User:Jevanyn

You woke up this morning, got yourself a gun, Mama always said you'd be the chosen one...

54 / MHM / 40,-74

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 3-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 to visit neighboring graticules as well.

I like bridge (yes, some people under 60 play it!), cycling, baseball, and photography. My wife is into scrapbooking, crafting, and likes photography as well. My son likes story telling and ... trying to escape HEY GET BACK HERE! :-D.

I'll bring Fluxx, Wizard, or a regular deck of cards or the like. 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 once we're done renovating.

Current News

Gwynnath and I scored a geohash in the Philadelphia area on Saturday, Oct 18th. After visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art in the afternoon, we drove west to Bryn Mawr and took pictures at the intersection of Pennswood and Fishers Road.

Visited Locations

• 2008-10-18 40 -75: Touchdown Philadelphia!

This user achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Newark, New Jersey and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

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

This user earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement by cleaning up the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-09-07.

Jevanyn and Gwynnath earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash for 2008-09-07 with highly visible raptor claw marks.

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

• 2008-09-02 38 -74: The September 2nd Cape May geohash lies along my August 23rd boat route. For how little land is in this graticule, this may be as close as anyone gets for a while.

• 2008-08-23 39 -74: Can you say "out and about in a boat" five times fast?.

Jevanyn earned the Curse of Unawareness Consolation Prize by reaching the (39, -74) geohash on 2008-08-23 without knowing it was there.

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

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.

• 2008-07-26 40 -74: meetup with Zubenelgenubi. XKCD conquers yet another suburb :-).

This user earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-07-26.

This user earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting User:Zubenelgenubi at the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-07-26.

• 2008-07-12: I drove by the geohash for 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.

• 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.

This user earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-06-28.

This user earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-06-28.

This user earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Gwynnath to the (40, -74) geohash on 2008-06-28.

• 2008-06-12: The location for Newark was only three miles from where I work on US 206 in Hillsborough, so I've got the closest Cubicle Geohash to date.
  • (Update 7/25/08: This was bested by Virgletati on 2008-06-20.

Achievements I'm shooting for

• Minesweeper achievement
  • 2 of 9 centered on Newark.
• Regional geohash
  • 4 of 10.
• Bicycle Geohash
• Water Geohash
  • 2008-08-16 39 -74: Almost!
• Virgin Graticule, Atlantic City or Cape May
  • 2008-08-23 39 -74: If only I'd known!
• Raptor geohash
  • Does it count if I bring the raptor?

Just make sure it attacks you, and one can see the claw marks. :D -- Relet 16:20, 8 September 2008 (UTC)

I captured the "attack" on camera.

• Pub Geohash
• Twister Geohash
  • Attempted Sept 5-7, but Hanna didn't want to play.
• Wedding Anniversary Geohash
  • The location is less than 5 miles from my cousin's house in Dayton, so we may be able to drag-along a number of wedding guests. Formal Attire Geohash is also possible.
• XKCD-100
  • 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.

Contributed pages

• Portland disambiguation page
• Arlington disambiguation page
• Rochester disambiguation page
• Panolik, Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia, site of Tunguska Event
• San Juan, Puerto Rico: category and page
• Template:Cubicle geohash ribbon: template and honorary-mention image
• Template:Multihash upgrade - proposed
• Most active graticules: initial implementation July 21 2008
• Cape May-Lewes Ferry
• Template:Restricted area geohash ribbon
• Template:MacGyver geohash ribbon
• Template:Curse of Unawareness ribbon

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