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Goonies Oosterhout

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  1. Die getallenreeks is waarschijnlijk het telefoonnummer van de cache-plaatser. Wellicht kun je dit verwijderen uit je post?
  2. Hoi, ik heb een nachtcache die niet ver uit de buurt is vanuit Breda. 'Navigeren in het donker'. Of het een cache is die representatief is voor nachtcaches, weet ik niet. Het is geen standaard reflectortocht, wel wordt voor de meeste aanwijzingen gebruik gemaakt van reflectors. Volgens mij prima te doen als je goed leest en de tijd neemt. Het is wel 10 kilometer stappen, dus niet erg geschikt voor (de meeste) kinderen.
  3. Nauwkeurig caches en waypoints plaatsen doe je vooral door meerdere metingen op meerdere momenten. Waas en egnos maken daarin het grote verschil niet.
  4. Waarschijnlijk heeft degene uit wiens handen je de tb virtueel hebt weggegraaid, deze gewoon teruggepakt om hem te droppen in de cache waar jij hem uit had. Dit is tenminste een veelvoorkomend scenario als iemand te ongeduldig is en grabbed i.p.v. wacht tot een tb door de voorgaande houder virtueel is gedropt. Voor je grabbed: wacht eens een paar dagen (of gerust weken), plaats desnoods een note, stuur een bericht naar de huidige houder of zet de tb op je watchlist.
  5. Of je wacht nog een weekje. Zet die TB op je watchlist, leg hem in de kast en kijk het even aan. Of twee weken, hij is misschien wel door vakantie-cachers gedropt die drie weken geen computer zien. Geocachen is een hobby, geen baan. Je kunt daarnaast een note plaatsen in plaats van grabben of retrieven. Duurt het echt lang, waag dan eens een mailtje naar degene die 'm virtueel in handen heeft, of het laatst gehad heeft.
  6. Je zal vast in een ontzettend interessante omgeving wonen, dat je er in zo'n korte tijd vijf potentiële cachelocaties weet te vinden en er ook nog eens toestemming voor hebt kunnen regelen! De 161 meter-regel kan inderdaad frustrerend zijn. Het zijn niet alleen bestaande caches die in de weg kunnen zitten, maar ook caches die nog niet actief zijn. Netjes dus dat je ongebruikte cachepagina's archiveert. Zou er een tooltje zijn om locaties vooraf te controleren op schending van de 161m-regel, dan zou je hiermee ook caches kunnen verraden.
  7. I agree but like anything you're bound to run into jerks. Sad fact of life. That is why I clean out stuff that doesn't belong. If I were a parent with small children I'd look first before the kiddo's do. I just now saw the donB reply. I know it's almost five years old, but I think the cacher he plays the violin to was me. I, father and rather mature (but not too much), am aware that the world does not revolve around me, nor does it revolve around DonB and his kids. My point was (quote): "If you want your children to be safe from these 'harmful' parafenalea in cache containers, don't take them geocaching. The point of the game is finding boxes wherein strangers trade stuff. These boxes are without supervision, out in the open. Doesn't sound like a child-safe game to me..." You don't have control over the contents of the cache. A condom might be in it, there might be worse things in it, and your kids will see those things when you let them open a cache. If you can't handle that as a parent, you'd better not let your kids open geocaches. I've seen worse things going to and from caches, rather than in them. There is a world of disgusting, strange and/or dangerous stuff out there. My kid will see those things and I, responible parent, will educate her on those things. That you can control as a parent. That is your job as a parent, not ranting online about people that leave weird stuff for your kid to see. Please, take your kid out caching, but don't expect the world to be family-friendly because you have kids. The non-family-friendly part of the world really doesn't care. You are just a tiny part of it. So am I, and I am making it better by educating my kid instead of trying to change things beyond my control. Realising that is what makes me a mature, responible adult.
  8. Calibrate by turning the GPSr instead of turning yourself. Pirouettes do look stupid...
  9. Did you let your wife Sue out at night, dressed like that and alone? That's just asking for trouble...Did I "let her"? I am not sure how your life works, but in my life and my world, I have no desire to control my wife's behavior, nor does she have any desire to control mine. ... I suspect that you may have a inflated perception of the dangers of being outdoors or of being outdoors barefoot or in shorts, or maybe, of the dangers of being alive... I'm pretty sure that Goonies was kidding. I'm pretty sure that sbell was right... I'm sorry, but I'm not into smileys...
  10. Did you let your wife Sue out at night, dressed like that and alone? That's just asking for trouble...
  11. I love girls that are good with eggs. Thanks for naming the key issue on this lingering off-topic discussion: cultural panic through sensation-ridden mass media. Can't I get an invite for your 'furthermore'? I really enjoy your writing.Would I have succumbed (is that a word?) to this cultural panic, I wouldn't have met a lot of great people. My girlfriend (and soon-to-be-my-wife) and I have always enjoyed hitch-hiking. We visited Ireland and France this way. Had a lot of fun, met the greatest people. Now we have a 'car' ('79 VW bay window bus) which broke down last summer on the french highway, in the middle of nowhere. It was getting dark. About 2 km away, there was a little village. I stayed with the car, my girlfriend walked towards the village to get some help (or a phone, we had no reception there). Why did she go? She looks sweet and understands french better then I do. I, on the other hand, don't look sweet and my french isn't that good. She knocked on the door of some farm, and the people there helped us out. After half an hour (I was getting a bit worried) some guy came running up to me, he was the son of the family, told me my girlfriend was at their farm, and they wouldn't let her walk back because she had to drink tea with them, and he told me to come with him to eat and drink with them. The car could wait. We ended up staying a night and a day with them, the car was picked up by a road service, but wouldn't work again (we needed a new engine). The friendly people gave us a ride to the nearest train station, we wanted to take our bikes, so they used our bicycle-carrier to bring them along. I told them I'd come and collect the carrier a week later (I had to be in France again for a scouts camp). We still write with those people. When I came to collect my bicycle-carrier, it felt like coming home a bit. Have a little faith in people... Back to the OP: Being Dutch, I'm a neighbour to the Germans. I've never met a people more friendly than the Germans. Hospitable, helpfull, friendly. A friend of mine was having a nap on a couch on someone's driveway there. We were having coffee at a bar, since we woke up that morning in open air on a two-day hike. The night before, a biker-look-a-like-guy drove us from this bar to a place to sleep. He told us it was a safe place, and brought us dry wood for a campfire, then enjoyed some beers with us. Anyway, this morning, my friend had this nap on this couch on this driveway. He didn't want to go into the bar with us. The person owning the driveway, who put the couch out with the trash, drove out, passing my friend on the couch. He did not tell him to get off his driveway, he invited him to sleep/eat in his house! This is not just a situation on it's own: this is the way a lot of Germans work. They're the friendliest folks I know, along with the Irish. They don't arm themselves to cope with American visitors, why would you, the American visitor, investigate buying knives or pepper spray to arm yourself against them? Just get a reliable cell phone in case you fall and can't get up. You're in Europe now, act European... (edit: just trying to improve my spelling. You think my english is bad? You should read my ancient Greek!) [i also read your potty language, and edited it out. -- Moderator]
  12. To me, slipping, falling, getting wet and getting bitten or attacked by numerous plants or animals are quite common. On one occasion, I pretty much suffered all of those, but added electrical shock near the balls to my list. Here's the log with pictures. This log is one of just a couple of my logs in 'english', since it was during a holiday in France (and I'm not good enough in writing french). Usually my logs are in dutch, so not suitable for this forum.
  13. (...)Geocaching, according to the website, is a family sport. (...) I don't really care what the website says: you hunt boxes that are without supervision, out in the open. Anybody can find them and put stuff in there. No problem for kids though, if you're not to uptight about what they see or don't see. If you are worried about what your kids can encounter during geocaching (condoms, cigarettes, tampons etc.), leave them at home: people do leave this stuff in there (or out there), for some strange reason, so your kids will find it. Don't act on what the website says, act on common sense. The website also calls this game a sport.
  14. I think it is the right thing to do, logging your opinion about a cache. If you thought it was crap, you write that down. You just write it down without 'crap'. You write: "I really didn't like this cache. I didn't have fun." Or, with a bit more sarcasm to it: "why did the cache owner think it was a good idea to show me this place?" Nothing wrong with that.
  15. I.m.o. there's only one question to ask: why don't you find that out for yourself? I don't want to be too cynical but you (the requesting person) are probably capable enough to read cache pages and logs. Why do you need another geocacher's opinion on that? A little faith in your own judgment would be in place...
  16. Isn't that the guy who lives next door to the spirit of christmas past? (Sorry, lame joke...)STF, for sure. Relax man, go geocaching instead of whining about your pen. Try to enjoy the game a bit more.
  17. Since you have a PDA, have you looked into software that wouldn't involve "printing" the page. Cachemate comes with a file converter that changes the .gpx files into the correct format for that wonderful little program. It is capable of holding the information for thousands of caches, if you ever needed that much data. I also use GSAK (Geocaching Swiss Army Knife) to make "paperless" caching very easy. Okay . . . back to more "Printer friendly" comments . . . Still commenting on the Printer friendly (page) topic, since cachemate and GSAK require .gpx-files, which require a premium membership, which requires a credit card, which I don't want to have just for geocaching (credit cards aren't as common here as they are in the USA). So I'm stuck with the print friendly page, only not printed on paper, but on my PDA. I think I found the best option for my situation. Simply saving the pfp as complete website (html) into my PDA gives a light version of the cache page. Sadly, this includes a commercial ad banner in the print-out. The new pfp doesn't show advertising (yet).
  18. I was thrilled with the new print friendly page (referred to as pfp from hereon). I recently bought myself a PDA, so i used a PDF printer to print the pfp in pdf to my pda (haha). This worked great, acrobat's pocket reader has this wrap-around function that takes care of the annoying scrolling from left to right. Zooming in simply adjusts the text, fitting it into your little screen. I saved some caches like that to my PDA on june 19th. Worked like a charm with that wrap-around! Today, I tried to save some more caches to my PDA. Sadly, the wrap-around didn't work anymore. It still did with the caches saved on the 19th, but not on the new pdf-files. Am I doing something wrong here (although I think I'm following the same procedure as before), or is the code in the pfp adjusted to block wrap-around in pocket reader to force me into becoming a premium member so I can download descriptions in PDF? Or perhaps, some adjustments have been made to the pfp that blocked this feature, but they will be fixed? I really hope this is the case. It's like I just got really nice toy, just to lose it a couple of days later.... I'm a sad, sad Goonie right now...
  19. I wasn't offended at all. It could be that i seemed to be, due to my poor english. If it was my research, i'd find a way to make relative and abstract matters measurable. I.e. spending time in relation to having free time. Motivation is harder to objectify, but it is an option to measure it by making people rate their motivation on a scale. I'm sure there are already existing measuring standards to rule out abstractions or interpretations. Look into fields of social studies or psychology, you're bound to find those there. Why would it be locked? He has permission for it... I also hope to see the results of the study. Good luck on the research!
  20. I started filling in your form, but stopped when I read the question 'how do you find the time to go geocaching?'. Sorry dude, this is not a research question. You don't find time, you don't have time. I hope the quality of the research is not a criterium for your PhD. What are you going to write in your findings? 'a lot of people answered that they did not had a life next to geocaching, i found this to be a funny answer?'
  21. What's the problem with unopened condoms? Strange item to trade, but they don't bite. You should know where 'some' people wear them! To eliminate the 'but my kid could see it'- argument: A condom (or it's packaging) will not do any damage to your kid's eyes. It will not cause brain damage. I reckon seeing a Britney Spears video is more damaging to your kid than the sight of an unopend condom wrapper. If you want your children to be safe from these 'harmful' parafenalea in cache containers, don't take them geocaching. The point of the game is finding boxes wherein strangers trade stuff. These boxes are without supervision, out in the open. Doesn't sound like a child-safe game to me...
  22. This is a joke, isn't it? I don't know how it's done in the UK, but in The Netherlands preschool kids are taught how to tighten their shoes. What do you wear when you're not hiking? Shoes with Velcro? Slippers?
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