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|13={{quoteMore|center|It was barely off the road halfway between a funeral and a baptism, so the attire just kind of happened.|Trane, in #geohashing, about [[2010-02-06_43_-91]]}} | |13={{quoteMore|center|It was barely off the road halfway between a funeral and a baptism, so the attire just kind of happened.|Trane, in #geohashing, about [[2010-02-06_43_-91]]}} | ||
|14={{quoteMore|center|I had managed to reach a place where the car horns and cheers from Canada's gold-medal victory in men's Olympic hockey did not reach.|Juventas, [[2010-02-28_49_-119]]}} | |14={{quoteMore|center|I had managed to reach a place where the car horns and cheers from Canada's gold-medal victory in men's Olympic hockey did not reach.|Juventas, [[2010-02-28_49_-119]]}} | ||
+ | |15={{quoteMore|center|Okay, if you don't hear back from me in two hours, call the police and tell them to look for me approximately at the 50 10 geohash of the day.|[[User:Mampfred|Mampfred]] on the phone with his wife after dark at [[2010-10-18_50_10]] | ||
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“ | As it was my very first expedition, I was very excited about it. I wasn't expecting grand adventure, as the destination was just an hour walk from the city, but I was positively surprised, when I found a medieval tower on my way, that I had no idea was there.
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find some more great geohashing quotations here. | —JRK
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“ | There's probably only one IRC channel in the world where you can complain about the stupid forest not being cold enough at -9°C and everyone understands and agrees without raising an eyebrow.
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“ | Then I realised, despite all my whining, my pain and exhaustion, my total lack of any positive thoughts at all, I was enjoying myself. I was having one of the most exhilarating times of my life. I was exploring a place that no one had ever been, seeing things no one had ever seen, pushing my body to its limit for a ridiculously pointless goal and loving every second of it.
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“ | We then attempted to explain the geohashing concept but eventually gave up and, with great authority, said "don't worry, we're from the Internet" which seemed to satisfy her.
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“ | Made it there about lunch time. Mrs. Killingsworth, the nice, older lady that lives there, just could not understand why "the internet" was sending people to her house!
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“ | I didn't bring any skis on this expedition, so when the GPS reported the hash being 59 m from the road, I thought "close enough" and called it a night. No, really, I walked/crawled through the waist-deep snow to reach the hash. I should be declared insane, but I made it.
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“ | Basically, we take a random point based on the Stock exchange and the current date, and go and have wacky adventures. Think of me as a new kind of adventure capitalist.
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find some more great geohashing quotations here. | —UnwiseOwl, explaining geohashing to a friend.
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“ | "He tells me that he was burglarized recently, that he assumed that's why I was there, and that when he saw me (must've looked pretty weird, me stamping the grass and taking pictures of it), he was sitting by the window with his RIFLE debating whether or not to SHOOT ME."
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find some more great geohashing quotations here. | —Bird in #geohashing about his debut hash
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“ | See, two weird looking young men, are sitting on somebody's roof maybe a 100 meters away from a military base, have no explanation of what they are doing there ("uh, well, we picked a random spot and went there, officer, honest!"), and one has a hat with a communist star. Right. Not suspicious in the least.
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find some more great geohashing quotations here. | —Superbest, describing the strategic retreat to the roof of a stranger's house for the night.
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“ | Hi, mom! - Are you at home? - No. - Where are you? - Um, near Garmisch... - Are you geohashing again? - Um, yes... - How many of you are there? - Nine... - Well, have fun, but don't tell your father. Bye.
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find some more great geohashing quotations here. | —Danatar, on the phone at 2009-06-07 47 10
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“ | When the Coast Guard told us to come onto their boat while they towed the raft to shore, we completely neglected to wield our plastic cutlasses menacingly and cry out "Prepare to be boarded, ye scurvy dogs!" as we leapt aboard.
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“ | Put it this way, common sense is my middle name. My first name's "absolutely no".
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“ | 12:25 - What the hell... Edit conflict? Pari!
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find some more great geohashing quotations here. | —davidc on Pari, who were both live editing the wiki during the expedition
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“ | It was barely off the road halfway between a funeral and a baptism, so the attire just kind of happened.
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find some more great geohashing quotations here. | —Trane, in #geohashing, about 2010-02-06_43_-91
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“ | I had managed to reach a place where the car horns and cheers from Canada's gold-medal victory in men's Olympic hockey did not reach.
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find some more great geohashing quotations here. | —Juventas, 2010-02-28_49_-119
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“ | Okay, if you don't hear back from me in two hours, call the police and tell them to look for me approximately at the 50 10 geohash of the day.
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find some more great geohashing quotations here. | —Mampfred on the phone with his wife after dark at 2010-10-18_50_10
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