User:RocketMac

About Me

52 / m / 42,-88

I am a Mac geek (former Apple employee (twice)) and current Apple Certified Trainer/Consultant/Technician) living near Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

I know I'm late to the geohashing game, but I dig it a lot.

My house is less than two miles South/Southwest from the 43, -88 graticule, but I'm originally from Naperville, IL so the 42, -88 suits me just fine.

Geohashing 101 Geocache

I created a Geohashing 101 Geocache cache to introduce my local geocachers to geohashing and these pages contains all the info.

Notable Accomplishments

On August 22nd, 2011 (my second expedition) I managed to hit a five stop multihash on my way from Milwaukee to Minneapolis.

From June 16th to June 18th, 2012, I hit geohashes on three days in a row in three different graticules and in three different states.

On July 16th, 2012, I was the first person to visit a hash in Las Vegas, NV while in town to play in the World Series of Poker.

On September 23rd, 2012, I reached a hash in 42,-89 completing the Minesweeper Geohash and Déjà Vu achievements.

States Visited

Wisconsin: 42,-87 // 42,-88 // 43,-87 // 43,-88 // 43,-89 // 44,-91
Illinois: 41,-87 // 42,-87 // 42,-88 // 41,-88 // 41,-89 // 42,-89
Minnesota: 45,-93
Texas: 29,-95
Missouri: 38,-90
Nevada: 36,-115

Expeditions

Reached (>=1) or attempted (0)
	-93	-92	-91	-90	-89	-88	-87
45	1	0
44		1	1	0
43				0	2	6*	5
42					1	8+	8
41					1	2	1
*includes proxy find via puppet +includes retrohash

Total: 47

2012

2012-10-17 43 -88 - An easy geosquishy on my way home
2012-09-23 42 -89 - Completed my Minesweeper achievement with a hash three miles from my last attempt.
2012-09-18 38 -90 - ~~Trip to St. Louis cancelled with a hashpoint right near my hotel.~~
2012-07-16 36 -115 - Dragged the wife and a cabbie to a pub geohash in Vegas while in town for the WSOP
2012-06-18 38 -90 - A hike through the woods and geocache before dinner with friends.
2012-06-22 42 -89 - ~~Chose not to trespass on a farm in the dark to finish Minesweeper.~~
2012-06-22 41 -89 - Stopped at a cornfield at sunset on the way home from St. Louis.
2012-06-17 41 -88 - Visiting my dad on Father's Day and dragging my parents to a hash.
2012-06-16 43 -88 - Trying to convince a friend to geohash while geohashing.
2012-06-06 42 -88 - Visiting a hardware store parking lot.
2012-05-31 42 -88 - A quick drive-by before my "last meal."
2012-05-10 43 -87 - A easy hashpoint before meeting The Wyf for dinner.
2012-05-21 Milwaukee, WI - ~~My first Geohashing Day!~~
2012-05-10 43 -87 - A easy hashpoint before meeting The Wyf for drinks.
2012-05-09 42 -87 - Used the hash as a random dinner generator with The Wyf.
2012-04-06 41 -88 - Rural road West of Aurora on the way back from St. Louis
2012-04-05 38 -90 - Between a park and the freeway in St. Louis
2012-03-08 44 -91 - Wandered onto the driveway of an abandoned(?) farmhouse on his way home from Minneapolis
2012-03-01 41 -87 - Found a hashpoint and won a charity poker tournament for his camp!
2012-02-05 43 -88 - Drive-through TRON Achievement in semi-formal attire
2012-02-04 41 -88 - ~~Another failed attempt at a Saturday meetup with Evil Uncle Nomo and his wife~~
2012-01-28 42 -87 - ~~Too busy cleaning to join Evil Uncle Nomo and his wife at a Saturday Meetup~~
2012-01-22 42 -87 - Used the hash as a random lunch generator with the wife.
2012-01-18 42 -87 - Made a father and son uncomfortable.
2012-01-08 42 -88 - Birthday cake and contemplation alongside farmland in Eagle.
2012-01-01 42 -87 - A park near home and only a few miles from yesterday's hash.

2011

2011-12-31 42 -87 - A rain reservoir near two Park-and-Ride lots.
2011-12-29 42 -87 - A cluster of trees in an industrial park South of the airport.
2011-12-22 43 -88 - ~~A patch of farmland in Pewaukee, WI at lunchtime~~
2011-12-21 43 -87 - A small strip of grass in an urban area on the way to date night
2011-12-19 42 -88 - A drive-through visit in New Berlin, WI that I calculated by hand
2011-12-17 42 -88 - A cul-de-sac in Franklin, Wisconsin at midnight with the wife
2011-12-11 42 -87 - A park in Evanston, IL with a sled hill and a geocache
2011-12-08 43 -89 - Small rural road after stopping for dinner at Moosejaw Pizza and Beer
2011-12-05 43 -89 - ~~Behind a treeline in the Wisconsin Dells~~
2011-11-30 29 -95 - A small wooded area behind a gas station near Houston, Texas
2011-11-29 43 -88 - An easy visit at an intersection in downtown Wauwatosa
2011-10-28 42 -88 - An easy visit at the edge of a road near shopping for dinner supplies
2011-10-22 43 -87 - Used the day's hashpoint as a random adventure generator with the Wyf
2011-10-17 42 -88 - Retrohash: Didn't make actual date, but spent the rest of week at client site a mile away
2011-10-14 43 -88 - I sent a puppet out to find a hash less than five miles from her dorm at college
2011-10-13 43 -87 - The parking lot of a labor union headquarters
2011-10-09 42 -88 - A corn field in Harvard, IL
2011-10-07 43 -87 - The rear parking lot of a country club
2011-08-25 - On the way home I tried two more graticules at dusk/dark