From the Laptop of Jeremy Irish

Last week I posted to Facebook "Is it weird, or just geocaching weird?" From the following comments I realized that my post was being misinterpreted as "Geocaching is weird." That's only a half-truth.

Finding hidden containers in the woods can be considered weird since the contents are generally valueless, but my comment was regarding the many games within the game. Travel Bugs, for example, can have many misadventures, weird goals and weird attached objects.

For example, Cindy the Cinderblock is a real cinderblock and there are more than one of these, including a boulder in the back of an abandoned vehicle in the woods. I've seen a Travel Bug tag as tall as me, an actual airplane propeller, enormous carnival-won stuffed animals, ashes from a loved one and a hair stylist training head. But my recent comment was about the human female torso Anybody Want me? and her male counterpart Anybody Want Me Too?

These are only a handful of weird items, but these trackable items and other weird stories come out of geocaching every day. Does anyone have a good Travel Bug or story for the geocaching history books?

Over the time that the "digital revolution" has existed, the concept of economic dumping, or predatory pricing, hasn't really been discussed or even offered as an issue on the Internet. Instead, articles like the recent ones about Google offering a free navigation application to Android, has been responded by the press as just being disruptive to an industry.

Is this turn by turn navigation application, which does undercut industry leaders in this sector, considered predatory pricing? Or does the idea of "free" get around this classic bullying tactic of companies wanting to drive an industry in a direction that favors them. I'm on the fence on this though I do think that some practices on the Internet should be looked into.