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GCYJP5 "Shaw Shank Redemption" was right in view of the old prison. Just as gloomy looking in real life as in the film. They have tours of the old horror and around Halloween they run the Haunted Prison there. hairball also here in Ohio - maybe we like prison movies- check out GC1DA3D, "Robert Redford Was Here". There used to be another "Secret of Brubaker" I think, nearby. I'ts now archived.

Licking County for me. An earlier poster is right, I see several familiar names in the top four or so forums but not so much down here. hairball

They sure don't. I have no trouble reaching the wap page from my Verizon phone and gettin cache info, but nothing else is happening unless it comes through Get It Now (or Media Center, I think it's called now). There are ways to add one's own ringtones and the like but not apps. (Well, there are some apps that can be added but it's not for the faint of heart.) They need to run under Brew and it's pretty tightly locked down. My understanding too, is that Verizon uses triangulation from the towers for its navigation program. It works well enough if you are on their system, but it craps out big time if you go onto another system. No satellite readings, just towers. I crossed northern Texas and Oklahoma this summer on vacation, was on "extended network" the whole way and my Verizon navigation program froze up on the last Big Red tower it saw. As to what you could do from the new Blackberries that are coming out, I can't really say, but I'll bet they'll have that locked up too. Hop on over to www.howardforums.com for a great deal of info on the subject and all things cell phone. hairball

Geocaching on TV? How long would you give it before we are saddled with the Coors Light Geocaching Challenge? Newly minted cachers everywhere looking for the huge prize they know is hidden in the park down the street, tearing everything apart and very quickly getting the game banned in more places than you can shake a stick at. Once corporate America creates advertising value for our game it will be G O N E. Vinny's tongue in cheek posting about professional geocachers will segue out of joke status to become a real, ugly fact. No thanks, the relative low profile amateur game is just fine. And no, I don't care for watching other games I can play on TV (golf, fishing, etc.) either. Now games I can't play, football, baseball and the like are fine on the tube. No geo tv thanks. hairball

PathTags make dandy signature items. www.pathtags.com is worth checking out. Maybe a tag with an open book and your caching name all in your favorite colors? The last time I checked your first order is $100 and includes your die fees and any design work they have to do. You submit your own art work. For that you get 50 tags. Refill tags cost 99 bucks per hundred or about that. hairball

Regional pronunciation of "pin" and "pen" might have the writing instrument removed from the cache.

If membership were $30 per day, yeah, I might see something eliteist about it. If you had to meet certain qualifications, (education, physical appearance, race, money-in-the-bank, that sort of thing), yeah maybe. howsumever, it's thirty bucks a year and they'll sell it to anybody. I pay by the month and it sets me back a whoppin' three bucks. That's less than one latte at your local overpriced coffee mill, maybe the price of one beer at your favorite watering hole. I know even that might be a stretch for a kid on a short allowance from the family, but that's a pretty special case. That kid likely isn't hitting Starbucks either. Still, even that doesn't make it eliteist. Most kids should be able to con Mom or Dad out of $30. Mine never had trouble. PMOCs aren't real common around here, and none of them anything special. A small part of PM benefits yes, but elitist, nah.

"Follow road" or "Off road" can be influenced by what sort of maps you have loaded. If you are using the GPS's base maps it isn't very valuable to use Follow Road, as the base map isn't too detailed. Using a routable map, City Select, City Navigator, etc. it'll do fine. Then change to off road when you get close. The Topo maps aren't routable either, their advantage is that they will let you know that you will fall off a cliff if you keep going east and have to swim if you go north-east. I use Topo 2008 most of the time on a Legend C, and go "Off Road" from the git go. My navigator thinks I'm cheating if I use the map so she mostly works from the big red arrow. Sometimes we wind up driving the long way around to get to stuff. Of course that 60csx has plenty of map space available so there wouldn't be any reason not to have both map sets loaded and change between them.

Damage? oh the usual bumps scratches and bruises that come from running around in the woods. Loss? one older Palm has come up missing, my sweetie thinks I left it at a cache someplace. I say not, I think it's hiding in the house. Don't know where, it'll show up some day I'm sure. A couple of weeks ago I reached for my cell phone as I was getting out of the car to hunt a cache. No phone. I found the current cache, and drove back to the previous one. There it was, happily ringing in the grass. Sweetie called it from her phone to help me find it. Nice thing to do, huh? Then she told me "That's how you lost the Palm". Grrr. hairball

Wow, I never thought critters were dumb enough to rot their jaws away with dip. And chewing the furlishinger CAN. I sure learn stuff around here.

Boy I like on-line translators.

People pronouncing the word ka-sha are confusing it with "cachet" Merriam Webster sez "Main Entry: ca·chet Pronunciation: \ka-shā\ Function: noun Etymology: French, from cacher Date: circa 1639 1 a: a seal used especially as a mark of official approval b: an indication of approval carrying great prestige 2 a: a characteristic feature or quality conferring prestige b: prestige <being rich…doesn't have the cachet it used to — Truman Capote> 3: a medicinal preparation for swallowing consisting of a case usually of rice-flour paste enclosing a medicine 4 a: a design or inscription on an envelope to commemorate a postal or philatelic event b: an advertisement forming part of a postage meter impression c: a motto or slogan included in a postal cancellation " "cache" on the other hand "Main Entry: cache Pronunciation: \kash\ Function: noun Etymology: French, from cacher to press, hide, from Vulgar Latin *coacticare to press together, from Latin coactare to compel, frequentative of cogere to compel — more at cogent Date: 1797 1 a: a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements b: a secure place of storage 2: something hidden or stored in a cache 3: a computer memory with very short access time used for storage of frequently or recently used instructions or data —called also cache memory" note especially usages 1 and 2 Therefore I will walk, hike, or crawl down the cliff on hands and knees to the "kash" and never, ever, sashay to the ka-sha. hairball

I have no trouble here from the house, and my usual work computer has no trouble either. Both run IE6. A second work machine had the front page, the one with the infamous map of Seattle, all arranged oddly. Screen resolution was at 1280 x 1040, this on a 17" monitor. I would likely be looking for a job if I tried to upgrade the company machine to IE7, which I dislike anyway, so that was out. Changing the font size from "smaller" to "medium" did the trick though. The page quickly re-aligned itself. Might be worth a check if your pages are still messed up. hairball

Yep. In Akron, OH at the site of a dead Joe's Crab Shack. It was tied to a bush at window level, and the whole idea was to get it by pulling up next to it and reaching through the window. Huge tongue in cheek factor in the write up. hairball

There is a "discovered" log on a TB from the Hostel. Has the other cacher changed his or her log from "grabbed"?

Yep, it shows unpublished caches. My "cache" for providing a home for my coins, etc shows up just fine thanks. Odd that. (five minutes later) Aha! it lets me see my own unpublished cache but it won't let me see somebody else's. I know how far it is from the house, but that's about all. no other information shows. That's good.

As to GeoIP not being totally accurate, well, that suits me just fine. I'm easy enough to find as it is. Here at work I'm in St. Louis. That makes sense, I think that's where the corporate servers are. I'll see where I've moved to when I get back to the house. Again, cute, but not really very valuable.

I watch on a pretty regular basis and sure would enjoy hunting the cache, but it's just a tad far from home for a caching run. Oh well. Looks like great fun. hairball

Okey dokey. I thought it might be there. IE6 puts a bluish box on the page, no map. Safari gives me a map. Of Kansas. Firefox, same as Safari. Cute idea but not showing me much value yet. I like to think Groundspeak can make a dime with the hotel listings, but I can't see me using it anytime soon. I've hunted caches while at hotels, but never went to a cache and said "Gosh Honey, I'm beat. Lets find a hotel for the night." Hope it works out for GS though. An iPhone app is a cute idea for those who have 'em, but not much value here. Something to run on my Verizon Voyager, that I'd be interested in. I know getting into Get it Now is between difficult and impossible but I'll dream a bit.

I don't see the IP locator on my machine at work, but it is a bit of a cripple. Maybe from home. The blue box that used to have a map of Green Lake has a tab that says "identify" and brings up five German sounding caches. Hmmm. Yep, looks like they're in Germany. Vurry odd.

I'll agree with Mr. Dolphin from an earlier post. (I used to live "acrost' the river from Joisey) I'll go with sit-oh. Cit like in "city", not "site". The Oh is pretty obvious. hairball

Actually Cachemate will run on some pretty primitive Palms, only OS 3.0 is required. That includes VII machines, all of the M series and probably older than that. I've run it on several OS 4 machines with fine success. hairball a fast check on Palm's web site shows that OS 3.0 originated with the Palm III. Only the original Pilots and Palm Pilot units run lower OSes

OK, I'm baffled. Looks like fun iffen ya know how to do it, but nope.

Yep, that's what I want. I've got a highline Verizon phone, touch screen, internal keyboard etc and I'd really like to grab the occasional cache from the phone. AT&T stinks in this area so the wonder phone isn't on my radar. Likely won't be either. I understand Trimble hasn't been real successful in getting on V's screens either. I'm pretty sure I'd spring for the app. Lord knows I've got enough other garbage on the phone. hairball

Gosh, Puppy, I don't think it would be a real good idea. Skunks, mice, racketycoons and all the other forest critters have noses at least as good as yours and can smell dog biscuits and other food right through plastic bags and other containers. They will tear up a cache to get them. I've got a couple of your cousins who live at my house and I think they can smell CANNED dog food with the can still closed. If I bring home a bag with human chow in it there is no reaction. Bringing in a bag with their food in it makes them jump around crazily and beg for their dinner. Now if your human wanted to leave a dog toy or a leash or collar so the finder can walk his human then that would be great, but please no food. hairball