Do it again!
A Kansas Heartland Geocache
When I was younger I used to
do magic shows. As I got older, the "coolness" of doing magic shows
wore off, but I always had a few good ones that I could show at the
right occasions. One of those good ones was a favorite of my kids.
They would have someone over to visit and bring the friend over to
me. "My dad can put a rock in his head." It sounded silly, but I
had fun with it. The rock was one particular stone, a coin-sized
piece of mineral with a hole in the middle and polished to a good
shine. The hole in the middle always seemed to have some kind of
imagined significance to the feat.
They would go and get "the
rock with a hole in it" from its designated place and bring it to
me. I would twirl the rock around and around, showing how pretty it
was. "Okay, are you ready?" I would ask.
"Yeah!" they would say with
anticipation.
Then I would slowly take the
rock up near my face, and then dramatically slap it onto my
forehead. For more theatrics I would rub it into my forehead,
squeezing the rock into my skull. After rubbing for a bit I would
remove my hand and let them see that the rock was indeed gone, not
in my hand and not stuck to the outside of my head. So obviously,
the only place it could have gone was into my forehead.
"Yep, I can feel it in
there." I would look to the left, then up, then to the right and
shake my head like I was listening to it rattle around in my
noggin.
Then I would lean forward a
bit and move my jaw around. I would reach up to the bottom surface
of my jaw and rub the area above my throat like I was trying to
grab something that was just under the skin. Then I would slowly
slide my fingertips forward and when they reached my chin, there
was the shiny rock with the hole in it. There wasn't another rock
like it so that one had to be the one that rattled down my head and
out the bottom of my jaw.
They loved it; they always
did. "Wow! Do it again!" A magician is not supposed to do the trick
again, but I made exceptions for this one. Sometimes I would do it
again. I would certainly be doing it again a few months later for
the next kid that stayed over at our house.
To find the geocache, solve
this puzzle:
Now imagine a cache stashed inside a limousine. Breathe a
bit, and have peace.
A word of caution with
puzzle-caches. When posting your log, do not include spoiler
answers in your log, lest you risk the unfortunate deletion of your
valuable log. It is such a sad tragedy when an inappropriate log
brings upon the inevitable destruction of itself.
You are looking for a black
ammo box with a cantuland-geocache-logo painted on the sides.
Original contents include a Guide to Geocaching, a Sacagawea gold dollar
coin, a Kansas quarter, a Lewis-and-Clark edition nickel, one of
those new-Lincoln-image-on-the-back pennies, an old wheat penny,
and lots of other miscellaneous trade items.
Congratulations to both frog4peace and crossmage for being First To
Find!
Adapted
from Wikipedia:
There are many ways to memorize pi, including the use of
piems (a portmanteau, formed by combining pi and
poem), which are poems that represent pi in a way such that
the length of each word (in letters) represents a digit. Here is an
example of a piem, originally devised by Sir James Jeans: How I
want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures
involving quantum mechanics. Notice how the first word has
3 letters, the second word has 1, the third has
4, the fourth has 1, the fifth has 5, and so
on to get 3.14159265358979. The Cadaeic Cadenza contains the first 3835 digits of pi
in this manner. Piems are related to the entire field of humorous
yet serious study that involves the use of mnemonic techniques to
remember the digits of pi, known as piphilology.
See
waypoint GCQ280 for the next
Heartland Geocache.
REMEMBER:
- Make the fair trade.
- Log your visit.
- Leave the site better than you found
it.
- Protect the environment —
always.
- Educate those around you.
- Find another cache!
Good luck, and may all your cache dreams
come true.
—cantuland
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