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| − | |0={{quote|center|As it was my very first expedition, I was very excited about it. I wasn't expecting grand adventure, as the destination was just an hour walk from the city, but I was positively surprised, when I found a medieval tower on my way, that I had no idea was there. | + | |0={{quote|center|As it was my very first expedition, I was very excited about it. I wasn't expecting grand adventure, as the destination was just an hour walk from the city, but I was positively surprised, when I found a medieval tower on my way, that I had no idea was there.|[[2009-02-23_52_-7|JRK]]}} |
| − | + | |1={{quote|center|There's probably only one IRC channel in the world where you can complain about the stupid forest not being [[Cold_Geohash|cold enough]] at -9°C and everyone understands and agrees without raising an eyebrow.|[[2008-12-30 49 12|Dawidi]]}} | |
| − | |1={{quote|center|There's probably only one IRC channel in the world where you can complain about the stupid forest not being [[Cold_Geohash|cold enough]] at -9°C and everyone understands and agrees without raising an eyebrow. | + | |2={{quote|center|Then I realised, despite all my whining, my pain and exhaustion, my total lack of any positive thoughts at all, I was enjoying myself. I was having one of the most exhilarating times of my life. I was exploring a place that no one had ever been, seeing things no one had ever seen, pushing my body to its limit for a ridiculously pointless goal and loving every second of it.|[[2008-10-31_-32_138|UnwiseOwl]]}} |
| − | + | |3={{quote|center|We then attempted to explain the geohashing concept but eventually gave up and, with great authority, said "don't worry, we're from the Internet" which seemed to satisfy her.|[[2008-05-24 53 -113|Mike V, Edmonton]]}} | |
| − | |2={{quote|center|Then I realised, despite all my whining, my pain and exhaustion, my total lack of any positive thoughts at all, I was enjoying myself. I was having one of the most exhilarating times of my life. I was exploring a place that no one had ever been, seeing things no one had ever seen, pushing my body to its limit for a ridiculously pointless goal and loving every second of it. | + | |4={{quote|center|Made it there about lunch time. Mrs. Killingsworth, the nice, older lady that lives there, just could not understand why "the internet" was sending people to her house!|[[2008-07-19 33 -86|N76Lima]]}} |
| − | + | |5={{quote|center|I didn't bring any skis on this expedition, so when the GPS reported the hash being 59 m from the road, I thought "close enough" and called it a night. No, really, I walked/crawled through the waist-deep snow to reach the hash. I should be declared insane, but I made it.|[[2009-02-11_66_21|the_ru]]}} | |
| − | |3={{quote|center|We then attempted to explain the geohashing concept but eventually gave up and, with great authority, said "don't worry, we're from the Internet" which seemed to satisfy her. | + | |6={{quote|center|Basically, we take a random point based on the Stock exchange and the current date, and go and have wacky adventures. Think of me as a new kind of adventure capitalist.|[[User:UnwiseOwl|UnwiseOwl]], explaining geohashing to a friend.}} |
| − | + | |7={{quote|center|"He tells me that he was burglarized recently, that he assumed that's why I was there, and that when he saw me (must've looked pretty weird, me stamping the grass and taking pictures of it), he was sitting by the window with his RIFLE debating whether or not to SHOOT ME."|[[User:Bird|Bird]] in #geohashing about his [[2009-05-23 55 9|debut hash]]}} | |
| − | |4={{quote|center|Made it there about lunch time. Mrs. Killingsworth, the nice, older lady that lives there, just could not understand why "the internet" was sending people to her house! | + | |8={{quote|center|See, two weird looking young men, are sitting on somebody's roof maybe a 100 meters away from a military base, have no explanation of what they are doing there ("uh, well, we picked a random spot and went there, officer, honest!"), and one has a hat with a communist star. Right. Not suspicious in the least.|[[2009-06-15 41 28|Superbest]], describing the strategic retreat to the roof of a stranger's house for the night.}} |
| − | + | |9={{quote|center|Hi, mom! - Are you at home? - No. - Where are you? - Um, near Garmisch... - Are you geohashing again? - Um, yes... - How many of you are there? - Nine... - Well, have fun, but don't tell your father. Bye.|[[User:Danatar|Danatar]], at [[:Image:2009-06-07_47_10_e_Danatar_Telephone.jpg|2009-06-07 47 10]]}} | |
| − | |5={{quote|center|I didn't bring any skis on this expedition, so when the GPS reported the hash being 59 m from the road, I thought "close enough" and called it a night. No, really, I walked/crawled through the waist-deep snow to reach the hash. I should be declared insane, but I made it. | ||
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Revision as of 22:25, 22 June 2009
| “ | Basically, we take a random point based on the Stock exchange and the current date, and go and have wacky adventures. Think of me as a new kind of adventure capitalist.
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—UnwiseOwl, explaining geohashing to a friend.
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