[GeoStL] Re: Favorite points!
- From: Bear <brawnybear@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2010 08:27:46 -0600
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LeRoy was great at logging his left behind bowling balls and pianos. I agree,
we need to start logging about our experiences. It was great to read the
stories instead of a bunch of letters. TFTC TNLNSL. There are some SLAGA people
who use to crack me up with their logs.
Mike Griffin
World Wide Technology, INC.
O - 314-995-8935
C - 314-308-0916
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Please excuse any typos.
On Dec 25, 2010, at 2:53 AM, "ehamemail" <sydstyr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> A good "story" or something to introduce the spot to the cacher can make up
> for the "Every day" aspect of the hide. For a write up like that, I'd fine
> the cache and then write a really long about our local "meeting up" place. I
> miss reading the "early days" of logs -- especially from a lot of the SLAGA
> people and their randomness. You don't seen many "left a lawnmower, took a
> chainsaw" type logs lol.
>
> Nancy
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Lindberg" <alindb01@xxxxxxx>
> To: <geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Saturday, December 25, 2010 12:47 AM
> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Favorite points!
>
>
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>> Here, here! I'm looking for a good location at the Winfield IGA, which
>> could be a lamppost. There's nothing great about our IGA, other than it
>> serves at times as the Cultural center, where friends run into each other
>> and visit. My neighbor spent two hours in the store at its Grand Opening
>> because she ran into numerous friends she hadn't seen for a while and
>> stopped to visit. Also, the people who work there will rival any Dierbergs,
>> Schmucks, or Shop and Save. It's just a point of interest in town, that I
>> consider worthy of a cache.
>>
>> Again, a very Merry Christmas!
>>
>> Wayne
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> [mailto:geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glenn
>> Sent: Friday, December 24, 2010 12:08 PM
>> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Favorite points!
>>
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>> Your logic has so many holes in it I can drive my environmentally
>> unfriendly, gas sucking SUV through it.
>>
>> I just heard from a cacher that would not walk across the street to see some
>> stupid mural painted in a wall. Nothing could be more boring. Oh well, there
>> goes my series of really cool mutual lamp post caches.
>>
>> I am sitting in a parking lot where there is a cache at a lamp pole that I
>> have yet to log. Probably never will BUT as I sit here I see is a really
>> cool rock cut in the cliff that i Never saw before. WOW, i should pay
>> better attention when i am in the parking lot. Know Future could tell us all
>> about the cool geology right here for all to see.
>>
>> Before that big house landed on my floral designer sister she would have
>> told me that the giant Christmas wreath displayed on the store is oh so
>> very cool. Well, it's kind of neat but to me, oh so cool is a stretch. A
>> friends dad is a graphic artist from the old days, he would be pleased to
>> see all the neat graphical signage that they are doing now a days and there
>> is a large selection of cool signs here. Still, here I sit next to this lame
>> lamppost cache that I still probably never log.
>>
>> Ya can't legislate or regulate quality or lameness. I tried for a long time
>> as I looked at virtual caches. What is lame to me was always very cool to
>> the cache placer. And so it is with caches. My lame ain't your lame but may
>> be someones best cache ever. Go figure.
>>
>>
>> Via iP-4
>>
>> On Dec 24, 2010, at 11:04 AM, "Jim Bensman" <junkmailno@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
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>>> That's easy.
>>>
>>> Caches that show you an interesting location or are hidden in a challenging
>>> way.
>>>
>>> A LPC by a mural would show you an interesting location so it would be
>>> quality. A LPC in a Walmart parking lot would not show you an interesting
>>> location. It would not meet the definition. Once you have seen one
>>> Walmart lamppost, you've seen them all. But a mural is a unique and
>>> interesting location.
>>>
>>> What I would like to see (if we cannot ban lame caches) is a Numbers
>>> attribute. It would be defined as caches to get your numbers up that do
>>> not show you an interesting location and are not hidden in a challenging
>>> way.
>>>
>>> It simply amazes me with all Groundspeak keeps adding they cannot add
>>> something to allow those of us who are fed up with and do not enjoy the
>>> lame caches to filter them out. There are over 50 attributes already. If
>>> someone cannot be bothered with taking the time to find an interesting
>>> location or hide a cache in a challenging location, it seems reasonable to
>>> expect them to identify their caches. But then again when you see these
>>> numbers hounds shuffling caches to save a few seconds and throw away
>>> series, maybe I am expecting too much.
>>>
>>> Jim Bensman
>>> "Nature Bats Last"
>>>
>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: geocaching-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:geocaching-
>>>> bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Glenn
>>>> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 2010 9:21 PM
>>>> To: geocaching@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: [GeoStL] Re: Favorite points!
>>>>
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>>>> Could you give a definition of what "quality" is.
>>>>
>>>> Please keep in mind that the definition has to work for all ages of all
>>>> types of cachers with all differing abilities.
>>>>
>>>> A definition that is short works the best so limit yourself to a
>>>> sentence or two.
>>>>
>>>> One two, three, go ...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Via iP-4
>>>>
>>>> On Dec 23, 2010, at 12:19 PM, "Jim Bensman" <junkmailno@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don?t like it-I think it pushes quantity over quality.
>>>>
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