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ke6n

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  1. For those not in the know. Sick is a good thing. So my kid said back when she was in junior high.
  2. Dude! I think you ought to get an award for most persistance!
  3. I haven't had a FTF in quite a while and one popped up for me very close the other evening. I figured "what the heck?" My wife was already sleeping so it wouldn't be a hassle trying to justify my leaving at 11:30 PM so I went for it. I spent a half hour with my flashlight looking around finding all sorts of crawly creepies and decided that I'd spent enough time. I'd come back the next day and find it. Of course, the next morning, another geocacher found it at just about sun up. haha. I went by to find it and it took me about a minute to find it. It was like the difference between night and day. (Hey, it WAS the difference between night and day.) No harm, no foul. I had fun both times I went out. I also go back to find just about every DNF I log at some time or another. That's what makes it fun and a challenge!
  4. I'd think "Wow, this is about as stupid as a hunger strike." Geocachers place caches because they enjoy having people find and visit their caches. You'd really only be hurting yourselves (and probably whipping yourselves that much more into a fury over somethin, the root problem, you really have no personal say about.) But if you think that disabling 375 geocaches is really going to be the tipping point for your country's dispute over names, you go for it!
  5. I'm just trying to figure out what the heck a dispute between countries has to do with geocaching? I don't really think this is the right venue. edit: spelling
  6. What is THIS? This is the forums, home of angst and discontent! People don't just go around using manners and appologizing like they would if they were speaking face to face!!
  7. Gosh, no. I read the geocache website fairly thoroughly. ...in addition, I read the cache pages.
  8. I wouldn't mind it in text, also, but it does show up in GSAK so it isn't that big of a deal for me. Dude. Try clicking on the top map on the geocache page. It opens up into a very nicely detailed version.
  9. Ahhh, you guys just do things backwards on that half of the world. Tell me, when water goes down one of your drains, does it swirl clockwise or counter-clockwise, huh?
  10. Because we believe Groundspeak listens to its customer base! Actually, I don't. That explains my disdain I sometimes let escape through my prose. I only wish there were another open site with a good interface that could come along and develop a strong following that would give Jeremy a run for his money and create some decent competition. Not only would that clean out the waxed over ears here at Groundspeak, it would create competition which would, in turn, be great for the users. Imagine - websites competing for our money and loyalty! I can only imagine what kinds of great things could come of that for the users!
  11. Yep. A forward to /dev/null would handle it nicely. ('course I don't know how MS handles that.)
  12. Purell won't come close to washing off PI. Tec-Nu comes in individual wipe packets. That would be more appropriate. Now if the geocache is an urban, located next to some dumpster in the back of a Walmart or some such, the hand sanitizer would be a most welcome addition to the swag! Of course, it is about 124 proof ethyl alcohol, along with some rubbing alcohol and other stuff that probably isn't too good to ingest...
  13. Yeah, err on the side of caution. And as for that caching suit, Briansnat... Ha!
  14. Now THAT's funny! I don't care what anybody says.
  15. OK, valid point. Then again, there are those who take photos and post them of the physical cache at the hiding spot being found so it is a spoiler for everyone else visiting that cache. Granted, with a virtual, such a spoiler would mean nobody would have to physically go to the cache site... I suppose it is mostly a matter of what kind of game a person plays. Do they "cheat" and post finds on caches they've never been to or do they have integrity? I mostly don't care what kind of game others play. I geocache for me and I'll hide things for the enjoyment of others. (Note to self: make up some more hides...)
  16. Yep, cute photos and all that but nobody should ever let a fawn actually touch them and end up with human scent on them. Mom will often times abandon the fawn because of the smell. I'm fairly sure nobody would want to be the cause of a needless death of a fawn. ...Now later on when those little brown nubbies on the head develop into at least forks, that's a different story. Ken
  17. That last part was a valid complaint. I never understood why they did it. If they come back they should drop proximity as an issue. Exactly. What's the issue? Nobody has ever mistaken one for the other.
  18. At least the the one that matters And that plays back to my original post in this thread very nicely, the one which grief was directed at me for saying "Why bother?"
  19. There is a very small percentage requesting this. If 100,000 cachers wrote in, it would carry more weight. Twenty-five or fifty or so shows a very small percentage. By that same reasoning, I wonder how many have written in requesting that virts never come back. (Besides reviewers.) And so you realize, the world doesn't revolve around the small number of geocachers who actually use the forums. There is a huge silent majority out there who cache and never visit the forums.
  20. Posts like this don't help the cause in the least. In fact, they hurt it. They really don't help or hurt it, what really matters is that I sometimes think TPTB don't read this at all when they should be looking at what their market is saying. Oh I forgot, they don't need to do that unless/until a truly successful competitor site can challenge them. I think if they did more of that you wouldn't get frustrated, angry posts like the above. Whoa, insite! Now, if only it would spread...
  21. Amen, brother! Well said.
  22. No you don't. Your product isn't as bad! (Unless you had something to do with Waymarking.com.) Seriously, it will take a while for the change to be comfortable for people. There may be a few suggestions that users give that you may want to look into. Ken
  23. I'd also like to add one more thing. I have never, nor would I ever, bring a complaint about a specific cache that I was trying to get published to the forums. I think that your comparison of that kind of activity to my open discussion of caches and policy in general is unfair and unwarranted. Wouldn't you agree?
  24. I must say I like what I see so far. I've yet to try the garmin instant download (not sure I really need it with pocket queries and all) but it will make for an interesting function. Keep up the good work. -Ken
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