I did a little bit of geocaching today with my 7 year old son. He’s really gotten into the idea of a high-tech treasure hunt and is really good at spotting the caches which my old eyes see as part of the scenary. I let him decide which item we take and which item we leave while I sign the logbook. The best one we did today was a 3 part multicache where the 1st cache contains the coordinates to the 2nd part, and the 2nd part contains the coordinates to the third and final cache.

We started geocaching in November and have already racked up almost 30 finds. Here’s some of our statistics and our favorite finds:

Cache Stats as of 12/23/2006 (Get your own CacheStats at www.logicweave.com)

(maps from world66.com)

In other geocaching news, I received my very own Unite for Diabetes travel bug. The idea is that Groundspeak is giving away 20,000 bugs until they last. Each bug is assigned a specific city as a goal and the travel bug is trying to get to it’s goal city by hopping geocache to geocache. Once it reaches it’s goal, then it can just circulate in that city’s caches raising awareness for Diabetes and support for a UN resolution on Diabetes.

“Our” travel bug has a goal to get to Anqiu, China. You can track it’s progress on the geocaching.com site along with me. It will hopefully pick up some interesting stories and photos along the way, including mine.

So I’ve spent all week putting off working on my final. Not that it’s hard, I’m just so ready to be done with this semester. The professor even posted it a week early, but I guess I’ll spend the weekend working on it.

A few things I’ve been meaning to post about:

Geocaching – As a little early Christmas present to myself, I bought a TomTom GPS package complete with bluetooth receiver and TomTom software for my Treo 650. I’m don’t really travel all that much and I don’t get lost much, but with a GPS you can go Geocaching. It’s like a high-tech treasure hunt. Check the link for more info.

Johnathan Coulton – This guy rocks. Some of my favorite songs are Chiron Beta Prime, Code Monkey, and Re Your Brains. I also discovered there’s a whole sub-genre for this type of music and it’s called Nerdcore. Awesome!

Last.fm – I found a plug-in for last.fm which scrobbles the songs I played on my iPod. Obviously, I don’t listen to much music sitting at my computer so last.fm just got 100% interesting to me. Oh, I have no friends on last.fm, do anyone want to be my friend?

Google Hacks review – Yeah, I know. It should have been up several months ago. I hope I haven’t pissed off O’Reilly by not following through with this one.

Travian – Fun little Ajax-ified real-time browser strategy game I’m playing with some friends. The server we’re playing on resets December 22nd. Come and join us.

Movies – Now that I made it through both seasons of Lost and I upped Netflix to 3 movies-at-a-time, I’m starting to get some cool movies. Most recently I watched Basic which was a little hard to believe but the plot was entertaining.

I guess that’s about it for now. Once finals are through, I hope to post more.

I really do have a huge list of things I want to post. Unfortunately, life is not letting me have time to do that. Hopefully I’ll get around to it soon.