User:Jevanyn
54 / MHM / 40,-74Hi, 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.
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Current News
(Dec 13th and 14th) If I'm free this weekend, I'm taking a crack at Newburgh, NY. Both geohashes are in the neighborhood of Newton, NJ, which is a mere hour's drive from where I live.
(January 10th or 17th) I've talked my UUCSH men's group into turning their winter nature hike into a geohash. If the geohash is someplace that is not hiking friendly (like downtown Newark, or in Raritan Bay), then I have a fallback location in Hillsborough. Otherwise, if anyone else is interested, you're more than welcome to join us. I will keep all posted as to which weekend it will be.
Visited Locations
2008-12-13 41 -74 and 2008-12-14 41 -74
In a rare instance of the Saturday and Sunday geohashes being within 10 miles of each other, I venture north of the 41st parallel for a midnight multihash, and got questioned by police.
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Jevanyn earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
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Jevanyn earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
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This user achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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Jevanyn earned the Police Geohash Achievement
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Jevanyn earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
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2008-12-06 40 -74
Got within 100 yards or so of the geohash, but I was on my way to a surprise birthday party and was already late.
2008-10-18 40 -75
Touchdown Philadelphia!
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This user achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
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2008-09-07 40 -74
Thwarted by poison ivy and "No Trespassing" signs, we performed some community service and investigated reports of dinosaur abuse.
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This user earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement
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Jevanyn and Gwynnath earned the Velociraptor Geohash Achievement
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2008-09-05 39 -74
Got to Vineland around 11PM, and got caught in the rain.
2008-08-23 39 -74
Can you say "out and about in a boat" five times fast?.
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Jevanyn earned the Curse of Unawareness Consolation Prize
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- 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.
2008-08-16 39 -74
The geohash is up a creek, and I'm passing through.
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Jevanyn earned the My kingdom for a boat consolation prize
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2008-07-26 40 -74
Meetup with Zubenelgenubi. XKCD conquers yet another suburb :-).
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This user earned the Land geohash achievement
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This user earned the Meet-up achievement
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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.
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This user earned the No trespassing consolation prize
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This user earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement
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This user earned the Drag-along achievement
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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 attempted, 3 of 10 reached.
- 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
- 2008-09-07 40 -74: Done!
- 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
- Geohashers
- Geohashers in their 50s
- Geohashers in 40,-74
- Consecutive geohash achievement
- Midnight geohash achievement
- Frozen geohash achievement
- Minesweeper geohash achievement
- Police geohash achievement
- Geotrash achievement
- Velociraptor geohash achievement
- Curse of Unawareness consolation prize
- My kingdom for a boat consolation prize
- Land geohash achievement
- Meet-up achievement
- No trespassing consolation prize
- No batteries geohash achievement
- Drag-along achievement
