User:Macronencer

58 / m / 50,-1

Macronencer

Real name	Mike
Based in	Bursledon, Southampton, UK
Education	Southampton Uni Maths grad, 1986.
Job	Software developer
True vocation	Media Composer (I'm working on it)
xkcd history	Fan since the first mention on BoingBoing in 2005

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 volunteer in the Lynne Truss militia, and loves skunks, his son and longevity research - 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.

Local graticules

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

Planned hashes

Retro hashes and special expeditions

• 2008-05-21 51 -1 Standby retrohash for next year's Mouse Over Day - hash for original geohash day in the Swindon grat.

Attempted Hashes

Standard hashes

(icon work in progress!)

Seq#	ID	Location	Information				Meetup	First encounters
005	2009-07-27 50 -1	Romsey, Hampshire		5	5	0	1
004	2009-07-27 51 -0	Flitwick, near Luton		4	4	0	1
003	2009-07-22 50 -0	The Road To Bognor		3	3	0	1
002	2009-07-18 50 -1	Hambledon Cricket pilgrimage!	Meetup	2	2	0	1
001	2009-06-28 50 -1	Hedge End recreation ground		1	1	0	0	Sermoa

Retro hashes and special expeditions

Date	ID	Location	Information
2009-07-27	1965-05-06 51 0	Origin Geohash achievement In a field next to Hylands Park, Chelmsford

Statistics

Score card(s)

	-2	-1	-0
52	x	x	x
51	x	x	1
50	x	3	1

Achievements

Macronencer achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Southampton, United Kingdom and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

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

Macronencer earned the Meet-up achievement by meeting Sermoa at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-06-28.

Macronencer earned the Musician Achievement by playing flute at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-06-28.

Macronencer earned the Rubik's Achievement by solving a Rubik's cube at the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-06-28.

This user earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement by attending 1 Saturday meetup.

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

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 I could wangle it, I'm sure.
  • 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 (Oh yeah!)
  • One that can only be seen from the right angle (like the Channel 4 logos on TV)
  • One in ASCII binary (probably already been done)
  • One in Morse code (ditto)
• Collar someone with a boat and do a Water geohash, probably in the Solent, or the river Itchen or Hamble.
• 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

Journal

2009-07-17 Couch Potato...

I have just worked out that at my latitude of 50 degrees, assuming my house includes its land area of about 30x40m, there is a 1 in 6.7 million chance of getting a couch potato award on a given day. Not good odds, though admittedly a little better than the Lotto jackpot :|