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=== Retro Hashes and Special Expeditions === | === Retro Hashes and Special Expeditions === |
Revision as of 10:39, 29 September 2009
Macronencer
Real name | Mike |
Based in | Bursledon, Southampton, UK |
Education | Southampton Uni Maths grad, 1986. |
Job | Software developer |
True vocation | Media Composer (I'm working on it) |
xkcd history | Fan since the first mention on BoingBoing in 2005 |
Home turf | approximately here |
Other information
Mike can close his nose without touching it, which makes him fart-proof. He eats at least forty times his own body weight every century, is a part-time volunteer in the Lynne Truss militia, and loves skunks, his son and longevity research - but not in that order. Give him an inch and he takes a mile. Give him a pinch and he makes a pile. He is a full-time sceptic, part-time father, one-time rock star and all-time champion awful punster.
This is Chuck, my hashscot. Being one of the greatest adventuring scientists who ever lived, rather exhausted after his voyage on the Beagle, family tragedy and the years and years of work on his well-known book, this 200-year-old explorer decided to take it easy, and now travels to random locations with me.
He enjoys looking at the countryside on our travels, and gets rather animated when by chance we spy a finch or lowly earthworm. I often have to remind him to calm down before he punctuates his equilibrium. I am looking forward to the day when my bicycle chain breaks so I can ask him, in jocular fashion, to go and find the missing link.
Local Graticules
Southampton, United Kingdom (home)
Swindon, United Kingdom (convenient alternative)
Brighton, United Kingdom (possible alternative as I work near Fareham)
Weymouth, United Kingdom (occasionally convenient)
Planned Hashes
Standard Hashes
2009-09-29 51 -1 | Ashmansworth, Hampshire | Speed Racer attempt
Retro Hashes and Special Expeditions
Attempted HashesMap of my expeditions on Google Maps Standard HashesAll distances in km
Retro Hashes and Special Expeditions
StatisticsScore CardNote: only reached co-ordinates on standard hashes are counted here
AchievementsOngoing
Completed
Consolation Prizes
Gratuitous Ribbons
Long-term Intentions
Completed!
VERY long-term intentions
JournalOld journal entries archived here
Anyway, the Globalhash mirror region can be calculated easily from your latitude and longitude. It is a "trigonometric rectangle" (i.e. bounded by latitudes and meridians) with two opposite corners defined thus: GMLAT1 = ( 181 * HOMELAT + 90 ) / 180 GMLAT2 = ( 181 * HOMELAT + 91 ) / 180 ...where HOMELAT and HOMELON are the absolute values of your graticule's integer co-ordinates. After calculating, you have to re-apply the correct sign. This makes the floor/round issue go away :) For my graticule (50 -1) these work out to: GM1 = ( 50.77777778, -1.50277778 )
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- Pages using duplicate arguments in template calls
- Geohashers
- Geohashers in their 50s
- Geohashers in 50,-1
- Minesweeper geohash achievement
- Xkcd centurion achievement
- Consecutive geohash achievement
- Public transport geohash achievement
- Ambassador achievement
- Pub geohash achievement
- Geotrash achievement
- Multihash achievement
- Origin geohash achievement
- Land geohash achievement
- Meet-up achievement
- Drag-along achievement
- Midnight geohash achievement
- Phonebooth stuffing achievement
- No trespassing consolation prize
- Gratuitous ribbon achievement