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Make a new category at the bottom and add your comments, or add them into an existing category that makes sense. I'd really appreciate a good summary, too, as I might not get to the wiki for a week, but I'll get the notification e-mail. Old comments are on User talk:Robyn/OldTalk.

Most Irritating Thing About Geohashing Algorithm

I thought I saw a "service" on here that would instant message (or email) you the coordinates once available. If not, one could be created easily enough... Of course, you would have to have a device to receive messages turned on, not stowed for takeoff and landing :-) --Thomcat 01:25, 5 August 2008 (UTC)

Thank you for the "My Kingdom for a Boat" ribbon. Good job. The email service is found at http://www.geohash.info

I can send and receive e-mail from the aircraft but not SMS. And I don't know if I can send punctuation other than .

Trying to make a Template

I'm going to try to figure out how to make a template. It will be the Template:Achievement Description.

Easy Geohash

Thanks for putting me on the Easy Geohash Achievement page! I'm still a little new to the whole wiki thing, and have no idea how a template would work, but http://xkcd.com/142/ has a nice image to convey a "Piece of Cake." It's a little small though.

Categories, etc.

I like the category tree, all the way to root. Well done!

Dear Abby,

Most expeditions that get within 25 feet or so I am judging as "success" - that is within the tolerance of a good GPS. My present conflict - one of my expeditions 2008-06-19 47 -121 was 7.7 meters away - within my car! Before it started to rain, I walked over to the fence and leaned on it, AND chatted with the homeowner who's driveway I was parked on. Do I re-calculate my hash total and call this a success? --Thomcat 04:10, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

I say success is in the mind of the succeeder. In fact, if I were you I would write a treatise about it right on the Category:Expedition Outcomes (I don't know how to make a link to it without categorizing my user page there!) page, letting people know that if they feel their expedition was a success, they can change the category. I think you need to be wary of setting yourself up as the arbitrator of Success and Failure. But if you felt the sting of failure in that driveway, then you failed, but if you felt the glow of success, then you succeeded. I hope you're using that information from people's descriptions to categorize expeditions, as well.

I shall write said treatise. To put your category here, put it in square brackets with a colon in front of it. In fact, just edit this and see how I changed yours ;) --Thomcat 04:32, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

Thanks, that will come in handy. And really good job on that treatise. I think you will prevent any hurt feelings with that, and get people to cooperate. -Robyn 04:52, 12 August 2008 (UTC)

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-Make a new category at the bottom and add your comments, or add them into an existing category that makes sense. I'd really appreciate a good summary, too, as I might not get to the wiki for a week, but I'll get the notification e-mail.
+Make a new category at the bottom and add your comments, or add them into an existing category that makes sense. I'd really appreciate a good summary, too, as I might not get to the wiki for a week, but I'll get the notification e-mail. Old comments are on [[User talk:Robyn/OldTalk]].
-==Cover Stories==
-I know what you mean on the border crossings, especially when I forgot the name of Canadian counterpart to Surrey.  I just told them I had (was going to) met up with some friends. <br>Its not like you are doing something Illegal.  Anyways, best of luck on future crossings, and Ill see you at one of these hashes soon. [[User:Garyuuko|Garyuuko]] 17:27, 4 June 2008 (UTC) <p>
-Whoops, I had meant the Canadian side of Sumas, i.e. Abbotsford. Of course use my name if you want (Warren if you prefer), and maybe give me a heads up.  I'm usually up for a ride. [[User:Garyuuko|Garyuuko]] 21:57, 4 June 2008 (UTC) <br><br>
-Not exactly.  While biking is fine and all, I prefer to ride my motorcycle. [[User:Garyuuko|Garyuuko]] 18:47, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
-==Grouse Mountain Access==
-I would really love to attempt it, but unfortunately I’m busy tomorrow. Too bad, it looks like it could be really awesome! Let me know if you make it! [[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] 01:45, 7 June 2008 (UTC)
-==ASG==
-Ah, yes, the a/s/g graphic is sublime; I just wish I could take credit for scheming it up!  I saw it on some other user's page, had a good chortle, then noticed that it was derived from the [[Template:ASG|ASG template]] and quietly co-opted it for my own personal use.  :) --[[User:Youhas|Youhas]] 08:33, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
-haha. Yeah it started from a funny IRC conversation and things just kept going until eventually we had an ASG template and a graphic to go along with it... Oh the wonders of IRC... That air achievement is pretty impressive btw! [[User:Chrisinajar|Chrisinajar]] 14:02, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
-== North Cascades ==
-Missed you (and Wade and a flying dinosaur) by around 10 minutes. Looking forward to meeting another multi-graticule hasher - perhaps in Bellingham in the future. Loved the rock art! --[[User:Thomcat|Thomcat]] 05:03, 20 July 2008 (UTC)
-== Virgin graticule ==
-Thanks for the template work; I was meaning to dig into that myself. Here's my [[:Image:Virgin2.png|art]] proposal, from the xkcd strip [http://xkcd.com/202/ YouTube] -- [[User:Thomcat]]
-Oh, I get it, it's a cherry.  That's wrongness and wrongocity in all it's wronguousness. -- [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] 19:10, 23 July 2008 (UTC)
-:Opinion sought - I'm working on categorizing all expedition pages (success or failure, along with failure reasons). Once categorized, it will be (relatively) trivial to determine the first Geohasher for each graticule. Should I throw a [[:Template:Virgin_graticule]] on the graticule page for that user or users, or should we design a new ribbon or banner for this special purpose? --[[User:Thomcat|Thomcat]] 18:39, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
-== What You Found ==
-Working on an achievement category for things found at the geohash site.
-xkcd People, Other People, Pets, Livestock, Wildlife, Building, Tree (specify species), Money (specify amount, nationality of currency), Flower, Paved, Electronic Device, Explosive Device (shell casings, cores where they blasted a freeway through rock, bomb craters), Firearm
-== Airport geohash alert ==
-This is pretty short notice, but [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=40&long=-74&zoom=14 Newark Liberty Airport has the geohash for Friday, 7/25].  Any chance you can get to the east coast? -- [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] 13:48, 25 July 2008 (UTC)
-: [http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/map.html?lat=40&long=-74&zoom=14&date=2008-08-01 You'll really appreciate this.]
-Keep those airport geohash alerts coming. Someday they'll pay off. - [[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 02:06, 5 August 2008 (UTC)
-== Richmond, Va != Siege Engine? ==
-This may sound nitpicky, especially since I do enjoy people visiting our humble graticule or even its wiki page, but I didn't follow your logic.  While [[Richmond, Virginia|the graticule]] has certainly been host to more siege engines than I care to count, the wiki page only mentions one, and that particular engine is a Trebuchet, which is seperate category contained within the Siege Engine category.  So, in short, I would not personally categorize Richmond, Va. as a siege engine.
-You are absolutely right, and I realized it after I had done it but something shiny distracted me. I knew I could count on the power of wiki to put it right. - [[User:Robyn|Robyn]] 01:35, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
-:The category is temporarily removed until someone converts the entire graticule into a siege engine. -- [[User:Moose Hole|Moose Hole]] 19:00, 4 August 2008 (UTC)
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