mph6563
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Originally posted by ClayJar:It would be exceedingly nice if we could save PQ settings for more than five queries and then simply check "Activate" on the five we want.
I just purchased my membership today, and have been playing around with Pocket Queries. They're great, but I'm in the same boat as ClayJar and others here. I was going to make this very same suggestion, but found this old thread...
There are several places that I travel to a few times a year (for work, visit family, etc.) and it would be exceeding handy to store those searches with a "disabled" setting so they don't count against the 5-search limit.
Since the places I visit are separated by thousands of miles, it's not practical to post-process the results using software like Watcher.
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Originally posted by Ranger Roger:Wouldn't it be nice to delete (Not keep in archives) caches of yours that no longer exist for various reasons and you have no desire to keep them?
IMHO, it would not be nice. If I find a cache and it later disappears, I still want to be able to look at the archived cache page. It's part of my geocaching history. I wouldn't want the hider to delete that history.
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I agree with others about just notifying the owner (or Renegade Knight's really really nice suggestion).
I've heard of people taking the camera and developing it themselves, with the intent of returning the photos to the cache owner. While well-intentioned, that might annoy me... for example, I plan to have the lab provide digital images as well, so if someone just sent me prints, I'd have to scan them myself. (And then I'm stuck with flatbed scans of prints rather than film scans of the negative.)
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You folks have inspired me. I used xglobe on Unix.
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Originally posted by Couch_Potato:When I was growing up what is now called ATM was referred to as MAC machine, with MAC being short for Money Access Center.
As I recall, while the MAC machine logo said "Money Access Center" under it, the blue MAC card said "Money Access Card" under the logo. So I guess we were supposed to stick our MAC in the MAC to get our cash.
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Originally posted by LarsThorwald:I had someone leave a seed pod (from the gound next to the cache) and a thumbtack!
I recently found a 1/1 cache next to a cornfield in Indiana. Somebody put corn in the cache.
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Would it be possible, in cache descriptions, log entries, and the forums, to look for GCxxxx and TBxxxx (where xxxx = hex number up to four digits) and automatically make an appropriate link? Much like things that look like URLs are automatically turned into links?
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Originally posted by martinp13:The new print-friendly layout is AWESOME!
I agree completely! What I would like even better would be an option to include the logs with the clean printer-friendly layout; something like this:
Make this page printer friendly: No logs, recent logs, all logs.
I like having the logs with me because they sometimes help when finding a tricky cache, and they make good reading in the car or on the plane on the way to the cache.
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Originally posted by Centaur:Some (old) GPS receivers can only name a point with (up to ) a 6 character name. . . . Newer GPSr will take much longer names, but for now thats the standard.
It's not just older receivers. My 4 month old yellow eTrex with the latest firmware only allows 6-letter names.
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I'm looking for a PalmOS track logger with the following abilities:
1) Record position every second
2) Provide a "host mode" to get the track log to the desktop or replay the track log. Windows conduits are not acceptable (not running Windows).
It looks like GPilotS doesn't record any more often than 5 seconds, and I don't see a host mode in Cetus (which offers 1 second intervals).
I don't need a fancy interface or anything; I just want to record the track and get it to my workstation afterwards. Just capturing the NMEA sentences and replaying them would be fine.
Any ideas? Thanks!
Edit: It looks like the Cetus command-line track log extractor produces output that could be massaged into the right format. But a host mode would still be easier...
[This message was edited by mph6563 on September 20, 2002 at 11:34 AM.]
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Man, I bet district attorneys just love cops who arrest people with zero evidence of wrongdoing.
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Kids are just going too far with the body piercing these days.
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My new "California Civil War" bug is sort of similar, although much simpler. It's a "hot potato" that you want to keep on the other side of the border.
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When you all find a George, do you log him on the wheresgeorge site?
Yes, but we're weird. Most people aren't like us. If I find a Where's George bill, I'm very surprised if there's more than one log entry.
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Bought a pair at the Fry's in Burbank tonight. They were marked as, and rang up as, $19.99 each.
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The monkey has landed! It's in "Go Fly Another Kite" (GC532D) by the ever-popular LarsThorwald.
http://www.monkeycache.com/cgi-bin/display_monkey.cgi?monkey=0x031
http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=21293
(Dru: My mom, uh, misinterpreted your avatar, hence the reference to a "little boy" on the monkey page. No offense intended, I'm sure.)
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Originally posted by Dru Morgan:Have any made their way to Southern California?
Too bad I didn't see this earlier. My parents just picked up a few monkeys, but they have plans for them. I live in Pasadena, so they could have sent me one...
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Originally posted by Idaho Ron:If he does I would recommend the Etrex Camo I have one. The reason is, the camo unit has sun rise and sunset info. This is handy for hunting regulations that read from sunrise to sunset. It has a page for the best times for hunting and fishing but I don't use that.
My Yellow eTrex also has sunrise/sunset, accessed from the navigation screen (up/down cycles through sunset, sunrise, altitude, bearing, heading, etc.). I just bought it a couple of weeks ago, so maybe it's only in recent firmware. It does not have best hunting/fishing times, though.
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Originally posted by Idaho Ron:If he does I would recommend the Etrex Camo I have one. The reason is, the camo unit has sun rise and sunset info. This is handy for hunting regulations that read from sunrise to sunset. It has a page for the best times for hunting and fishing but I don't use that.
My Yellow eTrex also has sunrise/sunset, accessed from the navigation screen (up/down cycles through sunset, sunrise, altitude, bearing, heading, etc.). I just bought it a couple of weeks ago, so maybe it's only in recent firmware. It does not have best hunting/fishing times, though.
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Originally posted by mrplug:Which means if you're right-handed like most people, you have to reach across the unit with your thumb to move the click-stick.
No, if you're right-handed like most people, you hold the eTrex in your left hand. Likewise, if you're left-handed like not-most people, you hold the eTrex in your left hand. Just like the manual says. I'm very right-handed, but had no trouble getting used to operating it with my left hand in a day or so. It's not like it's handwriting or anything, and I'm happy to have my right hand free for things that actually require dexterity (Latin pun intended).
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Originally posted by mrplug:Which means if you're right-handed like most people, you have to reach across the unit with your thumb to move the click-stick.
No, if you're right-handed like most people, you hold the eTrex in your left hand. Likewise, if you're left-handed like not-most people, you hold the eTrex in your left hand. Just like the manual says. I'm very right-handed, but had no trouble getting used to operating it with my left hand in a day or so. It's not like it's handwriting or anything, and I'm happy to have my right hand free for things that actually require dexterity (Latin pun intended).
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Originally posted by BrianSnat:In reality, no dollar coin will succeed until they retire the dollar bill.
But then, going to a strip club will be a lot more expensive. Or uncomfortable for the staff.
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Originally posted by TeeGate:I just am wondering why this site uses the hddd mm.mmm format for Benchmark searching, when the USGS uses hddd mm ss.s.
Probably because GPS receivers tend to come out of the box set for hddd mm.mmm. My eTrex did. Now, why the GPSr manufacturers prefer that format, I can't say.
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I think I've seen hollow pendants for storing pills (on a chain around your neck). They would be about the right size.