Difference between revisions of "2024-12-11 45 -93"

Latest revision as of 04:16, 12 December 2024

GET YOUR DEGREE,
SET YOURSELF FREE~

Location

Inside a defunct National American University building in Roseville, MN.

Participants

Kyrkazakh (talk)

Plans

Kyrkazakh (talk): Right near a Target I planned to shop at, so why not.

Expedition

I showed up pre-Target shopping run and parked in the completely unfilled parking lot. The lot and the building were both empty as a desert and quiet as a cemetery. Signs on the building say NATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY which, for the non-Americans reading this, is a private for-profit online university (read: scam) whose famously catchy ad jingles often featured on television when I was a kid. Now the building is a 'conference center' except it is completely empty as you'll see from the photos. I thought there was a ~2% chance I could enter, alas no luck — apparently "night-time, anytime!" from the ad song was not actually true. So I went around the back to get as close as possible to the hash, and oh boy. As of today Minnesota is cold. Not 0 C cold, not 0 F cold, but "health risk to have exposed skin for any real length of time" cold. It's that dang wind. I snapped a photo of the liminal, eerie interior through the windows and hurried back to the car. I didn't reach the coordinates, but after a week and a half of my car being in the shop, it felt good to be out and geohashing again.

Photos

For Lease, but I wasn't going to buy it just to reach the hash.
Deeply creepy, also super cold where I was.
Almost...

Achievements

Kyrkazakh earned the No trespassing consolation prize

by almost (14 meters) reaching the (45, -93) geohash on 2024-12-11.

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+[[File:NAU exterior.jpg|thumb|left|GET YOUR DEGREE, </br>SET YOURSELF FREE~]]
+{{meetup graticule|date=2024-12-11|lat=45|lon=-93|graticule_name=Minneapolis NW|graticule_link=Minneapolis NW, Minnesota}}
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--->{{meetup graticule|date=2024-12-11|lat=45|lon=-93}}
 == Location ==
-<!-- where you've surveyed the hash to be -->
+Inside a defunct National American University building in Roseville, MN.
 == Participants ==
-<!-- who attended: If you link to your wiki user name in this section, your expedition will be picked up by the various statistics generated for geohashing. You may use three tildes ~ as a shortcut to automatically insert the user signature of the account you are editing with.
+[[User:Kyrkazakh|Kyrkazakh]] ([[User talk:Kyrkazakh|talk]])
--->
 == Plans ==
-<!-- what were the original plans -->
+[[User:Kyrkazakh|Kyrkazakh]] ([[User talk:Kyrkazakh|talk]]): Right near a Target I planned to shop at, so why not.
 == Expedition ==
-<!-- how it all turned out. your narrative goes here. -->
+I showed up pre-Target shopping run and parked in the completely unfilled parking lot. The lot and the building were both empty as a desert and quiet as a cemetery. Signs on the building say NATIONAL AMERICAN UNIVERSITY which, for the non-Americans reading this, is a private for-profit online university (read: scam) whose famously catchy ad jingles often featured on television when I was a kid. Now the building is a 'conference center' except it is ''completely empty'' as you'll see from the photos. I thought there was a ~2% chance I could enter, alas no luck — apparently "night-time, anytime!" from the ad song was not actually true. So I went around the back to get as close as possible to the hash, and oh boy. As of today Minnesota is cold. Not 0 C cold, not 0 F cold, but "health risk to have exposed skin for any real length of time" cold. It's that dang wind. I snapped a photo of the liminal, eerie interior through the windows and hurried back to the car. I didn't reach the coordinates, but after a week and a half of my car being in the shop, it felt good to be out and geohashing again.
-== Tracklog ==
-<!-- if your GPS device keeps a log, you may use Template:Tracklog, post a link here, or both -->
 == Photos ==
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+Image:NAU exterior.jpg | For Lease, but I wasn't going to buy it just to reach the hash.
+Image:NAU interior.jpg | Deeply creepy, also super cold where I was.
+Image:NAU proof.PNG | Almost...
 </gallery>
 == Achievements ==
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-<!-- Add any achievement ribbons you earned below, or remove this section -->
+{{No trespassing | latitude = 45 | longitude = -93 | date = 2024-12-11 | name = Kyrkazakh | image = NAU exterior.jpg | distance = 14 meters}}
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+[[Category:Meetup in Ramsey County, Minnesota]]
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