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Religious Crap in Geocaches
Groundspeak forums are aflame once again… this time over a month old thread that has recently been resurrected from the grave. And, then I found it. Slightly larger than my signature business card was this paper religious tract type of a thing. Shock! Horror! Oh the travesty! So what do you think of religious tracts left in geocaches? Personally I dislike the idea – anything paper or even card left in a cache ends up becoming damp and soggy – affecting the overall presentation of swag – not to mention does anyone other than the dilligent CITO’er really get much out of trading for them? I’d like to know what generous Christian traded for their 1 penny tract… is this a case of “Riches I have not, but I do have this handy geocaching-friendly salvation-simplifying … Read entire article »
Filed under: Geocaching
Becoming A Perfect Killer
If you’re going to work with computers and Linux in particular, sooner or later you’ll need to perfect your killing technique. I’m not just talking about those useless defunct processes or applications that refuse to die – I’m also talking about the Operating System itself. When it comes to Windows you’re pretty limited to the confines of Ctrl+Alt+Del and the power switch, but with Linux, as with anything else, there are many ways to do things. Force Quit Applications that Won’t Die (Gnome) The first and easiest way to kill an application is to install the Force Quit button on your top or bottom panel. Right click on the panel, select “Add to Panel…” then scroll down and find Force Quit and select “Add”. This adds a little broken window icon to … Read entire article »
Filed under: Troubleshooting
Bookshelf: The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything
I just finished reading The Economic Naturalist: Why Economics Explains Almost Everything. I read it in part because I’m interested in big picture ideas and why things are the way they are, and partly because it’s coming from the same approach and school of thought as another book I read last year – Freakonomics . Not that Freakonomics and The Economic Naturalist are teaching exactly the same subject or entirely in agreement, the ‘school of thought’ I refer to is to examine cultural, historical and environmental mindsets and events and try to determine the reasoning behind such things. I’ll start by saying it’s a good book and it did cause me to learn a few things, but I didn’t find it as good a read as Freakonomics. For a start I found the … Read entire article »
Filed under: Books, Bookshelf, Worthwhile Reading
Cross Dressing Lego Storm-Trooper Geocaching Travel Bug
About 6 months ago I had an idea for a travel bug – a lego figure that requires cachers to trade just one item until it no longer looked like it’s former self. This idea morphed into a deserter Clone Storm Trooper who wanted to become an individual… and so this Travel Bug was born: TB2THBF Here’s how he started out: The mission was simple: Change just one item from this Lego imperial clone trooper, take a photo and move him on. His first change was body armour, provided by geocacher Boat456. 6 months later he’s only managed to travel 133 miles but he’s already gone through some major self discovery, courtesy of High Beeches and Wear Pilgrims… Where next? Who knows…? Thanks to all the cachers who have helped move the Storm Trooper on so far! … Read entire article »
Filed under: Geocaching
My new magnetic duck micro #geocache, first and only of its kind!
via OpenBeak Posted via web from waFitz … Read entire article »
Filed under: Geocaching, WaFiTz!
Fraggle Rock
Since I published the Youtube vid of Superted, I’ve been exploring to see what other old shows I could find. Who remembers Fraggle Rock? Another show I used to love as a kid. I always wondered what the Doozers constructions tasted like – and did they ever get to complete a building project? … Read entire article »
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Duck Micro #geocache Take 2 looking less like something out of Star Trek
via OpenBeak Posted via web from waFitz … Read entire article »
Filed under: Geocaching, WaFiTz!
2 Months on The Shangri-La Diet
I don’t have the greatest eating habits, and I don’t diet well either. I’m too finicky and enjoy sweet things way too much. So when I heard about the Shangri La diet a year ago I was intrigued. It wasn’t until summer 2009 that I finally picked up the book. We were visiting family in BC and I spotted it in a second hand book shop. I only got round to reading it this January and before I was half way through I was eager to give it a go. The theory is based on science and self-experimentation by Seth Roberts. The idea is that we all have a set-point (a food thermostat) and the higher the set-point, the longer it will take for us to feel full (just as a … Read entire article »
Filed under: Books, Must Read, Troubleshooting
Netbabble Podcast Episode #6: The Digital Economy Bill #debill (12/04/10)
Our latest Netbabble podcast is available over at netbabble.com. In this one we discuss the controversial Digital Economy Bill recently passed into UK law. There’s a lot I didn’t get to say about this one, but I hope I made my feelings clear. It’s a bad law, and it’s already ineffective since not only is it possible to cover your tracks almost completely whilst file-sharing, pirates are already working on new technology – just as BitTorrent rose out of the ashes of Napster. The sooner big media dies or gets a new business model the better. I look forward to the future where non-commercial sharing is legal and treated the same as the sneakernet. … Read entire article »
Bookshelf: Beam Me Up, Jesus
I picked up this book, by Jim Gerard (who is apparently a comedian) expecting a witty, well-researched, ‘Louis Theroux’ look into end-times rapture pop culture – the cousin of Christian theology that we don’t mention in polite company, but I must have been thinking of another book and mistook it for this one. To be fair to Gerard, he does offer a disclaimer right at the start and this should be taken as a pitch for the humour and intellect level to be expected – “If you’re a secular humanist who believes in reason rather than magic fixers, this book will provide that warm feeling of smug superiority.” The book does start off well, the first few chapters and the Readers Digest version of the Book of Revelation really did make me … Read entire article »
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