User:Macronencer
59 / m / 50,-1| Real name | Mike |
| Based in | Bursledon, Southampton, UK |
| Education | Southampton Uni Maths grad, 1986. |
| Job | Software developer |
| True vocation | Media Composer (I'm working on it) |
| xkcd history | Fan since the first mention on BoingBoing in 2005 |
Other information
Mike can close his nose without touching it, which makes him fart-proof. He eats at least forty times his own body weight every century, is a part-time volunteer in the Lynne Truss militia, and loves skunks, his son and longevity research - but not in that order. Give him an inch and he takes a mile. Give him a pinch and he makes a pile. He is a full-time sceptic, part-time father, one-time rock star and all-time champion awful punster.
Local graticules
Southampton, United Kingdom (home)
Swindon, United Kingdom (convenient alternative)
Brighton, United Kingdom (possible alternative as I work near Fareham)
Planned hashes
Standard hashes
- 2009-07-22 50 -0 Next to a road near Bognor Regis - possible evening hash after work
Retro hashes and special expeditions
- 1965-05-06 51 0 Birth hash for Origin geohash achievement. I hope to do this next Monday (2009-07-27)
- 2008-05-21 51 -1 Standby retrohash for next year's Mouse Over Day - hash for original geohash day in the Swindon grat.
Hash attempts
icon work in progress!
| Seq# | ID | Location | Information | 
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Meetup | First encounters |
| 002 | 2009-07-18 50 -1 | Hambledon Cricket pilgrimage! |   Meetup  Walk 
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2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | |
| 001 | 2009-06-28 50 -1 | Hedge End recreation ground |   
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1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | Sermoa |
Statistics
Score card(s)
| -2 | -1 | -0 | |
| 52 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 50 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
Achievements
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Macronencer earned the Land geohash achievement
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Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement
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Macronencer earned the Musician Achievement
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Macronencer earned the Rubik's Achievement
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Long-term intentions
- Earn the Origin geohash achievement by visiting 1965-05-06 51 0 in a field near Chelmsford
- Earn various Displaced origin geohash achievements (some of these are rather ambitious, I'll admit!)
- 1965-05-06 51 -3 - actually on a green on the Aberdare golf course near Cardiff in Wales :)
- 1965-05-06 52 0 - marginally within somebody's front garden, but I could wangle it, I'm sure.
- 1965-05-06 53 -1 - next to a canal and the M62 near Sheffield. Sounds inaccessible, but satellite imagery makes it look relatively easy.
- 1965-05-06 39 3 - very accessible as it is right next to a road... but it's on Mallorca.
- 1965-05-06 20 -156 - Maui - therefore expensive to get to. But just a short walk into the hills...
- Leave a variety of unusual xkcd signs
- One made out of ants (Oh yeah!)
- One that can only be seen from the right angle (like the Channel 4 logos on TV)
- One in ASCII binary (probably already been done)
- One in Morse code (ditto)
- One in Braille
- Collar someone with a boat and do a Water geohash, probably in the Solent, or the river Itchen or Hamble.
- Gain the Minesweeper Geohash ribbon because it's shiny! Probably centred on the Swindon graticule.
Journal
2009-07-17 Couch Potato...
I have just worked out that at my latitude of 50 degrees, assuming my house includes its land area of about 30x40m, there is a 1 in 6.7 million chance of getting a couch potato award on a given day. Not good odds, though admittedly a little better than the Lotto jackpot :|
