Beowulf83

I had this cache - Slipped Disc for awhile until it got vandalized. After removing the remains of mine, two other caches appeared, and were also vandalized. Now there is a set of three micros in the area, which seem to be fairing much better than the full-sized caches.

05-05-05 Cool date

A fellow cacher and I placed this cache under a newly created account. This was done so that several involved in the project could monitor the cache. This account stats show 1 placed with zero finds, but as you can see from the logs, it has received tons of positive feedback.

Possibly, but logs are more cache-oriented, whereas blogs would be more user-oriented. And of course, if you provide a place for someone to respond to your blog entries with their comments, you basically have a forum. So I guess the main REAL difference would be the ability to personalize it. Therefore (despite my earlier comments) blogs probably should be left to the individual and not incorporated into GC. I've been blogging for several years now. I have a Geocaching section on my website, but the site covers many other topics.

OK, that's got to be one of the scariest sites I've seen in a long time!

I appreciate all of the efforts you guys in the low country are putting into this. I live in the same town as Loftis, but I'm not in his district. I have alerted the cachers I know in the Upstate. As for mail templates and whether or not legislators read everything they receive, I do know that they tend to respond better to actual letters than to e-mail. It's much easier to delete.

Nice blog, M-T-C. I wonder if this is a feature GC might add to it's site (Premium option?) Of course, one could argue that the current ability to upload photos with comments gives similar functionality. It's just not in blog format. Just a thought.

I agree that the title is misleading, however, there is some truth to it. As written, "historic properties of the State" could be broadly applied to most of the state parks, which hold a significant number of caches.

Site looks good - you might want to put a note on your Members List link that it's an Excel file, though. I hope you get a good response. I'd love to see the same thing happen in Upstate SC.

"Hello, my name is Beowulf." (groups responds, "Hello Beowulf") "It's been three weeks since my last lame micro cache..."

I agree, I think I am going to make it a project for this year and probably next to obtain the coorinates of as many of the burial sites as I can. I just did a search on interment locations in my files, I have 972 of them. Maybe I had bettewr make that a five year project Take your time - after all they're not going anywhere I've been taking as many digital pictures of headstones as I can and embedding them into my paf files. Adding a lat/long would be a nice touch especially for the hard to find ones. Now we just need a snappy name for the process - gencaching perhaps or what about coldcaching errrr maybe not. Someone more creative than I am will come up with something. Yours aye, The Prospectors "Road? Where we're going we don't need - roads!" Dr. Emmett Brown I think I mentioned in another thread somewhere that this is why I got a GPS in the first place - finding gravestones for genealogy. I don't have anywhere near 927, but I have found some interesting old cemeteries out in the middle of nowhere. In addition to graves, I've marked the locations of old family homesteads. I also got a copy of a 350 acre land grant given to our family in 1768 with the surveyor's markings. It's been fun to try to find the original land and mark the boundaries with waypoints. As for other hobbies, computers are my occupation now, so I'm not sure how much of a hobby that really is. Music, disc golf, kayaking, mountain biking, reading, genealogy (as mentioned), darts, and running with scissors.

Thanks for the link to the Visualizer - great tool! I did find the map confusing at first with all of the waypoint names and descriptions included. When importing GPX, if you turn off the descriptions and leave everything else set to default if gives you a good idea about cache density in a region.

Maybe that's what happened to that cache I mentioned earlier!

My plan is for the T3. It will do the trick, just slip a wifi card in it. That's the one with the stretch screen - I remember now. I knew one of them had it, but just couldn't remember which one. I would tend to agree to a certain extent. I use my PDA while caching, but not the WiFi. I really don't count on being in range of WiFi when I'm out and about. However, the WiFi really comes in handy in our office for surfing the web during long, dull meetings, all the while looking like you're taking notes.

Same with a Tungsten. I am really considering buying one of these, but I would probably still cache with my old m505, just in case. The Tungsten C is the only current Palm model with built-in wifi. It has the landscape capability on some (not all) applications, but the screen is almost square anyway. If you really want landscape, I think the E model with the new SD WiFi adapter would be the way to go.

Mulder and Scully

You know, the discouraging thing is that your personal space never looks very cool once the digital photo has been taken and it's placed online. (He says, dodging the obvious comments that it was probably never cool to begin with.) Oh well, think I'll find a decorator, or at least post a better forum lurking station.

You know, when he said "Twinkie", I thought he was talking about a particular cache until I went back and re-read it! I wondered what kind of cache would make you puke.

I'm curious. Why would the PDA be too small? If viewing is a problem, I can understand. You can make the text larger, but scrolling then becomes a hassle. You can get external keyboards, if data input is the problem. If you don't go PDA then you're going to pay a price for small. You might check Ebay - there are some tiny Sony VAIO's and IBM Stinkpads, err, Thinkpads that might fit the bill.

OK, seems everyone agrees that it is possible to oversaturate an area with lame caches. I can certainly see drat19's point. Would it be possible to oversaturate an area with good caches? Certainly - and those formerly good caches might then be considered lame, such as the classic lamp post. So it sounds like we are increasing our standards for what makes a good cache as the saturation of a particular type of cache or cache idea increases. Let's face it, people get bored. I think some "lame" caches have their place, if by lame we're talking about readily accessible and easy to find. It's a great way to teach GPS skills to younger kids - just don't overdo it so that they do get restless and want to go to the Toys-R-Us. I'd rather do that than start them on a 5/5 that they might not reach or find. (Of course, having worked with as many kids as I have, I know they'd probably want to head to Toys-R-Us on the first one! Edited to fix a spelling error

If it weren't so disgusting I guess it would be funny. Perhaps we need a change in terminology. How about "Smack Talk" instead of "Trash Talk"? I don't want to say the cache was easy, but I had to wait behind three blind rodents to sign the log.

"Let the cosmos tremble, for I have emerged from my power pod!"

This from a log from a cache nearby... Although, I guess this technically doesn't fit. The cache was OK, but just had been vandalized. The owner did respond.

They seemed so interested in the National Archives. I think he should have told them he was trying to steal the Declaration of Independence to follow a map on the back of it. They would have... A. dismissed him as a smartass with a movie obssession B. locked him up as a lunatic (all said in jest, of course.)

Some months ago I was waiting in our small local airport for my wife to arrive. The only sitting area was just outside the security area, so I sat down, pulled out my Palm Tungsten C, attached the portable keyboard, and started working on a file I had brought with me. I gave up my seat to a lady on crutches, put away the keyboard, but continued to work with the stylus. The next thing I knew, I was surrounded by airport security and was being quizzed as to why I was there, what flight was I waiting for, etc., etc. It was intimidating. Mind you, I had come from work and was dress professionally in a suit, not that it should matter. Good thing I didn't have a GPS with me!