Difference between revisions of "User:Grumpa"

Latest revision as of 13:45, 25 December 2012

How I Came to be Here

I made a comment on a website about the 'duality of man' in respone to some current event (the details don't really matter, do they). I was feeling a bit vicious so I might have used words like "hypocrite" and/or "mendacious" and/or "duplicitous". Rather than flame me back to the Iron Age (which I surely deserved) another commenter gently reminded me that people were complicated, and posted a link to an XKCD cartoon. Wow! I wasted the next several hours exploring the site. And I discovered this geohash thing, which had the attractive potential of wasting all sorts of time well into the future. I was hooked.

Expeditions

December 23, 2012 Air Geohash, multihash

December 23, 2012 Air Geohash achievement, Mile High award

November 30, 2012 Beautiful day for a short hike.

November 04, 2012 My first expedition.

Achievements

Grumpa earned the Multihash Achievement

by reaching the 2012-12-23 29 -82 and 2012-12-23 29 -81 geohashes on 2012-12-23.

Grumpa earned the Air geohash achievement

by reaching the (29, -82) geohash on 2012-12-23 by Cessna 172.

Mile High Award

Grumpa earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (29, -82) geohash on 2012-11-30.

Grumpa earned the Air geohash achievement

by reaching the (29, -82) geohash on 2012-11-04 by Cessna 172.

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-Trying for expedition tomorrow at [[2012-11-04_29_-82]]
+== How I Came to be Here ==
-I'll be flying it so, weather permitting, I'll get the pilot achievement AND the mile high achievement.  An expensive way to reach my first hash point but, like many hobbiest private pilot flights, I'll settle some currency requirements as well.
+I made a comment on a website about the 'duality of man' in respone to some current event (the details don't ''really'' matter, do they).  I was feeling a bit vicious so I might have used words like "hypocrite" and/or "mendacious" and/or "duplicitous".  Rather than flame me back to the Iron Age (which I surely deserved) another commenter gently reminded me that people were complicated, and posted a link to an [http://xkcd.com/592/ XKCD] cartoon.  Wow!  I wasted the next several hours exploring the site.  And I discovered this geohash thing, which had the attractive potential of wasting all sorts of time well into the future.  I was hooked.
+== Expeditions ==
+[[2012-12-23_29_-81|December 23, 2012]]   Air Geohash, multihash
+[[2012-12-23_29_-82|December 23, 2012]]   Air Geohash achievement, Mile High award
+[[2012-11-30_29_-82|November 30, 2012]]   Beautiful day for a short hike.
+[[2012-11-04_29_-82|November 04, 2012]]   My first expedition.
+== Achievements ==
+{{#vardefine:ribbonwidth|800px}}
+<!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
+{{Multihash | latitude1 = 29 | longitude1 = -82 | latitude2 = 29 | longitude2 = -81 | date = 2012-12-23 | name = Grumpa }}
+{{air geohash | latitude = 29 | longitude = -82 | date = 2012-12-23 | name = Grumpa | vehicle = Cessna 172 }}
+Mile High Award
+{{land geohash | latitude = 29 | longitude = -82 | date = 2012-11-30 | name = Grumpa }}
+{{air geohash | latitude = 29 | longitude = -82 | date = 2012-11-04 | name = Grumpa | vehicle = Cessna 172}}