User:Jevanyn

From Geo Hashing

Hi, my name is Greg, I'm a graduate of New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a BS in computer science. I have a wife and 4-yr-old son, both of whom will likely be joining me when I go geohashing.

I live in the North Jersey graticule, and I'm aiming for a Regional geohash for New Jersey, as well as meeting as many geohashers all over the country as I can.

I like bridge, cycling, baseball, and photography. My wife is into scrapbooking, crafting, and likes photography as well. My son likes knock-knock jokes and ... trying to escape HEY GET BACK HERE! :-D.

I can bring Fluxx, Wizard, a regular deck of cards or the like to any meetups. My wife and I sometimes host a monthly card-and-board gaming group, so if the site is close enough, I might suggest our house for the geohash on a weekend.

Contents 1 Planned expeditions 2 Expeditions 3 Ribbons 4 Achievements I'm shooting for 5 Silly ideas for achievements 6 Contributed pages 7 Other stuff I'm working on

[edit] Planned expeditions

• Saturday, October 17: It's a strip mall in Plainsboro, with a pizzaria. What can possibly go wrong?

• Tue January 5, 2010: I turn 40 in (40, -74). I may actually be in Newark, for that matter. I'm going to try for a birthday geohash if the location/weather/timing doesn't totally suck.

[edit] Expeditions

Total Expeditions: 30.

Geohashes reached: 16 in 14 expeditions.

Recent Streak: 3 successes.

Reasons for (16) fails

• Private property: 6
• Time constraints: 3
• Mother nature's bitch: 2
• No public access: 2
• My kingdom for a boat: 1
• Curse of unawareness: 1
• Prize Poultry: 1

2009-10-17 40 -74: Met up with Zubenelgenubi again, this time with pizza!

2009-10-15 40 -74: A very cold, very wet geohash.

2009-10-12 41 -73: An XKCD-100 / Minesweeper win.

2009-10-10 40 -74: I had an hour to kill between two social events, but didn't want to get stuck in a swamp.

2009-10-04 41 -75: Made plans for a hike in Worthington Park, but was too sick to go.

2009-09-19 40 -74: I shanghai'd a friend for Talk like a Pirate day, but the geohash was in a backyard, not behind an apartment building like it looked on the map.

2009-08-20 40 -74: Another bicycle geohash, but I had a date and didn't have time to get there.

2009-08-18 40 -74: A less rainy bicycle geohash.

2009-07-16 40 -74: I had a weird expedition to Shades of Death Road.

2009-06-20 39 -76: Stopped at a geohash near Baltimore along the way to Wilmington, NC.

2009-06-05 40 -73 and 2009-06-06 40 -74: A second chance at the NYC graticule, and a midnight geohash in my old hometown.

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2009-06-04 40 -73: In New Jersey and in the NYC graticule, and running an errand in Clifton anyway.

2009-06-02 40 -74: Geohash 5 miles from home, but behind a line of houses.

2009-05-11 40 -74: Geohash 7 miles from work, but roads unsafe for bicycling in that direction. Chickened out.

2009-05-09 40 -75: Back in the Philadelphia/Allentown graticule, this time on the NJ side of the Delaware.

2009-04-26 40 -74: I'm on the wrong side of the tracks in White House Station.

2009-04-11 40 -74: Cold, wet bicycle geohash in Hillsborough.

2009-03-04 40 -74: No GPS! No map! No directions! No camera?! ... AAAA!

2009-02-28 40 -74: Jevanyn the buccaneer leads pirate raids up and down the Turnpike!

2009-02-19 40 -74: The geohash was only a couple of towns over, but still unreachable.

2009-01-17 40 -74: A planned geohash, postponed from the 10th due to snow, was unreachable on the 17th.

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2008-12-13 41 -74 and 2008-12-14 41 -74: In a rare instance of the Saturday and Sunday geohashes being within 10 miles of each other, I venture north of the 41st parallel for a midnight multihash, and got questioned by police.

2008-12-06 40 -74: Got within 100 yards or so of the geohash, but I was on my way to a surprise birthday party and was already late.

After further review, I was not within 100 yards. No big deal, I didn't have photos anyway.

2008-10-18 40 -75: Touchdown Philadelphia!

2008-09-07 40 -74: Thwarted by poison ivy and "No Trespassing" signs, we performed some community service and investigated reports of dinosaur abuse.

2008-09-05 39 -74: Got to Vineland around 11PM, and got caught in the rain.

2008-08-23 39 -74: Took a ride in my uncle's boat. Then I checked the geohash, which was just off the coast near where we had ridden by. Whoops.

The September 2nd Cape May geohash also lay on or near the boat route. For how little land is in this graticule, this may be as close as anyone gets for a while.

2008-08-16 39 -74: The geohash is up a creek, and I'm passing through.

2008-07-26 40 -74: Meetup with Zubenelgenubi. XKCD conquers yet another suburb :-)

2008-07-12: I drove by the house where the geohash was on July 11 (I was going that way anyway).

I can only prove it by a) being able to describe the house (house number "Two Ten" in cursive fixtures on the house), and b) verifying that the Bound Brook Fire Dept. was having a fund raiser at a nearby intersection, proving I was there on Saturday.

2008-06-28 40 -74: Geohash in Westfield. Brought my wife and son, took pictures, wrote narrative.

I had to give back my Land geohash ribbon, since I didn't get close enough to the actual hashpoint.

2008-06-12: The location for Newark was only three miles from where I work, which at the time was the closest Cubicle Geohash to date.

Win! . . . Fail . . .  ??? . . . No expedition

[edit] Ribbons

Jevanyn has achieved Level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Newark, New Jersey and 4 of the surrounding graticules.

Jevanyn earned the XKCD-100 Achievement by voyaging 70 miles one-way to reach the (41, -73) geohash on 2009-10-12.

Jevanyn has achieved Level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Newark, New Jersey and 3 of the surrounding graticules.

This user earned the Prize poultry Consolation Prize by chickening out on the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-05-11.

This user earned the Reverse regional achievement by reaching hash points in all regions of the (40, -75) graticule.

This user earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-04-11.

This user earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-04-11 despite being thoroughly wet.

Jevanyn earned the Speed racer achievement by passing through the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-03-04 at the maximum legal speed.

Jevanyn earned the Buccaneer Geohash Achievement by wearing a tricorne hat and teaching his son to say "Walk the plank!" at the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-02-28.

Jevanyn has visited an Easy Geohash by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-02-28 without really trying.

Jevanyn earned the "Mother Nature's Bitch" Consolation Prize by failing to reach the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-01-17.

Jevanyn earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2008-12-13.

Jevanyn earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (41, -74) geohash on 2008-12-13 in the middle of the night.

Jevanyn earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement by reaching the (41, -74) geohash on 2008-12-13 while the temperature was 23 °F.

Jevanyn has achieved Level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Newark, New Jersey and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

Jevanyn earned the Virgin Graticule Achievement by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (41, -74) graticule, here, on 2008-12-13.

Jevanyn earned the Police Geohash Achievement by meeting an officer while attempting the (41, -74) geohash on 2008-12-14.

Jevanyn earned the Midnight Geohash achievement by reaching the (41, -74) geohash on 2008-12-14 in the middle of the night.

Jevanyn earned the Curse of Unawareness Consolation Prize by reaching the (39, -74) geohash on 2008-08-23 without knowing it was there.

Jevanyn earned the My kingdom for a boat consolation prize by being prevented from reaching the (39, -74) geohash on 2008-08-16 by an impassable and unforeseen creek.

This user earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-07-26.

This user earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Zubenelgenubi at the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-07-26.

This user earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-07-26.

This user earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Evan to the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-07-26.

This user earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-06-28.

[edit] Achievements I'm shooting for

• Regional geohash . . . 9 graticules, 5 attempted, 4 reached.
• Minesweeper achievement . . . 4 of 8 centered on Newark.
• Pub Geohash
• Retro Water Geohash . . . The December 25, 2008 geohash was fairly close to shore in the Cape May, New Jersey graticule.
• Twister Geohash . . . Attempted Sept 5-7, but Hanna didn't want to play.

But a hurricane is a cyclonic storm, doesn't that count for the other kind of twister?

• Water Geohash . . . 2008-08-16 39 -74: Almost!

See the above for Retro/Water Geohash

• Wedding Anniversary Geohash . . . The location is less than 5 miles from my cousin's house in Dayton, so we may be able to drag-along a number of wedding guests. Formal Attire Geohash is also possible.
• XKCD-100 . . . 2008-12-13 41 -74: Gosh, it was only 95km round trip ;-) . . . but 2009-10-12 41 -73 was 70 mi one-way, so that's good!

A Saturday meetup in Boston or Seattle. Seattle would be an XKCD-1000.

A geohash in Australia or New Zealand, which would be an XKCD-10000 8-D.

[edit] Silly ideas for achievements

Disclaimer: some of these are obviously illegal, I take no responsibility for your actions.

• Close but No Cigar / Close Enough for Government Work consolation: You get within about 100m and decide you're "close enough" (I see a lot of these on weekday meetup pages.)
• No "There" There consolation: Your GPS can't decide if you've found the hashpoint or not
• Midnight Madness Multihash: special multihash for going to a geohash for Friday (or Saturday), then at midnight travelling to the Saturday/Sunday geohash as quickly as possible.
• Hash-and-grab: commit an act of burglary
• Green eggs and hash: prepare a meal, preferably from something caught on-site
• H*A*S*H: perform a medical procedure at a meetup, for example, first aid on a fellow geohasher
• Hash-and-slash: LARPing at a geohash
• Geohashish: getting stoned at a geohash
• Hash Browns: Go dressed as a Cleveland Brown
• 100 Yard/Meter Hash: stage a footrace at the geohash
• Pokemon Geohash: capture a small animal near the geohash, and train it to attack CCG players.
• Mad Money geohash: placing a stock trade, especially for a Dow Component company, while at a geohash. (Before 4PM EST, when the stock exchange usually closes)
  • Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Money geohash: ... then calculating the new geohash point, going there, and doing it again.
• Geokegging: start a party at the geohash.

[edit] Contributed pages

• Portland disambiguation page
• Arlington disambiguation page
• Rochester disambiguation page
• Panolik, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, site of Tunguska Event
• San Juan, Puerto Rico: category and page
• A few North Carolina and South Carolina pages
• Most active graticules: initial implementation July 21 2008
• Cape May-Lewes Ferry
• Several achievement and consolation prize ribbons and icons
• The tabular path for the Mississippi River
• Johannesburg, South Africa split-city map
• Graticules along Suez Canal

[edit] Other stuff I'm working on

Geohashing Fluxx: The "Goals" are based on geohash types, e.g., Air Geohash, while "Keepers" are things you might bring with you, e.g., Duct Tape. work in progress

Retrohash Racing: A random date in the past is chosen, and geohashers race to reach that date's geohash.

2009-2010 Winter Tournament: Single-elimination tournament for geohashingest graticule.