User:RocketMac

About Me

52 / m / 42,-88

I am a Mac geek (former Apple employee (twice)) and current Apple Certified Trainer/Consultant/Technician) living near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

I know I'm late to the geohashing game, but I dig it a lot.

My house is less than two miles South/Southwest from the 43, -88 graticule, but I'm originally from Naperville, IL so the 42, -88 suits me just fine.

Geohashes Visited

Reached (>=1) or attempted (0)

	-93	-92	-91	-90	-89	-88	-87
45	1	0
44		1		0
43				0		1	3
42					2*	3+
*includes proxy find via puppet +includes retrohash

• 2011-10-22 43 -87 - Used the day's hashpoint as a random adventure generator with the Wyf 20px
• 2011-10-17 42 -88 - Retrohash: Didn't make actual date, but spent the rest of week at client site a mile away
• 2011-10-14 43 -88 - I sent a puppet out to find a hash less than five miles from her dorm at college
• 2011-10-13 43 -87 - The parking lot of a labor union headquarters
• 2011-10-09 42 -88 - A corn field in Harvard, IL
• 2011-10-07 43 -87 - The rear parking lot of a country club
• 2011-08-25 - On the way home I tried two more graticules at dusk/dark

44 -92 - A corn field at dusk with the edge of a sunset and a sky full of stars

43 -90 - Couldn't find a safe route and settled for parking on the freeway nearby

• 2011-08-22 - I visited five hashes on my trip from Milwaukee to Minneapolis for work

43 -88 - A senior living apartment near home

42 -89 - The parking lot of a Piggly Wiggly near Madison

44 -90 - A near-miss of the hash on private property in scary "ya got a purty mouth" territory

45 -92 - A near-miss of the hash on private property in breathtakingly beautiful farm land

45 -93 - Mere feet from the hash at the edge of someone's house

• 2011-08-06 42 -88 - My first excursion was the 42, -88 event on 2011-08-05

Geohashing 101 Geocache

I created a Geohashing 101 Geocache cache to introduce my local geocachers to geohashing and these pages contains all the info.

Achievements

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -87) geohash on 2011-10-22.

RocketMac earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging my wife to the (43, -87) geohash on 2011-10-22.

RocketMac earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize by failing to reach the (43, -87) geohash on 2011-10-22 because the web site was giving out bad coordinates.

RocketMac earned the It's a kitty consolation prize by being so distracted by dinner with the in-laws as to forget to go to the (42, -88) geohash on 2011-10-17.

RocketMac earned the Puppet Master Geohash achievement by manipulating AuroraSincrois to reach the (43, -88) geohash on 2011-10-14.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -87) geohash on 2011-10-13.

RocketMac has visited an Easy Geohash by reaching the (43, -87) geohash on 2011-10-13 without really trying.

RocketMac earned the Last man standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2011-10-13.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (42, -88) geohash on 2011-10-09.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -87) geohash on 2011-10-07.

RocketMac has visited an Easy Geohash by reaching the (43, -87) geohash on 2011-10-07 without really trying.

RocketMac earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching 2 hash points on 2011-08-25. It's a Double Hash.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (44, -92) geohash on 2011-08-25.

RocketMac earned the There might be alligators! consolation prize by being prevented from reaching the (43, -90) geohash on 2011-08-25 by an impassable and unforeseen Too many hazzards and no roads (and probably lurking alligators).

RocketMac earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching 5 hash points on 2011-08-22. It's a MONSTER Hash.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -88) geohash on 2011-08-22.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -89) geohash on 2011-08-22.

RocketMac earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (44, -90) geohash on 2011-08-22.

RocketMac earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (45, -92) geohash on 2011-08-22.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (45, -93) geohash on 2011-08-22.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (42, -88) geohash on 2011-08-06.

RocketMac earned the Hash collision achievement by discovering the geocache GC1JTJN 579 feet from the (42, -88) geohash on 2011-08-06.