+Marky Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 I'm glad we were able to be a part of it! --Marky "Everyone spends time in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" Quote Link to comment
+Pepper Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 I see you've been busy doing a lot of night time caching, congrats of hitting 300! Pepper Horizontals where it's at! Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 I'm not a Pleasanton resident so I don't have access to the "cool" parking lot. Anyone want to take me up there during lunch? Pepper? You out marathoning? Or are ya free for a geonooner? ::drats, no takers. Maybe some other day:: --Marky "Everyone spends time in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" [This message was edited by Marky on December 02, 2002 at 11:44 AM.] Quote Link to comment
+georgeandmary Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Marty Fouts:So I stop by REI to buy a headband flashlight Marty Fouts ae6ip Which one did you get? george Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more. Quote Link to comment
+georgeandmary Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 Who's The One I keep hearing about? george Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more. Quote Link to comment
+hotfoot Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 If you do not happen to live in Pleasanton and want to access to Bernal Park you can go to the Park and Recreation office located off Main St. near Bernal Blv'd.and they will issue a gate pass. You then show the pass to the gate keeper and he will let you in. The passes are dated with a max. time of one week. Quote Link to comment
+MartyFouts Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 I was going to get the Petzl that everyone likes but the sales clerk said she was really happy with her black diamond ION, which is lighter but has the same amount of light. Since the black diamond was $5 cheaper, and REI has a 100% satisfaction guarentee, I bought it. I didn't really use it much last night, but I do like it. quote:Originally posted by georgeandmary: quote:Originally posted by Marty Fouts:So I stop by REI to buy a headband flashlight Marty Fouts ae6ip Which one did you get? george http://img.Groundspeak.com/user/39570_500.jpg Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more. Marty Fouts ae6ip Quote Link to comment
Venona Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 We have Gold Garbage Travel Bug. Is being held as hostage. You have spy in your area of name Lamneth. We demand from Lamneth certain activities to regain Travel Bug in cache. Quote Link to comment
+georgeandmary Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Venona:We have Gold Garbage Travel Bug. Is being held as hostage. You have spy in your area of name Lamneth. We demand from Lamneth certain activities to regain Travel Bug in cache. Huh? george Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more. Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted December 2, 2002 Share Posted December 2, 2002 quote:Originally posted by georgeandmary:Huh? I think that Venona suspects Lamneth of being a Double Agent! --Marky "Everyone spends time in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 But the bug doesn't belong to Lamneth. It's Hotfoot's bug, isn't it? This doesn't make sense. Quote Link to comment
kablooey Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Now that I've had yet another cache placement denied and archived (third one in four hides), I'm thinking I should give up and move to Navicache. Should I even bother asking which rule I've broken now? Where are the rules posted anyway? > http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=45292 > > Message: > Archived for further consideration. Questions or comments may be sent > to ~ncflyers~ (ADMIN) at > -- I'm off in my own little world. That's okay, people know me here. Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 is my niece who was visiting us over the wekend. Don't as me why she chose that name, but she is a great natural cacher! Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 We can't see it; apparently it hasn't actually been archived yet. What was the issue? I am concerned that the approvers are stifling innovation in coming up with new and clever ideas. Of course, there are ways around that... Quote Link to comment
+Fattuhr Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Here is a thread that they have been discussing the approval process this morning. http://opentopic.Groundspeak.com/0/OpenTopic?a=tpc&s=1750973553&f=3000917383&m=2020905045&r=6120986045#6120986045 My wife says put a coordinate on it and I'll find it. Quote Link to comment
+hotfoot Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 If you are going to put Lamneths feet to the fire how about adding a couple to items to your list? I want to know all about SF2062 and Syrinx. I am curious what activities you are demanding Lamneth perform? Will I need to remove my 'Parental Controls' to read your reply? How about a picture? I hear you are really good looking and have been trying for an FTF on Kablooeys 'Get a Date With Kablooeys Cache'. Quote Link to comment
+Chuguy Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Hey girl, you're gonna have to try harder on that one. I saw an envelope in the cache with your name on it...Hummm, I wonder what's in it. Quote Link to comment
johnnyb5 Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Originally posted by kablooey:Now that I've had yet another cache placement denied and archived (third one in four hides), > http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.asp?ID=45292 > > Message: > Archived for further consideration. Questions or comments may be sent -- QUOTE] Hey kablooey, that cache looks active to me. Quote Link to comment
+Pepper Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 Very funny, I thought maybe I had the coords in wrong as I do often, but failed to check until I got home. Hoping maybe the coords were put in wrong would of made me feel much better about not finding the cache. Got any hints for blind as a bat Pepper. Love your new cache it was the bomb! Pepper Horizontals where it's at! Quote Link to comment
+Chuguy Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 I'm serious as a heart attack about that envelope in the cache. As far as hints go...the photos( especially #3) are pretty good. If you can find Tao House, this one should be a cakewalk. Quote Link to comment
+Pepper Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 I just looked at the hint pics on the cache page and I was there, right there a few times how did I miss it. Oh well I'm going back tomorrow and get my prize! Pepper Horizontals where it's at! Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted December 3, 2002 Share Posted December 3, 2002 quote:Originally posted by SuperGenius:I just looked at the hint pics on the cache page and I was there, right there a few times how did I miss it. Oh well I'm going back tomorrow and get my prize! You want company? I could take a break at just about any time of the day. --Marky "Everyone spends time in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 Yeah, Pepper, me too! Since you're a Pleasanton resident you're real popular all of a sudden, huh? Quote Link to comment
+Pepper Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 I am free all day from 9AM till 2PM. Give me a call guys so we can set a meet time. Home 925-462-1616 Cell 925-413-9473 Pepper Horizontals where it's at! [This message was edited by SuperGenius on December 04, 2002 at 06:16 AM.] Quote Link to comment
+Pepper Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 I just got a call from Hotfoot he would like very much to join us in this outing, BUT he is not avaliable until tomorrow. So do you think you gentlemen can hold off on this cache for one more day? Hotfoot and I prefer to hike in the mornings let me know what's good for you Tomorrow. Pepper Horizontals where it's at! Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 quote:Originally posted by SuperGenius:I just got a call from Hotfoot he would like very much to join us in this outing, BUT he is not avaliable until tomorrow. So do you think you gentlemen can hold off on this cache for one more day? Hotfoot and I prefer to hike in the mornings let me know what's good for you Tomorrow. Works for me! Any time in the morning is fine by me, just let me know how you want to hook up. --Marky "Everyone spends time in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 This Venona thing is getting kind of interesting. I got an email from Lamneth today to go check a book in the Lab library. So I went, and found the book, but nothing inside it. Then he tells me a building number given to him by Venona, which is NOT the main library, so I went there and found another copy of the book, and inside was a note to Lamneth! Weird. There are more details, but I'll save those for later if Lamneth lets me tell them. How would this guy put something into a book at the Lab? It's not exactly the easiest place in the world to get into, you know. So I conclude that "Venona" works at the Lab. How many cachers (aside from me) do we know that fit that description? I'm starting to get curious about this guy. Quote Link to comment
+hotfoot Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 I have received E-mails from Vanona and I am intrigued because he writes with an accent. Is this the result of phonetics? If you guys are going to hide caches at the Rad Lab count me out. Scaling clifs and climbing trees are OK but sneaking into secret facilities just isn't for me. (Actually, I think I know how but it is a little risky. Maybe I should just tell Pepper how to do it and let her be the FTF. Sometimes it is OK to be second.) Quote Link to comment
+georgeandmary Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 quote:Originally posted by fizzymagic:How many cachers (aside from me) do we know that fit that description? I'm starting to get curious about this guy. I can name 2. george Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more. Quote Link to comment
+Pepper Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 by all means name names, this is geting interesting. We have a fellow cacher in town from Illinois (cachew nut) and it looks as if he's gonna hit #200 right here in Pleasanton. Good luck cachew nut and I hope you are enjoying yourself caching all alone in the dark. . So Marky and Fizzy we need to set up a time for our hike with Hotfoot to hit Augustin Bernal Park. Pepper Horizontals where it's at! Quote Link to comment
+hotfoot Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 In the E-mail from Venona I got a long string of letters and numbers that look vaguely like the serial number of my Windows 98 program. After reading FizzyMagics post it became clear that all the numbers refered to a building and the call letters for some book cataloged in the Library of Congress system. Interestingly the Lib of Congress online catalog shows no book with these call numbers. Very close but no cigar! Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 Yeah, the book was Magnetic Magnetrons and it was published in 1948 or something. I found a slip of paper inside with a note to Lamneth. It said that the word was "REFRACTORY" in all capital letters. Here's where it got weird: the book right next to the one I found was a report called Refractory Semiconductor Materials, and it was a translation of an original written by three Russians. So I went and looked up Venona at Google. I'll let you do it yourselves. Notice where the first hit leads you... Quote Link to comment
+MartyFouts Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 I can get into the lab, but I haven't since '87 quote:Originally posted by fizzymagic:This Venona thing is getting kind of interesting. I got an email from Lamneth today to go check a book in the Lab library. So I went, and found the book, but nothing inside it. Then he tells me a building number given to him by Venona, which is NOT the main library, so I went there and found another copy of the book, and inside was a note to Lamneth! Weird. There are more details, but I'll save those for later if Lamneth lets me tell them. How would this guy put something into a book at the Lab? It's not exactly the easiest place in the world to get into, you know. So I conclude that "Venona" works at the Lab. How many cachers (aside from me) do we know that fit that description? I'm starting to get curious about this guy. Marty Fouts ae6ip Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted December 4, 2002 Share Posted December 4, 2002 quote:Originally posted by SuperGenius:So Marky and Fizzy we need to set up a time for our hike with Hotfoot to hit Augustin Bernal Park. Any time is convenient with me, just let me know. I'm usually in town by 6:30am. I can drive us all in the Vue if that is helpful. --Marky "Everyone spends time in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" Quote Link to comment
+Pepper Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 Fizzy, Hotfoot and myself will meet you at Starbucks on Santa Rits Rd in the Safeway shopping center. You know the place it's close to Fizzy's Quarterback. See ya'll at 8:45AM! Pepper Horizontals where it's at! Quote Link to comment
+Marky Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 What is the best kind of glue to glue magnets to things like film canisters and altoid tins and the like? --Marky "Everyone spends time in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" Quote Link to comment
+Fattuhr Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Marky:What is the best kind of glue to glue magnets to things like film canisters and altoid tins and the like. Use a hot glue gun. I've found from experience that super glue will give way after awhile. I had one cache I went to check on and the magnet was still there and the container was gone. My wife says put a coordinate on it and I'll find it. Quote Link to comment
johnnyb5 Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Marky:What is the best kind of glue to glue magnets to things like film canisters and altoid tins and the like? " For altoid cans and othersmall similar containers I bought a roll of self adhesive magnets strips. They seem to be strong enough to hold them pretty well. Quote Link to comment
+georgeandmary Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Marky:What is the best kind of glue to glue magnets to things like film canisters and altoid tins and the like? --Marky "Everyone spends time in the darkness, dreamers learn to steer with a backlit GPSr" I don't think I've had hot glue come off a film can, but I've had it come off an altoids tin. I've been using the buisness card mangents for altoid tins. The stick well. george Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more. Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 I use regular 3M "super strength adhesive" household glue. Nothing sticks well to polyethylene, so I use duct tape first. Here are a couple of other hints: Always glue magnets to Altoids-type containers before painting. Coat Altoids-type containers with primer before final painting. No matter how well you prepare, prime, etc. paint will not adhere to polyethylene. Duct tape seems to adhere quite well to polyethylene containers. I use the camouflage duct tape I got at Dom's, but Pepper says she found some at Walmart. Round, solid magnets are much more powerful than flexible, stick-on magnetic material. I cover the holes in altoid-type containers with silicone glue to try to make them more waterproof. Maybe not a lot of wisdom, but I've learned some things! Quote Link to comment
Ron Streeter Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 ..... Goop ! I've never been lost. Fearsome confused sometimes, but never lost. Quote Link to comment
+C&MMorris Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 Micro's If it's got wing's, I can fly it!! Quote Link to comment
+Fallen Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 quote:Originally posted by fizzymagic: + Always glue magnets to Altoids-type containers _before_ painting. Is this some type of put down? If there is something to B17ch about I'll make sure you're the first to know. Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 quote:Originally posted by Fallen: quote:Originally posted by fizzymagic:+ Always glue magnets to Altoids-type containers _before_ painting. Is this some type of put down? Not hardly! It's the result of painful experience! Quote Link to comment
+Chuguy Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 Fizzy, where do you find those solid, round magnets that you and Jimswim use. I haven't been able to find them around here. It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end Quote Link to comment
+georgeandmary Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 quote:Originally posted by chuguy:Fizzy, where do you find those solid, round magnets that you and Jimswim use. I haven't been able to find them around here. __It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end__ I got a pack of round magnets from Michaels Art supply. 30 for 4 bucks or something like that. Of seen a few really powerful small round magnets on containers that really impressed me. They looked like small round batteries instead of the black ceramic looking ones that I use. Brute Force has been pulling magnets out of old hard drives. They've got a good pull on them too. george Pedal until your legs cramp up and then pedal some more. Quote Link to comment
+MartyFouts Posted December 5, 2002 Share Posted December 5, 2002 quote:Originally posted by georgeandmary: Of seen a few really powerful small round magnets on containers that really impressed me. They looked like small round batteries instead of the black ceramic looking ones that I use. sounds like rare earth magnets to me. expensive but very powerful. Marty Fouts ae6ip Quote Link to comment
+fizzymagic Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 I got a whole bunch at Walmart in the crafts section. I think there were 40 for $5. They also have little ziplock bags and also magnetic business cards sticky on one side. Quote Link to comment
+Chuguy Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 georgeandmary and Fizzy...thanks for the info. Chuguy It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end Quote Link to comment
+cachew nut Posted December 6, 2002 Share Posted December 6, 2002 Thanks to all the Bay area geocachers who hid the caches that I found this week while visiting. I had a lot of fun, and some of the caches were different from what I'm used to. There was a good mix of traditional and micros and I learned a few things that I may try on future hides. I hope that the next time I visit, the area will have been somewhat repopulated. I think it might since you have a very close, competetive, and strong geocaching community. Thanks again. Quote Link to comment
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