Difference between revisions of "User:Darcy"

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Darcy lives in Berkeley. However, she is originally from Los Angeles and attended the very first meetup there. Looking forward to more in the future, in northern California, southern California, and possibly even some in the middle.

(Also, she doesn't actually own a handheld GPS unit. The car GPS is a poor substitute, sadly.)

Achievements

This user earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (37, -122) geohash on 2008-06-10.

This user earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (37, -122) geohash on 2008-06-14.

There probably needs to be an achievement for making slashdot.

This user earned the Bicycle geohash achievement

by cycling to the (37, -122) geohash on 2009-01-10.

Other Notable Geohashes

I made it within fifty feet of the Cambridge geohash for Tuesday, 6 August 2008 by complete coincidence while I was out running in the morning, and only discovered this late in the evening. Map evidence:

I think this is probably extra deserving of the Curse of Unawareness ribbon, since I could have gone right through it if I'd known it was there!

Darcy earned the Curse of Unawareness Consolation Prize

by reaching the (52, 0) geohash on 2008-08-05 without knowing it was there.

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-Darcy currently lives in [[Fayetteville, Arkansas]], but most of her geohashing was done in the Bay Area, while living in [[San Francisco, California|Berkeley]].  However, she is originally from [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] and attended the [[2008-05-24 34 -118|very first meetup]] there.  Looking forward to more in the future.
+Darcy lives in [[San Francisco, California|Berkeley]].  However, she is originally from [[Los Angeles, California|Los Angeles]] and attended the [[2008-05-24 34 -118|very first meetup]] there.  Looking forward to more in the future, in northern California, southern California, and possibly even [[San Luis Obispo, California|some in the middle]].
 (Also, she doesn't actually own a handheld GPS unit. The car GPS is a poor substitute, sadly.)
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 There probably needs to be an achievement for making slashdot.
+{{bicycle geohash | latitude = 37 | longitude = -122 | date = 2009-01-10 | image = Leavingproof.JPG}}
+==Other Notable Geohashes==
+I made it within fifty feet of the [[Cambridge, United Kingdom|Cambridge]] geohash for [[2008-08-05_52_0|Tuesday, 6 August 2008]] by complete coincidence while I was out running in the morning, and only discovered this late in the evening.  Map evidence:
+[[Image:Xkcd-cambridge-run.jpg]]
+I think this is probably ''extra'' deserving of the Curse of Unawareness ribbon, since I ''could'' have gone right through it if I'd known it was there!
+{{Curse of Unawareness
+    | latitude = 52
+    | longitude = 0
+    | date = 2008-08-05
+    | name = Darcy
+    | image = Xkcd-cambridge-run.jpg
+}}