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| − | Nuts, and I don't get my bike back from the shop until tomorrow. -- [[User:Rhonda|Rhonda]] 15:17, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
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| − | ::Oh, ok. I need to add a bike trailer to my shopping list anyway. -- [[User:Rhonda|Rhonda]] 15:39, 21 April 2009 (UTC)
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| − | :::<i>Woohoo!</i> <-- terrible attempt at lemmings noise [[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] 00:57, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
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| − | ::::Got all the way through Fun and Tricky, halfway through the Taxing level and then switched to Commander Keen. Wade found a DOS emulator to run all my old favourite games on the PC. I even have ''Star Trek: 25th Anniversary''. Don't do the math. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 01:08, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
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| − | :::::OMG! Commander Keen is the greatest video game ever! [[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] 04:33, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
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| − | ::::::Isn't it just? It is ''so'' well designed and playable and fun and the keystrokes are amazingly natural, and it ran in 1024 k of RAM, maybe even 640 k. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 04:45, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
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| − | :::Weird. I watchlist everything I edit, and I edit almost everything I read, and I read almost everything on the wiki so ... -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 01:09, 4 May 2009 (UTC)
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| − | ::Yay! I'll go to my car and get one of the noise makers! [[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] 05:49, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
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| − | :So I should make sure I'm back from my secret trip by then, eh? -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 15:39, 23 April 2009 (UTC)
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| − | :::This is more exciting than waiting for Christmas to come. :) [[User:Juventas|Juventas]] 07:23, 29 April 2009 (UTC)
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| − | :Awesome. Just got back from a three-day multi-graticule camping trip. I'll catch up later. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 15:35, 11 May 2009 (UTC)
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| − | :Awright! And I appreciate the tremendous amount of categorizing you have done. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 15:57, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
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| − | :::Good gods no. I love that I can wish something were done and then other people see the same need and just do it, so in the end I don't remember what was my idea and what was a someone else's idea I just agreed with. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 17:42, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
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Australia
Hi Robyn, CJ and I were wondering, when you come to Australia (Whoo Hoo!), Could you please bring your airplane with you? Thanks, -- Kate 13:23, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
I'd need to a) convine my boss he didn't need it that week and b) fill all the baggage holds with fuel to get it that far. How about I bring my licence and hire one there? -Robyn 17:26, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Yay! We'll planepool (as in carpool?) and go on an Airtrip (as in roadtrip?) ! -- Kate 21:34, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Yeah! Drop by your local flying school and find out what the rules are for a rental by someone who holds a Transport Canada and FAA licence. -Robyn 21:36, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
Hi Robyn, guess what? While at a dance performance I was chatting to another performer, who is the secretary for an organisation that rents planes in Canberra (yeah, I know, yay for random coincidences)! So... what kind of license do you have again? Her preliminary advice was you can probably get a temporary flying permit thing. --joannac 04:14, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
I have a Transport Canada Airline Transport Licence, and an FAA Private licence. The trick seems to be that you have to do a flying checkout with a school (no problem) but then Australia takes weeks to process the temp permit. -Robyn 04:58, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
Europe
It's fantastic that you're coming to Europe! I'll be around 39,2, 40,14, 41,2, 43,5 and 39,-0 from May 16 to 23, so I we'll probably not meet each other. I would have loved to (if I could choose to meet any hasher, it would be you). Good luck and lots of fun and hashpoints to visit. Oh, and thanks for your card! --ilpadre 17:58, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
- Aw rats, you're right: that's way far south. I hope I can meet some people, anyway. -Robyn 18:20, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
Speaking of meeting up, do you have any firm plans as to where you'll be? It wouldn't be out of the question for me to make it to a pan-European meetup on Sunday 17th or on my weekday off work on either week (although I don't know which days those will be, yet), especially if you were still in Belgium, which is closer than Germany. That's if you were planning to go hashing while you're here, of course... (and also assuming you'd like to meet up, which isn't a given, I suppose -- perhaps I'm assuming too much!) -- Benjw 18:25, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
- I don't have specific plans yet. I'm landing in Brussels. I thought my route would probably take me more east before going south, to avoid the most mountainous area in between, and I was going to let the location of accessible geohashes guide me. I might even go northeast into the Netherlands. I can always take trains if I get behind schedule. And of course I want to meet up. And apparently I can get by in any country in Europe by speaking lolcat: I CAN HAZ WIFI? -Robyn 18:31, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
I'm willing to go to any place reachable with a Baden-Württemberg-Ticket for a meetup. That is: All of 48,8, 48,9 and significant parts of all of the surrounding graticules. Longer trips might be considered if it's possible to share a group ticket. --Ekorren 18:35, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
FREAKING overpriced Dinosaur fees. So I let the airline know that I would be travelling with a bicycle and a dinosaur, and it turned out that while rubber dinosaurs travel free, the fee for the bike was going to be more than the whole fare. So I freaked out and called Aeroplan to find out what I could do about this, and they took pity on me, and refunded everything even though it was a non-refundable fare. So T-Rex and Уcпех and I are not going to Europe right now. Unless we rebook on Air Canada. -Robyn 21:37, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
- Why don't you get another ICWB when you get there? --Kate 01:45, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
- Because I want to ride a hundred kilometres a day and enjoy it, and it's tricky buying a reliable bicycle in another country in advance. -Robyn 01:50, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
Yay Computer!
Welcome back to the land of the fully functional computer! --aperfectring 17:23, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
- "Fully functional" would not be quite accurate. To begin with, the machine runs Vista. So far I can receive mail (but not send it), surf the web (but haven't remembered my geohashing wiki password, nor figured out how to import my very extensive bookmark hierarchy into the new install of Firefox. The Import function offers only to import from IE, and that's the new computer install of IE, consisting mainly of AOL and the hardware manufacturer's site. But at least I have a full-sized keyboard and screen, and I appreciate the welcome. - Robyn
- will this help? -- Rhonda 18:37, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
- I've found the automatic bookmark backups on the old hard drive, but I haven't figured out how to make the new installation look at them. I'll read your link more thoroughly to see if it mentions how to do that, somewhere. -Robyn.
- Yay! Bookmarks! They're back! The information wasn't in that link, but I searched on keywords in that link and discovered a file called places.sqlite, which when copied across resulted in my having all my hierarchies, toolbar bookmarks, everything is back. If I'm really lucky maybe my passwords, too. -Robyn
- Hurrah! Your passwords might be stored in a different file in your profile folder, if they're not in the places database. -- Rhonda 19:39, 2 July 2009 (UTC)
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More insane than normal
You walked to Langley?!?! Thepiguy 08:10, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
- Sweet! --ilpadre 09:16, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
- I was totally impressed by your 42km Walk Geohash even before I calculated what 42km was in those archaic units that we use here! Congratulations on your Walk Geohash ribbon, and the longest Walk Geohash so far. Sara 15:26, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
- Yeah, I walked to Langley. It seemed like a good idea at the time. And by the time it started to hurt, I'd come too far to give up. Now for the real challenge: walking to the kitchen the next day. I remember the first time I rode my bike to Langley: I thought that was a long way. -Robyn 15:30, 8 July 2009 (UTC)
- That should be our motto. "Geohashing: It seemed like a good idea at the time." I'll make sure to put that on a shirt. :D Thepiguy 09:37, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
- Support :D --Meghan 14:44, 10 July 2009 (UTC)
More insane than normal...er
They stopped you?!? How could they do that! I'm guessing that they didn't really give you a choice in the matter, judging by how you wrote it up. But you were fine! There aren't any laws against that is there? Thepiguy 19:53, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
- They were concerned that I was going to be in the way of the freighter. And they didn't understand the goal. And I didn't say Yarrrr! Prepare to be boarded! Maybe I should rewrite the expedition to say that I did, and then remember it that way. -Robyn 20:10, 13 July 2009 (UTC)
Recent expeditions help text
It is much simpler to have the bot just write the text as a whole to Template:Recent expeditions. I will add the text you added into the bot sometime tonight. If you want to add some helpful text to any page, and the bot is overwriting it, please let me know on the bot's talk page. --aperfectring 21:43, 15 July 2009 (UTC)
Thanks. I was thinking that Aperfectbot Help was not the best name for the section there, because someone who wants that information is looking more for "How to add your expedition."
