Cire Yamel

This all had me actually thinking th other day, while I was stuck in traffic. I had two GPSs with me (the road one and the handheld), and a PocketPC that can take 1.3 mpix photos and e-mail them anyplace. Right from being stuck in traffic. I was sitting in traffic surfing the internet and perfectly capable of sending photos or videos anywhere. Along with the coordinates. No special software or anything fancy. How can you add those two things together within the rules of geocaching and play a game? cy

Cat's out of the bag.

OK...I've been playing around with textamerica, figured out how to set my site up, but I'm not sure how to actually get the photos from my phone to that site. I have the "secret" e-mail programmed into the phone, but does it just update the "moblog" or does it store someplace? I'm even having a hard time finding a help area on the site. Argh. No wonder this is being monopolized by the young! cy

Ummmm...doesn't this sound a little like "when we find WMDs you'll know it"? So, who can make these decisions? If a moderator needs to "discuss forum guidelines in a more forceful manner," what does that mean? I'm serious. I'm curious. (and you should call them "Tadpole Ninja Turtles," "Frog Ninja Turtles," and "Geocaching Ninja Turtles." Then just Geocachers. ) cy

Cool. Thanks!!!

When I posted last time it had a bar graph that said something about a "Warn 0%." What is this? cy

Thanks everyone. My provider is Verizon and I'm using an Audiovox Model No. CDM-8900. I'm going to "fiddle" this weekend with posting pix. Giddy...although my buddies give me a hard time because their 12-year-old girls are into pix and messaging as much as I am the last week. It is pretty cool. Tonight a truck lost a tire and clobbered my Ford Ranger. I had the damage e-mailed to my computer instantly -- and I explained to the nice sheriffs that I was doing it, and they thought that was pretty cool. They were darker than heck, with a flashlight, but the pix got the point. Tire+truck=damage. cy p.s. I was told that the five bucks a month for unlimited was going to end in April or May, when there was enough saturation, so you may want to look into this if you have Verizon. Our "orientation guy" at work said it was going to be 80 "sends" for five bucks. Yes, that could be a bunch of names per send, though. This just might be us, at work on a work account, but if you're on Verizon, you might look into it. p.p.s. Anyone have a link to what the data cable is for this? Anyone have one? Great idea.

My work just issued this really cool picture phone, but I have no clue how to do anything, but send the photos to other phones or e-mail addresses. How do I make it so I can take cache pix and display them? Do I buy a place on the web that I can send them to and will store them for posting? Any suggestions? I use them at work and just e-mail them to myself and print them, but how do I transfer the "personal" stuff to the web, without printing a hard copy? (i.e. we found a cache that had a really cool tree by it -- and I took a cell phone picture. How do I post that to the log?) Thanks cy

There is suppose to be another solar storm hitting us around Noon EDT, October 29. They said it's almost 10x as big as the one last week and may be the third most powerful ever recorded.

quote:Originally posted by Criminal:http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/130036_5500.gif Tell us about the the most exciting time you tripped over a tree root _while geocaching_! http://fp1.centurytel.net/Criminal_Page/<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> I can't tell you about it now because I'm not tripping and I'm not geocaching. And I don't want to be held liable for any tree root advise.

quote:Originally posted by Criminal:Hey, if you're going to title a subject as "a touchy subject", there better be something about boobs. I'm not a fan of the old bait-and-switch. We need a boob topic. http://fp1.centurytel.net/Criminal_Page/<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Alex Trebek: Great. Better luck to all of you in the next round. It's time for Double Jeopardy. Let's take a look at the board. And the categories are: Potent Potables, The Vowels, Presidents Who Are On the One Dollar Bill, Famous Titles, Ponies, The Number 10, and finally: Foods That End In "Amburger." Tom Cruise, you are in third place, so the board is yours. Tom Cruise: I, a...[ laughs ], I, a...[ laughs ], I, a...[ laughs ], I, a...[ laughs ] Alex Trebek: Mr. Sandler, why don't you pick instead? Adam Sandler: Once again, something that could have been brought to my attention yesterday! Alex Trebek: Mr. Connery, go ahead. Sean Connery: The day is mine! I'll take Famous Titties for 400. Alex Trebek: Titles, Famous Titles. Sean Connery: dadgum! Alex Trebek: And the answer is: This movie title is taken from the name of the book "Gone With The Wind." Mr. Sean Connery. Sean Connery: Dolly Parton! Alex Trebek: Titles, Mr. Connery. Not titties. Sean Connery: Not a fan of the ladies, are you Trebek? p.s. I found this here SNL Transcripts [This message was edited by Cire Yamel on October 21, 2003 at 10:44 PM.]

Were you caching, or are you just happy to see me?

quote:Originally posted by Jeremy (Admin): quote: We're not Grounded, Inc. anymore. Jeremy Irish Groundspeak As a therapist might say, you're "ungrounded" inc. cy

Pickled garlic + Beano = No bug problems. I fished yesterday for six hours in a swamp-surrounded spring creek and I didn't get one bite. I just ate 12 cloves of pickled garlic (I like the Jalapeno), took a little gas medicine (very, highly recommended), and no problem. You DO need to use a smelly soap and deoderant the next day if you need to work close to people, because the skin can still smell a little (or a lot, if you have a sweaty job, or just sweat a lot naturally). Test it out early on a weekend. I buy all of mine from Garlic Gourmay. They have several flavors. cy

quote:It's there. Eat lots of raw garlic, or take garlic oil capsules. Works wonders keeping the bugs away. On the downside, you might not get a lot of dates. _ Pickled garlic does the trick just as well...and tastes great! cy

I'm mostly a lurker around the geocaching threads and I'm not a hardcore geocacher, but... I loaded this into my iPaq and it's the start of a pretty darn cool application. Isues are noted above, I had them, too, so there's not much I can add; sounds like they are going to get addressed. I just wanted to say how much I appreciate the work that's gone into this. cy

I'm sure one of you Markwellian pros can find a previous thread faster than I can on a 28.8 connection...I'd appreciate it. I just bought a new(used) "rig," and I bought it far enough below the bookprice that the bank agreed to loan me another $1000 (at the same rate) to upgrade the vehicle. (Of course, there was only one thought in mind when I asked about this...ok, two, we're getting a DVD player, also.) I'm interested in any thoughts from people who have used the "talkies;" specifically the talking StreetPilot III. Thanks.

"I often carry my GPSr with me although I never really need it (except to Geocache). It however, wasn't designed to KILL people." That's almost a poetic conclusion, seneca. But, ummmmm...well...yes, actually, it was. It's called the US Military; that technology has been used to kill a lot of people. cy

I started carrying about eight years ago...not all the time, but sometimes for work-related reasons, almost all the time in the woods fishing, hiking, etc. I just wanted to add that for me, "concealed" means !!concealed!! None of my friends or family outside my wife (and she doesn't know when I have it on my person) even knows I have a shrouded .357 that I am quite competent with. Or that I carry it. Period. I've never told a soul. I won't even carry if it's an activity that I am not 100-percent sure I can completely conceal the weapon. I am probably way more "paranoid" that someone would suspect or assume I have it, than I am about anyone in the world causing me to ever reveal it on my person in a dangerous situtation. I was held up in a convenience store at gunpoint while I was carrying and the last thing, too tell you the truth, I thought about at first was pulling my gun. Or even acting like I had it. He got the drop on all of us standing there and he was in control. He did everything perfectly and never even gave any of us a chance, even if one of the other five had a gun. Nobody got hurt. But if he had started doing something really stupid, or I was cornered, drawing my weapon was definitely an option. And I'm the first to admit, I'm not sure what that would of been that caused it, but I have a pretty good idea. (He was a very calm, cool professional stickup guy. Even with the gun waving at us, we all agreed we never really felt threatened...if that makes any sense in the whole darn world.) cy p.s. Washington may have one of the most liberal definitions of when you can shoot with it's whole "stop a felony against you or another person" doctrine.

If I'm going out in the words, I eat about 10 cloves of pickled garlic about 4 hours ahead of time and have no problems. I swear by the pickled garlic as an insect deterent. We even feed garlic to our cats once a week and it seems to keep our house flea free all year. I've tried garlic pills and raw garlic in a pinch, but nothing seems to beat the pickled stuff.

The elevation being 4,444 feet on "All Fours" is pretty darn cool.

I wouldn't say I've "hiked" in that area per se...it's pretty thick stuff and tough walking, but I've taken the fly rod to a few of those ponds for small cutthroat trout. They are actually almost all truly ponds, many of them leftover from beaver dams. From my experience, they come and go, and they definitely change sizes and quality from year to year. Hence, they don't get individual names. Some of those little streams around there have awesome crawfish, too, BTW.

I had a new experience with the GPSr on a United flight over the weekend. Before we took off, I asked the attendent if using a GPS was ok. She said no, because they were banned by the FAA. Hmmmm...I said that I didn't think that was the case, that it was up to each airline. I asked if she could ask the captain. She said she did, and that I needed to show her where on the label it was "licensed as a class 'b' device." Of course my Sportrak Map doesn't say that, so she said I had to put it away in the overhead compartment. On the return flight, I asked the captain myself, and he said, "Sure. No problem. There is no official policy." I asked him why some airlines had banned them and he said it has nothing to do with the electronics, per se, but more to do with the notion that you could take over the plane and navigate with one..."or jump out the plane over the 'X.'" We both laughed at that.

After both legs of a trip on Alaska this weekend, as I was leaving the plane, the pilots were greeting passengers. As I walked past I made the comment "Bring back GPS for passengers." One group replied "Absolutely!" and a pilot in the other group said "Agreed. It's a pretty dumb policy." Hearing the pilot's support made me feel a little better about Alaska and that maybe they'll change the policy back someday.

Shouldn't questions about "a boot" be posted on the Canadian Geocaching thread? Eh?