User:Aperfectring

41 / m / 26,-80

My rules for attending geohashes:

Weekday - If it is on my way home from work without much of a detour, or within a 2 mi. of home. I will attempt these hashes sometime between 6 and 7 PM local time, and will note this on the Palm Beach graticule page.

Saturday - I will attempt the meet for 4PM local time unless otherwise noted on the graticule page.

Sunday - I will NOT attempt any geohashes on Sundays. This is my day for getting work done at home, or for the rare relaxing.

Geohashes Attended

I usually have more pictures from the expedition, and have higher res versions of all the ones on the site, just ask.

Date	Graticule Address	Graticule Name	People Met	Elevation (ft)	Elevation (m)	Success/Failure	Description
2008-06-20	26,-80	Palm Beach, Florida	None =(			FAILED	In a beautiful nature area in northern Palm Beach County.
2008-06-28	26,-80	Palm Beach, Florida	None =(			FAILED	In the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, in a section which is closed to the public.
2008-07-18	26,-80	Palm Beach, Florida	None =(	17	5.2	SUCCEEDED	Next to a detention pond in Boca Raton.
2008-12-06	26,-80	Palm Beach, Florida	None =(	13	4.0	SUCCEEDED	Right next to Lion Country Safari!
2009-06-04	45,-122	Portland, Oregon	None =(			FAILED	Down a logging road near St. Helens (town).
2009-06-05	45,-123	McMinnville, Oregon	None =(	133	40.5	SUCCEEDED	Just off of US-101 between Seaside and Cannon Beach.

Achievements

Aperfectring earned the Speed racer achievement by passing through the (26, -80) geohash on 2008-12-06 at the maximum legal speed.

Aperfectring earned the First Sip GeoSquishy Achievement by enjoying a slushy carbonated beverage at the (26, -80) geohash on 2008-12-06.

Aperfectring earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (26, -80) geohash on 2008-07-18.

Aperfectring earned the Admit One Achievement by paying $30 (US) to access the (26, -80) geohash at Lion Country Safari on 2008-12-06.

I now have 4 points, for obtaining a squishy ~1.5km away from hash point on 2008-12-06.

Injury

I stupidly injured myself in the Dallas airport, so I probably won't go hashing for a while, unless it requires relatively little walking. Pic (warning, graphic): [1]

Projects

I am maintaining the Notification program, notes here: User:Aperfectring/Notification

I am working on a bot to automate the creation of the list of upcoming geohashing expeditions.

Potential future projects

It has been suggested that we use a bot to create a list of all graticules which have had a successful geohash. This is desired so that people will know which graticules they can claim the Virgin Graticule achievement for. I will consider working on this in the future, but for the time being I get the impression that my current bot project is of a higher priority. --aperfectring 19:35, 16 June 2009 (UTC)