User talk:Zb

2008

The internet is much smaller than some people think. Isn't geohashing fun? -Robyn 19:59, 4 October 2008 (UTC)

You seem to be so right with both statements. I can just guess towards the smallness of the internet in this particular case, but keep my guessing quiet as to the 'Do I know you from somewhere' possibilities...

Jeez, your hashing-grounds are in one of the most beautiful areas I know. I only happen to be there every three or four years, i.e. statistics say my next visit is in 2010 or something.

Also, I just found one of your images...

... that might be put to use in something like an "On Stage Achievement" (Luky Geohash category?), i.e. the spot being where you're playing. It might really be quite hard to earn it, as I would not count good ol' campfire guitar playing. There should at least be a flyer or something before the date that the hashing coordinates are known. Heck, I should have checked Holland's coordinates last weekend, I might even have earned it. -zb

I was thinking that that image would suit a Making Music Geohash, where the geohasher participated in singing, playing a musical instrument, or dancing to said music at the geohash location, regardless of whether it was on stage or in the middle of the woods. The image is of course not really mine. It's from an xkcd comic and I just clipped it out and uploaded it. -Robyn 21:16, 4 October 2008 (UTC) (a.k.a you know who)

I get it. I still like the idea of an On Stage Achievement, though, so maybe an acousitic guitar might be best for the Making Music Geohash cause campfire playing might be the most typical thing when gathering at a spot somewhere, and the icon above might be good for the On Stage Achievement as the depicted instrument looks much like a Fender Jazz bass not found in nature too often. -zb

But it would be majorly cool to play electric guitar in the middle of nowhere with a solar-powered amp. A couple of lucky geohashes that are really unlikely like the stripclub one just got removed from the main achievements page, so I don't think it's a good idea to add more unlikely ones. I suppose the same award could count for either.

True. Considering my very lazy geohashing activity since summer, I should not vote for making things too hard and better just do more normal gehohashes, let alone strange lucky achievements. -zb

I like your userpage photo. Kind of electric ninja.

I fear that one day all my stuff will form an alliance and play tricks on me, similar to the story in this Notwist video

2009-03-28 48 11

So... are we gonna do this? If so, when exactly? 16:00? Anyone else coming? (I'm still undecided... it's a 20€ trip after all.) --dawidi 09:17, 28 March 2009 (UTC)

Thanks

Thanks for taking up the image categorization cause. I hoped it would catch on. There are so many good photos that no one sees. I was thinking of a category for Sunrises and sunsets, too, but I'll just let them arise as people know what is important to them. Could you add the Meetup in and Meetup on categories to the old images that you edit for this? It barely takes any time once you're already editing the file. And thank you for the other think too. Perfect discretion. :-) -Robyn 19:01, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

I try my best not to put any geohashing-related words into this other place on the internets you are referring to. Search engines might make weird connections once I start talking about coordinates and achievements no matter where I am posting stuff... Kind of hard to remember, though. Life is a big blur of blurry topics :-)--Zb 19:05, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Architecture

Image:2009-04-07 52 0 hashpoint.jpg -- You added the Category:Architecture tag. Sure, it's a building. But "architecture"? Isn't that category supposed to be for interesting buildings? This is just a brick house. -- Benjw 05:00, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Hi Benjw, you are of course right, on the picture is just a residential building, definitely nothing you'd ever find in a traveller's guide. This, however, is exactly why I like geohashing so much. It takes you off the beaten path, the one that's already well-documented in tourists' guides and whatnot. Looking at the picture, I find so many things that I think are really interesting and maybe very typical of its location. For example, I see no curtains. Friends in Holland recently told me that they think curtains are very German and not found that often in other places... I even added the Category:Architecture tag to pictures of quite ugly concrete bridges or shelters somewhere in the mountains. I think concrete bridges look fun when they appear next to a cathedral. Shelters in mountains look different in the Alps than they look in the North Cascades. Each of these details is fun, I think. I think all of the very regular -- sometimes even very boring -- and as well the sometimes very weird stuff is exactly what's so great about geohashing. It's even a cultural thing what a phone box looks like: Do we want them to look pretty, or do we favour cost-cutting (über alles) and just put up ugly grey and magenta poles that leave the caller standing in the wind and rain, like the Deutsche Telekom decided to do some years ago? I definitely think that a category called Architecture should look different in the context of geohashing than it would in any other context.--Zb 17:56, 8 April 2009 (UTC)