User:Jevanyn

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Hi, my name is Greg, I'm a graduate of New Jersey Institute of Technology, with a BS in computer science. I have a wife and 4-yr-old son, both of whom will likely be joining me when I go geohashing.

I live in the North Jersey graticule, and I'm aiming for a Regional geohash for New Jersey, as well as meeting as many geohashers all over the country as I can.

I like bridge, cycling, baseball, and photography. My wife is into scrapbooking, crafting, and likes photography as well. My son likes knock-knock jokes and ... trying to escape HEY GET BACK HERE! :-D.

I can bring Fluxx, Wizard, a regular deck of cards or the like to any meetups. My wife and I sometimes host a monthly card-and-board gaming group, so if the site is close enough, I might suggest our house for the geohash on a weekend.

Planned expeditions

  • Tue January 5, 2010: I turn 40 in (40, -74). I may actually be in Newark, for that matter. I'm going to try for a birthday geohash if the location/weather/timing doesn't totally suck.

Expeditions

Total Expeditions: 22.

Geohashes reached: 12 in 10 expeditions.
Recent Streak: 3 successes.
Reasons for (12) fails
  • Private property: 4
  • Mother nature's bitch: 2
  • Time constraints: 2
  • No public access: 1
  • My kingdom for a boat: 1
  • Curse of unawareness: 1
  • Prize Poultry: 1

Arrow2.png 2009-06-20 39 -76: Stopped at a geohash near Baltimore along the way to Wilmington, NC.

Arrow2.png Arrow2.png 2009-06-05 40 -73 and 2009-06-06 40 -74: A second chance at the NYC graticule, and a midnight geohash in my old hometown.


Arrow4.png 2009-06-04 40 -73: In New Jersey and in the NYC graticule, and running an errand in Clifton anyway.

Arrow4.png 2009-06-02 40 -74: Geohash 5 miles from home, but behind a line of houses.

Arrow4.png 2009-05-11 40 -74: Geohash 7 miles from work, but roads unsafe for bicycling in that direction. Chickened out.

Arrow2.png 2009-05-09 40 -75: Back in the Philadelphia/Allentown graticule, this time on the NJ side of the Delaware.

Arrow2.png 2009-04-26 40 -74: I'm on the wrong side of the tracks in White House Station.

Arrow2.png 2009-04-11 40 -74: Cold, wet bicycle geohash in Hillsborough.

Arrow2.png 2009-03-04 40 -74: No GPS! No map! No directions! No camera?! ... AAAA!

Arrow2.png 2009-02-28 40 -74: Jevanyn the buccaneer leads pirate raids up and down the Turnpike!

Arrow4.png 2009-02-19 40 -74: The geohash was only a couple of towns over, but still unreachable.

Arrow4.png 2009-01-17 40 -74: A planned geohash, postponed from the 10th due to snow, was unreachable on the 17th.


Arrow2.png Arrow2.png 2008-12-13 41 -74 and 2008-12-14 41 -74: In a rare instance of the Saturday and Sunday geohashes being within 10 miles of each other, I venture north of the 41st parallel for a midnight multihash, and got questioned by police.

Arrow4.png 2008-12-06 40 -74: Got within 100 yards or so of the geohash, but I was on my way to a surprise birthday party and was already late.

After further review, I was not within 100 yards. No big deal, I didn't have photos anyway.

Arrow2.png 2008-10-18 40 -75: Touchdown Philadelphia!

Arrow4.png 2008-09-07 40 -74: Thwarted by poison ivy and "No Trespassing" signs, we performed some community service and investigated reports of dinosaur abuse.

Arrow4.png 2008-09-05 39 -74: Got to Vineland around 11PM, and got caught in the rain.

Arrow1.png 2008-08-23 39 -74: Took a ride in my uncle's boat. Then I checked the geohash, which was just off the coast near where we had ridden by. Whoops.

The September 2nd Cape May geohash also lay on or near the boat route. For how little land is in this graticule, this may be as close as anyone gets for a while.

Arrow4.png 2008-08-16 39 -74: The geohash is up a creek, and I'm passing through.

Arrow2.png 2008-07-26 40 -74: Meetup with Zubenelgenubi. XKCD conquers yet another suburb :-)

Arrow4.png 2008-07-12: I drove by the house where the geohash was on July 11 (I was going that way anyway).

I can only prove it by a) being able to describe the house (house number "Two Ten" in cursive fixtures on the house), and b) verifying that the Bound Brook Fire Dept. was having a fund raiser at a nearby intersection, proving I was there on Saturday.

Arrow4.png 2008-06-28 40 -74: Geohash in Westfield. Brought my wife and son, took pictures, wrote narrative.

I had to give back my Land geohash ribbon, since I didn't get close enough to the actual hashpoint.

Arrow6.png 2008-06-12: The location for Newark was only three miles from where I work, which at the time was the closest Cubicle Geohash to date.

Ribbons

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Jevanyn achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Newark, New Jersey and 3 of the surrounding graticules.
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This user earned the Prize poultry Consolation Prize
by chickening out on the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-05-11.
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This user earned the Reverse regional achievement
by reaching hash points in all regions of the (40, -75) graticule.
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This user earned the Bicycle geohash achievement
by cycling to the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-04-11.
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This user earned the Drowned Rat Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-04-11 despite being thoroughly wet.
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Jevanyn earned the Speed racer achievement
by passing through the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-03-04 at the maximum legal speed.
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Jevanyn earned the Buccaneer Geohash Achievement
by wearing a tricorne hat and teaching his son to say "Walk the plank!" at the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-02-28.
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Jevanyn has visited an Easy Geohash
by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2009-02-28 without really trying.

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Jevanyn earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2008-12-13.
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Jevanyn earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
by reaching the (41, -74) geohash on 2008-12-13 in the middle of the night.
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Jevanyn earned the Frozen Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (41, -74) geohash on 2008-12-13 while the temperature was 23 °F.
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Jevanyn achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Newark, New Jersey and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

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Jevanyn earned the Police Geohash Achievement
by meeting an officer while attempting the (41, -74) geohash on 2008-12-14.
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Jevanyn earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
by reaching the (41, -74) geohash on 2008-12-14 in the middle of the night.
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Jevanyn earned the Curse of Unawareness Consolation Prize
by reaching the (39, -74) geohash on 2008-08-23 without knowing it was there.
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Jevanyn earned the My kingdom for a boat consolation prize
by being prevented from reaching the (39, -74) geohash on 2008-08-16 by an impassable and unforeseen creek.
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This user earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-07-26.
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This user earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting Zubenelgenubi at the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-07-26.
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This user earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement
by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-07-26.
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This user earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging Evan to the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-07-26.
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This user earned the No trespassing consolation prize
by almost reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-06-28.

Achievements I'm shooting for

But a hurricane is a cyclonic storm, doesn't that count for the other kind of twister?
See the above for Retro/Water Geohash
A Saturday meetup in Boston or Seattle. Seattle would be an XKCD-1000.
A geohash in Australia or New Zealand, which would be an XKCD-10000 8-D.

Silly ideas for achievements

Disclaimer: some of these are obviously illegal, I take no responsibility for your actions.

  • Close but No Cigar / Close Enough for Government Work consolation: You get within about 100m and decide you're "close enough" (I see a lot of these on weekday meetup pages.)
  • No "There" There consolation: Your GPS can't decide if you've found the hashpoint or not
  • Midnight Madness Multihash: special multihash for going to a geohash for Friday (or Saturday), then at midnight travelling to the Saturday/Sunday geohash as quickly as possible.
  • Hash-and-grab: commit an act of burglary
  • Green eggs and hash: prepare a meal, preferably from something caught on-site
  • H*A*S*H: perform a medical procedure at a meetup, for example, first aid on a fellow geohasher
  • Hash-and-slash: LARPing at a geohash
  • Geohashish: getting stoned at a geohash
  • Hash Browns: Go dressed as a Cleveland Brown
  • 100 Yard/Meter Hash: stage a footrace at the geohash
  • Pokemon Geohash: capture a small animal near the geohash, and train it to attack CCG players.
  • Mad Money geohash: placing a stock trade, especially for a Dow Component company, while at a geohash. (Before 4PM EST, when the stock exchange usually closes)
    • Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Money geohash: ... then calculating the new geohash point, going there, and doing it again.
  • Geokegging: start a party at the geohash.

Contributed pages

Other stuff I'm working on

Geohashing Fluxx: The "Goals" are based on geohash types, e.g., Air Geohash, while "Keepers" are things you might bring with you, e.g., Duct Tape. work in progress

Retrohash Racing: A random date in the past is chosen, and geohashers race to reach that date's geohash.