StayFloopy has reached 7000 cache finds! We have placed this cache
to honor him, and to thank him for all of his cache pictures and
cache parking suggestions, which we find very valuable. The
cache is a small decon box and should not be too difficult to
find. However, the cache is not at the above
coordinates. To find the actual cache coordinates, you must
solve a puzzle. Follow the instructions below for information
on solving the puzzle. Good luck!
The purpose of
the cache is to be a quick grab 'n' go for StayFloopy. It's not a
nice hike, there's no scenic view and it’s nowhere near a LI
Greenbelt trail. But on the positive side, there is no
bushwhacking, no poison ivy, no thorns, no rusted car wrecks to
search, and you can park less than 3 feet from the
cache!
In
addition, because StayFloopy lives in New Jersey and has to travel
a long way to search for LI geocaches, he always needs to find a
place to eat quickly. For this reason, we have placed this
cache on a road which is pretty much one large food court.
You’ll be less than a mile from a large variety of fast food
restaurants and other eateries.
To solve the
puzzle, you must search for the answers to the clues below using
the following websites. Use these sites as starting points
for your search; most answers can be found one or two clicks away
from these top-level pages:
http://www.stayfloopy.com
http://www.limpidity.com
http://www.mortonfox.com
http://mortonfox.livejournal.com
North 40...
StayFloopy
participates in several distributed computing efforts.
Distributed computing uses the idle time of many different
computers to solve problems which are very CPU-intensive. One
of the projects that he is donating his computers' time to is one
which is trying to crack an RSA Labs 72-bit, secret encryption key,
and that project is called RC5-72. How many blocks of RC5-72
data did StayFloopy upload on Christmas Day in 2002? (HINT:
Look for a link entitled “View this Participant's Work Unit
Submission History” on his RC5-72 stats page.)
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StayFloopy
takes a lot of pictures -- more than just pictures of cache
containers and log signatures! He has posted over 8,000 of
these photos on flickr.com. Many are shots of beautiful
scenery, no doubt taken while geocaching, while others are shots of
random objects, like his pictures of coins and food. Have a
look through his flickr archives, and find out how many slices of
Pepperidge Farm Garlic Texas Toast he photographed in an August
31st, 2006 posting.
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StayFloopy
is a very active participant in the Where's George project.
On May 21st 2005 StayFloopy logged his
27,000th Where's George dollar bill. The ID number
of that bill is E0238---?E. What digit is represented by the
question mark(“?”)? (HINT: StayFloopy’s Where's George
Profile is available
here.)
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Did
you know that StayFloopy published a book which is a compilation of
several of his Limpidity comics? What is the last digit in
the 13-digit ISBN number of his "Limpidity
Yearbook"?
West 073...
Obviously
StayFloopy is an avid geocacher!! On 10/??/2003 he
logged his 2,100th find. What number is
represented by the “??”?: (HINT: See
http://www.stayfloopy.com/geo/mstone.htm
)
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What are the
first two digits of StayFloopy’s ICQ number?
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StayFloopy
maintains a blog on livejournal.com under the pseudonym Morton
Fox. In these near-daily blog entries, he discusses his wide
variety of interests, and in his more recent entries (late 2007),
he posts his answers to a series of weekly survey questions from
another livejournal.com blogger. These usually appear in
StayFloopy’s Friday postings. The name of this series is “The
Friday __?__”.
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NOTE TO
PAPERLESS CACHERS AND THOSE WHO MANUALLY DECODE THE ADDITIONAL
HINTS AT
GZ:
The Additional Hints below require Internet access! In
addition, these hints apply to the cache hide, and not the clues
above.
Enjoy
!
Check your numbers at
Geochecker.com.