Geocaching kitsch

Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 22 November 04 2:30 pm

At last! Have you ever yearned to stab your eyes out with hot pokers, but didn't have the right reasons? Have you been kept awake at night wondering how to throw away that hard earned cash in your pocket? Are you just really, really (reaalllly) bad at reading instructions on a web site and in need of step by step instructions for finding a box under a rock? Then this is the video for you ...

http://www.geocachingvideo.com/

*sigh* ... and because of the guidelines, it's not even allowed to come with a free set of steak knives.

- Rog

Post by **CraigRat** » 22 November 04 3:20 pm

It would be a fun watch (in the same way that 80s corporate vieos give me a chuckle), but if you needed to keep it at home and review it regularly, I'd be a bit worried!!!

It will be interesting to see if this starts cropping up in caches soon......

The perfect gift for the cacher who has everything, but is missing a clue....

Rabbitto · Post by **Rabbitto** » 22 November 04 3:25 pm

I don't agree with the "Geocaching with Children" section.<p>

I think they'd be much too hard to fit in the little plastic boxes and I don't think they'd like it very much anyway.

Horus · Post by **Horus** » 22 November 04 3:28 pm

"Everything youÃ‚â€™ll need to know to get started in geocaching and to maximize your potential for fun and adventure is covered."
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Damn, it doesn't say anything about maximizing profits or becoming indepentantly wealthy [:(]
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Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 22 November 04 3:39 pm

I just found an easter egg on that page too (select the text at the very bottom). Seems to be part of some online hunt.

I too am curious about the geocaching with children part. I'm sure that using a GPSr would give much better reception, and it's more morally acceptable to wedge them between the windscreen and the dashboard.

- R

Post by **CraigRat** » 22 November 04 4:03 pm

I hope the video lasts longer than their server did:

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Please contact the server administrator, root@localhost and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

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Apache/2.0.51 (Fedora) Server at www.geocachingvideo.com Port 80

Bwahahaha, feel the power of a gc.com.au'ing!!

Mind Socket · Post by **Mind Socket** » 22 November 04 4:34 pm

Nifty. They've managed to port the poor uptime of gc.com to Linux. Cross-platform unavailability, only $16.95!

- R

Post by **CraigRat** » 22 November 04 6:28 pm

Mind Socket wrote:Nifty. They've managed to port the poor uptime of gc.com to Linux. Cross-platform unavailability, only $16.95!

- R

Must have had their MaxClients set to 2 in the conf file

I am intrigued by this video though... I wonder if it is like all the non-oz caching magazines... you know 2 tips on what to do , 300 on what not to do.........

Team Stargazer · Post by **Team Stargazer** » 22 November 04 9:18 pm

Mind Socket wrote:I just found an easter egg on that page too (select the text at the very bottom). Seems to be part of some online hunt.

I found the cache!

dcr · Post by **dcr** » 23 November 04 10:09 am

Team Stargazer wrote:I found the cache!

But did you find the real cache?
(co-ordinates hidden in the online cache)

Cached · Post by **Cached** » 23 November 04 10:16 am

Found the coords but haven't had a chance to go for the physical find yet!@

ian-and-penny · Post by **ian-and-penny** » 23 November 04 3:14 pm

It's approximately 13182km (great circle) away from home, on a bearing of 244.5 degrees true (226.3 degrees magnetic)

I won't be looking for this one any time soon.

Big Red Expeditions · Post by **Big Red Expeditions** » 23 November 04 4:43 pm

I did some hunting and found out that this is part of a Virtual Multi culminating in a regular cache! It's a novel idea allright, and it can't be long until some clever web designer sets it up here. Look up GC258E

EcoTeam · Post by **EcoTeam** » 23 November 04 6:56 pm

Mind Socket wrote:At last! Have you ever yearned to stab your eyes out with hot pokers, but didn't have the right reasons? Have you been kept awake at night wondering how to throw away that hard earned cash in your pocket? Are you just really, really (reaalllly) bad at reading instructions on a web site and in need of step by step instructions for finding a box under a rock? Then this is the video for you ...

http://www.geocachingvideo.com/

*sigh* ... and because of the guidelines, it's not even allowed to come with a free set of steak knives.
- Rog

Nor are you allowed to watch it while drinking booze next to a terrorist target in a National Park

I'd like to see it out of sheer morbid curiosity!
But if it's anything like the Geocaching book I reviewed a while back, it's full of fluff and pretty much pointless.

I remember someone here had a Geocaching VCD they put together to show people what it's all about?
I think something that shows you *what* it's all about rather than telling you how to do it is a much better idea.
I'd like to have a "highlights package" I could show people when they ask what caching is about.
Video and pictures are great for that.

EcoDave

Zytheran · Post by **Zytheran** » 24 November 04 10:03 pm

"I'd like to have a "highlights package" I could show people when they ask what caching is about. "

I'd like to have a "highlights package" I could show people and then ask them what they think the people in the video are doing.

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