User:Macronencer

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Macronencer

Real name Mike
Based in Bursledon, Southampton, UK
Education Southampton Uni Maths grad, 1986.
Job Software developer
True vocation Composer/Author (I'm working on both, just in case. When I go either blind or deaf, I'll know which way to turn...)
xkcd history Fan since the first mention on BoingBoing in 2005
Home turf approximately here

Other information

Mike can close his nose without touching it, which makes him fart-proof. He eats at least forty times his own body weight every century, is a part-time English language nitpicker, and loves writing, music, his son and Transhumanism - but not in that order. Give him an inch and he takes a mile. Give him a pinch and he makes a pile. He is a full-time sceptic, part-time father, one-time rock star and all-time champion awful punster.

Mike has also written a song about Geohashing, and had it played on his local radio station.

Here's a link to the official video on YouTube.

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This is Chuck, my hashscot. Being one of the greatest adventuring scientists who ever lived, rather exhausted after his voyage on the Beagle, family tragedy and the years and years of work on his well-known book, this 200-year-old explorer decided to take it easy, and now travels to random locations with me.

He enjoys looking at the countryside on our travels, and gets rather animated when by chance we spy a finch or lowly earthworm. I often have to remind him to calm down before he punctuates his equilibrium. I am looking forward to the day when my bicycle chain breaks so I can ask him, in jocular fashion, to go and find the missing link.


Local Graticules

Southampton, United Kingdom (home)
Swindon, United Kingdom (convenient alternative)
Brighton, United Kingdom (possible alternative as I work near Fareham)
Weymouth, United Kingdom (occasionally convenient)

Planned Hashes

Standard Hashes

Retro Hashes and Special Expeditions

Hash Log

Map of my expeditions on Google Maps - to 032
(GREEN = Successful / RED = CNR / BLUE = Special (Origin Geohash etc.)
Expedition Map to 032

Standard Hashes

All distances in km

proved success Successes (proved) 30 official saturday meetup Saturday Meetups 5 car (km) Total by car 3155
success Successes (unproved) 0 ferry (km) Total by ferry 45 cycle (km) Total on fastfoot 156
failure Failures 3 rail (km) Total by rail 276 walk (km) Total on foot 45



Seq# ID Location Information ferry (km) rail (km) car (km) cycle (km) walk (km) First encounters
033 2014-05-03 50 -1 Berry Business Village, Hedge End proved success exact location reached official saturday meetup solo hash car sunny 6
032 2014-04-27 52 -0 Biggleswade Rugby Club proved success exact location reached solo hash car cloudy 377
031 2014-04-23 51 -0 Marlow, near Reading proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present car walk cloudy 225 3 (Micronencer)
030 2014-04-17 50 -1 Fox and Hounds pub, Bursledon proved success approx location reached pub hash solo hash car cloudy 3
029 2013-03-24 50 -1 Fritham, New Forest proved success approx location reached solo hash car walk cloudy 75 4
028 2010-02-17 51 -0 Thame, Oxfordshire proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present car rain sunny 10 Micronencer
027 2009-11-17 50 -1 Forest of Bere proved success exact location reached solo hash car walk sunny 24 1
026 2009-10-31 50 -2 Long Crichel, Blandford Forum approx location reached failure unreachable official saturday meetup group of geohashers present car cloudy sunny 130
025 2009-10-24 52 -1 Aston-upon-Trent, near Derby failure solo hash car walk rain 86
024 2009-10-23 51 -1 Hockley, Winchester proved success exact location reached night hash solo hash car walk 55 1
023 2009-10-18 51 -2 West Kington, Chippenham proved success exact location reached solo hash car cloudy 241
022 2009-10-18 51 -3 St. Bride's-Super-Ely, Cardiff proved success exact location reached solo hash car walk cloudy 76 1
021 2009-10-13 50 -1 Chandlers Ford, Southampton proved success exact location reached night hash group of geohashers present car 28
020 2009-10-11 51 -0 Stedham, Midhurst proved success exact location reached solo hash car walk cloudy rain sunny 138 2
019 2009-10-02 51 -0 Highmoor Cross, Reading proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present car walk cloudy 197 4 thepiguy, srs0
018 2009-09-29 51 -1 Ashmansworth, Hampshire proved success exact location reached night hash group of geohashers present car 132
017 2009-09-27 50 -1 Eastleigh proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present car walk sunny 33 2 davidc, Dee, JonRead
016 2009-09-18 50 -0 South Harting proved success exact location reached night hash group of geohashers present car walk sunny 100 4
015 2009-09-13 50 -1 Hilsea recreation ground proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present rail walk cloudy 43 3 Maoi-taoi
014 2009-09-10 51 -1 Litchfield proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present car walk night hash 136 6
013 2009-09-06 50 -1 Harbridge, New Forest failure unreachable solo hash car cycle walk cloudy sunny 63 46 2
012 2009-09-02 50 -2 Iwerne Minster proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present car rain 195
011 2009-08-30 51 -1 Barton Farm, Winchester proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present car cloudy rain 59 Mapaholic
010 2009-08-15 50 -1 Bierley, Isle of Wight proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present official saturday meetup ferry car cycle cloudy sunny 40 12 68 DavidMiller
009 2009-08-10 50 -1 New Forest, near Hythe proved success exact location reached solo hash ferry car cycle cloudy rain 5 19 15
008 2009-08-08 50 -2 Chesil beach, Portland, Weymouth proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present official saturday meetup rail cycle sunny 233 16 1
007 2009-08-07 50 -1 Field near Rockbourne proved success exact location reached solo hash car cycle sunny 9
006 2009-08-01 50 -2 Charlton Marshall, Dorset proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present official saturday meetup car cloudy pub hash 148 1 04housemat, Mahahahaneapneap
005 2009-07-27 50 -1 Romsey, Hampshire proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present car walk cloudy 192 1
004 2009-07-27 51 -0 Flitwick, near Luton proved success exact location reached solo hash car walk cloudy 248
003 2009-07-22 50 -0 The Road To Bognor proved success approx location reached solo hash car cycle cloudy 93 2
002 2009-07-18 50 -1 Hambledon Cricket pilgrimage! proved success approx location reached solo hash official saturday meetup car walk cloudy 49 9
001 2009-06-28 50 -1 Hedge End recreation ground proved success exact location reached group of geohashers present car sunny 5 Sermoa

Retro Hashes and Special Expeditions

Seq# Date ID Location Information
R001 2009-07-27 1965-05-06 51 0 Origin Geohash achievement
In a field next to Hylands Park, Chelmsford
proved success exact location reached solo hash car sunny birthday hash

Statistics

Note: only reached co-ordinates on standard hashes are counted here

Score Card - Complete History

-3 -2 -1 -0
52 x x x 1
51 1 1 4 5
50 x 3 13 2

Calendar - 2020 only

2020 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
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Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Long-term Intentions

  • Earn various Displaced origin geohash achievements (some of these are rather ambitious, I'll admit!)
    • 1965-05-06 51 -3 - actually on a green on the Aberdare golf course near Cardiff in Wales :)
    • 1965-05-06 52 0 - marginally within somebody's front garden, but arguably public as within GPS accuracy of public land :)
    • 1965-05-06 53 -1 - next to a canal and the M62 near Sheffield. Sounds inaccessible, but satellite imagery makes it look relatively easy.
    • 1965-05-06 39 3 - very accessible as it is right next to a road... but it's on Mallorca.
    • 1965-05-06 20 -156 - Maui - therefore expensive to get to. But just a short walk into the hills...
  • Leave a variety of unusual xkcd signs
    • One made out of ants (attempted on 2009-09-27 50 -1 without success)
    • One in ASCII binary (probably already been done)
    • One in Morse code (ditto)
    • One in Turncode (something I've invented)
  • Collar someone with a boat and do a big Water geohash, probably in the Solent, or the river Itchen or Hamble.
  • Buy a small boat (kayak?) and do a small Water geohash, probably in a lake or small river.
  • Gain the Minesweeper Geohash ribbon because it's shiny! Probably centred on the Swindon graticule.

Completed!

  • Earn the Origin geohash achievement by visiting 1965-05-06 51 0 in a field near Chelmsford
  • Leave an xkcd sign in Braille
  • Leave an xkcd sign that can only be seen from the right angle (like the Channel 4 logos on TV)

VERY long-term intentions

  • Complete a hash expedition in all 64,800 graticules. Hey, I'm a life-extensionist and I think big, what can I say? The real question is: centuries from now, will geohashing exist? Come to that, will the Dow Jones exist? I think Gene Roddenberry would probably say "Let's hope not". So there ya go.

Journal

Old journal entries archived here

Overflow pages

  • Macronencer/Achievements (no longer in use)

Macronencer Achievement Ribbons

Ongoing

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Macronencer achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Southampton, United Kingdom and 1 of the surrounding graticules.
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Macronencer achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Southampton, United Kingdom and 2 of the surrounding graticules.
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Macronencer achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Southampton, United Kingdom and 3 of the surrounding graticules.
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Macronencer achieved level 4 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Southampton, United Kingdom and 4 of the surrounding graticules.
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Macronencer achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Swindon, United Kingdom and 5 of the surrounding graticules.
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Macronencer achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement
by visiting coordinates in Swindon, United Kingdom and 6 of the surrounding graticules.


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Macronencer earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement
by attending 6 Saturday meetups.


Completed

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Macronencer earned the Consecutive geohash achievement
by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-08-07.


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Macronencer earned the Public transport geohash achievement
by reaching the (50, -2) geohash on 2009-08-08 via South West Trains.
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Macronencer earned the Ambassador achievement
by obtaining permission from Mr. McLeod, son of the land-owner to access the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-08-07.
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Macronencer earned the Pub Geohash Achievement
by visiting a pub visible from the (50, -2) geohash on 2009-08-01.
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Macronencer earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement
by cleaning up the (50, -2) geohash on 2009-08-01.
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Macronencer earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement
by cleaning up the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-08-07.
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Macronencer earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement
by cleaning up the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-04-23.
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Macronencer earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching the 2009-07-27 51 -0 and 2009-07-27 50 -1 geohashes on 2009-07-27.


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Macronencer earned the Origin geohash achievement
by reaching the (51, 0) geohash for 1965-05-06 on 2009-07-27.


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Macronencer earned the Land geohash achievement
by reaching the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-06-28.


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Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting Sermoa at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-06-28.
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Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting 04housemat at the (50, -2) geohash on 2009-08-01.
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Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting Mahahahaneapneap at the (50, -2) geohash on 2009-08-01.
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Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting DavidMiller at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-08-15.
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Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting Mapaholic at the (51, -1) geohash on 2009-08-30.
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Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting Maoi-taoi at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-09-13.
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Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting Dee at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-09-27.
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Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting JonRead at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-09-27.
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Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting davidc at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-09-27.
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Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting thepiguy at the (51, -0) geohash on 2009-10-02.
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Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement
by meeting srs0 at the (51, -0) geohash on 2009-10-02.
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Macronencer earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging his friend Paul to the (50, -2) geohash on 2009-09-02.
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Macronencer earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging his friend Nodders to the (50, -0) geohash on 2009-09-18.
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Macronencer earned the Drag-along achievement
by dragging his son (known as Micronencer) to the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-04-23.
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Macronencer earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2009-09-10 in the middle of the night.
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Macronencer earned the Phonebooth stuffing achievement
by helping stuff a phonebooth near the (51, -1) geohash on 2009-09-10.
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Macronencer earned the Public transport geohash achievement
by reaching the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-09-13 via South West Trains.


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Macronencer earned the Speed racer achievement
by passing through the (51, -1) geohash on 2009-09-29 at 60mph.
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Macronencer earned the Multihash Achievement
by reaching the 2009-10-18 51 -3 and 2009-10-18 51 -2 geohashes on 2009-10-18.


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Macronencer earned the Midnight Geohash achievement
by reaching the (51, -1) geohash on 2009-10-23 in the middle of the night.
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Macronencer earned the Circus Geohash Achievement
by juggling at the (51, -0) geohash on 2010-02-17.


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Macronencer earned the Ambassador achievement
by obtaining permission from Mike Williams, president of Biggleswade Rugby Club to access the (52, -0) geohash on 2014-04-27.


Consolation Prizes

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Macronencer earned the No trespassing consolation prize
by almost reaching the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-09-06.
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Macronencer earned the No trespassing consolation prize
by almost reaching the (50, -2) geohash on 2009-10-31.
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Gratuitous Ribbons

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Macronencer earned the Musician Achievement
by playing flute at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-06-28.
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Macronencer earned the Rubik's Achievement
by solving a Rubik's cube at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-06-28.
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Macronencer, Sermoa and DavidMiller earned the Card Game achievement
by playing cards at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-08-15.
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Sermoa, Macronencer, Mapaholic and DavidMiller earned the Party geohash
by throwing a mad-keen party at the Cubicle achievement (51, -1) geohash on 2009-08-30.
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Sermoa, Mapaholic and Macronencer earned the Halloween geohash
by celebrating halloween with pumpkins at the (50, -2) geohash on 2009-10-31.
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Micronencer Achievements (my son, who may get his own page one day!)

2014-04-23 51 -0

  • Land geohash
  • Geotrash
  • Meet-up (with Macronencer)