User:Nemo

Nobody does it better “ In Soviet Russia, Nemo finds you! ” —Psud at 2008-06-14 -35 149 49 / xy / -35,149 This geohasher comes from Canberra.

Nemo is nobody special

He drives a car named Eliza which, dispite the looks, he's not afraid to get out into the wild.

Eliza and some geohashers

Chronology of my Geohash attempts

All successfull geohashes achieve Land Geohash unless otherwise specified

2009 January 19 - Monday - Should this be here on 2008 Oct 25, for on that date I visited this date's geohash location (even better: I did so as part of the trip TO the Oct25 geohash location. There is video of the drive...

• Deja Vu (ribbon)

2009 January 17 - Saturday - A group in Surburban Canberra

• No Batteries
• Speed racer
• Juggling

2008 December 07 - Sunday - Nemo found northern Canberra surburbia

• No Batteries
• Speedracer

2008 October 25 - Saturday - Nemo went for a drive past Lake George and through the hashpoint

• No Batteries
• Speedracer (ribbon)

2008 September 21 - Sunday - Joannac, Elizabeth and Mr Tumbles joined me to find Psud, Helen, Charlotte and Tom on Mt Ainslie

• Picnic Geohash
• No Batteries
• Juggling award (ribbon)

2008 August 17 - Sunday - Along with Psud, Llandorin and Deb, we made it to a bike path on Mt Stromlo

2008 July 13 - Sunday - Failure to get to the hashpoint, but exploration of nearby London Bridge natural limestone arch

• Second MNB award
• Picnic Geohash

2008 June 17 - Tuesday - A beautiful lunch picnic next to Old Parliament House.

• First No Batteries award (ribbon)
• Pedantically, the ACT regional award was achieved with this visit (ribbon)
• Similarly pedantically, Minesweeper Geohash (rank 1) achieved on this hash. (ribbon)
• Picnic Geohash for -35,149 (ribbon)

2008 June 14 - Saturday - A +24hour late visit - we went to fridays graticule on saturday. More pine regrowth, this time out by Molonglo Gorge. Due to the quasitemporal nature of this geohash, I am citing it as a win visit, but not citing it as evidence towards any achievements (possible are: picnic/minesweeper rank 1/ACT regional/juggling)

2008 June 07 - Saturday - Just barely south of Canberra. Cliffs barred the way.

• MNB award (ribbon)

2008 June 01 - Sunday - Out past Cotter Dam in pine forest regrowth.

• We invented the first version of the Geohash Card Game.
• First MNIMB award (ribbon)
• Picnic Geohash for -35,148 (ribbon)
• Virgin Graticule (ribbon)

Achievements

• note: first time achievement for each graticule listed only

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Nemo earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (-35, 148) geohash on 2008-06-01.

Nemo earned the Picnic achievement by eating munchies at the (-35, 148) geohash on 2008-06-01.

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Nemo earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (-35, 149) geohash on 2008-06-17.

Nemo achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in -35,149 and 1 of the surrounding graticules.

Nemo earned the Picnic achievement by eating lunch snacks at the (-35, 149) geohash on 2008-06-17.

Nemo earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement by cleaning up the (-35, 149) geohash on 2008-07-13.

Nemo earned the Regional geohashing achievement by reaching a hash point in all possible ACT, Australia (-35, 148-9) graticules.

Nemo earned the Circus Geohash Achievement by Juggling at the (-35, 149) geohash on 2008-09-21.

Nemo earned the Speed racer achievement by passing through the (-35, 149) geohash on 2008-10-25 at the maximum legal speed.

Mother Nature vs Nemo

Am I Mother Nature's Bitch, or vice versa?

• Nemo: 1
• Mother Nature: 2

Site tools

• Template:QuickLinks For city pages, provide automagic links to map of upcoming hashpoints. Templatisation by User:Mattyk
• Geohash template (the little colours arrow things in chronology)

Map of Geohash visits

Google maps of my visits (this may be more up to date than the convenient image below :)

Further reading...

I'm on the internet...

• on my blog
• on wikipedia
• and I'm usually 'nemo' on irc (eg: #geohashing on foonetic)