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I’ve noticed in the past few weeks that some lazy code I’ve written in the past, which used to work, stopped working. If I had a link on my cell to my grocery list page, it didn’t work. The link image on my homepage for my blog didn’t show up, the same for my geocache links to our team page. I think maybe the W3C is tightening up codes. It turns out all of my problems were fixed when I added the appropriate suffixes: .html , .gif

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I just tried something, and it worked right quick.
Copied and pasted the coords directly from the cache description page to the ACME Mapper 2.0 “Find” box.

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I had begun writing my previous ramble before RY&NY and Lbugs Mum entries, but was sidetracked before posting.

So now I must add,

I like to listen to TTBOOK streaming audio from WPR while I work in the kitchen. I recently listened to a January episode concerning ideas including: the dead who have not yet passed from living memory.

I like to think about thinking. This idea led to many tangential thoughts. And is now linked in my mind to monuments.

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On a deeper note, I like to think of my geocaches as monuments, symbolic markers, drawing others who “know” to visit a special place.

Geocaching is woven into my life because all of its elements were already interests of mine. But most people probably just think, “geocaching, oh that’s hi-tech-hiking.”

But if you know the watchword, “www.geocaching.com”, then you are welcome to enter and learn of the wondrous places that the unknowing walk right past.

And whether it is time that imposes upon my monuments, or vandals (human or otherwise) that plunder the treasure, this change is part of the history of the place I have chosen to share.

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Always looking for inspiration, I saw these iconic pines on a sign to someone’s lake home. They were sharp-edged, but I haven’t the time to draw tonight. The same symbol, inverted, could indicate “here.” I also saw the “transmission” waves on a cell-phone sign. They could indicate the satellite usage. Simple symbols we might could use.

Speaking of symbols in context, when I laid down the background, I had to check to see if I had just drawn the Direct TV icon, and the iconic pines aren’t quite the same as Weyerhaeuser’s.

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I think it would be neat to create a coin that looks like a globe of the world and have WI raised capitializing on the 45, 90 line and something about our “corner of the world”.

That’s a cool idea.

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My daughter and I collaborated on this idea.

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An idea. Needs detail work, font sizing?

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Antigo Silt Loam, the Wisconsin State Soil.

(I think there’s a nice palette there.)

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Rock on!

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I think this is fascinating, how we discuss our ideas, and a new format of cache description evolves. Maybe not perfectly to our personal opinions, but to a strong consensus with open, fluid ends. Ends to a means. The process of learning while playing, continued growth, of the person, and the society.
(*stream of consciousness writing due to too much espresso)
A strong part of my idea of geocaching is the concept of legacy. We are living in the moment of geocaching’s formative years. It will evolve as we and our technology do. But years hence, we, our children, and hopefully many generations beyond will be able to see the recordings of our organized interactions with these lands that we love.

Oh, and I think a certain Colonel, with his wee, beady eyes, is licking his lips as he once licked his fingers, thinking of this new subtle, viral marketing happenstance that has arisen from the ethereal mysts of the e-moors.

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Curious.
Took me 5 min. w/IE to load map.
Continued reading thread, pages turned slowly.
Read about Tsky’s problem, everything worked out, so loaded FF.
Took less than 5 min. to load FF, install, and pull map (about 25 sec. for map).
Had FF once when it was new, didn’t see any difference from IE. I can see clearly now. Thanks for the alternative.

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@rogheff wrote:

Where are you gonna find parts for one of these electric creatures in 10 years?

I’m not an engineer, but I believe most of the parts of our current automobiles are involved with the internal hydrocarbon combustion engine. Converting electricity to mechanical energy is far less involved.

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Sorry, there’s a five-digit number in my way, (and it’s not Marc.)

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The other day the kids and I were at the store, and I would occasionally mention Hot Pockets, and various other pockets in the style of Jim Gaffigan. In the next five minutes, we overheard two other groups of shoppers talking about purchasing Hot Pockets. Viral.

Jim Gaffigan – Hot Pockets

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