User talk:Robyn

Please make a new category at the bottom to add your comments if they don't relate to an existing section. I'd really appreciate a useful edit summary, too, so I can tell from the notification e-mail whether I need to look at it right away or not. Feel free to move an archived section back here if you want to talk about it more.

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Otherwise the page gets too long for some browsers and I can't find anything.

Australia

Hi Robyn, CJ and I were wondering, when you come to Australia (Whoo Hoo!), Could you please bring your airplane with you? Thanks, -- Kate 13:23, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

I'd need to a) convine my boss he didn't need it that week and b) fill all the baggage holds with fuel to get it that far. How about I bring my licence and hire one there? -Robyn 17:26, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Yay! We'll planepool (as in carpool?) and go on an Airtrip (as in roadtrip?) ! -- Kate 21:34, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Yeah! Drop by your local flying school and find out what the rules are for a rental by someone who holds a Transport Canada and FAA licence. -Robyn 21:36, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Hi Robyn, guess what? While at a dance performance I was chatting to another performer, who is the secretary for an organisation that rents planes in Canberra (yeah, I know, yay for random coincidences)! So... what kind of license do you have again? Her preliminary advice was you can probably get a temporary flying permit thing. --joannac 04:14, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

I have a Transport Canada Airline Transport Licence, and an FAA Private licence. The trick seems to be that you have to do a flying checkout with a school (no problem) but then Australia takes weeks to process the temp permit. -Robyn 04:58, 6 April 2009 (UTC)

Image Categories

I'm sorry! I keep forgetting about them until I open my inbox and I have a dozen messages from the wiki... *is ashamed*

It's okay. I wasn't actually annoyed, just having fun with the edit summaries. I type the categories into the edit box for the first picture I upload, then copy them and on subsequent pics from the same expedition, I just keep hitting ctrl-V

Template:maintained

Hi Robyn. Here's a Template:maintained. If you agree with the idea and the wording, feel free to include it on any page that you don't want to be changed by the bot. :) -- relet 10:23, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

2009-04-21

Wait, your summary said possible expedition?

Nuts, and I don't get my bike back from the shop until tomorrow. -- Rhonda 15:17, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

I don't think I'll do it. I was thinking of trying the camping achievement, but it has to be within one km of the coordinates and I can't camp in the water. And quite frankly I'm too lazy to cycle 80 km with that kayak in the trailer. THink BC ferries would charge me by the foot for the trailer? I think I'll clean my yard. Or play Lemmings. -Robyn 15:27, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Oh, ok. I need to add a bike trailer to my shopping list anyway. -- Rhonda 15:39, 21 April 2009 (UTC)

Woohoo! <-- terrible attempt at lemmings noise Thepiguy 00:57, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Got all the way through Fun and Tricky, halfway through the Taxing level and then switched to Commander Keen. Wade found a DOS emulator to run all my old favourite games on the PC. I even have Star Trek: 25th Anniversary. Don't do the math. -Robyn 01:08, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

OMG! Commander Keen is the greatest video game ever! Thepiguy 04:33, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Isn't it just? It is so well designed and playable and fun and the keystrokes are amazingly natural, and it ran in 1024 k of RAM, maybe even 640 k. -Robyn 04:45, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Page changed emails

Do you get emails when a page on your watchlist has changed? I do, and recently a few have been going missing. Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. --joannac

I do, and I haven't noticed any missing, but then I often delete them unread if I already know about the changes, and if I don't know about the changes, I can't tell. I believe I have received an email for every change I have noticed. -Robyn 00:51, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Hrm, I'm definitely missing emails. How many pages are in your watchlist? Is this a sign I should clean out my 618-entry-long watchlist? --joannac 23:58, 3 May 2009 (UTC)

Ok, definitely something funny going on. Some pages are not turning up on "my watchlist" (but show up when I click "view and edit watchlist"). They are also not the same pages that I'm not getting emails for. Very odd indeed. I suspect I need to do a cleanup at some stage. --joannac 00:33, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Weird. I watchlist everything I edit, and I edit almost everything I read, and I read almost everything on the wiki so ... -Robyn 01:09, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Read this and comment if you like

NWoodruff

Congratulations! and 2009-04-23

You've made it to 50 geohashes! Woohoo! I feel like I should throw you a little party on the internet! Sorry I couldn't be there! Thepiguy 05:37, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

I only just realized I had hit fifty as I was dictating to Wade how to update my userpage. "Now increment that number by one ..." I'm wearing the party hat from your birthday hash; that should do. -Robyn 05:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Yay! I'll go to my car and get one of the noise makers! Thepiguy 05:49, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Yes, molto-congratulations! I'll be happy with 52 by the anniversary.

Planning for 2009-04-23 48 -122 moved to that expedition Talk page. -Robyn 16:34, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Camping hash

I was chatting with Juventas in irc last night, and we figured that if we pre-declare a long weekend to be a camping hash weekend in one or the other of our graticules then prepare for anything, we could all three of us do an expedition together some time. I suggested the Victoria Day long weekend (16/17/18) because it's close enough to start plans but far enough off that we aren't too rushed - and it's generally considered the start of camping season. Nothing firm yet, but I thought I'd bring it to your attention. -- Rhonda 15:29, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

So I should make sure I'm back from my secret trip by then, eh? -Robyn 15:39, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

Or propose a different weekend that suits your schedule better. -- Rhonda 15:45, 23 April 2009 (UTC)

This is more exciting than waiting for Christmas to come. :) Juventas 07:23, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Of course I found out recently that Victoria Day long weekend won't work for me, because I have family stuff happening. We should try to pick a weekend that works for all of us. So far I know I can't do Victoria Day, anything in the last week of May (Sat to Sat), or Father's day weekend. -- Rhonda 19:02, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

The last weekend of May doesn't work for me as I'm probably (finally!) going back to work, but any other time in May is fine. I haven't booked a European flight after all. We could be all prepared for camping on the Friday morning and then check out all the graticules between us and Juventas and pick the most promising for the meetup. -Robyn 19:10, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

It's the last two weekends in May I can't do. I'm going on an Alaska cruise with my awesome mom and it leaves Saturday the 23rd. Actually, for me May weekends are mostly booked already, unless we can organize something for this weekend or Mother's Day weekend, those are the only ones I have available. And Mother's Day weekend I may not be up for anything too strenuous due to some planned very minor surgery that will leave me with a few stitches and almost certainly unable to carry a backpack for a while. So, um, for me it looks like either this weekend or June, or later. Argh! -- Rhonda 19:40, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

This weekend, then. I'm going back to work in June, and if I'm not then I have to start looking seriously for a new job. -Robyn 20:29, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Juventas told me that this weekend doesn't work for him. I just found out today that my stitches will be postponed a week so the 2nd week in May now does work for me. What's the update for you two? -- Rhonda 05:31, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Second weekend in May works for me, that's the 9th-10th, yes. -Robyn 05:36, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

May 9/10 is good for me as well. Here, there, in between. Camping or no camping. We'll have to see what comes up. Juventas 06:57, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Okay, so we'll just pick the best spot(s) we can find in graticules between you and us. -Robyn 15:32, 4 May 2009 (UTC)

Resize Help

Thanks for the resize. I was working at it myself upon looking at it, but I see someone else has taken care of it for me. Thanks! - Yert 05:36, 29 April 2009 (UTC)

Europe

It's fantastic that you're coming to Europe! I'll be around 39,2, 40,14, 41,2, 43,5 and 39,-0 from May 16 to 23, so I we'll probably not meet each other. I would have loved to (if I could choose to meet any hasher, it would be you). Good luck and lots of fun and hashpoints to visit. Oh, and thanks for your card! --ilpadre 17:58, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Aw rats, you're right: that's way far south. I hope I can meet some people, anyway. -Robyn 18:20, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Speaking of meeting up, do you have any firm plans as to where you'll be? It wouldn't be out of the question for me to make it to a pan-European meetup on Sunday 17th or on my weekday off work on either week (although I don't know which days those will be, yet), especially if you were still in Belgium, which is closer than Germany. That's if you were planning to go hashing while you're here, of course... (and also assuming you'd like to meet up, which isn't a given, I suppose -- perhaps I'm assuming too much!) -- Benjw 18:25, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

I don't have specific plans yet. I'm landing in Brussels. I thought my route would probably take me more east before going south, to avoid the most mountainous area in between, and I was going to let the location of accessible geohashes guide me. I might even go northeast into the Netherlands. I can always take trains if I get behind schedule. And of course I want to meet up. And apparently I can get by in any country in Europe by speaking lolcat: I CAN HAZ WIFI? -Robyn 18:31, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

I'm willing to go to any place reachable with a Baden-Württemberg-Ticket for a meetup. That is: All of 48,8, 48,9 and significant parts of all of the surrounding graticules. Longer trips might be considered if it's possible to share a group ticket. --Ekorren 18:35, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

FREAKING overpriced Dinosaur fees. So I let the airline know that I would be travelling with a bicycle and a dinosaur, and it turned out that while rubber dinosaurs travel free, the fee for the bike was going to be more than the whole fare. So I freaked out and called Aeroplan to find out what I could do about this, and they took pity on me, and refunded everything even though it was a non-refundable fare. So T-Rex and Уcпех and I are not going to Europe right now. Unless we rebook on Air Canada. -Robyn 21:37, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Why don't you get another ICWB when you get there? --Kate 01:45, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Because I want to ride a hundred kilometres a day and enjoy it, and it's tricky buying a reliable bicycle in another country in advance. -Robyn 01:50, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Alpha Mountain

You think that's a day trip? Let me know if I should rent some snowshoes... -- Rhonda 16:05, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Get a free account on bivouac.com and read this. There are people less sane than us. I would suggest that we drive to Squamish, and cross the river by kayak. I don't know about the snowshoes. A lot of points fall in this range, and the approach requires crossing the Squamish River by boat. I'd like to try it sometime, but maybe in the summer. -Robyn 16:31, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Hm, that does sound more appropriate for a summer weekend. Especially the part where he talks about glaciers. Saturday's point is closer to the road but still a mountain climbing experience. What do you think of that one? -- Rhonda 16:47, 1 May 2009 (UTC)

Discussion moved to Talk:2009-05-02 48 -122.

Replies to comments

So if people post comments to you on your talk page, where do you post your replies to them? On their talk page, or back on your own talk page? Wade 00:07, 2 May 2009 (UTC) P.s. Maybe, no, no.

Generally you post a reply under the comments, but if they're new and you're not sure they have their preferences set to watch pages they comment on, you can go over to their talk page and let them know you've replied. -Robyn 00:22, 2 May 2009 (UTC)

A serious article about the Klingon language

I came across this article on Slate.com and knew you would appreciate it. There are some nice observations that would apply to speaking Klingon, or geohashing. -- Jevanyn 15:32, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Weekend plans?

Heya. You said something about going east this weekend? What's the plan for that? - Elbie 16:36, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

Robyn has already left and is heading for my place to pick me up. We're going to Vernon. -- Rhonda 16:45, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

All right. I have to work today, so I guess I can't join you. Have fun! - Elbie 17:12, 8 May 2009 (UTC)

First Germany Geohash!!!

Just got back from our first geohash! With Danatar! And a new bike! Awesome overload!!!! Thepiguy 18:47, 9 May 2009 (UTC)

Awesome. Just got back from a three-day multi-graticule camping trip. I'll catch up later. -Robyn 15:35, 11 May 2009 (UTC)

COME BACK IT WORKS

--joannac 07:32, 14 May 2009 (UTC)

photo cats

I read them. :-) -- Benjw 06:53, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Awright! And I appreciate the tremendous amount of categorizing you have done. -Robyn 15:57, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Heh. That's ok. In its own way it's actually quite fun to get everything organised. More fun reorganising the wiki than actually going geohashing at the moment, anyway -- haven't been on an expedition for over three weeks now. Meh. Too much to do at home -- which is the main reason I'm sitting reorganising the wiki instead of doing any of it. Ho hum. By the way, I hope I'm not taking over any wiki-edit projects you were planning to do. Do tell me to go away if so... :-) -- Benjw 17:38, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Good gods no. I love that I can wish something were done and then other people see the same need and just do it, so in the end I don't remember what was my idea and what was a someone else's idea I just agreed with. -Robyn 17:42, 19 May 2009 (UTC)

Tagged for deletion

I've added comments on the talk page Category talk:Tagged for deletion. Comments would be appreciated --joannac 07:23, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Excellent. After Geohashing Day I will. -Robyn 13:29, 21 May 2009 (UTC)

Mouse Over Day

We seem to have two options for tomorrow -- Texada Island, which would require a car and four ferries; or Bellingham Bay, which requires boats and a border crossing. Do you have a preference? I lack a car. - Elbie 16:06, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I was looking at Bellingham, with biking/wading/swimming. It looks shallow, and I too have a wetsuit. I really don't like using a car, especially paying ferry tolls for one. Yesterday was ouch. Texada would require four ferries? I saw HB-Langdale, Earls Cove-Saltery Bay, Powell River-Blubber Bay, then kayak from Blubber Bay to the hash. (It's in the water, on the beach, or on the cliff there. I don't think there is any road access to that beach area. -Robyn 16:24, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I meant four ferries for the round trip (two to get there). Anyway, I'm not so sure I'll have time for the Bellingham hash; I need to make up for taking Thursday off work. - Elbie 18:06, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Then I count six ferries for the round trip. Or you could go HB-Departure Bay, Little River-Powell River, Powell River-Blubber Bay. But that's still three ferries each way. How are you doing it in two?

Let me know before tonight if you are able to go on Mouse Over Day. Hey! Let's have a Saturday Alternate, in the morning, in North Vancouver, transit accessible, like at Lonsdale Quay. Or Canada Place! Rhonda can come, we can see her off for the cruise, and wave and everything like in the movies! -Robyn 18:14, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Not a fan of Egmont?

You're not out geohashing today? I though today would have been a piece of cake! Although, as you said, the ferry tolls are rather expensive. :D Thepiguy 17:28, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm not paying for ferries or gas anymore except Saturdays. It's too expensive. Eve on a bike you can pay $40 over the course of a day. -Robyn 17:37, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

No kidding. Although I guess my ferry expenses would drop a lot if I stopped eating waffles every time. I think trains are going to become the new ferries for us here. It's so tempting to try every hash! Thepiguy 17:46, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

I bet. I bet you ~~wake up every morning~~ look at the geohashes at a civilized hour the day before and go "OMG! It's not in the water! It's not on a glacier! It's less than a kilometre from a road! I have to go!" -Robyn 17:55, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Yeah, except most of them end up in farmers fields. The W30 rule is pretty great, you should come try it! Thepiguy 18:35, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Farmer's fields? Welcome to my graticule. One of these days I will count the number of times the point hits fields and urban locations in a given month. It should prove interesting... --Meghan 19:06, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Hey, that's an interesting idea. I might try that too. Maybe each day in June the way Robyn did for Vancouver. -- Benjw 21:00, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Talk:Hashiversary_achievement

comments addressed. comments? :D -- relet 01:40, 25 May 2009 (UTC)

Prize poultry

Wait, was there a reason it stayed capitalised? Did I do all that moving for nothing? --joannac 23:48, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I pasted the "how to use" template and it didn't work. So I tried it with two Ps and it did. I figured the upgrade was on its way, but for now there might be people who didn't know how to make it work, so simply changed the "how to use" to match the existing template. If the template had worked with Pp, I'd have left it alone. -Robyn 23:55, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

I just realized that I must have attempted to award myself the consolation prize right in between you changing the tmeplate and changing the user text. -Robyn 23:57, 26 May 2009 (UTC)

Sorry! I guess this is a good reason to ask first, edit second. So it's all good now, right? --joannac 00:04, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

Wait, no it's not. Most of the consolation prizes have extra capitalisation? So it should be Prize Poultry? (capital P)? What's going on? --joannac 00:08, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

The consolation prizes were named by me, before the naming conventions were set. Someone only recently created ribbons for some of them, and perhaps followed the old naming conventions. I personally like Book Title Capitalisation on the name of the award, so the ones I make have that, but I still comply (now that we have them) with naming conventions for page, ategory and and template names. I think you've just found a little pocket of not-yet-renamed stuff. Rename away. -Robyn 00:33, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

I guess I should feel noticed that I keep running into stuff that people want to fix. :-( JimL 04:14, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

The wiki is in a constant state of being fixed, so you'll find that all the time. When it's someone else's graticule page, or especially user page, a lot of people tend to hang around and give suggestions rather than just fixing stuff. I'm pretty brazen in that when I'm sure of what someone meant, I just fix it. But I didn't want to presume that you weren't planning to build a page all about the McMinnvilles of the world. I got chewed out by a Flight Service Specialist from McMinnville once. I called him "Portland" or something and he didn't like that. It's the first thing I think of every time I see the name. -Robyn 04:31, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

NOOOO

...I knew I shouldn't have gone to bed last night. *leaves a chocolate brownie for Robyn*. Come back, I'll try and make ben be nice to you. --joannac 21:14, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

I've broken Robyn. :'-( -- Benjw 21:28, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Offer her your brownie too. Maybe two brownies will tempt her to come back. --joannac 21:35, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Come back, Robyn. We need you; the wiki is boring otherwise. *Leaves chocolate brownie on table and goes away to hide*. It's one of Joanna's brownies, so it probably tastes a lot better than my cooking. -- Benjw 21:40, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Please, Robyn? How many people do I need to get to edit this section for you to come back? *goes to poke the regulars in #gh* --joannac 21:48, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Come home Robyn! We miss you. It's been, ummm, hours! I forgive you for moving my userpage around. I was just trying to make it easier for everyone to get my username right, since the wiki was so fussy about case. JimL 21:56, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

You'll always be JimL to me. I'll make a point of it. It's actually really hard not to edit every page I look at. I'm getting twitchy about the disagreement between the description of Hashiversary on the Achievements page and the description in the achievement itself. -Robyn 23:37, 28 May 2009 (UTC)

Joanna's a bureaucrat. She ought to be able to make pages change without showing up in the "recently changed" list. Then we can secretly put twitchy things into pages to keep Robyn having to fix things. :-) JimL 00:08, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

But if they aren't in the recently changed list, how am I going to see them, JimL? -Robyn 00:44, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

You'd have to check every page in your spare time. But I think this is a bad idea and we should all leave Robyn alone. :-) JimL 00:50, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

I like it better too with a capital L, but it's a pain often for other people and from time to time even for me. I'd be fine if the Wiki was case insensitive about usernames (as I think it should be), but it isn't. JimL 06:49, 29 May 2009 (UTC)

Crossing the border on bike

So, from 2009-04-16 48 -122, I see there's some sort of advanced border crossing procedure for cyclists. Would you mind explaining it to me for 2009-05-31 48 -122? - Elbie 20:24, 29 May 2009 (UTC)