This is zb's page for old talk. Everything until 2009-12-31 is archived here:
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2008
The internet is much smaller than some people think. Isn't geohashing fun? -Robyn 19:59, 4 October 2008 (UTC)
- You seem to be so right with both statements. I can just guess towards the smallness of the internet in this particular case, but keep my guessing quiet as to the 'Do I know you from somewhere' possibilities...
- Jeez, your hashing-grounds are in one of the most beautiful areas I know. I only happen to be there every three or four years, i.e. statistics say my next visit is in 2010 or something.
- Also, I just found one of your images...
... that might be put to use in something like an "On Stage Achievement" (Luky Geohash category?), i.e. the spot being where you're playing. It might really be quite hard to earn it, as I would not count good ol' campfire guitar playing. There should at least be a flyer or something before the date that the hashing coordinates are known. Heck, I should have checked Holland's coordinates last weekend, I might even have earned it. -zb
- I was thinking that that image would suit a Making Music Geohash, where the geohasher participated in singing, playing a musical instrument, or dancing to said music at the geohash location, regardless of whether it was on stage or in the middle of the woods. The image is of course not really mine. It's from an xkcd comic and I just clipped it out and uploaded it. -Robyn 21:16, 4 October 2008 (UTC) (a.k.a you know who)
- I get it. I still like the idea of an On Stage Achievement, though, so maybe an acousitic guitar might be best for the Making Music Geohash cause campfire playing might be the most typical thing when gathering at a spot somewhere, and the icon above might be good for the On Stage Achievement as the depicted instrument looks much like a Fender Jazz bass not found in nature too often. -zb
- But it would be majorly cool to play electric guitar in the middle of nowhere with a solar-powered amp. A couple of lucky geohashes that are really unlikely like the stripclub one just got removed from the main achievements page, so I don't think it's a good idea to add more unlikely ones. I suppose the same award could count for either.
- True. Considering my very lazy geohashing activity since summer, I should not vote for making things too hard and better just do more normal gehohashes, let alone strange lucky achievements. -zb
- I like your userpage photo. Kind of electric ninja.
- I fear that one day all my stuff will form an alliance and play tricks on me, similar to the story in this Notwist video
- I like your userpage photo. Kind of electric ninja.
- True. Considering my very lazy geohashing activity since summer, I should not vote for making things too hard and better just do more normal gehohashes, let alone strange lucky achievements. -zb
- But it would be majorly cool to play electric guitar in the middle of nowhere with a solar-powered amp. A couple of lucky geohashes that are really unlikely like the stripclub one just got removed from the main achievements page, so I don't think it's a good idea to add more unlikely ones. I suppose the same award could count for either.
- I get it. I still like the idea of an On Stage Achievement, though, so maybe an acousitic guitar might be best for the Making Music Geohash cause campfire playing might be the most typical thing when gathering at a spot somewhere, and the icon above might be good for the On Stage Achievement as the depicted instrument looks much like a Fender Jazz bass not found in nature too often. -zb
- I was thinking that that image would suit a Making Music Geohash, where the geohasher participated in singing, playing a musical instrument, or dancing to said music at the geohash location, regardless of whether it was on stage or in the middle of the woods. The image is of course not really mine. It's from an xkcd comic and I just clipped it out and uploaded it. -Robyn 21:16, 4 October 2008 (UTC) (a.k.a you know who)
2009-03-28 48 11
So... are we gonna do this? If so, when exactly? 16:00? Anyone else coming? (I'm still undecided... it's a 20€ trip after all.) --dawidi 09:17, 28 March 2009 (UTC)
Image Categorization
Thanks
Thanks for taking up the image categorization cause. I hoped it would catch on. There are so many good photos that no one sees. I was thinking of a category for Sunrises and sunsets, too, but I'll just let them arise as people know what is important to them. Could you add the Meetup in and Meetup on categories to the old images that you edit for this? It barely takes any time once you're already editing the file. And thank you for the other think too. Perfect discretion. :-) -Robyn 19:01, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
- I try my best not to put any geohashing-related words into this other place on the internets you are referring to. Search engines might make weird connections once I start talking about coordinates and achievements no matter where I am posting stuff... Kind of hard to remember, though. Life is a big blur of blurry topics :-)--Zb 19:05, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Architecture
Image:2009-04-07 52 0 hashpoint.jpg -- You added the Category:Architecture tag. Sure, it's a building. But "architecture"? Isn't that category supposed to be for interesting buildings? This is just a brick house. -- Benjw 05:00, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
- Hi Benjw, you are of course right, on the picture is just a residential building, definitely nothing you'd ever find in a traveller's guide. This, however, is exactly why I like geohashing so much. It takes you off the beaten path, the one that's already well-documented in tourists' guides and whatnot. Looking at the picture, I find so many things that I think are really interesting and maybe very typical of its location. For example, I see no curtains. Friends in Holland recently told me that they think curtains are very German and not found that often in other places... I even added the Category:Architecture tag to pictures of quite ugly concrete bridges or shelters somewhere in the mountains. I think concrete bridges look fun when they appear next to a cathedral. Shelters in mountains look different in the Alps than they look in the North Cascades. Each of these details is fun, I think. I think all of the very regular -- sometimes even very boring -- and as well the sometimes very weird stuff is exactly what's so great about geohashing. It's even a cultural thing what something like a plain old phone box looks like: Do we want them to look pretty, or do we favour cost-cutting (über alles) and just put up ugly grey and magenta poles that leave the caller standing in the wind and rain, like the Deutsche Telekom decided to do some years ago? I definitely think that a category called Architecture should look different in the context of geohashing than it would in any other context.--Zb 17:56, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
Minor edit
Can I ask you to activate the "This is a minor edit" button if you only add a category to some file? This makes it possible to filter them off the Recent Changes page and still find the changes that might be worth a visit. --Ekorren 12:00, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
- Oh, sorry for causing your inbox to get messed up. I'll try to remember checking the "minor edit" box. --Zb 15:51, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
- Not the inbox, but Recent Changes. Most active wiki users use that page to look for any new contributions. If you take a look into it just now, you'll see all your categorizations, which (given that the number of shown changes is limited) may even mask other contributions; and although the categorizations are usually a good idea, it's not the kind of contribution which makes you click on the page and read it. If you activate the "Minor edit", people can choose to not have them in the list. --Ekorren 15:56, 23 May 2009 (UTC)
Schienenbus travel
Hi,
maybe you are interested, maybe not... this weekend on sunday and monday all of the various historic railcars in my area are out running again - and there is even a hashpoint nearby on monday! You could go to Ulm, take the Uerdinger railcar via Scheklingen and Münsingen to Kleinengstingen, continue to Hechingen-Schlatt, visit a boring forest near castle Hohenzollern and then continue with the MAN-railcar to Eyach.
Timetable example: Ulm 9:00, "Ulmer Spatz" (Uerdinger in green-white) to Kleinengstingen, HzL RegioShuttle or bus to Gammertingen, Schlatt arr 13:44, dep 15:44, from Hechingen to Eyach with MAN-railcar, arrival 16:55. A DB 650.3 takes you from there back to the mainlines. All those lines may count as rather scenic.
Another hashpoint would be available near Ulm, but is of unclear accessibility.
--Ekorren 22:03, 29 May 2009 (UTC)
- Hi Ekorren, thanks a lot for writing. Well, as nice as it sounds, maybe not this time, since I have stuff going on in Munich and the fun might turn into a rush, taking the fun out of the fun (uh, what?). I'll think about it again tomorrow, but you might want to better not make your plans around my (unlikely) visit to graticules West of Munich. Anyhow, thanks again! --Zb 10:34, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
- I'm not making plans around that unless you seriously consider it. As it is very likely that I'm not staying at home tomorrow but be on tour all day until the late evening, can I ask you to send me a mail or SMS if you decide you will go? I would send you my number by mail, but you haven't activated wiki mails.
- Anyway, there will only be three more chances to catch the MAN railcar this season: June 11th, and October 3rd and 4th --Ekorren 12:46, 30 May 2009 (UTC)
- Thanks for the update. I sent you an e-mail (and enabled my e-mail address to receive e-mails from this wiki). --Zb 09:31, 31 May 2009 (UTC)
2009-06-07 47 10
Hi,
there is a group forming to check out this epic hash. It's not that far for you as for all the others ;-) Maybe we can interest you in joining? --Ekorren 19:42, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, I've just noticed you are making plans and start to seriously consider it. --Zb 19:45, 5 June 2009 (UTC)
