nonaeroterraqueous
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We stumbled upon one before we had really discovered geocaching. We only knew a little about it before. We put it back exactly as we found it. I've tried to figure out which one it was, but so many have been muggled from that area that it's hard to tell.
We also found a puzzle cache by chance before we knew what puzzle caches were. While approaching the false coordinates we happened upon the actual cache.
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Compare it to the total distance walked around the house, or the cumulative distance between shifting feet while at work. You figure a healthy person typcally does about 700 miles in a year doing nothing in particular.
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I had one published today. I was thinking of having it published tomorrow, but I figured the reviewer wasn't going to crawl out of bed just to look at new cache listings that day. I know I wouldn't. Besides, when I was a kid Christmas always started the evening before, and that's when the gift-giving began. By the next evening Christmas was basically over anyway, which is about the time I'd expect a reviewer to get bored enough to look at cache listings.
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aaargh! I HATE this thread! Down with the OP! (Please note, this is not a death threat).
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Let's see...
- A large TB hotel half-filled with really bad golf balls
- Human feces on a micro, probably unintentional
- Movie ticket stubs
- a stick of gum
- a dead smashed lizard in a sealed bag
- A large TB hotel half-filled with really bad golf balls
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Since reading this thread I retrieved one of two dead hard drives I had sitting around. I never knew what a powerful magnet I had all along. I never would have thought such a strong magnet would actually be inside a hard drive of all places. I would have expected it to erase the disk.
Not having the proper screwdriver, I had to physically rip the drive to pieces, one fragment at a time, which cost me a lot of time and a little blood, but it was worth it. I was just trying to think of how to make a magnetic regular cache. I'm really glad I read this one.
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It's yours. Do what you want. I visited a cache that had my very first TB in it, and my thought was that I should move it to another cache because it didn't look safe there. I had the same feelings about it, that I shouldn't interfere, so I left it there and it went missing within 24 hours after I saw it.
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I once had an experience where I saw two people actually declare their intentions to kill each other and then go into nearby rooms where they actually had guns, whereby they actually loaded those guns with the thought of actually using them....
puts it in perspective.Some anonymous stranger who has no idea who I am or where I live saying "death to nonaeroterraqueous," would not bother me much. Someone tailgating me on the freeway is another, more imminent, threat.
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There are no hard rules, but I think actual size is more important than volume. For example an AOL tin has very little volume but I don't think most people would consider it to be a micro.
In your case I'd have to say a cache that has any measurement of 18 inches is definitely not a micro.
Wow, I can't believe I actually disagree with Briansnat. I must say that size has a functional significance. Specifically, a micro is one so small as to have no swag. A small cache barely has room for trade items, but not a great place to expect to put a travel bug. A regular is everything you could hope for in a cache. A large is a bonanza that has lots of unusual possibilities.
Generally, it's not about knowing how big a thing to look for, but what kind of expectations to have about it. A cigar tube fastened into the end of a great big log is still a micro, eventhough the log, acting as cammo, is still part of the cache. People aren't going to be happy if they pack a bunch of trade items with them for your "regular" only to find that, functionally, it's just a micro.
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Why care if someone cheats. It's not like there's a cache prize for the most caches. It's for the fun of caching. If you cheat, you're really cheating yourself.
It's late.
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Cache size is always based on its volume. Exterior size is irrelevant.
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Time on the forums would go back to time spent playing real-time strategy games.
Time geocaching would go back to long walks in the same old places.
I might find myself looking for old (now unlisted) caches especially for the purpose of collecting and saving travel bugs, just in case the game comes back.
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I never really needed the premium features, and I still haven't made good use of them, but I like to pay the fee as a way of saying "thank you," not just to the web site and associated powers but also to everyone who has helped to make this possible. There's nothing elitist about Premium caches, though I used to think so, myself.
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Paralysis is lame.
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Perhaps you should actually read that Amendment before basing your claims on it - It deals with supression of speech BY THE GOVERNMENT and not by any other entity or individual. Your employer, your preacher or the cache owner are free to edit or suppress your speech if and how they so desire!
You have forum guidelines here that surpress your speech BECAUSE Groundspeak isn't a government entity (yet!).
Perhaps logging a non-confrontational TNLN will solve the problem.
Good luck!
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I couldn't say it better.
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--My questions are.. & of course open to reasonable debate & discussion
--1- What right does anyone have to think they can dicate how many finds you need before you can place a cache? I'm talking outside the PTB of this site?
2- What right does a (local) cacher or leader of the (local) group have in saying who can & cant place caches & when?
No, of course not. You don't take any chances with your questions, do you?
I'll answer the question you didn't ask: people with no logged finds seem more likely to place a cache only to abandon it. Off topic? Maybe, but what right does the OP have in saying who can and can't post and how?
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It's been a rather depressing thread. Normally, I'd try to post some positive side to the issue, but the topic does not seem geared toward it.
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We could differentiate between lame and stupid. Lame would denote a lack of effort and stupid would be poor judgment. All further definitions could arise from there.
Examples of lame:
- not taking the effort to find a nice place
- not taking the effort to cammo or waterproof the container
- not taking the effort to maintain or replace
- not taking the effort to make a bigger container work
Examples of stupid:
- placing in a dangerous or illegal spot
- bad choice of cammo, or obvious hiding spot
- placement near a dumpster or someplace insultingly unpleasant
- bad coordinates and a confusing web page
- not taking the effort to find a nice place
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But even if he his trying to promote his beliefs, well, so what?
My point, exactly. He isn't hurting anyone.
You are making a faulty assumption regarding what I have or haven't noticed about the world at large. I discussed that single group because it related to the thread, and because I had experience with and thoughts about that group that I felt were relevant.
Let's see...
The lack of respect many self-proclaimed Christians show for other faiths is one of the key things that drove me away from Christianity.
Okay, it looks like I have digressed a bit. Let's put it in a nutshell, shall we:
I respect your right to hold your own beliefs and to act accordingly. Specifically, I respect your right to be dead-wrong. However, I see no reason to respect a dead-wrong belief, just the right to have one. If I don't respect alternative views as though they were on par with my own, then does that really mean that I am uncertain of my own beliefs? Hardly. Respect of other beliefs means not ridiculing them or otherwise attempting to force them to conform. But then, I've seen that behavior from people of all backgrounds, so I clearly see a bias on your part to relate it specifically to Christians in particular. Even so, like I said, if the idea has any merit, then it stands or falls on its own merit regardless of the actions of those who hold that idea. As much as I hate agreeing with a jerk, if he's right then he's right. If not, then oh well.
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The endless beating of dead horses. Ooops, wrong thread.
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We are new to Geocaching and have some friends that recently got into it as well. We get to talk about this frequently. They told us they were going give us the coordinates to our Christmas Gift. This was going to be fun! They packaged up labels, TB tags, an official Geocaching.com log book, CITO bags, Combo Lanyard, a MIGO coin, and MIGO (Michigan Geocaching Organization) hats for the boys in a container fit for hiding. So cool!!
Now, were the contents of the cache meant for you to keep, or were they meant to be the starting swag for the cache?
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Hey, that horse has been dead for longer than I've been geocaching. Pet peeves are all I've got until I can save up for a horse of my own.
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I have serious doubts on that point. It looks very much to me like a tongue-in-cheek bit of poking fun at some new age foolishness of the 70s. But then, one of the dangers of satire is that people often don't recognize it.
That's what I thought, too, at first, especially after someone posted a humorous note in the logs. However, when the cache owner posted a note in defense I began to wonder. All I know is that the person who placed it is somewhat eccentric, and that the local cache-finding wizard who actually knows him hasn't looked for it yet, which seems unusual. Normally it should have more finds than this by now, for our area, so I'm wondering if other people are scratching their heads.
As for your comment about certain people not living what they claim to believe, I have to think you've focused your attention on a single group unjustly. That you haven't noticed that humanity, the world over, lends itself to be deserving of such criticism shows that you harbor mere prejudice. I can hardly believe that you succeed any better in living up to your own values, unless your values are really so low as that.
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Lame cache indicators:
- missing travel bugs never get removed from the page.
- that stupid red plus sign stays on with the attributes for the lifespan of the world wide web.
- the list of DNFs keeps growing year after year with no indication that it's still there (and the gardener can't understand why people continue to destroy his hedge).
- the reviewer won't archive it until it gets at least as many SBAs as it takes signatures to run for mayor.
- the FTF finder says "You'd better come and find this one quick, because it's not going to last," and the STF says, "Dang, I missed it."
- missing travel bugs never get removed from the page.
Don't eat all of your popcorn before the show starts.
(meant in good humor)
Best caches that got vetoed..
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(edit: not sure if Keystone saw harm in this post. No sarcasm intended. Just curious as to what inspired the subject)