User:Spindizzy

74 / M / 40,-74

Biographical

Hi, my name is Rich and I live in the North Jersey graticule and most recently worked as a project manager for Hewlett-Packard. I recently stumbled across xkcd, which led inevitably to geohashing. Meanwhile, regarding Spindizzy, see this: [1]

Monty Hall's Law: "Always switch doors."

Expeditions

2011-10-10 40 -74: Far Hills fiasco...
2011-10-12 40 -74: Springfield, NJ
2011-10-16 40 -74: Edison, NJ
2011-12-08 40 -74: Bridgewater, NJ
2012-10-24 40 -74: Far Hills, NJ

Achievements I'm shooting for

• Easy Geohash
• Pub Geohash
• Curse of Unawareness...see below. I checked this. Nope, not unless I was able to drive in 1930. Sigh...
• Origin Geohash Will have to use the North Jersey graticule as alternate.
• Retro coordinates reached

And whatever else I come across. So many categories, so little time.

Grabbed User:Wenslayer/KMLGenerator script to attempt generation of a Google Earth location history file for the North Jersey graticule. Installed Active Perl on my Win 7 64-bit box. Downloaded the current W30 history file allcoords.csv. The perl script took less that 1 sec. to create all geohashes from 1928 to date! 12/5/2011 - and apparently in disagreement with peeron's interpretation. I just did a 'manual' ping for by birthdate, and it's different from the perl script.
Did same for the New York City graticule looking for my Origin geohash. It's in the Atlantic ocean - will find alternate.

Spindizzy earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-10.

Spindizzy earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-12.

Spindizzy earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-12.

Spindizzy earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-16.

Spindizzy and Jevanyn earned the Tale of Two Hashes achievement by meeting the challenge by Dvdllr to geohash in Springfield going to the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-12.

Spindizzy earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-12-08.