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.

2/24/09

Helicron



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

2/16/09

Is This Real or a Hoax

12/11/08

Animal Kaleidoscope

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

12/2/08

Two Guys on a Motorcycle

Every once in a while, my friend Ben and I will find ourselves in a situation where we need to go somewhere and the only means of travel is his motorcycle. I have always opted to just stay home, than to risk the ridicule we would receive. I say always, but about 10 years ago, for some reason after getting really drunk at home, Ben and I decided to go to a bar, and we only had his motorcycle to ride. So being drunk I didn't care at the time that I would have to hold on to Ben, while he bent over the handlebars and stuck his ass in my lap. I remember thinking the next day that I probably stuck out like a sore thumb. If people had cell phones with cameras, I'm sure someone would have taken a picture of us. After that I told him the only way I would ever ride with him again would be if he had a sidecar. Well recently he bought a new bike.

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At least this guy has on a helmet. But did they have to do this in the rain?

12/1/08

My Favorite Pastime

People often ask me what I did over the weekend, so I video taped what my wife and I do on an average weekend.

11/18/08

DIY Wicked-Awesome Dive Bomber



Click the picture for instructions on how you too can make this awesome flying project.

11/10/08

Bears Playing Hockey

11/6/08

Drag Racing

A guy I work with is always talking about how much he loves to go drag racing on the weekends.  I don't think he does it illegally in the streets like these guys people, but you never know about people's private lives.  I must admit that it looks like a lot of fun, I might even try it some day.


dragracing.jpg picture by djhobby

10/31/08

Happy Halloween

10/30/08

Ummm........What The

10/27/08

Halloween Costume

As you know, Halloween is just a few days away.  I haven't settled on my costume idea yet, but I'm leaning towards this. The only problem I see with this is the leather pants. If you have ever seen the episode of Friends with Ross wearing leather to impress his younger girlfriend you would know what I'm talking about.


10/13/08

Wee Models

weemodels.jpg picture by djhobby

10/7/08

The Last Eggtion Hero

This is a little WTF.  It makes me want to play Quake.

Mad Monkey Man's Mimicking Menaces Mischievous Macaques

Dog Wool

Here is something I should try, making clothes out of my dog's hair.
DogWool.png picture by djhobby
Click the photo for more info.

10/3/08

The Borats of Vietnam

From Nothing To Do With Arbroath

Vietnamese 'Borats' cause a storm

Two students who dressed up as the TV character Borat are at the centre of a row in Vietnam.

The pair performed a dance act at a company party dressed as the spoof Kazakh journalist in his notoriously skimpy "mankini" swimming costume. They have now found themselves suspended from college for 12 months.

The incident, dubbed the "nude dance of FPT Arena students", has stirred up a storm on internet forums and also in the domestic media. The leading technology firm FPT owns the college where the two performers were studying design.


Hanoi Cultural Inspectorate on Tuesday fined the college 4m dong ($240; £135) for a number of offences including "use of improper clothing".

Newspapers deemed the display "obscene", saying it was against Vietnam's morality and tradition. Angry readers wrote in to call for punishment.

"I cannot understand how they could do such an anti-cultural thing," said Nguyen Dinh Van from Hanoi, adding: "I cannot accept it."


Once I got past the train wreck of a photo and looked at the article I did what I always do before reading something; I skimmed over it first, looking for the relevant items. The first thing that I saw was 4m dong.




9/17/08

Save the Giraffes

funny pictures

9/16/08

Why Obama Is Losing In The Polls

This is a video of Greg Oden butchering some song.  The Democrats should either take away his mike or put a McCain shirt on him.


I Need One of These

dogrunningboard.jpg picture by djhobby

9/12/08

Load of Bull

imagesbull.jpg picture by djhobby