User:Robyn

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Revision as of 17:53, 28 February 2009 by imported>Robyn (+1 attempt)
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I'm Robyn, also known on the internets as Qov. You may recognize me by another pseudonym from elsewhere, and I know I'm not doing a very good job of keeping quiet like this, but I can trust you not to blab, right?

I hash on foot, by bicycle and by transit, not by car, because burning fuel for pointless expeditions is dumb, but exercising for pointless expeditions is the win. I may stop off at a geohash in a car when I'm on my way elsewhere, though. When I'm at home in Vancouver I'll usually try for the nearest hash, in Vancouver, in Surrey or across the border to Bellingham. I may get over to Victoria from time to time, too. I have good maps locally. I also travel all over North America for work, so you'll see me at strange graticules elsewhere.

Future Plans

  • February: out of town, geohashing when work permits
    • Wondering how much it would cost to rent a satphone for a week.
    • No geohashing today: I have to work.
    • Considering which continent to go to, with all these airfare sales going on.
    • Recording geohashes with tracklogs until I get my camera back.

Statistics

Graticules

  • Hashes Attempted: 55 in 28 different graticules
  • Hashes Achieved: 37 in 23 different graticules
  • Four p.m. Saturday Meetups: 4 in 3 different graticules
  • Geohashers met: 11 in 3 different graticules
  • Continents geohashed: 1

Things that have thwarted me

  • No trespassing sign: 4
  • Being chicken: 1
  • Body of water: 1
  • Transportation failure: 2
  • Mis-setting the GPS: 1
  • Time constraints: 4
  • Terrain too nasty to continue safely: 4
  • Inability to use a camera: 1

Never turn down a chance to geohash.

All Geohashes Attempted

Most recent are listed first. Horizontal lines are every ten missions, to facilitate counting. Bold numbers are the success count and bold words indicate an award or consolation prize taken for that attempt. I've removed my former one ribbon per geohash limitation. I've decided to count a geohash "successful" if I:

(a) get to within the accuracy figure of the coordinates as shown by my GPS,
(b) have the GPS show a distance remaining of zero,
(c) get to where it is obvious I could reach the geohash, but refrain from trampling crops,
(d) for airhashes, take a readable photo within 10 seconds of each latitude and longitude, or
(e) get really close and meet other geohashers who didn't travel with me, while trying to reach the geohash.

I haven't yet had to use options (c) and (e): the one time I thought I would have to invoke (c), the geohash came to me.







  • See my blog for details on my early geohashing adventures, before I had properly figured out wiki-ing.

Geohashers Met

Alphabetical by username. Date is first meeting.

Achievements

I love the idea of Achievements, I want them *all*. Just for fun, I'm trying to make an achievement at every geohash, and only taking each award once, but I've given up my earlier restriction of one award per geohash. It would also be funny to see how many achievements I could get at once. Also I take Virgin Graticule every time it is applicable. In each section, the most recent new achievement is last.

Once Is Enough Ribbons

I only take a ribbon for the first time I do one of these, even if I have achieved the feat more than once.

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Robyn earned the Air geohash achievement
by reaching the (31, -84) geohash on 2008-06-11 by air, attaining the rank of Pilot.
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Robyn earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling to the (49, -122) geohash on 2008-07-05.
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Robyn earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging Wade to the (47, -121) geohash on 2008-07-06.
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Robyn earned the Ambassador achievement
by obtaining permission to access the (47, -122) geohash on 2008-07-18.
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Robyn earned the Border geohash achievement
by crossing the Canada-USA border on 2008-07-28 to reach the (48, -123) geohash.
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Robyn earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (55, -114) geohash for 2008-08-24 with highly visible raptor claw marks.
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Robyn has visited an Easy Geohash
by reaching the (55, -114) geohash on 2008-08-29 without really trying.
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Robyn earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement
by cleaning up the (53, -113) geohash on 2008-08-30.
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Robyn earned the Walk geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2008-09-11 on foot, travelling a distance of 3.5 km.
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Robyn earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
by reaching the (49, -122) geohash on 2008-09-19 in the middle of the night.
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Robyn earned the Buccaneer Geohash Achievement
by attending a midnight geohash in pirate attire on TLAP Day at the (49, -122) geohash on 2008-09-19.
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Robyn earned the Sunrise Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2008-09-21 to smile at the first rays of sun to cross the horizon.
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Robyn earned the Water geohash achievement
by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2008-09-21 by inflatable pool toy rowboat.
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Robyn earned the Speed racer achievement
by passing through the (49, -124) geohash on 2008-09-21 at the maximum legal speed.
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Robyn earned the Public transport geohash achievement
by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2008-09-25 via the 33 UBC bus.
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Robyn earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting HollyB, Jaem, and DaleF at the (49, -123) geohash on 2008-09-25.
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Robyn earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (48, -122) geohash on 2008-09-27.
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Robyn, Wade and Garyuuko earned the Picnic achievement
by eating grape juice and sandwiches at the (49, -123) geohash on 2008-11-08.
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Robyn earned the Snowman Geohash Achievement
by building a snowman at the (49, -122) geohash on 2009-01-02.
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Robyn earned the Déjà Vu Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (48, -122) geohash on 2009-01-22, and previously on 1993-06-26.
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Robyn earned the First Sip GeoSquishy Achievement
by enjoying a slushy carbonated beverage at the (47, -122) geohash on 2009-01-22.
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Robyn earned the 5 Star GeoSquishy Achievement
by earning 5 stars all at the (47, -122) geohash on 2009-01-22.
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Robyn earned the Earliest geohasher achievement
by arriving first at the (49, -123) geohash on 2009-01-24.
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Upgradeable Ribbons

These ribbons change as I accomplish more.

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Robyn earned the Cold geohash achievement
by reaching the (55, -114) geohash on 2008-08-21 while the temperature was 14.8°C.
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Robyn earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching the 2008-08-30 54 -114 and 2008-08-30 53 -113 geohashes on 2008-08-30.
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Robyn achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Seattle, Washington and 3 of the surrounding graticules.
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Robyn achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Barrhead, Alberta and 3 of the surrounding graticules.
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Robyn achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Vancouver, British Columbia and 4 of the surrounding graticules.
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Robyn achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Bellingham, Washington and 5 of the surrounding graticules.
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Robyn earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching three consecutive hash points starting on 2008-08-28.
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Robyn has enjoyed GeoSquishy treats for a cumulative total of 5 points
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Robyn earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement
by attending 4 Saturday meetups.


Virgin Graticules

If you are the first to reach ground-based coordinates in a graticule I airhashed, I will cede the ribbon and the glory to you.

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Consolation Prizes

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Robyn earned the No trespassing consolation prize
by almost reaching the (48, -121) geohash on 2008-07-19.
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Robyn earned the There might be alligators! consolation prize
by being prevented from reaching the (55, -114) geohash on 2008-08-16 by an impassable and unforeseen marsh (and probably lurking alligators).

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Robyn earned the Blinded by Science Consolation Prize
by failing to reach the (49, -123) geohash on 2008-07-21 when she missed a digit entering coordinates in her GPS.
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Checklist of achievements to get

time traveller, endurance, no batteries, geoflashing, underground, underwater, golf, pub, hash collision, freeway, birthday, sex, twister, phonebooth, hopper, restricted, MacGyver, circus, and most everything else that has been made up.

Progress Towards Multihash Achievements

Wiki Stuff

  • I've made it my goal to complete the needed pages to fix red links on the Achievements page. People keep making new achievements (which I love) but every one needs a page describing the achievement, a ribbon template, and a ribbon image.
  • I like making ribbons and it makes me happy when people put them on their pages. If you have drawing or photoshopping talents please help make new or better ribbon images.
  • I obsess about every page belonging to its proper categories, and every category belonging to a category, all the way up to the root.
  • Placing the same page in two categories, one of which is a subcategory of the other, defeats the purpose of categories. I removed the category Europe from a couple of hundred European graticules that were classed in Europe in addition to their country categories.
  • I came to this wiki knowing nothing about wiki, so I sympathize with others and am working on the Help page.
  • My C-key doesn't work all that well, so some of my categories are ategories.
  • In progress: Geohash on Private Property.
  • Started pages Transportation to the Geohash and Games We Play. Keeping an eye out for additions.
  • Making expedition pages and Userpages for Ninja geohashers.
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