a small amount of discussion with the neighbors, my husband was nominated to call the cops. (No, the discussion was to determine who was going to call the cops! Shame on you! )

Hey, Vash, I can't get there either, but there's nothing that says you can't set up something similar in your own area.

MissJenn, Gawain isn't the Green Knight. The name of the poem is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Green Knight's name is Bertilak. So the gnome could be Bertilak. There was also a second Green Knight called Pertolepe. Or Dagonet, after King Arthur's fool. Or you could name him after one of the dwarves in the tales, Druidan, Evadeam, Frocin, Melot, Tristan (not the knight, of course), or Tronc. Or you could name him Bob. Bob the Gnome.

MissJenn, Gawain isn't the Green Knight. The name of the poem is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The Green Knight's name is Bertilak. So the gnome could be Bertilak. There was also a second Green Knight called Pertolepe. Or Dagonet, after King Arthur's fool. Or you could name him after one of the dwarves in the tales, Druidan, Evadeam, Frocin, Melot, Tristan (not the knight, of course), or Tronc. Or you could name him Bob. Bob the Gnome.

quote:Originally posted by MrPAINT:(I hope people like pirated software hehe) MrPAINT, I hope that "hehe" means you were joking. The last thing this hobby needs id for someone to find illegal material in a cache.

So your groups already use GPSr's in the field, with no incidents? That alleviates some of my nervousness. I think I'll work up a couple of those ideas I had after all. Thanks.

Hi, Vash. I don't paintball, but I do a fantasy boffer LARP, and I, too, have tried to figure out a way to combine the two hobbies. I only came up with one problem - what happens if someone's GPSr breaks? In my case, I'm pretty sure that my Etrex could more than withstand the occasional fight (we make a point of not hitting hard), but I don't know about other units. There's also the slight risk of someone tripping on a random rock and falling flat on her face and her unit. (In the middle of the night, while I was in a group of 6 people sneaking from one side of the site to the other. I didn't have a unit then.) In a paintball game, wouldn't there be a higher risk of possible GPSr breakage? Paintballs fly fast and hard enough to leave welts (unlike padded "swords" and birdseed packets) and when they break open, a lovely colored goo gets splattered all over you. Do you think it could cause a problem? The only thing I could think of was possibly using one of the no-contact LARP systems for a modern espionage-type scenario and having them head to the coordinates for their drop point, or something like that. Anyway, since we seem to be dealing with similar, if not identical problems, I wouldn't mind discussing this a bit more, either here or via email.

quote:Originally posted by bigredmed:You can read the summary of the article at http://www.nejm.org. There's another article about the same study at MSN.com. It covers pretty much the same ground as the article Bigredmed mentioned, but it gives the name of the best non-DEET repellant, for those of you that might want it.

quote:Originally posted by DxChallenged: Anyway the older part, got my first pair of varilux lenses. (snip) For those who have not scaled "middle age" yet...Varilux lenses are what used to be called bifocals........ Dx Those are the ones with no lines, right? How are they working out for you? My mom-in-law has them, and she wishes she had gone for the old-fashioned bifocals instead. What do bifocals have to do with being "old," anyway? I'll be 29 later this year, and I've been wearing bifocals since I was 11.

quote:Originally posted by DxChallenged: Anyway the older part, got my first pair of varilux lenses. (snip) For those who have not scaled "middle age" yet...Varilux lenses are what used to be called bifocals........ Dx Those are the ones with no lines, right? How are they working out for you? My mom-in-law has them, and she wishes she had gone for the old-fashioned bifocals instead. What do bifocals have to do with being "old," anyway? I'll be 29 later this year, and I've been wearing bifocals since I was 11.