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quote:Originally posted by RainDog:These "Battle of the Sexes" things really crack me up, but keep in mind that the average person has one testicle and one mammary gland. Don't you know there ain't no Devil, that's just God when he's drunk. Hey, cool. I'm average! Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

Entropy: a. (thermodynamics) The energy in a system unavailable to do work. Broadly: The degree of disorder or uncertainty in a system b. (astrophysics) The degradation of the matter and energy in the universe to an ultimate state of inert uniformity. What would you expect from an engineer? Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

I don't see the problem. Folks go gaga over Magellan when they place caches that have obvious and overtly commercial ties. The elongate guy seeded a bunch of his caches with coins for your trading pleasure. If you don't want to buy his product, DON'T, but quit complaining. If businesses wanted to place regular caches with their company logo on them who cares as long as they're good caches by all of the normal definitions. A Pepsi cache, an REI cache, a Chevrolet cache or a Nike cache wouldn't bother me a bit AS LONG AS THEY WERE GOOD CACHES and they didn't charge an admission. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle. [This message was edited by MaxEntropy on July 22, 2003 at 11:01 AM.]

Some of the most clever caches that I've seen have been sunk into the ground up to their cap. I wish that I could link to them, but it would spoil it some some folks. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

I like all of the hot chicks and the free beer! Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

A nautical chart will be the best source though the USCG Light List will have that info. The online system is incomplete so far. http://pollux.nss.nima.mil/pubs/USCGLL/pubs_j_uscgll_list.html Try fnding the light's number and entering that in the search box. Note that it's a violation of federal law to tamper with or even touch aids to navigation and that includes placing caches. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

"I keep going around in circles on that site. From the geocache page, I click on the click here to start page, it brings me to the login page, I log in and it sends me back to the previous page. Around and around." Follow-Up: I figured it out. I had cookies blocked. After I allowed cookies, it let me into the site. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle. [This message was edited by MaxEntropy on July 17, 2003 at 03:44 PM.]

If you don't like the bickering, just quit reading after the first 6 posts. After that, the "conversation" often degrades to clarifications and arguments of what was previously said. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

I was thinking of bolting an industrial NEMA-3R enclosure to a utility pole for a cache. It would be in plain site, but it might be considered trespassing. I could even put a geocaching sticker on it like graffiti. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

I'm heading off to the Bahamas, so I tried to search by country. Select Hide and Seek a cache. Under By Country, pull down Bahamas. Click Submit and I get a Seaching For... page then nothing. It won't display a list of caches. What's up? A ID-10-T error? Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

Keep the Red buoys on your Right side when you Return from sea and you'll usually stay in the channel. The green buoys are on the other side. The yellow ones are informational or warning buoys. You have to get close to them to read them then it's too late. Here's a quick primer on buoys. http://www.auxetrain.org/Buoys.html But we all have GPS now so we don't need buoys, compasses or charts, right? Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

Flip it over, let's see the front. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

quote:Originally posted by General Bracket: EDIT: http://mchawking.imarc.net/songs/Entropy.mp3 applies too somewhat. Not as bad, but still potentially offensive. Cool, I have a theme song now. On-Topic.. When I'm out in the woods, I like to enjoy it as though I'm the first human to be out there, of couse I enjoy an occasional man-made convenience like trails, and water so it doesn't have to be completely devoid if signs of people. So as a courtesy to others who may be of the same mindset, I try not to leave obvious signs of my presence. If all others would do this, we'd all be better off. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle. [This message was edited by MaxEntropy on July 12, 2003 at 11:49 PM.]

My GPS guided be to a cache once where a guy was doing Tai-Chi right in front of the cache hiding spot. My brother and I just stood there staring at him until he left. Apparently tai-Chi isn't a spectator sport. Rude, yes but it did work. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

You may need Geocachers Anonymous if... quote:Originally posted by The Leprechauns:For the longest time, I've had two webcams as the nearest unfound caches, at 9.6 and 12.4 miles from home. I couldn't do them because I didn't have a cell phone. So I bought a cell phone. It's like the caches outside the city that say 'four wheel drive recommended.' So I bought an SUV. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

When you stay up until 2:00 AM on Saturday night painting the kitchen so that you can be free to go Caching on Sunday. (The wife doesn't know about the broken sprinkler head) Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

109 found, 5 not found. Of those five, three were missing, one had coords waaaay off. I usually have my eagle-eyed kids along to do the searching. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

And NO TOYS! Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

Finding amourous couples isn't that bad, it could be worse... http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=67199 and http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?ID=50093 Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

I would be nice to have some sort of instructions on the Travel Bug. The last one that I found, I didn't expect but I took it anyway. Fortunately, it didn't have any particular place to go, so I just moved it along another 90- miles. As for sitting on it, that just happens. Sometimes I can't get out every weekend so i might have to sit on one for a few weeks. It just happens. But with sooo many caches around now, most people are near enough to one to swing by and drop the Bug off. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

They used GPS' in The Mole to fine their way cross-country to a waypoint pre-programmed into the unit. They were in Italy I believe. quote: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Originally posted by CoronaKid: Survivor: As a reward challenge, the two tribes are each given a compass and a GPS. The first team to find the cache wins. The cache itself could be the reward. It could be filled with rice, ice-cold beer/soda, spices, etc. I'm surprised it hasn't been done yet. --CoronaKid Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

Lost in Space Using their Galactic Positioning System receiver * , the family goes looking for their first geocache. Dr. Smith mistakes Cash for Cache and goes along hoping to turn a tidy profit. Penny stay back fearing that she might break a nail but while she waits, the ship is overrun by a carniverous vine plant but that's a different sub-plot. meanwhile out on the trail, Robot is First-To-Find, but mistakes the rocket-fuel canister cache container for something dangerous and scares the others off with cries of "Danger, Danger Will Robinson!" * You were wondering why they don't use the GPS to get home? Well, duh, they forgot to set a starting waypoint on earth before they started out and the hyper-jump screwed-up the track log. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

Greetings, My dad clipped a little ad out of the newspapar advertising a company called TAD Gear. They've placed 16 caches with some of their gear or coupons. You have to go by their store in Oakland to get a clue and then look for it. Check out www.tadgear.com/quest.htm Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

Greetings wanderers. I told you earlier that I would tell you how my experience in getting my eTrex legend repaired went. The problem was that I was getting lines horizontally across the screen. It still works, but the lines were annoying. I went to their site and filled out the on-line form. The next day, I received a response that my unit had to go back for repairs and it gave me instructions. No problem, I shipped it out on a Monday, UPS ground. They promised two weeks or so, but I got it back 10 days later with a ner display and a new front cover, replaced for "cosmetic reasons" according to the work order. I had engraved my name across it which the tech obviously didn't like. Note that their website says that the warranty doesn't cover units sold at on-line auctions. I bought mine new, in the pqackage on ebay. I don't know if I sent in the warranty card, but they took care of me anyway. It goes on. A couple of months later, the unit started shutting down with just a slight tap onb the upper case. I sprung the battery springs and changed the batteries to no avail. Note that this unit gets a lot of use, nearly every weekend and sometimes during the week. I may have dropped it a few times and broke a solder joint or somethng inside so don't automatically assume that the unit is of poor quality. So I send in another request for service on their web site. The next day, they e-mail back that I need to call them. Uh-Oh, this doesn't look good. So I call. the reason that they wanted me to call was because this is a second warranty service, I qualify for their extra-super-special-deluxe service. They gave me a special code and told me to send in the unit in fedEx overnight. Honestly, I sent it in on Tuesday morning and I had it back in my fat little fingers on Wednesday Evening! It had a new back cover this time and probably new guts and my database was completely intact (though I did back it up beforehand) Incredible! So as you see, it went very well. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.

Took a radioactive marble, left a body... I'm still creeped out. On Monday, Fremont Police removed a body from a creek near my Little Liz cache. http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=50093 What makes it extra creepy is the log that was made on April 15 by GeoROCKS! who described being stalked through Stiver's Lagoon. After I saw the story on the news, I disabled the cache and e-mailed GeoROCKS that he should call the police and tell them his story. He did. The next day, the newspaper write that the dead man was a wino from Redding and that he'd been dead for a while. Some 5th graders even spotted the body but didn't recognize it as such. Pretty creepy. I'm leaving the cache disabled for a while. I can imagine however that the woods is safer now than it's been in a while. Mickey Max Entropy More than just a name, a lifestyle.