Geohashing Quotes

Here is a collection of geohashing quotes designed to capture the spirit of geohashing. In some way, each of them helps define something about geohashing, whether it's the spirit of adventure, the non-sequitur, or the general oddity of the whole idea. Hopefully it helps share a little of the spirit of geohashing around. Please add your own discoveries if you think they fit (or don't, for that matter), and feel free to spin the wheels of chance and pick a random quote to replace to one on the main page at whatever interval you feel appropriate until joannac uses her ~~feminine wiles~~ silver hammer on the wiki magic people.

Quotes

There's probably only one IRC channel in the world where you can complain about the stupid forest not being cold enough at -9°C and everyone understands and agrees without raising an eyebrow.- Dawidi

But first, let me say that you shouldn't look at Google Maps. They had a blind monkey draw their roads behind its back. - relet

There were quite a few "what the heck are we doing" moments, namely when we got into the little rafts in the water and paddled a quarter kilometre into the bay all in the dark – srs0

This was the day when relet was drawn to the dark side of geohashing…relet rode his trusty mount to the airport, to trade it for something faster. Something more powerful. Something more attuned to the dark forces of combustion. Something with a built-in navigation system. The dark side makes you powerful, yet weak. - relet

Then I realised, despite all my whining, my pain and exhaustion, my total lack of any positive thoughts at all, I was enjoying myself. I was having one of the most exhilarating times of my life. I was exploring a place that no one had ever been, seeing things no one had ever seen, pushing my body to its limit for a ridiculously pointless goal and loving every second of it.- UnwiseOwl

Who would be riding a bicycle this time of year? – Robyn

Things I learned while Geohashing: Check the damned ferry schedule. - thepiguy

There were cliffs. – Canberra Hashers

Would you like to join us for punch and pie? ...And by that I mean beef jerky and Coke. – Providence Hashers

Seattle geohash stuffed 8 members into an antique phone booth. We were working on a ninth, when we were asked not to do that anymore. – Thomcat

The problem with 14km twice is that its not far enough, so Arvid made his total trip more interesting by going over a nearby hill (that he discovered while doing an earlier hash) a couple of times, and took a long way home - Arvid

That someone gets off at that stop, that happens maybe once in ten years – Ekorren’s friendly busdriver.

We then attempted to explain the geohashing concept but eventually gave up and, with great authority, said "don't worry, we're from the Internet" which seemed to satisfy her.- Mike V, Edmonton

"We're not allowed to trespass, right? That's in the rules." said Wade. "Right, but..." explained Robyn. - Robyn

I've done the nearest worst thing that could happen: I had to explain geohashing to my mother. - Ekorren

In Soviet Russia, Nemo finds you! - Psud

Good thing though, that we (Germans) didn't invent it... otherwise the sport might now be known as DIN EN 31337 Verfahren zur Ermittlung statistisch gleichverteilter Zielpunkte fuer satellitengestuetzte mobile Freizeitgestaltung - dawidi in #geohashing

psypete: "is there any prize or accomplishment for geohashing in a hurricane?"

joannac: "a darwin award"

- joannac in #geohashing

Basically, we take a random point based on the Stock exchange and the current date, and go and have wacky adventures. Think of me as a new kind of adventure capitalist. - UnwiseOwl, explaining geohashing to a friend.

That was when a man, apparently the owner of the place, discovered us. He was a bit more skeptical than the girl, but let us stay and do our thing - as long as we didn't spend the night! None of us trusted ourselves to actually try to explain the whole thing without breaking out laughing, so our short answers must have left the poor guy rather perplexed as to what on earth we were doing there. - Pennywise at her debut hash.

The bonus was the religious man on that same corner, preaching about the coming of the second Great Depression and our collective trip down to Hell. He spoke of the lava that would be burning us for eternity when we got there. So, in the spirit of xkcd, we ~~enlightened him on the wonders of science until he put down his megaphone and picked up a microscope~~ err, snapped a picture of the crazy guy and continued on our way. - Woodveil

Made it there about lunch time. Mrs. Killingsworth, the nice, older lady that lives there, just could not understand why "the internet" was sending people to her house! -- N76Lima

At least it's too cold for snakes! - Gwynnath

The Relentless Haberdashers' first attempt at a hash. Almost a complete failure, all we can say for sure is we were closer when we ended then when we started. -The Relentless Haberdashers

The voices on the internet made me do it. - Jevanyn

"I think it may come down to common sense in the interpretation of the 'idea' of the achievement. ... I guess I'm saying there will always be grey areas, but a good story will beat a confusing rule any day." - MykaDragonBlue in #geohashing

I didn't bring any skis on this expedition, so when the GPS reported the hash being 59 m from the road, I thought "close enough" and called it a night. No, really, I walked/crawled through the waist-deep snow to reach the hash. I should be declared insane, but I made it. - the_ru

"Who needs maps, anyway?" "We do, daddy!" Jevanyn

"I'm from the internet" - Many geohashers (David Souther)