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    Finding religious tracts in caches

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    But should we ignore the distribution of hateful speech and ideas?

    I think you may be confusing hatred for idiocy. So far, the most extreme ones I've seen are the Chick tracts referenced above. According to the Gospel of Chick, pretty much everybody is going to burn in eternal hellfire. But even these don't qualify as hate speech, in my book. Rather, I see them as a deeply profound misunderstanding of one particular religion's scripture. Chick's grasp of doctrine is so poor that the end result is actually rather entertaining, if viewed in the right light.

     

    If you find them in poor taste, don't read them.

     

    Trade them out for some other, more benign tract, such as sweet taters or noodly appendages.

    The Southern Poverty Law Center lists Chick Publishing as a hate group. Not that I care one way or the other.

    Link to their list

    Photos when logging cache?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    For me by far the most annoying thing about photos now is how the cache pages don't have a photo gallery anymore. Why on Earth wreck something that was so good and useful? :mad: I've instinctively gone up several times to the top of a cache page wanting to check out the image gallery, then get very mad when I remember I can't.

     

    (Not just to check out an area a cache is in, mind- I maintain the Victoria Falls earthcache, for example, and one of the cool things there was to check out the image gallery and see how the waterfall changed from rainy to dry season. I'm not going to sort through months of logs to see the same effect now.)

    :unsure: I still see the gallary link on all the caches pages.

    It's right there above the logs where it's always been.

     

    8 Logged Visits

     

    Decrypt

     

    6 1 1

     

    View Logbook | View the Image Gallery of 6 images

    ???? :blink:

    Cache Maintenance Day?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I have a rule that says you don't get to criticize anyone with more hides than you. :)

    So I'm free to run you down just because my number is bigger? :unsure:

     

    :rolleyes:

     

    I would protest that sentiment in defence of Packanack, but you have more hides than me, so I'll sit quietly and observe. :)

    I never would but I think the post made my point.

     

    I have more hides than all three of you. Geocache maintenance day should be strictly observed on Feb 30. National Archive day is April 1st.

    Dang! I should go hide some more so I can promote myself.

     

    Until then, Yes oh high master of hide.

     

    :laughing:

    Friendship Series

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

     

    The reviewer obviously knows a joke when they see one. :laughing:

    ...and that's the spirit it's done in.

     

    There's one TB/series in the Tulsa area, one in the Oklahoma City area, and one in the Lawton area. The FTFer's are normally locals that play the 'curse' game and are in it for the fun. The 'ALR' can be ignored by anyone and everyone that does want to be part of it.

    Cache Maintenance Day?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I think that is ridiculous. Yes I've been doing this for three months but I have done a lot in my three months. Changed out at least 20 log sheets but I digress. I don't want to criticize anybody. I would like for people to do what is expected of them. Take care of what you put out. Its like anything else you do. If you are gonna do a poor job at it then why do it?

    That is the whole point right there.

    Those that don't do it, won't do it.

     

    That's why we have the NM and NA logs.

    Cache Maintenance Day?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I have a rule that says you don't get to criticize anyone with more hides than you. :)

    So I'm free to run you down just because my number is bigger? :unsure:

     

    :rolleyes:

     

    I would protest that sentiment in defence of Packanack, but you have more hides than me, so I'll sit quietly and observe. :)

    I never would but I think the post made my point.

    GSAK?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    Another nice little trick is sorting out the caches that I and my caching buddy both have not found. That we have nothing but unfound caches to look for on our trips together. Then I can turn around in a matter of just a minute or two and have a set caches just for my trips.

     

    It's not just what it can do, which is everything, it's how easily and quickly it does it.

    Cache Maintenance Day?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    This issue comes up periodically, and when it does I do a quick look see for the OP's hide history and in this instance I can only say, do not be too quick to criticize. You have been in the hide game for 3 months. Take it slowly and kindly. No hiders = no finders. Recent events locally have caused some of our most prolific hiders to say enough is enough and stop hiding, some of which was due to criticism that was really unwarranted. I have a rule that says you don't get to criticize anyone with more hides than you. :)

    So I'm free to run you down just because my number is bigger? :unsure:

     

    :rolleyes:

    Cache Maintenance Day?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I have over a hundred caches out there and they all recieve maintainance twice a year at least. They range from 1/1 to 5/5. If there is a problem with a cache they will get a visit withing a week or two no matter what. If and when I can not maintain them to that standard I will quit hiding them. I do this not because I have to but beacause that's what I want to do.

    COs that don't maintain their caches don't do it because, that's what they want to do. How is a special day going to fix that?

    Friendship Series

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

     

    Published over a year ago and most of the Description is irrelevant:

     

    After this cache is found for the first time, the curse does

    not apply to anyone else who finds it later (i.e. it reverts to a

    traditional cache like all others).

     

    I doubt something like that would get Published under the current Guidelines.

    How about one only 4 days old

     

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=72905c72-eee9-49ad-9720-f0cc217fcab8

    Virtual Caches

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted · Edited by Totem Clan

    Show me a Virtual Cache and I'll show you how it should be a Stage of a Multi-Cache.

     

    I have never seen a single Virtual that I could not easily enjoy just as much as used as offset data. I still saw the same cool thing, still read the same info, but then got to find a real cache instead of just a photo-op.

     

    8D BQ

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=9cef62eb-560e-449f-9c88-0531caa92def

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=25c6c117-8bb3-4ca3-9011-99fd17589148

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=ab895a9c-44b5-401f-a2e7-82e6f0ec33c8

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=1a8d321f-7189-44c6-bd70-e32055f05b2c

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=8f7352e3-09f8-4abd-bd4c-9d3a9a0c5b09

    http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=2e8b4773-5fdf-46be-b09e-4b72b3659888

     

    I could go on.

     

    Edit to say the only reason these are not traditionals is because they are in the Wichita Wildlife Refuge where traditional caches are banned.

    Old Geocaches

    in How do I...?

    Posted

    Auto-... a pretty disgusting prefix --- and not just in regards to auto-archiving, either.

    +1 I would never want to see a Auto archive or disable. If the system that is in place is used correctly it works just fine.

    GSAK?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I deplore paying for most software but I have never once regretted paying for this software nor paying for the very infrequent requests to have to pay for an upgrade. Geoacaching without GSAK and the phenomenal support that Clyde and the macro writers provide on their board is like a day without sunshine!

    ------------------------------------------------------------

     

    Shush!

    Uhhhh!!! :unsure: I meeaaannnnnn... uuuuuummmmmmm :unsure:

     

    Nothing to see! Move along.

     

    bye :ph34r:

    GSAK?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I deplore paying for most software but I have never once regretted paying for this software nor paying for the very infrequent requests to have to pay for an upgrade. Geoacaching without GSAK and the phenomenal support that Clyde and the macro writers provide on their board is like a day without sunshine!

    Same here. I would even pay a yearly fee to keep it.

    Does this just eat at you?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I went on a hike the other day in a national forest along a well marked trail. Guess how the forest service marked the trail. They nailed the trail markers into their live trees, which they own, and it wasn't just one or two. In fact I would guess most back country trail markers are attached to live tree with a nail by the people that own and manage that land.

    There. I fixed it for you.

     

    Actually we own the the forest since they are our federal lands. Forest service worker are paid with federal funds which are collected from taxes we pay. They may manage them but they don't own them (at least in the U.S.A.) unless it is a private preserve.

    :rolleyes: Quit trolling. You konw EXACTLY what that meant. If you say you didn't then you are only showing how dumb you are.

    Does this just eat at you?

    in General geocaching topics

    Posted

    I went on a hike the other day in a national forest along a well marked trail. Guess how the forest service marked the trail. They nailed the trail markers into their live trees, which they own, and it wasn't just one or two. In fact I would guess most back country trail markers are attached to live tree with a nail by the people that own and manage that land.

    There. I fixed it for you.

    Help me find the owner of this travel bug.

    in Trackables

    Posted · Edited by Totem Clan

    This trackable belongs to me. I marked it lost back in April.

     

    Thank you for finding it.

     

    Tracking # <snip>

     

    You don't want to do that. Never post those numbers on the internet. You'll get in trouble that way.

    Yep! Some cacher will discover it just because they saw the number online.

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