User talk:MagicIan
Hey there! You should have let us here at 52, -1 know you were coming to 2010-06-20 52 -1. I looked at it and decided I couldn't be bothered, but if I'd have known someone else might be going... :-P
Never mind. Maybe see you another time. --Joehardflec 20:22, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
- Hi Joe. I wasn't sure when I'd be leaving the Midlands to aim for my hashes, and didn't really have much time to hang around - I got back to Norwich late enough as it was with 4 stops for hashes! Mostly I don't have time/can't be bothered to edit meetup pages before attempting a hash - there are almost no other active hashers in my home graticule so it hardly seems worth it. I usually click on the map pin for the hash on http://irc.peeron.com/xkcd/map/ and select "Yes" if I'm going to attempt one tho. Next time I venture west again I'll remember to give you guys a shout. Happy hashing :-) --MagicIan 21:35, 24 June 2010 (UTC)
- But do let me know if you ever plan to come to the Cambridge graticule and have time to stop for five minutes. At the moment I don't tend to make it very far from Cambridge itself, but would certainly try to do so for a meetup. After I take my finals in October I should have more time for hashing and if we haven't met by then, I'll try to get over towards Norwich occasionally. See you around! -- Benjw 15:21, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
Sourcerer (Neil) says Wednesday 25th August is a real challenge! The hash is in a wetland. I'm not sure how wet. Sadly I have to go to Ipswich so my day is spoiled. Access from the nearest public footpath would involve a swim and a muddy wade. The larger channel is navigable with small broads boats.
- Thanks for the heads-up - it does look a good one! I'll see what the weather is doing tomorrow evening. If it's nice I'll take my kayak - park up at the Horsey Windpump and paddle due west into the channels. Following thru it looks as tho one little portage would get me to within 30 meters. I have a spare kayak if you'll be back from Ipswich before sunset... --MagicIan 22:46, 24 August 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not aiming for the drowned rat achievement so forget the second kayak. Now if there happens to be fine weather pub geohash near a broad, that's another matter.
- Yeah, the weather is pants so I'm not going to bother today. Might do it as a retro-hash this weekend depending on what the coordinates are like for the other days. --MagicIan 19:22, 25 August 2010 (UTC)
- I'm not aiming for the drowned rat achievement so forget the second kayak. Now if there happens to be fine weather pub geohash near a broad, that's another matter.
Sourcerer (Neil) says Monday 13th September is interesting. It's almost certainly in the grounds of Banham Zoo and perhaps the hashpoint is in a tiger enclosure. Sadly, Neil has to work and will not find out.
- I was also working during the zoo's opening hours - would've been a good admit one geohash otherwise. Incidentally, I attempted the hash for Wednesday 25th August on the Monday of the following week and got within a few meters in my kayak, but didn't fancy wading thru some murkey water with reeds everywhere around to get the actual coordinates. --MagicIan 13:10, 16 September 2010 (UTC)
Sourcerer Neil says 2010-09-25 52 1 is an interesting hash.
- Not sure it's quite swimming weather today if I'm honest, but cheers for the heads up. Yesterday's was a notable hash - not so much in 52 1, but in 51 1 as it *was* a virgin graticule and the coordinates were on land for once. I'll post the report in a bit... --MagicIan 12:53, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
- I should've looked before I made that last post - you're a couple of steps ahead of me both days! Congrats on the virgin graticule yesterday - you made it a few hours before me - how random is that‽ I don't know if this means you can add the earliest geohasher ribbon too as it wasn't technically a meetup... Anyway you look like you've got it sorted with the tide tables for today too - impressive stuff. I still don't reckon I'll make it down, but you could always wait until the tide comes in and bag yourself an underwater geohash too and make it a really impressive couple of days :-) --MagicIan 13:10, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
- I expect you've checked the Norwich page by now but I chickened out because of mother nature / stormy seas. I put the ribbons on my page to avoid too much clutter on the Norwich page. In better weather I'd have gone for it even if it was under water. I should have left a marker for 51 1 but I assumed no one else would be mad enough to waste their Friday night like that. How wrong I was.
- I should've looked before I made that last post - you're a couple of steps ahead of me both days! Congrats on the virgin graticule yesterday - you made it a few hours before me - how random is that‽ I don't know if this means you can add the earliest geohasher ribbon too as it wasn't technically a meetup... Anyway you look like you've got it sorted with the tide tables for today too - impressive stuff. I still don't reckon I'll make it down, but you could always wait until the tide comes in and bag yourself an underwater geohash too and make it a really impressive couple of days :-) --MagicIan 13:10, 25 September 2010 (UTC)
Sourcerer Neil asks: There are about six broken links to users on the Norwich graticule page. Do inactive users get deleted off the wiki? Should we delete these links?
