Q: What does the cache name have
to do with this cache?
A: Nothing really. I try to
avoid puns and clues in my cache names.
Q: What is Giardia anyway? Is it
a type of Italian ice cream?
A: No but that is a good
guess.
Giardia is a genus of anaerobic
flagellated protozoan parasites of the phylum Metamonada in the
supergroup “Excavta” that colonise and reproduce in the
small intestines of several vertebrates causing giardiasis. Their
life cycle alternates between an actively swimming trophozoite and
an infective, resistant cyst. The genus is named after a French
zoologist Alfred Mathieu Giard. - Wikipedia (Thanks for asking I
hope this has helped clarify the matter.)
A: I'm still confused about the
name Giardia?
Q: It makes your stomach hurt
and causes excessive gas along with the Hershey squirts. (Now you
know why it was named after a French person.) Just kidding I love
France and our other European friends. I strongly suggest that you
visit someday if you haven't. Great people and places to see (no
joke). My in-laws hail from over there and they don't stink. That
is just a dumb rumor.
A: Why in the heck would you
give yourself that name?
Another good question. It is
difficult to continually come up with new handles for websites and
message boards. Even when you think you have a good name it turns
out that someone has already stolen your name even before you
thought to use it. I hate it when that happens. Anyway, I figured
nobody was dumb enough to use Giardia. Well I was wrong because
there was already a Giardia on geocaching.com and I being both dumb
and lazy simply added '_boy'. You can call me Giardia
though.
Q: When will be the demise of
the earth?
A: 2012. Please have get your
cache hunts completed and logged before then.
Q: What is your favorite
number?
A: 6.022137 x 1023
– (Avogrado's Number) Something to do with moles but I
forget. BTW. This is my lucky lottery number so please don't use
it.
Q: What is your second favorite
number?
A: PI (3.14159265....) It is
irrational, sort of like me. This was my soccer jersey when I was a
youth.
Q: Why do we park in a driveway
but drive on a parkway?
A: Modern science has yet been
able to resolve this conundrum. Sort of like why does East Parkway
run North/South and North Parkway run East/ West?
Q: How tall are you
Giardia?
A: 1854.20 mm
Q: (Bitbrain) Do these glasses make my brain look fat?
A: This is a sensitive topic for many so I will try to be
delicate. In your case I think the issue is that you have your
glasses or lens on backwards. While I'm not a doctor nor do I play
one on TV I do believe prolonged wearing of glasses backwards can
cause an eye condition known as 'Gigantis Oculus'. FWIW - I am a
rocket surgeon.
Q: (Abiectico)Will you ever turn your creativity towards
creating mystery/puzzle caches?
A: Wow, a question I think I can 'honestly' answer. One of the
great things about caching is that there different aspects for
people to enjoy (getting outdoors, unique hides, getting bit by a
venomous snake, or puzzles). I do like puzzles but haven't solved
many puzzle caches. I must rectify this but it is difficult when
there are so many traditionals and multi-caches in my vicinity to
complete. Now back to the question. Yes, I have some thoughts on a
few puzzles that I think will be fun but one man's fun might be
another's venomous snake. Without providing puzzle specifics I have
a draft of my "Machine Gun Kelley - Lost Loot" cache. I also have
plans for a "Ghost In the Machine" cache (and a few others). My
thinking (I use the word loosely) is that I want my caches to be
unique to keep things fresh. Perhaps your question be the
motivation I need to complete.
Q: (itcomagic) What is your favorite Star Wars Episode and
why?
A: I've lost a quite a few dendrites since the release of these
movies so you are asking a lot. I think I would go with the first
movie (episode #4) since I was young and impressionable. The
special effects, characters, costumes, and music now make this
movie iconic. I orginally saw it at the theater but around that
time vcrs (remember those) had just come out and a friend had one.
A big, top loading variety with NO remote. Yes, we had to walk all
the way across the room to pause etc (and it was uphill both to and
from the vcr). Anyway, somehow they got a bootleg copy of the movie
so we were watching and rewatching before you could buy movies. PS.
If you know where I can pickup a few lightly used dendrites cheap
then let me know.
When you log your find please
let me know if you have any additional questions. I will attempt to
get an answer or more than likely I will make something up that
sounds plausible. .
*** Congrats to Jaybirder for the FTF. ***