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| − | + | Now that was an easy one. After having climed to the summit of a mountain the day before, Calamus wasn't really impressed by walking about two minutes from a bus station. | |
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| + | As almost the whole journey took place in a train from Zurich to Winterthur, and train rides are sometimes rumoured not to be the most exciting thing on earth, here's an interesting fact instead of a detailed description: The soothing, monotone, yet friendly female voice announcing the route has repeatedly and prominently starred in a recurring nightmare of Calamus. Its dialogue is usually along these lines: "The [[wikipedia:Swiss Federal Railways|SBB]] train crew welcomes you aboard the Intercity to Berne, Geneva, Geneva Airport and wishes you a pleasant journey. The train will be deployed in 3 … 2 … 1. For your and our entertainment, we are pleased to present [[wikipedia:GLaDOS|a little deadly neurotoxin]]. Goodbye." | ||
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| + | As the hashpoint was very easy to identify on a map, Calamus decided to try and get there [[No Batteries Geohash|without wasting any batteries]]. He succeeded in doing so, but as he wanted to be sure that this was the right spot, he used his GPS, which was still in his rucksack, to check. Which probably spoiled the Achievement. | ||
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| + | He waited there until some time past 4pm for somebody else to show up. Apparently, though, nobody else had wanted to go Geohashing in this heat, no matter how easy the spot. Tant pis, Calamus thought, and went Geotrashing. | ||
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| + | When he was done, he visited his favorite pub of Winterthur - which he had just defined two days before - for a beer and a toast. End of story. | ||
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| − | + | Wouldn't be very interesting. | |
== Photos == | == Photos == | ||
| + | They'll come up later. Promised. | ||
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Revision as of 16:56, 20 August 2011
| Sat 20 Aug 2011 in 47,8: 47.4892674, 8.7423110 geohashing.info google osm bing/os kml crox |
Location
A back alley in Winterthur
Participants
Plans
- Steal myself from work
- Board train to Winterthur
- ?
- Profit!
Expedition
Now that was an easy one. After having climed to the summit of a mountain the day before, Calamus wasn't really impressed by walking about two minutes from a bus station.
As almost the whole journey took place in a train from Zurich to Winterthur, and train rides are sometimes rumoured not to be the most exciting thing on earth, here's an interesting fact instead of a detailed description: The soothing, monotone, yet friendly female voice announcing the route has repeatedly and prominently starred in a recurring nightmare of Calamus. Its dialogue is usually along these lines: "The SBB train crew welcomes you aboard the Intercity to Berne, Geneva, Geneva Airport and wishes you a pleasant journey. The train will be deployed in 3 … 2 … 1. For your and our entertainment, we are pleased to present a little deadly neurotoxin. Goodbye."
As the hashpoint was very easy to identify on a map, Calamus decided to try and get there without wasting any batteries. He succeeded in doing so, but as he wanted to be sure that this was the right spot, he used his GPS, which was still in his rucksack, to check. Which probably spoiled the Achievement.
He waited there until some time past 4pm for somebody else to show up. Apparently, though, nobody else had wanted to go Geohashing in this heat, no matter how easy the spot. Tant pis, Calamus thought, and went Geotrashing.
When he was done, he visited his favorite pub of Winterthur - which he had just defined two days before - for a beer and a toast. End of story.
Tracklog
Wouldn't be very interesting.
Photos
They'll come up later. Promised.
Achievements
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Calamus earned the Land geohash achievement
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Calamus earned the Public transport geohash achievement
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Calamus earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement
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Calamus earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement
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Calamus earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
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Calamus earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement
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