Markle2k

Nice catch!! I hope that means that we'll have the opportunity to select our sex er gender at some point. I didn't see the option when I went into my profile...but then again, I may need glasses so... Hyper-correction rears its ugly head. The mnemonic is usually stated something like "People have sex. Words and ideas have gender." The somewhat shocking nature of the first sentence is meant to reinforce memory. http://www.who.int/gender/whatisgender/en/index.html Mark Twain famously wrote on the problems of an English (which doesn't assign gender much to German which does) speaker learning German. http://www.cs.utah.edu/~gback/awfgrmlg.html Why somebody's gender sex is relevant in what should be a cosmopolitan forum is beyond me. Perhaps that is an option they forgot to turn off. I don't care what your gender or sex is, unless it's relevant. Like, on the subject of playground caches. I like the new forum look, myself. I don't care for the top graphic, but I never have to see it past the first post. The grey on gray is pleasant.

Sorry, I lost this topic. It's a bit more heroic than I deem myself, but I like it. I'd be the guy nav-ing down or dealing with the rocks. But I'll go with it.thanks for your effort! It's gotta be hard dealing with these random requests.

I don't always agree with you. When I don't I usually see your point and let others point it out the flaws. Here you are correct in every detail. The whole point of caching is to hide it from muggles. If the camo hides it from less accomplished cachers, so be it. What you shouldn't do is hide it from everybody with bogus info. That's just cache trash. I also agree 100% with Knowschad's post. However, I don't think I should copy and paste it word for word when I work up to courage to email my local new soft coord posting kid. I will steal the major points from it though. I sure he won't mind. I'll just hunh?? here

I'm curious what somebody could come up with for me. At an event this weekend, somebody noted that I didn't have anything to represent me even though I had taken many pictures of other things. I don't go with the Facebook pic, slinging a camera off my arm or pointing it in a mirror. My thing is that I never spend any fuel on caching. I am strictly a two-wheeler in that regard. I don't like the idea of a penny-farthing, I ride a mountain bike, but since I am not artistically inclined...Lets see what you can do. I'd like an avatar that fits me. The profile pic will have to wait until I actually cache not by myself. I tend to be a bit of an FTF hound.

I don't always agree with you. When I don't I usually see your point and let others point it out the flaws. Here you are correct in every detail. The whole point of caching is to hide it from muggles. If the camo hides it from less accomplished cachers, so be it. What you shouldn't do is hide it from everybody with bogus info. That's just cache trash.

An ancient one in Long Beach was just archived. GC71D8, The Swimmer's Cache. There's one in Lake Tahoe, North Shore, GCG62F, Depth Perception. There's an identically named GC1Z2BN in La Jolla. There's one in Folsom Lake, or maybe Natoma, as well. By the description it requires a mask and a willingness to get muddy so I'm not sure it's a 5 star terrain, but it has two prerequisite caches to get the coords. Edit: Duh! There's the Virt off Avalon on Santa Catalina and another Monterey cache that Chrysalides didn't have GCT98H

Geobeacons. Nope. The only place I've seen it is in these forums, by Minnesota cachers. Cache magnet I've heard in reference to objects like light post skirts and unusually loose fence-post caps, regardless of whether they harbor a cache. There is a kind of hyper-regionalism here with regard to nanos. In the South Bay, they are called blinkers. Just 8 miles north in the East Bay, they're universally nanos. The first time I read a cache description that simply said "Blinker in the usual spot", I was dumbfounded. I'd found what they were calling "blinkers" before, but had never seen them in their virgin state, so I couldn't even make the connection as to why they would be called that. Kind of a different story with Alaskans and PCR tubes. The name they use refers to their index case cache. I can't recall what that is off the top of my head. Decoys are fake caches. Extra cache containers sprinkled around GZ to make the search more tedious. Red herrings are usually literary device a bit more cleverly crafted into the cache description of a puzzle. A puzzle page might read: ...and so on. Follow the numbery-ish red herrings, they'll plunk you in the bay. Count the words in the sentences and find the cache.

...or flightless birds. Exactly... But, either is easy to work with...one prefers Milkbones...the other...well...I think birdseed would be fine... Not herring?

I don't know what the rules are here about inlining a bunch of big pics. Here are the links:

The Travelling Salesman Problem (wikilink) is one of the classic problems in computer science. Finding a generalized solution is a holy grail issue. I'm sure some numbers runners have some favorite strategies. Perhaps that's a better question. Of course, generating the trip distance and time is trivial once you have your route.

thanks, amen. AHEM! That high horse you are sitting on doesn't belong to you. Horse theft is a felony. I thought that what others had said might have been enough to get this through to you. Apparently not. Your behavior in this thread has been atrocious. If I didn't have some hope that it might be of help to someone else, I might even regret having responded. You've been ingracious and even insulting to someone(s) who tried to help you.

I saw this in the Dead Horse Thread and was wondering if anybody had seen this but nobody mentioned it. I've gone out and grabbed a FTF after getting the email, logged the find online, noticing that the publish is the same date as my log(because this has happened a few times). I'll then look at the page a couple days later to see what others thought and the date on the publish has changed to the day after my find. No evidence that the reviewer edited the publish. It's always happened when it was published a few hours before midnight and I found it the same night. Sometimes I got back before midnight to log it, sometimes not. GC20KAG, GC20J8K, GC20J8G, GC1Z0J5, GC1W203 of the last 13 I'm generally pretty good spirited about 2TF by the way but when I opened a cache and found it was signed three days before it was listed or published and there was no note on the cache page I was a bit cheesed off and I invented a new acronym: They didn't even have the decency to log it for another two weeks, but backdated.

I don't have any disagreement with Cache O'Plenty's 4 rules, these are addenda. A few things not addressed: First, as a relative newbie with less than 40 finds, your DNFs count for less. Especially if it's more than a 2*Diff. Don't take this as a personal affront. You don't even have enough finds to even theoretically fill up half a fizzy grid, so you have not seen it all. Cachers with 10,000 finds haven't seen it all. Even "easy finds" get DNFs occasionally so many(most?) COs will not bother getting the least bit concerned until some personal threshold is met. This is usually 3 or 4 DNFs or some Superstar cacher who is known to have a talent for picking up difficult hides has DNFed. None of that means the feature that the cache is hidden in is gone. If it looks recent (certainly more recent than the last find) put it in a DNF and see CO'P's rule #2 Be careful with your Needs Maintenance logs, particularly on older caches. People die. People get bored. People change ISPs and lose their old email address and don't update their profile.... Oftentimes older hides may be being maintained by the community. Look at the number of Watchers of the cache. Only an Owner(possibly a mod) can clear a needs maintenance flag and that may get unwelcome attention from a reviewer. Get a beloved hide archived and some people might not be favorably disposed towards you. Ask a previous finder or contact your local caching association to see what others think. The only new caches without containers and logs to sign that are allowed are Earthcaches. It's been long enough that almost the only virtuals that survive still are the ones with the interesting views, the historical interest, etc. They tend to be valued. When they get archived there's often much hand-wringing. Second: Contacting COs and others. If you have to ask for help or permission, check the box that sends out your email address. It's human nature that if you make it difficult for someone to help you, they are much less likely to bother. If you're asking a detailed question it's not fun to have to copy and paste into the webform on GC.com and parse your questions on that unfriendly interface. Try it with this post. You'll wind up scrolling back and forth in that dinky box. This may be why you aren't getting responses back. The other could be that the CO of the virt realized after publishing the cache that its a pain in the rear to respond to every cacher that visits that insanely popular tourist spot that they didn't dare try to place a physical cache at and they never got around to editing the cache page to remove the requirement to wait for permission. If you want to be a goody-two-shoes, I wouldn't wait more than 48 hours. I got over it. I do the same as Cache O' Plenty. I've never had one find removed. Last: Check your local caching group for local standards. Someone from Florida or even Northern CA is going to be operating in a different caching culture than you in the Simi Valley(I checked a couple of your finds). If you don't know where to find your local caching association, ask your local reviewer, they're undoubtedly a member. Kosh Naranek would appear to be one of them.

Could you clarify what you're doing here? and who are you to ask ? I think you may be a victim of indeterminate meaning in grammar. It might be better to ask what he is asking first before swinging that mod button around. I can see two different ways to parse "what you're doing" and one of those has two ways to parse HERE. It all depends on where you put the emphasis. How are you accomplishing this? Why are you bothering with tracking trackables that never travel? What are you doing in this forum? comes last in my list.

What's the longest multi series you know of? There's 45 step micro in the wilderness near here.

If you're looking to find those online the term you'll be using is "PCR tube". PCR stands for Polymerase Chain Reaction, the method used to amplify DNA from small samples. They're usually less than 1/2 cc in volume, about an inch long and 1/4 inch in diameter. Edit: A box of 1000 should run about $30-50. That store selling them for a buck a pop is making a killing.

It worked for me once, last Sept. Not since then. If they're paying for hosting, I don't understand why they don't fix whatever the problem is.

I'm not sure you're really being quite fair. Their other two logs on your caches today were quite favorable. I poked around randomly at a few of his other logs including a couple micros that seemed to be on J. Random Streetcorner, and I didn't see any ugliness. He's not particularly effusive, but I think you're just getting his honest reactions. As far as hiding goes, I wouldn't put too much pressure on newbies to place caches before they've seen a few and know the rules of the game and how to operate the website. This summer I've seen: A cache with coordinates that placed it in the middle of a tidal marsh in a wildlife refuge. The CO with no finds got huffy when people pointed this out and hasn't bothered to fix it. A cache with coords one whole degree of longitude off, placing it in the middle of a farm road in BFE in another county, 55 miles away. Another with both lat and long wrong, placing it on private land 32mi to the NE, albeit in the same county. At least one in the bay. A couple that had been placed on private property in suburban housing. No permission, of course. And so on. With 100 caches, I wouldn't put him in with this group, though. You or your local caching group could sponsor a local event at a pizza parlor or burger joint and give away ready made micros for the newbies to place, perhaps with the assistance of the more experienced cachers as mentors. When they start receiving logs that contain proper etiquette, it's likely to rub off on them.

**Sniff**, **Sniff**...**Sniff** I think I smell a confession. **Sniff**, **Sniff** Oh, me? 60Cx. When it comes off the bike or I'm hiking it's on the short wrist lanyard it came with and gets cradled between my arm and chest or dangles. I also use the screen as a portable desk for nanos and micros.

This is actually something that I would have thought would have been in the reviewers toolkit already. Groundspeak depends for its existence upon the goodwill of its reviewers (and hiders). If I can get a Pocket Query on a particular day, why couldn't a reviewer have a check-box-and-date entry to publish on a certain date? With all the special caches placed on Christmas, New Years Day, Valentines Day, cacheversaries, Groundhog's Day, first of the month, and then all those caches placed for events.... Ugh! Those are events that are probably already placing time-pressure on their lives. I think it would do a great deal to relieve(or redistribute) the workload of those whose unpaid effort contributes to GS's bottom line. I too would prefer that every third page on GC.com didn't time out, but that's likely a cost issue requiring extra hardware and CoLo investment. I also thought that some of the naysayers in this thread were extremely rude in their dismissiveness. That's been a tradition here since at least 2001-2002 or so, though. (Back when the pages were green and nobody was a charter member. I'm a long-time lurker, first-time poster)