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| + | My birthday was on the 17th. I also became 17 on that day. <br> | ||
| + | This makes me the youngest 'geohasher' (i haven't actually done any yet) in the UK. <br> | ||
| + | I think it is important that new, younger people (like me) start geohashing - I, and all of us on this site, would hate to see the adventures end! <br> | ||
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| + | == 17th November == | ||
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| + | On that day we went to Nines, in Cambridge. <br> | ||
| + | It's a sort of global buffet place (mostly asian) <br> | ||
| + | The food was rather nice. In fact, throughout it all, I did a sort of review: | ||
| + | |||
| + | * garlic bread rather ok | ||
| + | * the pizza is pretty good, crunchy hard bottom | ||
| + | * the rice is nice | ||
| + | * they had a 'sausage skewer', which is actually just a sausage on a stick. also unusually cold, but enjoyable | ||
| + | * basic noodles, ok | ||
| + | * very good popcorn chicken | ||
| + | * cantonese (?) pork was very nice | ||
| + | * the spring onion tastes funny to begin with but eventually starts to taste like onion | ||
| + | * cucumber has a cute pattern | ||
| + | * chicken nuggets taste like the ones from mcdonalds | ||
| + | * ketchup similar to the kind you get from a hotdog stand | ||
| + | * the place was visually appealing, but the toilets were in a weird location | ||
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| + | I managed to eat three plates. And a neat thing about me is no matter how much I eat, I always stay thin as a stickfigure. <br> | ||
| + | in my opinion, the place is an 8/10. Would really like to give it a 9 <br> | ||
| + | I didn't get any pictures of the food, or the place. But I did like this fountain-thingy just inside the entrance | ||
| + | [[File:nines.jpeg|400px|center]] <br> | ||
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| + | Afterwards we went to the arcade in tenpin downstairs. I've been there many a time before. <br> | ||
| + | played on a couple of the machines, but i'm not the most into amusement-type games <br> | ||
| + | One game I do like is 'piano keys' - correctly play a string of notes on four chunky plastic keys to win tickets. | ||
| + | [[File:pianokeys.jpeg|400px|center]] <br> | ||
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| + | i managed to get the high score! <br> | ||
| + | With only two pounds spent I had earned many tickets. | ||
| + | [[File:manytickets.jpeg|300px|left]] | ||
| + | [[File:ticketreceipt.jpeg|300px|right]] <br> | ||
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| + | That meant I was winning an average of 135 tickets/pound. <br> | ||
| + | I started to wonder if this was a viable method of purchasing things: <br> | ||
| + | would it be cheaper to buy the thing outright, or, if it was available as one of the prizes, earn tickets and get it that way? <br> | ||
| + | before i could ponder however, I dropped my mentos on the floor. <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> <br> | ||
| + | side note: this broken machine still uses windows xp(!) <br> | ||
| + | [[File:xpmachine.jpeg|400px|center]] <br> | ||
| + | |||
| + | With that, the day ended. <br> | ||
| + | But the celebrations were not over - the adventure was only starting | ||
| + | |||
| + | == 19th November == | ||
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wip ! | wip ! | ||
Revision as of 15:54, 24 November 2022
My birthday was on the 17th. I also became 17 on that day.
This makes me the youngest 'geohasher' (i haven't actually done any yet) in the UK.
I think it is important that new, younger people (like me) start geohashing - I, and all of us on this site, would hate to see the adventures end!
17th November
On that day we went to Nines, in Cambridge.
It's a sort of global buffet place (mostly asian)
The food was rather nice. In fact, throughout it all, I did a sort of review:
- garlic bread rather ok
- the pizza is pretty good, crunchy hard bottom
- the rice is nice
- they had a 'sausage skewer', which is actually just a sausage on a stick. also unusually cold, but enjoyable
- basic noodles, ok
- very good popcorn chicken
- cantonese (?) pork was very nice
- the spring onion tastes funny to begin with but eventually starts to taste like onion
- cucumber has a cute pattern
- chicken nuggets taste like the ones from mcdonalds
- ketchup similar to the kind you get from a hotdog stand
- the place was visually appealing, but the toilets were in a weird location
I managed to eat three plates. And a neat thing about me is no matter how much I eat, I always stay thin as a stickfigure.
in my opinion, the place is an 8/10. Would really like to give it a 9
I didn't get any pictures of the food, or the place. But I did like this fountain-thingy just inside the entrance
Afterwards we went to the arcade in tenpin downstairs. I've been there many a time before.
played on a couple of the machines, but i'm not the most into amusement-type games
One game I do like is 'piano keys' - correctly play a string of notes on four chunky plastic keys to win tickets.
i managed to get the high score!
With only two pounds spent I had earned many tickets.
That meant I was winning an average of 135 tickets/pound.
I started to wonder if this was a viable method of purchasing things:
would it be cheaper to buy the thing outright, or, if it was available as one of the prizes, earn tickets and get it that way?
before i could ponder however, I dropped my mentos on the floor.
side note: this broken machine still uses windows xp(!)
With that, the day ended.
But the celebrations were not over - the adventure was only starting
19th November
wip !
