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== Story ==
 
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'''[http://almostflan.com/2008/06/01/geohash-success/ A blog post about our trip]''' -- This link is no longer working. I used the [http://archive.org Wayback Machine] to recover the text of the expedition unfortunately I was unable to recover the images. [[User:Scerruti|Stephen Cerruti]] 02:49, 10 May 2012 (EDT)
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'''[http://almostflan.com/2008/06/01/geohash-success/ A blog post about our trip]''' -- This link is no longer working. See talk.
  
 
So following xkcd’s geohash algorithm, we went out to Encinitas to hit our point for Saturday.  
 
So following xkcd’s geohash algorithm, we went out to Encinitas to hit our point for Saturday.  
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Sat 31 May 2008 in 33,-117:
33.0374871, -117.2812665
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Story

A blog post about our trip -- This link is no longer working. See talk.

So following xkcd’s geohash algorithm, we went out to Encinitas to hit our point for Saturday.

Side story: We left home at around 2:45PM to Fry’s since Kristi’s Garmin (GPS) didn’t display coordinates. We got to Fry’s probably around 3:15 to pick up a GPS that showed coordinates. (Garmin Nuvi 200!!) Anyway, we were able to get to the front of the Fry’s line (it was around 3:30 and we still needed to get to Encinitas at 4:00PM for the scheduled meeting time - around 15 miles away) thanks to the badass Fry’s salesman that sold me the Nuvi after I told him we were in a rush. We ended up making it to the meetup point in Encinitas at 3:58 and got pictures at exactly 4:00PM. So the Hero of the Day award goes to the nameless Fry’s salesman.

Pictures!

This picture was taken exactally at 4:00. When I pushed the trigger of the camera the screen showed 3:59, but the picture recorded 4:00.

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Special thanks to the four wheeled tripod which was parked next to us.

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Awards

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mooseydoom and Kristi earned the Graticule Unlocked Achievement
by being the first to reach any hashpoint in the (33, -117) graticule, here, on 2008-05-31.