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Congrats on your retirement. I never knew how you were able to keep up geocaching, life and approving. Thanks for all your help over the years!

Nick

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I noticed a week ago or so that Fleet Farm in Beaver Dam has some army surplus back by the hunting/fishing area. On the bottom shelf they had quite a few ammo cans ranging in sizes at reasonable prices I thought. I don’t know if other Fleet Farm’s stock similiar stuff.

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@Team Hemisphere Dancer wrote:

Ya know I never saw that in the links before….

I was gonna ask how to do it, but in my adult life I have been trying to answer my own questions. 8)

That reminds me of a friend that always asked us about XYZ things instead of opening up a web browser and search for it himself. We ended up sending him a floppy disk with “The Internet” on it. A shortcut to google. It was amusing and the questions did slow down a bit 😉

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I have yet to personally do this but Mythbusters had a pretty long segment a little while ago experimenting with this. Its pretty awesome 🙂

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One of my personal favorites is the pile of fake poo. I haven’t found a cache with it but I’ve heard about them 😉

That’ll take some dedicated geocachers to find that one 😈

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@tyedyeskyguy wrote:

I for one would be glad to buy many of them.

Jay, they don’t have any ammo cans small enough to fit into a fake walnut!

Please tell me he does not actually have a cache that is a walnut.

I don’t know if he does, but I know it’s possible 😉 You can buy them on ebay:
http://cgi.ebay.com/NEW-ORIGINAL-Walnut-cache-geocaching-geocache_W0QQitemZ230036158535QQihZ013QQcategoryZ79791QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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@TurkeyTime wrote:

Thanks for the welcome, everyone!
When we first decided to get into this, we thought that were *maybe* 50 or so caches in the Manitowoc/Two Rivers area. Natalie checked it out last night and found that there are over 700 caches hidden close to us. Wow. We really have our work cut out for us, don’t we?
When we mentioned to someone last night at the Dunes that we were getting into this, he dropped two hints about where possible caches are out there, so we may go out there and see if we can hunt those down before we get our GPS unit and can really start doing this.
We are really excited about this, and hope to meet some of you someday!! 🙂

Keep an eye out in the weekly ads for Adli’s, Gander Mountain and other sporting good stores. They tend to run specials with GPS units around $100 if not lower. Sometimes they are refurbished but usually come with a warranty of some sort. I’d also suggest keeping an eye on these boards as when ad’s hit with good deals someone usually posts a FYI on the boards about it.

Happy caching!

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@rubeeslpr wrote:

I received a ticket (not a warning) for no front plate in Madison. While the cop was writing the ticket I counted 8 cars go by without front plates!
Needless to say I was upset. The cop was not too happy with me, when I asked him if he didn’t have anything better to do.

Criticizing a cop is an easy way to get a ticket 😉 I assume you didn’t know that was a law to have a front plate. I would think if you would state that to a cop they’d give you a warning.

I’ve never had a vehicle that didn’t have a place holder for a front plate. It would look odd if I didn’t have a plate there at all 😉

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@Buy_The_Tie wrote:

From the Garmin website….

NOTICE TO DRIVERS IN CALIFORNIA AND MINNESOTA: State law prohibits drivers in California and Minnesota from using suction mounts on their windshields while operating motor vehicles. Other Garmin dashboard or friction mounting options should be used. Garmin does not take any responsibility for any fines, penalties, or damages that may be incurred as a result of disregarding this notice. (See California Vehicle Code Section 26708(a); Minnesota Statutes 2005, Section 169.71)

Sucks to be them 😉

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I’ve had a few friends purchase the off of ebay. From used Dell’s to new Thinkpad’s. So far I haven’t heard of anyone having bad experiences. Come to think of it, I believe I bought my first laptop back in 1997-98 off of ebay. That lasted me a long time.

I’d just pay through something like Paypal where you can fight to get your money back if you have a bad seller. And purchase from sellers with high auction counts with 100% positive feedback, or near 100%.

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@tyedyeskyguy wrote:

I have heard rumors that the entire city of Milwaukee is going WIFI. Seems you will be able to pay the city a monthly access fee to use it. I heard this a few months back so I may be wrong. Uhm, it could have been Chicago too.

In 15 years, it will be everywhere. 🙄

I believe the same “Company” that is doing the Madison project is trying to get Milwaukee in on it.

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@hogrod wrote:

of course your right, I definitely loose speed if I test to a long distance location on a normal speed test….. the funny thing is this speed test is very accurate even at long distance, the only thing that changes is the latency. when I have had issues with my speed charter local Madison speed test shows perfectly normal, but EVERY other speed test, even local ones( a diff Madison speed test) were showing me at dial-up speeds or lower. if you call charter about this they wil blame your pc when obviously if the connection to charter is great but everything else is slow/useless that the problem is on their end.
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Using speedtests located even within Madison generally wont make a difference. IP traffic is routed througout the US and if there isn’t a peer with Charter in Madison then you’ll be routed all the way down to Chicago, usually on Alter.net or a ATT peer. My current employeer is working on peering with all the local providers to help local speeds and better routes. We currently peer with Norlight, TDS, Charter (still having issues with their technical team), JVLnet and soon with UW-Madison.

Charter has a lot of problems with the peers they use and the routes which their traffic goes. (Follow the cheapest $ route first!)

You can tell the route you go through for tests by doing some traceroutes to the speed testing server. (tracert when within windows) That’ll show you latency and a general indicator of where some bottlenecks may be.

Of course your discription of the problem does indicate a problem with Charters routing and such. Especially if there was slowness to ALL sites. Tracerouting would probably help tell where that is.

Sadly enough, even having access to some of the hire level Chartere techs in the business transport side doesn’t really change/speed results. Even when the entire city of Madison an surrounding areas is completely without internet from Charter. (A couple months ago when that happened we noticed it on our monitoring system and tried and tried to get Charter to acknowledge it. It took about 4 hours for them to agree that there was a problem.)

Good times

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I’m assuming “Discovered” leaves it in the cache vs “Found It”.

….in the cache, in the hands of the current holder, on the moon 😉 …wherever. It gives you the icon while letting someone else have/keep the bug.

We’ll have to debate if we’ll do that or not. Doesn’t seem to be that bad of an option as you need to have the Tag# anyways.

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@hogrod wrote:

Make sure you get a wifi card or wifi built into your laptop, that way you’ll be able to use any “hotspot” that has free or cheap wifi to get online when your out caching.
madison has a city wifi project going on downtown, at first it was free but now its a pay thing…. but i think they let charter customers use it at no cost, though I could be wrong. I NEVER pay for wifi there is enough out there to find one for free(there are many websites that list free access points).

laptop stats/specs all depend on what your going to use it for, if its email, surfing the web and other basic stuff you probably could get by with something cheap.
MS streets and trips will interface with many gpsr, and without the gps “puck” is under $40. it’s probably one of the better deals for getting decent maps. It worked great with my meridian gold, though its a little work with my
60cx & legendC.

You’re wrong about the Charter customers at no cost. Restech will sell you cheaper subscription to ‘supliment’ your Charter connection at a cheaper rate than normal plans. Personally, I’d stay as far away from the Mad City Broadband project as I could. I know too much of the internal workings of what is going on to want to be apart of it. (I don’t want to be posting more on that subject as it is personal experience and feelings so yeah, don’t ask me to 🙂 Also, just so it’s understood Restech is Leasing/renting the ability to utilize the Mad City Broadband and sell internet through it, as well as Merrimac (both of which I have no problems with) . 🙂

There are too many ways to have free internet access that I can’t see paying for it for the little it would be used. Many cafe’s in Madison provide free access as well as just random spots throughout the area.

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That does present an interesting solution for us (cacheseekers). We love grabbing travel bugs but we hate the fact that we’re sometimes (ok most times) slow at releasing them because of our lack of time to actually cache. Listing it as ‘discovered’ rather than “Found” would provide us a way to log that we ‘found it’ but actually leave it in the cache for more active cachers to move along.

I’m assuming “Discovered” leaves it in the cache vs “Found It”.

Then it would be a win win for everyone 😉

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