Updated List:

• 26.  Iron Angel by Alan Campbell  - sequel to his other book above, even more darkly wacked than the last novel, steam punk giant angel machines powered by souls from hell...
• 27.  The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven - the written 20 years later sequel to prior ringworld novels, just re-reading since I read the first two this year
• 28.  Orcs:Bad Blood by Stan Nicholls - a fantasy novel with orcs as the main characters, pretty good
• 29.  The Devil you Know by Mike Carey - about an exorcist who can actually see and exorcise ghosts, a good summer beach read
• 30.  Mean Streets by Various - a short story collection from 4 authors, ok if you've read the series the novellas are based on
• 31.  Shadow Play by Tad Williams - a good book by a normally excellent fantasy writer
• 32.  When the Tide Rises by David Drake - an extremely fun and quick read of the military scifi bent
• 33.  Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb - the finale in her most recent fantasy series, not a bad series I would recommend her other ones first
• 34.  Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi - The events in the third book of his trilogy from a different character's view point, the author published it to answer questions about perceived plot gaps from readers
• 35.  Forge of Heaven by C. J. Cherryh - a sequel but up to her usual high standards of characters and interpersonal conflict
• 36.  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith - a rewrite of the original Austen novel to include zombies, pretty enjoyable read so far, it's funny to see zombies described in period English writing and manner
• 37.  Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce - just odd, the entire novel is written with no narrative and using puns, riddles, allusions and made up words, this will be on here for a while as I try to digest it
• 38.  Jumper by Steve Gould - the novel the movie was loosely based on, better than the movie but not great
• 39.  The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon R Green - Green writes a great popcorn action book, you don't want to put it down until you finish, he has multiple series out and all of them are worth getting
• 40.  Daemons are Forever by Simon R Green - the 2nd book in the same series as the book above this, continued fast paced action
• 41.  Kushiel's Mercy by Jacqueline Carey - the conclusion of her most recent trilogy, a little predictable but a well built imaginative world

I decided to put graphic novels/manga in their own list

• Deathnote volumes 4 through 10 by Tsugumi Ohba - a quite good manga about a boy who finds a notebook that he can write names into then the person dies, he starts using it to kill criminals and things go from there
• Ultimate Power by Michael Bendis - a decent marvel ultimates universe book
• Conan Volume 6: Hand of Nergal by several writers - a pretty faithful rendering of the original tales in comic book form, unfortunately they switched authors and artist so we'll see how it goes.
• Starman Omnibus Vol 1 by James Robinson and Tony Harris - A collection of the 90's run of Starman, a golden age superhero
• Eternals: To slay a God by - A collection of the first few books of the new Eternals run by Marvel
• Y: The Last Man by Brian Vaughan - a extremely disappointing end to an excellent serious about how the world might be like if every mammal with a y chromosome died, except for one man and his monkey
• The Umbrella Academy vol 1 by Gerard Way- a rather odd comic, not a bad read just odd, I'd borrow before buying
• Fables vol 11 by Bill Willingham- a very good comic series about characters from fairy tales hiding out in modern New York City, very imaginative, creative and all around good stuff
• Starman Omnibus Vol 2 by James Robinson and Tony Harris - A collection of the 90's run of Starman, a golden age superhero
• Starman Omnibus Vol 3 by James Robinson and Tony Harris - A collection of the 90's run of Starman, a golden age superhero
• Girls by Joshua and Jonathan Luna - An incredibly wacked small town horror story with incredible artwork, great stuff
• Ultra: Seven Days by Joshua and Jonathan Luna - A great look at a world where superheros are celebrities

Finnegan's Wake has been set aside briefly, although the polyglot mixed up words are becoming easier to read, add two graphic novels and two books.  Bought a great leather bound set of 7 HG Wells novels so expect to see those get added.

My only problem with buying a more full-featured GPS unit is that I've never really had a need for one.  I do a fair amount of hiking but only on blazed trails, and I greatly prefer using a map for driving directions.  So if I'm only going to get it for caching only why not get something focused in that direction... Well that's my thinking at the moment anyway.  I can see that having the information on the Palm could be pretty handy.

The friend I was with used his iPhone, so it was neat to be able to look up the cache information on the fly as it was but it certainly wasn't very accurate when it came to pinpointing the cache location relative to the phone.  I'm certainly not buying an iPhone just for geo-caching.

Well off to do more research.  Thanks for the conversation.

The subject pretty much says it all.  A friend just took me along on a geocache hunt and since I do a lot of hiking anyway it seemed pretty fun to me.

Details on what it is can be found here http://www.geocaching.com/ but basically you check the website for a cache then use a GPS device to find the cache, maybe take something or leave something, and sign the log.

I have a vague memory of someone saying they did this, maybe BizB?, and was wondering if any of the regulars does some geocaching.  Well does anyone? if so what GPS units do you use? any advice on geocaching?

Updated List:

• 26.  Iron Angel by Alan Campbell  - sequel to his other book above, even more darkly wacked than the last novel, steam punk giant angel machines powered by souls from hell...
• 27.  The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven - the written 20 years later sequel to prior ringworld novels, just re-reading since I read the first two this year
• 28.  Orcs:Bad Blood by Stan Nicholls - a fantasy novel with orcs as the main characters, pretty good
• 29.  The Devil you Know by Mike Carey - about an exorcist who can actually see and exorcise ghosts, a good summer beach read
• 30.  Mean Streets by Various - a short story collection from 4 authors, ok if you've read the series the novellas are based on
• 31.  Shadow Play by Tad Williams - a good book by a normally excellent fantasy writer
• 32.  When the Tide Rises by David Drake - an extremely fun and quick read of the military scifi bent
• 33.  Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb - the finale in her most recent fantasy series, not a bad series I would recommend her other ones first
• 34.  Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi - The events in the third book of his trilogy from a different character's view point, the author published it to answer questions about perceived plot gaps from readers
• 35.  Forge of Heaven by C. J. Cherryh - a sequel but up to her usual high standards of characters and interpersonal conflict
• 36.  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith - a rewrite of the original Austen novel to include zombies, pretty enjoyable read so far, it's funny to see zombies described in period English writing and manner
• 37.  Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce - just odd, the entire novel is written with no narrative and using puns, riddles, allusions and made up words, this will be on here for a while as I try to digest it
• 38.  Jumper by Steve Gould - the novel the movie was loosely based on, better than the movie but not great
• 39.  The Man with the Golden Torc by Simon R Greem - Green writes a great popcorn action book, you don't want to put it down until you finish, he has multiple series out and all of them are worth getting

I decided to put graphic novels/manga in their own list

• Deathnote volumes 4 through 8 by Tsugumi Ohba - a quite good manga about a boy who finds a notebook that he can write names into then the person dies, he starts using it to kill criminals and things go from there
• Ultimate Power by Michael Bendis - a decent marvel ultimates universe book
• Conan Volume 6: Hand of Nergal by several writers - a pretty faithful rendering of the original tales in comic book form, unfortunately they switched authors and artist so we'll see how it goes.
• Starman Omnibus Vol 1 by James Robinson and Tony Harris - A collection of the 90's run of Starman, a golden age superhero
• Eternals: To slay a God by - A collection of the first few books of the new Eternals run by Marvel
• Y: The Last Man by Brian Vaughan - a extremely disappointing end to an excellent serious about how the world might be like if every mammal with a y chromosome died, except for one man and his monkey
• The Umbrella Academy vol 1 by Gerard Way- a rather odd comic, not a bad read just odd, I'd borrow before buying
• Fables vol 11 by Bill Willingham- a very good comic series about characters from fairy tales hiding out in modern New York City, very imaginative, creative and all around good stuff
• Starman Omnibus Vol 2 by James Robinson and Tony Harris - A collection of the 90's run of Starman, a golden age superhero
• Starman Omnibus Vol 3 by James Robinson and Tony Harris - A collection of the 90's run of Starman, a golden age superhero
• Girls by Joshua and Jonathan Luna - An incredibly wacked small town horror story with incredible artwork, great stuff
• Ultra: Seven Days by Joshua and Jonathan Luna - A great look at a world where superheros are celebrities

Finnegan's Wake is still being worked on, added one novel and several graphic novels

I can understand, they really should allow you to customize the ribbon by deciding on icons versus text etc.

Did you take a look at things like this? http://word.mvps.org/FAQS/Customization/CustomizeRibbon.htm  That one costs but there might be others.  They only are really useful if you have to work in an Office environment.

Although I had nothing to add to the conversation (besides my opinion) I wanted to say that I appreciated reading the conversation.

Heh.  Remember this?

Of course I do

We're off to outer space...

Updated List:

• 26.  Iron Angel by Alan Campbell  - sequel to his other book above, even more darkly wacked than the last novel, steam punk giant angel machines powered by souls from hell...
• 27.  The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven - the written 20 years later sequel to prior ringworld novels, just re-reading since I read the first two this year
• 28.  Orcs:Bad Blood by Stan Nicholls - a fantasy novel with orcs as the main characters, pretty good
• 29.  The Devil you Know by Mike Carey - about an exorcist who can actually see and exorcise ghosts, a good summer beach read
• 30.  Mean Streets by Various - a short story collection from 4 authors, ok if you've read the series the novellas are based on
• 31.  Shadow Play by Tad Williams - a good book by a normally excellent fantasy writer
• 32.  When the Tide Rises by David Drake - an extremely fun and quick read of the military scifi bent
• 33.  Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb - the finale in her most recent fantasy series, not a bad series I would recommend her other ones first
• 34.  Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi - The events in the third book of his trilogy from a different character's view point, the author published it to answer questions about perceived plot gaps from readers
• 35.  Forge of Heaven by C. J. Cherryh - a sequel but up to her usual high standards of characters and interpersonal conflict
• 36.  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith - a rewrite of the original Austen novel to include zombies, pretty enjoyable read so far, it's funny to see zombies described in period English writing and manner
• 37.  Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce - just odd, the entire novel is written with no narrative and using puns, riddles, allusions and made up words, this will be on here for a while as I try to digest it
• 38.  Jumper by Steve Gould - the novel the movie was loosely based on, better than the movie but not great

I decided to put graphic novels/manga in their own list

• Deathnote volumes 4 through 8 by Tsugumi Ohba - a quite good manga about a boy who finds a notebook that he can write names into then the person dies, he starts using it to kill criminals and things go from there
• Ultimate Power by Michael Bendis - a decent marvel ultimates universe book
• Conan Volume 6: Hand of Nergal by several writers - a pretty faithful rendering of the original tales in comic book form, unfortunately they switched authors and artist so we'll see how it goes.
• Starman Omnibus Vol 1 by James Robinson and Tony Harris - A collection of the 90's run of Starman, a golden age superhero
• Eternals: To slay a God by - A collection of the first few books of the new Eternals run by Marvel
• Y: The Last Man by Brian Vaughan - a extremely disappointing end to an excellent serious about how the world might be like if every mammal with a y chromosome died, except for one man and his monkey
• The Umbrella Academy vol 1 by Gerard Way- a rather odd comic, not a bad read just odd, I'd borrow before buying
• Fables vol 11 by Bill Willingham- a very good comic series about characters from fairy tales hiding out in modern New York City, very imaginative, creative and all around good stuff
• Starman Omnibus Vol 2 by James Robinson and Tony Harris - A collection of the 90's run of Starman, a golden age superhero

Finnegan's Wake is still being worked on, polished off a short sci-fi one in the meantime.  Going on vacation next week so I'll probably knock a few off then.

How's the little guy doing anyway?  Still eating his crayons?

Having dealt with these kinds of things from the other side I'd be willing to bet there is a policy to have the signed form on file.

They just haven't reviewed that policy since this new-fangled web thingee became popular.

"We've always done it this way."

Maybe this should go in the NSFW section but I think we need a MSPaint of how babby was formed

who's with me?

Updated List:

• 26.  Iron Angel by Alan Campbell  - sequel to his other book above, even more darkly wacked than the last novel, steam punk giant angel machines powered by souls from hell...
• 27.  The Ringworld Engineers by Larry Niven - the written 20 years later sequel to prior ringworld novels, just re-reading since I read the first two this year
• 28.  Orcs:Bad Blood by Stan Nicholls - a fantasy novel with orcs as the main characters, pretty good
• 29.  The Devil you Know by Mike Carey - about an exorcist who can actually see and exorcise ghosts, a good summer beach read
• 30.  Mean Streets by Various - a short story collection from 4 authors, ok if you've read the series the novellas are based on
• 31.  Shadow Play by Tad Williams - a good book by a normally excellent fantasy writer
• 32.  When the Tide Rises by David Drake - an extremely fun and quick read of the military scifi bent
• 33.  Renegade's Magic by Robin Hobb - the finale in her most recent fantasy series, not a bad series I would recommend her other ones first
• 34.  Zoe's Tale by John Scalzi - The events in the third book of his trilogy from a different character's view point, the author published it to answer questions about perceived plot gaps from readers
• 35.  Forge of Heaven by C. J. Cherryh - a sequel but up to her usual high standards of characters and interpersonal conflict
• 36.  Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Jane Austen and Seth Grahame-Smith - a rewrite of the original Austen novel to include zombies, pretty enjoyable read so far, it's funny to see zombies described in period English writing and manner
• 37.  Finnegan's Wake by James Joyce - just odd, the entire novel is written with no narrative and using puns, riddles, allusions and made up words, this will be on here for a while as I try to digest it

I decided to put graphic novels/manga in their own list

• Deathnote volumes 4 through 8 by Tsugumi Ohba - a quite good manga about a boy who finds a notebook that he can write names into then the person dies, he starts using it to kill criminals and things go from there
• Ultimate Power by Michael Bendis - a decent marvel ultimates universe book
• Conan Volume 6: Hand of Nergal by several writers - a pretty faithful rendering of the original tales in comic book form, unfortunately they switched authors and artist so we'll see how it goes.
• Starman Omnibus Vol 1 by James Robinson and Tony Harris - A collection of the 90's run of Starman, a golden age superhero
• Eternals: To slay a God by - A collection of the first few books of the new Eternals run by Marvel
• Y: The Last Man by Brian Vaughan - a extremely disappointing end to an excellent serious about how the world might be like if every mammal with a y chromosome died, except for one man and his monkey
• The Umbrella Academy vol 1 by Gerard Way- a rather odd comic, not a bad read just odd, I'd borrow before buying
• Fables vol 11 by Bill Willingham- a very good comic series about characters from fairy tales hiding out in modern New York City, very imaginative, creative and all around good stuff
• Starman Omnibus Vol 2 by James Robinson and Tony Harris - A collection of the 90's run of Starman, a golden age superhero

I realized I forgot to add one say I added that and another I've finished

Also added two I'm currently working on, The Joyce novel is going to be on there unfinished for a while I think.  It is one whacked novel.

That had to have been hilarious to watch...

In hindsight I'm sure it was, at the time I was too busy being mortified.