User:Yerushalmi
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Note: The birthday provided to this template is not
actually my birthday; it's merely the nearest
approximation of it, as my birthday varies from year
to year. In 2022 my birthday fell out on September 2.
In 2023 it will fall out on August 23.
Um... hi!
Yerushalmi is your friendly neighborhood oleh yashan living in Jerusalem with his beautiful wife and five amazing children, whom he finally managed to convince thanks to years of effort and a pandemic that geohashing might be an interesting experience. His first foray into geohashing was not very successful (four points reached out of only a dozen or so attempts), but after a hiatus of nearly nine years, he's finally starting to rack up the hash points.
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My expeditions
Total expeditions: (TBC) Total successes: (TBC)
Listing
Bolded expeditions indicate successes.
- 2009-03-17_31_34: A drag-along holy no-batteries land geohash in the virgin Beersheba graticule.
- 2009-04-10_31_34: A police no-batteries unleavened land geohash in the Beersheba graticule.
- 2009-04-13_32_34: An unplanned expedition that found my wife and me only 70 meters from the hash point without realization or intention.
- 2009-06-18_32_34: Almost but not quite a Puppet Master Geohash.
- 2009-08-16_31_34: A plain old no-batteries land geohash in the Beersheba graticule. With a surprise celebrity guest.
- 2009-10-06_32_35: Rain, paint, and failure in the Haifa East graticule.
- 2009-12-29_32_34: Predestined failure in the Tel Aviv graticule.
- 2011-10-17_32_34: Virgin speed racer land geohash with wife and first child. Last attempt before going on hiatus.
- 2020-08-16_31_34: First attempt after almost nine years of absence. Failure due to reticence at entering someone's field.
- 2020-08-18_32_34: First success in a very long time: a land geohash reached with #2 in tow. Wife and other children did not reach the hashpoint.
- 2020-08-24_32_34: Land geohash in Holon reached with wife, mother-in-law, #1, #2, #4, and #5.
- 2020-08-31_31_34: Car got stuck in a sand dune, causing failure in Holon.
- 2021-07-21_31_34: First full-family geohash: speed racer with wife and #1 through #5.
- 2021-08-13_31_34: Land geohash reached with #1, #2, and #3.
- 2021-08-22_31_34: Land geohash reached with #1 and #2.
- 2021-08-23_31_34: Failed attempt to get the Ambassador achievement - me and #2 reached the land geohash on the way to knock on the person's door, so we didn't bother knocking.
- 2021-08-25_31_35: Expedition failure due to taking too long to leave the house and taking the wrong path due to a trail that wasn't on the map.
- 2021-08-29_32_34: The illusion of success: The geohash was on the other side of a wall, and the first time we got there we were within the circle of uncertainty, but the second time we weren't.
- 2021-09-13_31_34: Expedition failure because of misbehaving kids.
- 2021-09-29_31_34: Attempt to get an ambassador achievement failed because nobody was home.
- 2021-10-05_31_35: Me, #1, and #2 had our first success in 31 35, and a walk geohash to boot.
(Note to self: I've reached page 10 of the backlog in updating these expeditions.)
My achievements
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Yerushalmi earned the Drag-along achievement
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Yerushalmi earned the Land geohash achievement
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Yerushalmi earned the Holy hash achievement
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Yerushalmi earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement
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Yerushalmi and his wife earned the Police Geohash Achievement
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Yerushalmi and his wife earned the Unleavened Geohash achievement
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Yerushalmi and his wife earned the Celebrity Geohash achievement
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Fun Stuff
Articles
On the difference between a man and a GPS.
The Israeli Geohasher's Theme Song
קום והתהלך בארץ
בתרמיל ובמקל,
וודאי תפגוש בדרך
שוב את ארץ ישראל.
יחבקו אותך דרכיה
של הארץ הטובה,
היא תקרא אותך אליה
כמו אל ערש אהבה.
זאת אכן אותה הארץ.
זו אותה האדמה
ואותה פיסת הסלע
הנצרבת בחמה.
ומתחת לאספלט
לבניני הראוה,
מסתתרת המולדת
בישנית וענוה.
קום והתהלך בארץ
בתרמיל ובמקל,
וודאי תפגוש בדרך
שוב את ארץ ישראל.
יחבקו אותך דרכיה
של הארץ הטובה,
היא תקרא אותך אליה
כמו אל ערש אהבה.
וכרמי עצי הזית
ומסתור המעין,
עוד שומרים על חלומה
וחלומנו הישן.
וגגות אודמים על הר
וילדים על השבילים.
במקום שבו הלכנו
עם חגור ותרמילים.
