Search found 351 matches

by SamCarter
30 April 12 5:57 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Chaos in your town
Replies: 13
Views: 5052

Re: Chaos in your town

It uses the 'latest' Street View imagery so it's only about three years out of date here. The kids wanted to blow up the school but it needs a street number which it doesn't have. Go to google maps for the area and get into street view mode. Wander along the street until you can see the school, and...
by SamCarter
26 April 12 10:48 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Senate
Topic: Groundspeak "listing-service exclusivity on Mega-Events"
Replies: 78
Views: 160822

Re: Groundspeak "listing-service exclusivity on Mega-Events"

caughtatwork wrote: I think the Albury guys were lucky the GCA shop didn't turn up with our big banner and tent [-X
GCA has a tent?

It's for loitering within, I presume. \:D/ :stabby

Thank you, very much. I'm here all night. Especially since I have a pile of marking still to do.
by SamCarter
06 April 12 7:47 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: 40th parallel
Replies: 8
Views: 2944

Re: 40th parallel

Wikipedia also gives a sort-of explanation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prime_Meridian . Basically, meridians are arbitrary (apparently there have been a few different prime meridians at Greenwich). Once you define your 0° one, then all the rest happen as a consequence, and so the coordinates you h...
by SamCarter
01 April 12 3:03 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: Report GCA Site issues here [closed]
Replies: 1661
Views: 611383

Re: Report GCA Site issues here

I'll confess: I got caught out. My slight -- but completely inadvertent -- revenge is that as a consequence I sent an email to c@w expressing bepuzzlement and including an image; unfortunately the attached screen dump image was only 300Kb so I hardly put a dent in his inbox. This just adds to the ev...
by SamCarter
27 March 12 9:20 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: You know you're a Geocacher when............................
Replies: 554
Views: 179834

Re: You know you're a Geocacher when............................

You get a spam email headed "Administrador del sistema" and immediately start thinking plastic boxes.
by SamCarter
23 March 12 3:08 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Full Logs
Replies: 32
Views: 11406

Re: Full Logs

I am new to this caching activity, being involved since January, and this is my first post. Lately I have been finding caches with full logs, 3 of the last 15 this week, and more before that. When I get home to log my finds I see that the previous finder has made no mention or maintenance note that...
by SamCarter
21 March 12 9:43 pm
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: 365 days Uptime
Replies: 15
Views: 7253

Re: 365 days Uptime

Awesome work, and hugely appreciated. =D> =D> =D>
by SamCarter
19 March 12 6:07 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Minimalist Cache Logs -- Opinions Wanted
Replies: 125
Views: 36780

Re: Minimalist Cache Logs -- Opinions Wanted

I think c@w is having a little tease, lemmykc. Of all people, he'd know to look at the lines above and see your perfectly satisfactory average. 8)
by SamCarter
15 March 12 12:48 am
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Iphone cachers
Replies: 17
Views: 5949

Re: Iphone cachers

I don't think anybody thinks anything is necessarily wrong with them. However there are two things that sometimes happen as a consequence of this new wider availability of geocaching tools. The first is that many people who encounter caching through some phone app may not have had an introduction to...
by SamCarter
06 March 12 9:46 am
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: "My Import" page.
Replies: 8
Views: 3730

Re: "My Import" page.

Of course I can. Give me your username and password and I'll make sure the next time you logon your numbers will be different to what they are now :mrgreen: And he can even make sure -- as requested -- that you have "more numbers" because -123,567,283.45 involves more digits than 126.77 <maths peda...
by SamCarter
01 March 12 10:05 am
Forum: Geocaching Australia Web site
Topic: enhancement button to select yesterdays date
Replies: 10
Views: 4299

Re: enhancement button to select yesterdays date

caughtatwork wrote:Sticky dates can be good ...
Oh, I LOOVE sticky date pudding. <drooling smiley>

Sorry, you can return to the sensible conversation now. :-"
by SamCarter
28 February 12 12:20 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Minimalist Cache Logs -- Opinions Wanted
Replies: 125
Views: 36780

Re: Minimalist Cache Logs -- Opinions Wanted

That seems a bit inappropriate on the part of the cache owner. There was certainly nothing offensive about those logs (you can find them here: http://geocaching.com.au/logs/cacher/bikerbuddy ). They were whimsical, thought-provoking (if you were prepared to make the intellectual effort to engage (ah...
by SamCarter
18 February 12 11:04 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Trying to find my first ever cache - inner Melbourne in 2005
Replies: 18
Views: 6753

Re: Trying to find my first ever cache - inner Melbourne in 2005

Except the other cache (assuming your "other" and my "other" are the same) doesn't fit either, as it was placed early in 2006
by SamCarter
18 February 12 12:19 pm
Forum: General Chit-Chat
Topic: Trying to find my first ever cache - inner Melbourne in 2005
Replies: 18
Views: 6753

Re: Trying to find my first ever cache - inner Melbourne in 2005

Dippedidooda wrote:What happened in the four years from when you thought you found it and when it was published? :-k :)
Eddies in the space-time continuum.

(What's he doing there?)*



* Sorry, slightly obscurer than usual Douglas Adams reference.