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== Location ==
 
== Location ==
A field near BELL LABS
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A field near <s>BELL LABS</s> a more recent ex-Bell Labs campus
  
 
== Participants ==
 
== Participants ==

Revision as of 05:24, 28 September 2015

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Location

A field near BELL LABS a more recent ex-Bell Labs campus

Participants

Plans

Friday morning at work. The point looked too far away to attempt, deep in the wilds of New Jersey, but I zoomed in on the satellite picture out of curiosity. Wait, what's that perfect double-ellipse of roads and ponds a couple fields north of the hash, that looks like it landed from outer space? I zoomed in further and... "Bell Laboratories Rd"! Whoa! This is where modern electronics all got started with the transistor in the late 1940s, among other really important discoveries. A day later I realized I had to go there.

Consulting train schedules and bike maps, I decided it was feasible and legal to take my bike on NJ Transit to Hazlet or Middletown stations, and bike a few miles to the hash-farm... followed (hopefully) by a trip around the corner to Bell Labs. Currently planning ETA 3:50 or so at the point, but flexible.

-- OtherJack (talk) 22:33, 26 September 2015 (EDT)

Expedition

Made the point, and made Bell Labs! Now awaiting the train back to the city. Will upload photos when I get home, since geohash droid upload is acting funny... -- OtherJack (talk) 17:26, 27 September 2015 (EDT)

Notes on the implementations page point to some sort of Captcha problem; the reported error is some sort of XML. I took a screen shot of it on 2015-09-16 47 -122. --Thomcat (talk) 20:51, 27 September 2015 (EDT)

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