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.

Geohashes Visited

Reached (>=1) or attempted (0)

	-93	-92	-91	-90	-89	-88	-87
45	1	0
44		1		0
43				0		1	2
42					2*	3+
*includes proxy find via puppet +includes retrohash

• 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

44 -92 - A corn field at dusk with the edge of a sunset and a sky full of stars

43 -90 - Couldn't find a safe route and settled for parking on the freeway nearby

• 2011-08-22 - I visited five hashes on my trip from Milwaukee to Minneapolis for work

43 -88 - A senior living apartment near home

42 -89 - The parking lot of a Piggly Wiggly near Madison

44 -90 - A near-miss of the hash on private property in scary "ya got a purty mouth" territory

45 -92 - A near-miss of the hash on private property in breathtakingly beautiful farm land

45 -93 - Mere feet from the hash at the edge of someone's house

• 2011-08-06 42 -88 - My first excursion was the 42, -88 event on 2011-08-05

Geohashing 101 Geocache

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

Achievements

RocketMac earned the Puppet Master Geohash achievement by manipulating AuroraSincrois to reach the (43, -88) geohash on 2011-10-14.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -87) geohash on 2011-10-13.

RocketMac has visited an Easy Geohash by reaching the (43, -87) geohash on 2011-10-13 without really trying.

RocketMac earned the Last man standing achievement by being the the only hasher world-wide to go on a geohashing expedition on 2011-10-13.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (42, -88) geohash on 2011-10-09.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -87) geohash on 2011-10-07.

RocketMac has visited an Easy Geohash by reaching the (43, -87) geohash on 2011-10-07 without really trying.

RocketMac earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching 2 hash points on 2011-08-25. It's a Double Hash.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (44, -92) geohash on 2011-08-25.

RocketMac earned the There might be alligators! consolation prize by being prevented from reaching the (43, -90) geohash on 2011-08-25 by an impassable and unforeseen Too many hazzards and no roads (and probably lurking alligators).

RocketMac earned the Multihash Achievement by reaching 5 hash points on 2011-08-22. It's a MONSTER Hash.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -88) geohash on 2011-08-22.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (43, -89) geohash on 2011-08-22.

RocketMac earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (44, -90) geohash on 2011-08-22.

RocketMac earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (45, -92) geohash on 2011-08-22.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (45, -93) geohash on 2011-08-22.

RocketMac earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (42, -88) geohash on 2011-08-06.

RocketMac earned the Hash collision achievement by discovering the geocache GC1JTJN 579 feet from the (42, -88) geohash on 2011-08-06.