Welcome to my World of Wonderment

Our planet is a neat place, full of weird and unusual people doing weird and unusual things. One oddball thing I like to do is geocache. What other activity is there that makes people travel hundreds of miles to climb a mountain, wade a river, and fight a Bigfoot, just to be the first person to sign a piece of paper rolled up in a 35mm film canister stuffed in the knot hole of a tree? I can't think of any other sport that has such a great mix of technology and the wonderful outdoors. A lot of geocaches are placed in a beautiful setting, or hidden in a challenging or unique way, or in a historical setting. Geocaching allows the finder to share in some of the hiders favorite places, and along the way you get to meet some interesting characters, and occasionally learn something new. While this blog is primarily a geocaching blog, I also use this place to post the occasional funny video or weird news story, or as a platform to rant or rave about something I really have to share. But for the most part this website is about you, the weirdo walking around in circles, talking into your GPS unit like it's a phone, pretending your taking pictures of a phone booth to find find the tiniest micro-cache, or circling your car around and around a light pole in a parking lot trying to retrieve a cache without even getting out of your car.

4/3/09

FTF

Well this is just plain weird.  Last weekend I found a cache placed by ~Batman & Catwoman ~ called Smokestack! which I blogged about a few posts ago.  Then last week ~Batman & Catwoman~ were first to find on my hide Harrodsburg Park.  Which inside that cache (spoilers here, hide your eyes don't read any farther) I placed the url for a website with some unpublished puzzle caches.  One of the puzzles requires you to call a phone number which I have a voicemail setup that gives the coordinates for the cache, but B&C were calling the wrong number.  After emailing me with their solution I let them know they were real close and a few minutes later the phone rang so they must have figured it out.  Then last night I saw a newly published, unfound cache ten miles away, hidden by no other than ~Batman & Catwoman~.  One of their amusing Awesome Movie Quote caches.  I just had to be first to find.  My wife thought I was crazy, going out in the freezing cold downpour we had last night, but I had to put my pen on that piece of paper before any other!  Here's my log:

Traditional Cache AMQ #21 - "Hey Howard, there's your china man"

 April 2 by djhobby (364 found)
Hey hey, FIRST TO FIND! I'll see your FTF and raise you one. We keep running into each other's caches.

I was sitting at home watching Lost on the tellie with my wife (yes I'm married, Married? yes married (visit link) when my email chirped in that I had received something important. So I hastened to see what was waiting and lo and behold it was my weekly notification from Geocaching.com about any new events, or news, and especially any new caches in the area. And what do my eyes fall upon?! A brand new cache just 10 miles away placed by Batman and Catwoman! "What?" I think,....this is just too bizarre. I quickly log on to Geocaching.com and .. yes it's true, NO ONE HAS LOGGED THIS YET! So I quickly jump into my "AUTOMOBILLLE?"( (visit link) and drive to Bedford to get my FTF.

Wolfboy (who you may have heard of) has some sort of disorder. Every time someone says the word "automobile" he has to say "AUTO-MOBILE" just like Long Duk Dong does in this movie. It is impossible for him not to do it. I once won a six pack of beer from him because he couldn't go without quoting this movie after I said "automobile"

TFTC TNLN SL FTF W00T AUTOMOBILE?!








3/1/09

This Kids Livin' On A Prayer



2/26/09

Awesome Clapton Solo



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Safety First

This DEA agent is teaching a class on gun safety and accidentally fires his weapon.  Here is the whole story from Snopes



Shining

The original trailer to The Shining

2/24/09

Helicron



I can't imagine why these weren't more popular?

2/23/09

Chad Vader Does the Oscars

Warp Core Breach to the Future

2/20/09

That Last Post Reminded Me Of This

2/17/09

I've Tried This Before, It Doesn't Work

DIY Half Life Movie

Great Video of a Shuttle Landing From the Cockpit

2/16/09

Is This Real or a Hoax

Alec Baldwin Playing with his Wii

2/11/09

Klingon Nightschool

1/20/09

The The Impotence of Proofreading

12/15/08

bush Ducks Questions About the War on Shoes

This just in, bush has declared war on all shoes. He has launched air strikes against Nike and Adidas. He said moments ago, in a press conference (one in which all the reporters were barefoot) that either you are with him or against him, and that the wearing of all footwear by US citizens is unpatriotic. The patriot act is to be modified immediately to state anyone caught wearing shoes outside of their homes automatically give up all their rights, and can be searched with out reason and detained indefinitely.










Too bad the shoe wasn't loaded. Out of all the strapped on explosive device wearing, IED chucking suicide bombers, we have to get the one who forgot to light the fuse. Oh well just 40 more days or so and then people can start throwing their clothing at Obama. Oh wait, a lot of people are already throwing their underwear at the rock star.

12/11/08

Animal Kaleidoscope

I kept waiting for a coyote to come in and take care of things.

12/10/08

Mario Hits the Streets

12/6/08

Levitating Water