User:Macronencer

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Real name Mike
Based in Bursledon
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)

Planned hashes

Successful hashes

Statistics

Basic scalars

Official xkcd meetups attended 1

Score card(s)

-2 -1 -0
51 0 0 0
50 0 2 0

Achievements

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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 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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Long-term intentions

  • Earn the Origin geohash achievement by visiting 1965-05-06 51 0 in a field near Chelmsford
  • Earn various Displaced origin geohash achievements
    • 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 theM62 near Sheffield. Sounds inaccessible, but satellite imagery makes it look relatively easy.
  • Collar someone with a boat and do a Water geohash, probably in the Solent, or the river Itchen or Hamble.

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 :|