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|11={{quoteMore|center|Put it this way, common sense is my middle name. My first name's "absolutely no".|[[2009-06-15_41_28|Superbest]]}} | |11={{quoteMore|center|Put it this way, common sense is my middle name. My first name's "absolutely no".|[[2009-06-15_41_28|Superbest]]}} | ||
|12={{quoteMore|center|12:25 - What the hell... Edit conflict? Pari!|[[2009-08-29_52_13|davidc]] on Pari, who were both live editing the wiki during the expedition}} | |12={{quoteMore|center|12:25 - What the hell... Edit conflict? Pari!|[[2009-08-29_52_13|davidc]] on Pari, who were both live editing the wiki during the expedition}} | ||
| − | |13={{quoteMore|center|It was barely off the road halfway between a funeral and a baptism, so the attire just kind of happened.|Trane, in #geohashing, about [[2010-02- | + | |13={{quoteMore|center|It was barely off the road halfway between a funeral and a baptism, so the attire just kind of happened.|Trane, in #geohashing, about [[2010-02-06 43 -91]]}} |
| − | |14={{quoteMore|center|I had managed to reach a place where the car horns and cheers from Canada's gold-medal victory in men's Olympic hockey did not reach.|Juventas, [[2010-02- | + | |14={{quoteMore|center|I had managed to reach a place where the car horns and cheers from Canada's gold-medal victory in men's Olympic hockey did not reach.|Juventas, [[2010-02-28 49 -119]]}} |
| − | |15={{quoteMore|center|Okay, if you don't hear back from me in two hours, call the police and tell them to look for me approximately at the 50 10 geohash of the day.|[[User:Mampfred|Mampfred]] on the phone with his wife after dark at [[2010-10- | + | |15={{quoteMore|center|Okay, if you don't hear back from me in two hours, call the police and tell them to look for me approximately at the 50 10 geohash of the day.|[[User:Mampfred|Mampfred]] on the phone with his wife after dark at [[2010-10-18 50 10]]}} |
|16={{quoteMore|center|For some reason a massive goat market had sprung up in my absence.|[[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] on [[2010-11-15 28 77]]}} | |16={{quoteMore|center|For some reason a massive goat market had sprung up in my absence.|[[User:Felix Dance|Felix Dance]] on [[2010-11-15 28 77]]}} | ||
|17={{quoteMore|center|After walking over a kilometer it was time to head into the forest, it was completely dark and I didn't see much of it. It seems like a crazy decision to try to walk the last 700 meters to the hash but it's also a kinda crazy decision to head out half an hour after midnight to try to reach a coordinate in the middle of a forest and then walk by foot for about six hours just to reach "nothing". (...)It was completely wet in the forest, small lakes and swamps had been temporarily created by the melting snow but this time it wouldn't stop me. My shoes got wet after just a few minutes and turned wetter since I had walked in deeper and deeper swamps. (...)I finally reached the geohash and it felt great.|[[User:Vswe|Vswe]] on [[2010-11-18 59 17]]}} | |17={{quoteMore|center|After walking over a kilometer it was time to head into the forest, it was completely dark and I didn't see much of it. It seems like a crazy decision to try to walk the last 700 meters to the hash but it's also a kinda crazy decision to head out half an hour after midnight to try to reach a coordinate in the middle of a forest and then walk by foot for about six hours just to reach "nothing". (...)It was completely wet in the forest, small lakes and swamps had been temporarily created by the melting snow but this time it wouldn't stop me. My shoes got wet after just a few minutes and turned wetter since I had walked in deeper and deeper swamps. (...)I finally reached the geohash and it felt great.|[[User:Vswe|Vswe]] on [[2010-11-18 59 17]]}} | ||
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|31={{quoteMore|center|Cake is also highly recommended, especially if you succeed in transporting it to the geohash intact. Sharing cake with strangers at the geohash is a good way to tell people about geohashing. People willing to accept cake from strangers in party hats are probably the sort of people who would consider geohashing.|[http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/index.php?title=Geohashing_Day&diff=111696&oldid=111684 Robyn]}} | |31={{quoteMore|center|Cake is also highly recommended, especially if you succeed in transporting it to the geohash intact. Sharing cake with strangers at the geohash is a good way to tell people about geohashing. People willing to accept cake from strangers in party hats are probably the sort of people who would consider geohashing.|[http://wiki.xkcd.com/wgh/index.php?title=Geohashing_Day&diff=111696&oldid=111684 Robyn]}} | ||
|32={{quoteMore|center|I was astonished to find that it was only a block away from my cousin's house, which I'd probably been to four or five times! How could I have missed a giant glacial erratic boulder in such proximity? I had to investigate, so I began to take my leave.|[[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]], commenting on [[2014-03-12 47 -122]]}} | |32={{quoteMore|center|I was astonished to find that it was only a block away from my cousin's house, which I'd probably been to four or five times! How could I have missed a giant glacial erratic boulder in such proximity? I had to investigate, so I began to take my leave.|[[User:OtherJack|OtherJack]], commenting on [[2014-03-12 47 -122]]}} | ||
| − | |33={{quoteMore|center|As I was heading back to the truck, I encountered every urban geohasher's worst nightmare: an aggressive, charging, off-leash dog. Fortunately, it was only about the size of a large burrito.|[[User:Michael5000]] on [[2014-03- | + | |33={{quoteMore|center|As I was heading back to the truck, I encountered every urban geohasher's worst nightmare: an aggressive, charging, off-leash dog. Fortunately, it was only about the size of a large burrito.|[[User:Michael5000]] on [[2014-03-26 45 -122]]}} |
|34={{quoteMore|center|A few seconds later I realized that normal people can cross their own tracks.|[[User:RecentlyChanged|RecentlyChanged]] on [[2014-06-18 49 8]]}} | |34={{quoteMore|center|A few seconds later I realized that normal people can cross their own tracks.|[[User:RecentlyChanged|RecentlyChanged]] on [[2014-06-18 49 8]]}} | ||
|35={{quoteMore|center|It had never occurred to me that the first 141km would be easier than those last 50 meters. First of all, there is a distinct lack of landmarks in the middle of the water (and only now, as I type that sentence, does the sheer irony hit me. I guess there's a reason they're called ''land''marks).|[[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] on [[2008-09-01 49 -124]]}} | |35={{quoteMore|center|It had never occurred to me that the first 141km would be easier than those last 50 meters. First of all, there is a distinct lack of landmarks in the middle of the water (and only now, as I type that sentence, does the sheer irony hit me. I guess there's a reason they're called ''land''marks).|[[User:Thepiguy|Thepiguy]] on [[2008-09-01 49 -124]]}} | ||
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I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do."|Led Zeppelin, on geohashing, in "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (1969).}} | I can hear it callin' me the way it used to do."|Led Zeppelin, on geohashing, in "Babe I'm Gonna Leave You" (1969).}} | ||
| − | |48={{quoteMore|center|I said: “You can turn off the headlights, but do not—I say again—do not turn off the car. Just to clarify, do not turn off the car. And in case you didn’t hear me the first time, do not turn off the car.”|[[User:Pwc|Pwc]] on [[2024-04- | + | |48={{quoteMore|center|I said: “You can turn off the headlights, but do not—I say again—do not turn off the car. Just to clarify, do not turn off the car. And in case you didn’t hear me the first time, do not turn off the car.”|[[User:Pwc|Pwc]] on [[2024-04-26 -37 145]]}} |
| − | |49={{quoteMore|center|The plan was as follows: we'd send in Other Katie to impress the gate staff using the skills she'd learned in her Beginner Level Poi class.<br>Meanwhile, Tony and I would dress The Yaris as a shrub and quietly push it past on the right.|[[User:Kt|KT]] on [[2022-04-17 - | + | |49={{quoteMore|center|The plan was as follows: we'd send in Other Katie to impress the gate staff using the skills she'd learned in her Beginner Level Poi class.<br>Meanwhile, Tony and I would dress The Yaris as a shrub and quietly push it past on the right.|[[User:Kt|KT]] on [[2022-04-17 -38 143]]}} |
| − | |50={{quoteMore|center|"Hey Steve"<br>"Yeah?"<br>"What are those birds sitting on?"<br>"Um, they're floating on the water"<br>"Oh yeah, that makes sense."<br>"They're sitting on water".|[[User:Stevage|Stevage]] and [[User:Kt|KT]] on [[2023-08- | + | |50={{quoteMore|center|"Hey Steve"<br>"Yeah?"<br>"What are those birds sitting on?"<br>"Um, they're floating on the water"<br>"Oh yeah, that makes sense."<br>"They're sitting on water".|[[User:Stevage|Stevage]] and [[User:Kt|KT]] on [[2023-08-12 -37 144]]}} |
| − | |51={{quoteMore|center|Here I felt very calm, while leaning backwards over a big drop, with absolutely no way to catch myself if something happened to the rope.|[[User:Stevage|Stevage]] on [[2022-07- | + | |51={{quoteMore|center|Here I felt very calm, while leaning backwards over a big drop, with absolutely no way to catch myself if something happened to the rope.|[[User:Stevage|Stevage]] on [[2022-07-11 -39 146]]}} |
| − | |52={{quoteMore|center|He says "What were you doing back there." Instead of giving an explanation of geohashing, I say "I was looking for a GPS point." He says, and I wish I could make something up like this, "Well, where did you lose it?"|[[User:NWoodruff|Nwoodruff]] on [[2011-01- | + | |52={{quoteMore|center|He says "What were you doing back there." Instead of giving an explanation of geohashing, I say "I was looking for a GPS point." He says, and I wish I could make something up like this, "Well, where did you lose it?"|[[User:NWoodruff|Nwoodruff]] on [[2011-01-22 33 -84]]}} |
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| find some more great geohashing quotations here. | —Kurt Vonnegut, discussing geohashing, in "Cat's Cradle" (1963).
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