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Mother Nature vs. The Internet vs. Civilization

The project is underway, slowly but surely. In a week or so, I will have read every expedition page on the site, and edited most of them. Opposing categories are exclusive - if the expedition failed, it will only have one failure type. Here's the statistical categories you can check out:

Up to May 30

99 were reached vs 54 not reached.
Private property leads failures with 30, followed by Mother Nature with 18, then Technology failure with 4.

Eventually I hope to create a template or script to keep these counts. --Thomcat 17:35, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

->Reply on Thomcat's user page.

All categorized through August 15th, but I've found a few lurking in strange places (on the graticule page, on a user page, etc.) Eventually I will have expedition pages created for all of these, then we will have a nearly complete count.

Tnx for Raptor-ribbon

I just corrected the last case of "origin geohash". And I think I'll copy your userpage layout soon. Or be inspired by it.--Arvid 19:26, 10 August 2008 (UTC)

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Beautiful Icons

Very nice job on sunrise and midnight. -Robyn 04:09, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Multihash

Was it eight, nine or ten? There seem to be ten points on the map, nine names in the list and you called it eight. Very impressive, and as I may just be the only person who can travel faster than a guy in a fast car on the Autobahn, I may have a duty to do more.

I'll make you a ribbon later. Any ideas for the icon.

I'm also thihking of creating a new achievement for "Getting to more hashes in a given week than Relet." It would be very difficult for most people to achieve, but almost impossible for you. I'd like to see you try! -Robyn 02:09, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

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I actually didn't remember the multihash ribbon existing, but someone has been busy and made one. After I wrote the comment I realized that you already had the ribbon on your page, but I figured you'd find some other meaning for my comment, or just decide I was crazy. -)

Yeah, I've wanted to do the air monster hash for a while, but it seemed like cheating. I wanted to give the ground-based people a chance. Now that you've set a hard-to-beat benchmark, I don't mind finding a line across the country that takes me through 40 geohashes. I feel a little sleazy taking graticule virginity that way, though.

Oh and I looove my ribbon. I was more worried about bears than alligators at this latitude, but the sentiment is exact. -Robyn 13:37, 18 August 2008 (UTC)

Most active graticules

God, I love Wiki. A person never has to either come up with original ideas OR finish anything, but there's always something interesting to do, and things get done anyway. Thanks for picking up the baton on the most active idea. There may be a way to automate the monthly score list, but I haven't played with that side of wiki yet. -Robyn

Land Usage request

I lack the time and/or skill to do this myself. Can you give me a Land usage for two graticules - my own Seattle, Washington and Jevanyn's Cape May, New Jersey. Many many thanks in advance! --Thomcat 16:46, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Minesweeper

Hey, that achievement ribbon wasn't even live yet. (Thepiguy hasn't uploaded all the images, which is why it didn't work properly. It should be fixed later tonight or tomorrow). Isn't it a clever design? He and srs0 thought it up. -Robyn 02:28, 26 August 2008 (UTC)

Wow, Nice User Page

What an elaborate user page. I just came over to say sorry for being grouchy about the user page/expedition thing, and thanks for realizing that was what happened. I'll tell you why I always update my user page first: for a while I didn't know how to make a new page without first creating a link to it. I didn't know you could just type in the page title to start editing it. So I HAD to edit my user page in order to link to the expedition. So it became a habit. And I WAS tired. :-)

I hope you have an excellent weekend. This sport is such fun. -Robyn 05:28, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

Hallo relet, ich habe eine kurze Erläuterung der geohashing-Spielregeln geschrieben, die man Hausbesitzern als Vorwarnung am Tag vor einer Expedition einwerfen kann (wenn man schon mal am hashpoint vorbeikommt, also eher nicht jedes Mal): Ambassador-DE. Fällt Dir ein Verbesserungsvorschlag ein? Wenn nicht, dann werde ich eine passende Seite zum Einbinden suchen und auch noch eine englische Version erstellen. Und übrigens noch Gratulation zu den verrückten Aktionen wie z.B. dem Mega-Multihash. Danatar 14:21, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

pics for 51,13 meetup 2008 OCT 18

the pictures are up, enjoy

Thanks a lot! Requesting requests inevitably yields requests, you know. :] -- Relet 17:34, 18 October 2008 (UTC)

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 Hallo relet, ich habe eine kurze Erläuterung der geohashing-Spielregeln geschrieben, die man Hausbesitzern als Vorwarnung am Tag vor einer Expedition einwerfen kann (wenn man schon mal am hashpoint vorbeikommt, also eher nicht jedes Mal): [http://wiki.xkcd.com/geohashing/Image:Ambassador-DE.png Ambassador-DE]. Fällt Dir ein Verbesserungsvorschlag ein? Wenn nicht, dann werde ich eine passende Seite zum Einbinden suchen und auch noch eine englische Version erstellen. Und übrigens noch Gratulation zu den verrückten Aktionen wie z.B. dem Mega-Multihash. [[User:Danatar|Danatar]] 14:21, 26 September 2008 (UTC)
-I luv ju. [[User:lyx|lyx]] always (UTC)
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 the pictures are up, enjoy
 :Thanks a lot! Requesting requests inevitably yields requests, you know. :] -- [[User:Relet|Relet]] 17:34, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
-== Amazing boattour ==
-Relet, look at this: [[2008-09-21_49_-123]]
-And then think it over: how about taking our rubber boat to the fjords? [[User:Lyx|Lyx]]
-:Do pay attention to the parts of our adventure where 250 metres turned out to be a LONG way on the sea, where one of the boats started losing air, and where one paddle broke and another was dropped. After we landed the waves picked up quite a bit. I think the sea would have been a lot rougher had we not done it at dawn. I wouldn't do an expedition like this under circumstances where it would not be safe to swim back. -[[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 22:32, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
-::@ Robyn: Those where the parts that made me suggest this crazy undertaking. Plus: It would be nice to gain coldest geohash and water geohash simultaneously.. Not my fault that relet took me seriously! ;)