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towlebooth
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Location: Saint Paul
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Being new to this group I noticed on GC.com there is a National CITO day April 17th. Does the Minnesota Group paritcipate in this or because they have their own monthly one do they not participate?
murph |
Last year 15Tango and Perrine organized an event for the National CITO day. Several of us picked up trash in Fort Snelling State Park.
See the write-up  here . Hopefully we will do something similiar this year. |
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Marsha and Silent Bob
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:51 pm Post subject: I don't even know where to begin. |
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I don't even know where to begin...
http://www.acctts.com/ecotrekusa/
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towlebooth
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Joined: 26 Nov 2002
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Location: Saint Paul
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:53 pm Post subject: Re: email received... |
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| Marsha and Silent Bob wrote: |
I am absolutely mind-blown in dealing with this person. I have no idea what he is talking about in this email. Perhaps one of you can help?
Silent Bob
FYI - It's registered to Viking Council BSA's Dan Patch District under the MnPCA-Public Works "Adopt-A-Wetland" program!
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Viking Council is the Boy Scouts of America council for Minneapolis and Dan Patch is a District within it. I really don't believe that the council or the district is truly aware of geocaching, much less using it as part of any of their programs. My guess is that this is an individual attempting to marry the two and not going about it very well at all. Or communicating in an understandable fashion.
As to the other stuff I have NO idea.  |
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King Boreas
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Joined: 16 Dec 2002
Posts: 2352
Location: Exploring Minnesota
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 12:53 pm Post subject: |
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my effin' eff5 key doesn't do a thing.
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s4xton
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Joined: 23 Mar 2003
Posts: 1070
Location: Minneapolis, MN
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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Just to give people some background on some of the things he linked to in that flowchart...:
The MN Futurists are a group of people that get together and postulate about the future. Heh. Neat. No joke. You can even see some of the things they've figured out about the future on their site: http://www.mnfuturists.org/
The Minnesota Information Professional Society (Who according to the flowchart are getting their information from NASA), looks like some type of club full of IT Professionals. As an IT Professional, I've never heard of this club. I'll leave my other opinions about that aside. EcoTrekUSA used to be on the board. http://www.mnips.org/
It also looks like he wants to create some eco-caching-video that trains geocachers how to trash out!
http://www.acctts.com/EcotrekUSA/Index2.htm
This guy spends a LOT of time and a LOT of work doing this, yet he seems completely disconnected with the universe we live in.
And even on sites that have nothing to do with the eco-, v-, e-, geo- prefixes, he still promotes his sites:
http://www.schneemann.com/_disc9/00000036.htm
Very interesting....! This is giving me something to think about.
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towlebooth
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:30 pm Post subject: |
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| s4xton wrote: |
The MN Futurists are a group of people that get together and postulate about the future. Heh. Neat. No joke. You can even see some of the things they've figured out about the future on their site: http://www.mnfuturists.org/ |
I'm about ready to put tin-foil on my head and run away.
| s4xton wrote: |
The Minnesota Information Professional Society (Who according to the flowchart are getting their information from NASA), looks like some type of club full of IT Professionals. As an IT Professional, I've never heard of this club. |
As another IT professional I second this. |
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Marsha and Silent Bob
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| Posted: Thu Feb 19, 2004 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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| towlebooth wrote: |
| I'm about ready to put tin-foil on my head and run away. |
You wouldn't make it far. He'd EkoTrek you down and shove the tinfoil in a log!
Silent Bob
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DJTRACKERS
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Joined: 02 Nov 2003
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From my experience with Scout LEADERS, you get enough of them together and they can screw up anything. Really feel bad for the kids.
Some are good but most seem to be trying to redo their childhood. You
have to admit, the guy can make one heck of a flow chart. |
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Marsha and Silent Bob
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 6:23 am Post subject: |
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| DJTRACKERS wrote: |
| You have to admit, the guy can make one heck of a flow chart. |
I guess, but only if flowcharts end randomly 
Silent Bob
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Lyverbird
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Location: Annandale, MN
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It seems to me that this is the 4th fruit cake in as many weeks. I can't remember the first, (oh the shame), then there was the cleaner, then mndomme, now this guy. I think some one has just one goal.
To mess with you guys. |
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Marsha and Silent Bob
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| Posted: Fri Feb 20, 2004 7:02 am Post subject: |
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| WicketsWanderingPonyPatro wrote: |
| It seems to me that this is the 4th fruit cake in as many weeks. |
This guy has been around for a while. In fact this cache had been active for quite some time before anyone hit it. I had to deal with him a while back in regards to his logs (lengthy and STRANGE which included links to my email address and external commercial sites). He was also "lifting" random images from websites and putting them on his log acting as if they were somehow related to his finding the cache (ie a picture of some flower and saying it was from Normandale CC's Japanese flower garden)...
He's actually emailed mtn-man what I had posted here and mtn-man was just as confused as I was. I am just glad that no one else seems to understand what he is talking about either. I don't feel quite as perplexed.
Silent Bob
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Kitch
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MESSING WITH OUR HEADS......Is not the word.....
Its really too bad this guy did this.......and broken a few(many) rules of placement of hides according to geocaching.com.
The reason I'm saying this......His puzzle caches would be the hardest in the world.....when this guy makes a post it is impossible to understand!!!!
Any ways I'm still confused as to how this guy promotes scouting and I wonder what his own scouts think of him as a "role model"...... |
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Marsha and Silent Bob
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| Any ways I'm still confused as to how this guy promotes scouting and I wonder what his own scouts think of him as a "role model"...... |
I would be more concerned with him teaching them the way to run a business being that he seems awfully interested in "Amway-like" scheming.
Silent Bob
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s4xton
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Joined: 23 Mar 2003
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Location: Minneapolis, MN
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| Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 1:20 pm Post subject: Wiskey Tengo Foxtrot... |
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Eh? I just got this. Most interesting is the recipient list.
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From: "Bob-RJ Burkhart" <bburkhart@-removed->
Date: March 3, 2004 13.13.24 CST
To: "Aaron Landry" <s4xton@-removed->, "Bruce Lindgren" <bflind@-removed->, "Greg [Mtn-Man]" <mtn-man@-removed->, "Jill Peterson" <jill@-removed->, "Ann Sarnecki" <-removed-@nps.gov>, "John L. Stone" <bigcityjls@-removed->, "Mark Thomas" <-removed-@so.mnscu.edu>, "Louise Watson" <-removed-@rwmwd.org>, "Ron Wencel" <-removed-@usgs.gov>
Cc: "Tom Eiber" <-removed-@dnr.state.mn.us>, "Jon Kubik" <-removed-@me.umn.edu>, "Andrea Lex" <-removed-@lexiconcomm.com>, "Mike Luopa" <mluopa@-removed->, "Joe McCulloch" <-removed-@normandale.edu>, "Ray Morris" <-removed-@ios.doi.gov>, "Scott Simenson" <-removed-@century.mnscu.edu>, "Stephen Swazee" <sdswazee@-removed->, "Elaine [L4L] Sinn" <-removed-@indianhead.org>, "Bob Thielen" <-removed-@bsamail.org>
Subject: Mahalo: [GEO] EcoTrekUSA "Learning for Life" @ Geocaching.com (4304am)
Aaron - Your helpful suggestions got diverted by other efforts
I'm guiding for EarthKeeping / Firewise / GeoTeach MapXchange
and MnDEM-Homeland Security / Emergency Preparedness BSA ...
Please accept my belated apologies for not responding sooner ...
I'll keep working with Metro-MN water quality advocates & collaborators
to adjust alternative "REI-EcoCaching" guidelines we've proposed
for closer alignment with acceptable shared use alternatives
like Adopt-A-Wetland & Adaptive Recreation Orienteering exercises ...
@ http://HyperportCO.futurethought.org <-(MnDNR Smith Lake Park)
Also preview @ http://GeoScoutng.futurethought.org <-(Multi-Generational
Mentoring)
FYI - Since REI refers its members (like me) to www.geocaching.com, our
common goal
is integrating REI www.lnt.org practices for "GeoScouting" Patrols (small
groups)
and offer alternative REI-based "Learn & Share" recognition or raffle
rewards ...
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Simply amazing. Even Jillibean got it. =) |
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LanceVE
Geocacher
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Posts: 132
Location: Oakdale
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| Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 4:02 pm Post subject: |
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Hmmm, seems to be a distant relation to one of these two:
Garble or
Loopy |
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