Metaphor

If you have platinum member status, you get a Colorado as a complimentary gift, and quite a few smilies comped to my account, so I have no need to buy your smilies. Didn't you get your Colorado from Groundspeak?

Maybe Brian can help you out...

Maryland has a great community, interconnected through the Maryland Geocaching Society. Though I haven't met all of of them in person (I'm a lone walker for the most part), I have had many interactions online, through the web, and through cache visits, both to theirs and them to mine. All cachers really have to depend on each other -- after all, we are the providers of each others' experience, and interactions tend to reflect that. People who take everything too seriously, or get too arrogant don't last long, as in any social circle.

The problem with using a clothes washing machine & dryer is the lack of pressurized water. This can be corrected by tossing in a couple of cats. As the machines are doing their thing, the cats will self aggitate and greatly improve the overall cleansing & drying cycles. Cats.... hmm... What a great idea! And that way the cat gets cleaned too. That'll save me taking it down to the dock and throwing is it in the water to clean it up every weekend, especially in the winter when I have to chip a hole in the ice. Nothing like a spiffy clean ammo box AND a spiffy clean cat. I like it. As a cat lover, I must say that I am extremely disappointed in the promotion of ideas such as this. Putting a cat in a washing machine? AND a dryer? Utterly horrible! What kind of fool would even think to take such action? It is reprehensible. Especially since everyone knows to truly get into all the nooks and crannies you need to use something smaller, like a hamster. Hmm... another excellent idea, especially since this is the cat I would be using: A hamster or three would definately do a better job getting the dirt out of the deep corners...

The problem with using a clothes washing machine & dryer is the lack of pressurized water. This can be corrected by tossing in a couple of cats. As the machines are doing their thing, the cats will self aggitate and greatly improve the overall cleansing & drying cycles. Cats.... hmm... What a great idea! And that way the cat gets cleaned too. That'll save me taking it down to the dock and throwing is it in the water to clean it up every weekend, especially in the winter when I have to chip a hole in the ice. Nothing like a spiffy clean ammo box AND a spiffy clean cat. I like it.

I don't have a dish washer, but I do have a clothes washer and dryer. If I set it on cold wash/rinse and put the dryer on tumble-dry, do you think it would work equally well? Hmmm...

Another Liberal-Socialist-Democrat conspiracy to deny me my God-given right to carry. Way back in the early 90's, if Clinton had only ... oh, sorry, wrong thread.

Here's a (mildly not so quick) fix for us Mac users who use Garmin Maps, in my case CitySelect North America v7, and don't want to shell out the $140 for the new v8 Mac-compatible maps yet. Go here for detailed instructions: http://garmin.blogs.com/my_weblog/applemac/index.html It involves converting your maps on a PC, then dragging them on to your Mac, and using MapInstaller and MapManager to install them onto your hard drive. I just went through the process, and everything worked fine. The interface is a bit lunkier than the PC version, but it works. There's also a beta version of Garmin Bobcat, which looks more interface-friendly, but I haven't tried to get it to recognize my maps yet. (btw, I'm uploading maps segments into my 60CS and MacCaching to download waypoints to the GPSr.)

"Dagnabit! I hate logging a DNF!"

This log from Verona- No Gentlemen GC3058 (now archived): August 2, 2003 by Metaphor (370 found) On the walk: Sweet are the uses of adversity, which, like a toad, though ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in its head... On the cache: Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing... On the Travel bug: Oh, you gods, why do you make us love your goodly gifts, and snatch them straight away... (bug taken 7/17) To the cache owner: I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks...

Sad to say, I'm losing interest. It seems that everything placed nearby recently is microspew or cache-and-dash. I'm pretty much looking for caches only when I travel, and even then only secondary to other pursuits.

Ya never know. I was making a maint visit to one of my caches that was about a 3 mile hike from the nearest road. I approach the cache site and see a confused looking couple holding a GPS and looking at a sheet of paper, standing about 20 feet from my cache. I yelled "Ho! Are ye a geocacher?" and they ran away. Actually, it turned out they just bought the GPS, were out for a hike and were trying to make sense of print out of a description of the hike. They had absolutely no idea what geocaching was. Putting 2 and 2 together doesn't always equal three. They probably didn't hear the geocaching part after you called one of them a "Ho." That's probably why they ran.

Which would be better -- raise taxes to provide for non-necessary services like parks, or follow a fiscally conservative measure of reducing government spending to meet a budget shortfall? (From what I understand, the Guvernator's proposal is pretty across-the-board... parks, schools, governmental offices, etc.)

Oh! That guy with the body suit from Scandanavia (can't remember which country) Divine, from Finland? One of my favorites, but alas, all that remains is his "Corrupt a Wish" post in the off-topic forum... Seneca, and as someone else said, Jeremy, and also that moron, Metaphor -- what a dootball. And what about Snoogans? Why doesn't he post anymore?

I had dividend credits at REI in 2002, so I bought an Etrex Venture, figuring I would use it mostly for sailing. I got on online and found geocaching. It was pretty cool at first, and I still very much appreciate the places I have gone to in search of a cache. It has taken me away from the ordinary tourist places to walk in less traveled areas, and through it I've also discovered some very cool areas within my immediate locale that I would never have investigated before. Like Briansnat, the micro invasion has lessened my enthusiasm considerably. I'm not into numbers, nor am I into looking for needles in haystacks, but that's pretty much what is available within a day's travel anymore. Now it's more of a diversion, where I pick and choose more selectively. If I even load what looks like a slightly more than lame micro in, I might simply drive by and then choose whether or not to bother. For me, it's about the cool place the game takes me, not the find itself. No cool place, little or no enjoyment.

My sig is the best. And I also agree with Snoogans. The Islam slam was pretty offensive.

about 4300 miles to a Soviet-era nuke base being reclaimed by nature outside Tallinn, Estonia.

I'm just coming back in after a hiatus since August. My last sailing race series just ended two weeks ago, and I have weekends free again. That and the number of micros that have grown up in the area have kept me away from the ol' GPS.

Get with the correct lingo. Doots, not turds.

My personal best was 1,753 caches in a 3- hour period. Most of those were ftf's and not one was a lame micro.

Doesn't affect my caching, but it does affect my opinion of you and the events you go to...

I thought all those were their real names -- they just had weird parents...

N. S.! There I was, standing in the Walmart parking lot... Seriously, I've had some grand adventures in the pursuit of tupperware -- finding wrecked airplanes in NY's Catskills, standing atop a mountain in Wales in a 50 mile and hour cloud bank, kayaking along the coast of the lower Chesapeake Bay, slogging knee-deep in marsh muck in a mosquito infested swamp, and braving prostitutes to get to a cache on a snowy night in Prague, Cz...to mention a few. Funny, the park and grabs and ubiquitous lame micros don't give me the same buzz...

Red Jeeps are stil in play. I did bring a Green Jeep Island Mesa, Colorado to Estonia and left it in Turquoise Hexagon Sun August 12th. It's still listed in the cache. Hopefully , it will find its way toward you.