This was my first hunt. I spent about two hours at a recreational park and got a variety of things; mostly coins. This first object looks to be a rock but is very heavy for its size. Maybe two - three times the weight a rock of that size would be. I am trying to determine what it is comprised of.
I found quite a few coins, but in one spot I think i found about 8.
I checked the dates, nothing before 1952 and nothing after 1989,..so I think 1989 is probably when they were left. They were pretty deep, nothing was found above 4 inches.
I need some help though. Just as I was getting ready to leave I got a hit about 6 inches deep. I dug up an object very heavy for its size. Its rather rounded on one side and had a more flatter side on the back. I honestly dont know any more details besides it being really heavy. See attached image.
The other objects were a fishing weight, what looks to be some sort of hinge, or part of a lyre and finally what looks to be part of a bullet but not sure.
Overall I had a great time. It was starting to get dark, but I have so much more to dig there.
Any ideas on the heavy object?
So for about the past 10 years, I always thought it would be fun to have a metal detector. Finding things buried in the earth, not knowing what it is until you finally find the little bugger is something cool to me. I just cached in some Foxwoods Dream Points for a new Bounty Hunter Quick Draw II metal detector and it just arrived through FedEx. I have been reading and watching videos on metal detecting to get a head start and have learned many things so far. My first trip was today, July 10th, on old farm land. It just started to rain shortly before I got there but once it slowed down, I tried it out. What I learned very quickly was, this is not going to be easy. Out of everything I have read, one thing I over looked was how ore it would make you. But this is good, it keeps you active.
I turned it on and started down by a little creek. Right away I got a ding. I looked at the LCD and say it was 2 inches below the surface, on the low end of the spectrum. I finally found the object and noticed it was a bolt. Neat. I have much to learn about how to discriminate certain objects and how to make the metal detector do most of the work, and not me.
This first trip was just a test. I wasnt expecting to get much, but I was able to experience and learn many things. Some things I took away: Being water. Wear old clothes. Keep your loot bag closed - If you kneel down and get up and kneel and get up you can spill your loot. I ended up there for about 1 hour because it started to rain again, but ended up getting some interesting thins.
My final findings for my first day was: A bolt. A large screw. A quarter sized piece of Iron. A fairly new quarter and two new pennies. Nothing of value but worth learning the tool I was working with.
I will post some pictures soon..
So the iPad has launched, and you do not have one. This quick little trick will let you view iPad formatted websites in your browser just as though you had one. You only need 3 things. The first is Firefox. The second is the “User Agent Switcher” plugin for firefox. This will allow you to switch your browsers user agent, so you can view alternative views of web pages specifically for a device with that user agent profile. Lastly, you will need the user agent line of text located below.
Mozilla/5.0(iPad; U; CPU iPhone OS 3_2 like Mac OS X; en-us) AppleWebKit/531.21.10 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0.4 Mobile/7B314 Safari/531.21.10
Install the User Agent plugin and create a new user agent profile. Paste in this code and switch to that profile. Next try and go to a website and see which one loks diferent. The website that made me want to try this was for GMAIL. Google just released a very slick looking new iPad formatted website specificly for that device. by going to gmail, it auto detects and thinks I am now using an iPad and displays the page as so. I would honestly love a view format like this for the web version of Gmail. It would be nice if they offered a view like this for web. In the meantime, I may just use an iPad user agent.
I was slightly disappointed as it did not look exactly as it the picture, but it was very cool none the less.
Check it out, test some sites and let me know how it goes. Did you find a cool website? Share it here!
Google just released some updates to Google Analytics and boy are they useful. Having used Google Analytics from private beta, I realized there was one feature missing which could be very useful in reporting - and it was released today. Have you ever ran a campaign for your website or started some marketing promotion and wonder why there was a huge traffic spike 3 months down the line? Google Analytics Annotations can solve that. You can now create custom labels and annotate throughout your accumulating web traffic data. This is very useful right off the bat, lets take a closer look.
If you are playing around with Chromium OS and made your USB drive bootable, you may come across an issue. Here is a scenario - You just put Chromium OS on your bootable USB drive. You are now done with your experiment and now want to go about using your USB drive for other storage, but come across a problem. Your drive is not usable and shows an inaccurate file size of the disk. Here is how to solve that problem.
Hi im Tim and I love to do experiments and take adventures online. Professionally I am a Digital Media Producer out of Boston, MA and design, develop and produce interactive media.