[Cheesehead Dave]

Holy cow… I wasn’t expecting this…

Thanks to everyone who voted for it and everyone who came down to Kenosha to hunt it down!

Geez… Now what am I going to have to do to top that for this year?

[Cheesehead Dave]

I’d been using the hires beta of Plucker for awhile and noticed that there haven’t been any updates since last June. I never realized that the hires code made it into the regular version of Plucker.

[Cheesehead Dave]

Thanks for the reminder. I usually post these on their boards to try and attract more than just the few regulars that drift up here from the Flatlands…

[Cheesehead Dave]

OK… I’ll jump in on the Brian Love-Fest here…

A big thanks to Brian for pre-approving Lover’s Leap a week early, then activating it first thing in the morning on Leap Day. I’m sure the mad rush of cachers that quickly descended upon it thank you as well (especially Jeff’s cell phone provider as he had to sit on the phone with Otter for awhile to get the cache instructions )

[Cheesehead Dave]

Congrats to you both!

[Cheesehead Dave]

I’m not 100% sure, but I think Johnson Outdoors has opened up a shop on Main Street in Racine near the new Johnson Wax building.

[Cheesehead Dave]

People can nominate a series of caches on the cache of the month form.

Take the Cheesehead Trivia series for example…

[Cheesehead Dave]

Heh… they made you give a “real” address and not coordinates?

[Cheesehead Dave]

If you’re interested, I whipped up a little script to generate your stats button for you. Click here to use it.

There’s no WGA graphic available (yet), so you’re pretty much stuck with the geocaching logo or the frog.

[Cheesehead Dave]

quote:

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Originally posted by kbraband:
I like snow.

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Yeah, I saw the picture. Did you ever go back and rescue poor Brian or is he still out there shivering?

[Cheesehead Dave]

Wow! That’s so absolutely cool, it puts mine to shame! (Even if it is written in Perl…)

If you’ve got the auto-updating down without getting banned, it pretty much makes mine irrelevant! Fantastic work!

[Cheesehead Dave]

I’ve thought of this as well. But every time I think about archiving one of my older caches, there’s a sudden flurry of brand new cachers that seek them out.

“Gee, I’m a Tree” probably had more seekers last fall than in the rest of its lifetime.

For an admin, it would be useful to have a tool where you could see all the caches in your state sorted by time since last found. For caches that haven’t been hit in a few months, perhaps a note to the cache owner suggesting they archive the cache to free up the park or 528′ zone would be in order.

It wouldn’t be mandatory, and if the cache owner declined, there would be no further pressure to archive it (although another note could go out if it goes another few months without a find.)

That being said, say “buh-bye” to Jingle Bell Rock…

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[Cheesehead Dave]

I would log it as a “not find” just because it will give other cachers a warning that the snow may be too deep in that area and could save them an unnecessary trip. Remember… there isn’t a special place in Heaven set aside for geocachers without a “no find” so don’t be ashamed to log it as such.

My little bit of “cheating” advice for snow caching: wait until someone else finds it, then see if you can follow their footprints to the cache.

Otherwise, a cache that is in a hollow log that is obvious in July may be so covered in January, that you can’t even see the log!

(Edited for atrocious grammar…)

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[Cheesehead Dave]

Speaking of new features, anyone notice that if you copy your UID and paste it in the right spot, you can now get something like this:

or this…

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[Cheesehead Dave]

I guess that explains why the query I made for caches around the next breakfast site showed up in my inbox so quickly…

Fantastic!

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