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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 [[Newark, New Jersey|the North Jersey graticule]], and I'm aiming for a [[User:Jevanyn/New Jersey|Regional geohash for New Jersey]], as well as meeting as many geohashers [[Wilmington, North Carolina|all]] [[Boston, Massachusetts|over]] the [[Seattle, Washington|country]] as I can.

I like [http://www.irregularwebcomic.net/2276.html bridge], [http://www.njbikemap.com cycling], [http://www.mlb.com 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 [http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/CardBoardDay/ 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.

== Planned expeditions ==

* '''June 2009''': I'm taking some vacation time to go to North Carolina, and will do some geohashing and other site seeing on the way back.
* '''Summer 2009''': I am expecting to attempt a retrohash to the [[2008-12-25 38 -74|December 25th geohash in the Cape May graticule]].  It seems to be about 1000 feet from the beach: I'm going to <strike>swim for it</strike> take a boat ride?.
* ''' 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.

== Expeditions ==
Totals: Expeditions: '''15'''.  Geohashes reached: '''7'''

[[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2009-04-11 40 -74]]: '''[[Drowned Rat Geohash|Cold, wet]] [[Bicycle Geohash|bicycle geohash]] in Hillsborough.'''

[[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2009-03-04 40 -74]]: '''No GPS!  No map!  No directions!  No camera?! ... AAAA!'''

[[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2009-02-28 40 -74]]: '''Jevanyn the buccaneer leads pirate raids up and down the Turnpike!'''

[[Image:Arrow4.png|12px]] [[2009-02-19 40 -74]]: The geohash was only a couple of towns over, but still unreachable.

[[Image:Arrow4.png|12px]] [[2009-01-17 40 -74]]: A planned geohash, postponed from the 10th due to snow, was unreachable on the 17th.
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[[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[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.'''

[[Image:Arrow4.png|12px]] [[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.

[[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2008-10-18 40 -75]]: '''Touchdown Philadelphia!'''

[[Image:Arrow4.png|12px]] [[2008-09-07 40 -74]]: Thwarted by poison ivy and "No Trespassing" signs, we performed some [[Geotrash Geohash|community service]] and investigated reports of dinosaur abuse.

[[Image:Arrow4.png|12px]] [[2008-09-05 39 -74]]: Got to Vineland around 11PM, and got caught in the rain.

[[Image:Arrow1.png|12px]] [[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 [[Cape May, New Jersey|this graticule]], this may be as close as anyone gets for a while.

[[Image:Arrow4.png|12px]] [[2008-08-16 39 -74]]: The geohash is up a creek, and I'm passing through.

[[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2008-07-26 40 -74]]: '''Meetup with [[User:Zubenelgenubi|Zubenelgenubi]].  XKCD conquers yet another suburb :-)'''

[[Image:Arrow4.png|12px]] 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.

[[Image:Arrow4.png|12px]] [[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.

[[Image:Arrow6.png|12px]] 2008-06-12: The location for [[Newark, New Jersey|Newark]] was only three miles from where I work, which at the time was the closest [[Cubicle Geohash]] to date.

== Ribbons ==
{{Bicycle geohash     | latitude=40 | longitude=-74 | date=2009-04-11 | User=Jevanyn }}
{{Drowned rat geohash | latitude=40 | longitude=-74 | date=2009-04-11 | User=Jevanyn }}
{{Speed racer|date=2009-03-04 |latitude=40 |longitude=-74|name=Jevanyn}}
{{Buccaneer geohash|date=2009-02-28 |latitude=40 |longitude=-74|name=Jevanyn|action=wearing a tricorne hat and teaching his son to say "Walk the plank!"}}
{{Easy geohash|date=2009-02-28 |latitude=40 |longitude=-74|name=Jevanyn}}
{{Mnb geohash|date=2009-01-17 |latitude=40 |longitude=-74|name=Jevanyn}}
{{Consecutive geohash | latitude = 41 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-12-13 | name = [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] | count = 2 }} 
{{Midnight geohash | latitude = 41 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-12-13 | name = [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] | image = 2008-12-13_41_-74_100_5666.JPG }} 
{{Frozen Geohash | latitude = 41 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-12-13 | temperature = 23 °F | name = [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] | image = 2008-12-13_41_-74_100_5678.JPG }} 
{{minesweeper geohash | name=[[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] | ranknumber=2 | graticule=Newark, New Jersey | n=true | w=true }}
{{Virgin graticule | latitude = 41 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-12-13 | name = [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] | image = 2008-12-13_41_-74_100_5675.JPG }} 
{{Police geohash | latitude = 41 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-12-14  | name = [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] | image = 2008-12-14_41_-74_100_5697.JPG }} 
{{Midnight geohash | latitude = 41 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-12-14 | name = [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] | image = 2008-12-14_41_-74_100_5695.JPG }}
{{Curse of Unawareness | name = [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] | latitude = 39 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-08-23 }}
{{My kingdom for a boat | latitude = 39 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-08-16 | name = Jevanyn | waterhazard = creek}}
{{land geohash | latitude = 40 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-07-26 }}
{{Meet-up | latitude = 40 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-07-26 | other = [[User:Zubenelgenubi|Zubenelgenubi]]}}
{{no batteries geohash | latitude = 40 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-07-26 }}
{{drag-along | latitude = 40 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-07-26 | partner = Evan }}
{{No trespassing | latitude = 40 | longitude = -74 | date = 2008-06-28}}

== Achievements I'm shooting for ==
*[[User:Jevanyn/New_Jersey|Regional geohash]] . . . 9 graticules, 5 attempted, 2 reached.
*[[Bicycle Geohash]]
*[[Minesweeper Geohash|Minesweeper achievement]] . . . 3 of 8 centered on [[Newark, New Jersey|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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Hanna_(2008) 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 ;-)
::A Saturday meetup in [[Boston]] or [[Seattle]].  Seattle would be an XKCD-1000.
::A geohash in [[:Category:Australia|Australia]] or [[:Category:New Zealand|New Zealand]], which would be an XKCD-10000 8-D.

== 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.

== 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 [[:Category:North Carolina|North Carolina]] and [[:Category:South Carolina|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 [[:Category:Mississippi River|Mississippi River]]
*[[Johannesburg, South Africa]] split-city map
*[[:Category:Egypt|Graticules along Suez Canal]]

== Other stuff I'm working on ==

[[User:Jevanyn/Geohashing Fluxx|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''

[[User:Jevanyn/Retrohash Racing|Retrohash Racing]]: A random date in the past is chosen, and geohashers race to reach that date's geohash.

[[Category:Addicted to geohashing|Jevanyn]]