User:James.
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About
James considers himself a friend of Randy's since their 8th grade year, during which they began ignoring Algebra I together with such things as whimsical experimentation in their potential psychic powers, i.e., the self-referential and ill-fated The TTP Project. He was a moderator and/or a wizard on the fora for a while, but apparently is no longer, likely due to considerable bouts of inactivity.
Having had little first-hand exposure to Randy's fame outside of videos of talks and reading articles, he considers a geohash meetup a potentially-interesting dialogue across perspectives. A geohash meetup can also be something of an adventure, though James's definition of adventure has become less stringent in his old age. Accordingly, he promotes use of the Richmond, Virginia page on this wiki and the official map tool.
He also finds it tiresome writing in the third person sometimes, and really sorta hopes Randy would sign off on "Make Fun of Childhood Pictures" as a legitimate-enough game for Saturdays, but isn't really holding his breath.
Expeditions
- 2008-06-21_37_-77: Successfully made it to the alternate location to meet up with Julie, Ricky (briefly), and Clint. After some half-hour's time, adjourned to make a few test firings of Bangarang, eat dinner, watch 30 Rock, and engage in various other dorkeries.
- 2008-06-14_37_-77: Successfully made it to the alternate location, though failed to meetup with Randall and Shoofle until all swimming had ended. Walked around Belle Island a fair bit, ran into a few middle school classmates, but found no sign indicating where the internet was this particular day.
Notable Doings
He is the architect and main proponent of the latest collaborative effort of Randy and James' constructive energies, Bangarang, the trebuchet pictured in this blag post. While the trebuchet is complete and operational, it is unfinished, and has not begun to realize its full potential. With as little or as much help as he can muster, James plans to move Bangarang into Pocahontas State Park and has an idea of how he might throw heavy things long distances without incurring the ire of various park officials.
He is credited with an early comic regarding Snapple, and thanks his 9th grade chemistry teacher for testing him on such things as naming compounds and the periodic table so that at least he has a pretty decent grasp of one "hard science," and an acute understanding that K=Potassium.
He also created the Richmond, VA category linked at the bottom of this page so that other wiki users could more readily stay abreast of geohash goings-on in the area. To use this category, one simply has to be daring enough to copy-paste a rather simple bit of code found at the bottom of this page.
