Macronencer

58 / m / 50,-1

Stats

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
Trivia	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.

Geohashing Song

Mike has also written a song about Geohashing, and had it played on his local radio station. Click this image for the official video

My Hashscot

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.

Planned Hashes

Standard Hashes

Retro Hashes and Special Expeditions

Do a Buccaneer Geohash on Talk Like a Pirate Day (yyyy-09-19)
Visit the hash point from the original comic: 2005-05-26 37 -122 - it's in the Mt. Tam state park near San Francisco.
Do a DST-based Time-traveller achievement (there's a fair chance, as I'm not too far from the Greenwich Meridian).

Hash Log

Map of my expeditions on Google Maps - to 034
(GREEN = Successful / RED = CNR / BLUE = Special (Origin Geohash etc.)

Standard Hashes

All distances in km

Co-ordinates Reached		27
Co-ordinates NOT reached		7
Saturday 4pm Meetups		6
Total by ferry		45
Total by rail		276
Total by car		3240
Total by bike		156
Total on foot		48

Seq#	ID	Location	Information						New People
034	2020-02-29 51 -1	Bentley Wood, West Tytherley				85		3
033	2014-05-03 50 -1	Berry Business Village, Hedge End				6
032	2014-04-27 52 -0	Biggleswade Rugby Club				377
031	2014-04-23 51 -0	Marlow, near Reading				225		3
030	2014-04-17 50 -1	Fox and Hounds pub, Bursledon				3
029	2013-03-24 50 -1	Fritham, New Forest				75		4
028	2010-02-17 51 -0	Thame, Oxfordshire				10
027	2009-11-17 50 -1	Forest of Bere				24		1
026	2009-10-31 50 -2	Long Crichel, Blandford Forum				130
025	2009-10-24 52 -1	Aston-upon-Trent, near Derby				86
024	2009-10-23 51 -1	Hockley, Winchester				55		1
023	2009-10-18 51 -2	West Kington, Chippenham				241
022	2009-10-18 51 -3	St. Bride's-Super-Ely, Cardiff				76		1
021	2009-10-13 50 -1	Chandlers Ford, Southampton				28
020	2009-10-11 51 -0	Stedham, Midhurst				138		2
019	2009-10-02 51 -0	Highmoor Cross, Reading				197		4	thepiguy,srs0
018	2009-09-29 51 -1	Ashmansworth, Hampshire				132
017	2009-09-27 50 -1	Eastleigh				33		2	davidc,Dee,JonRead
016	2009-09-18 50 -0	South Harting				100		4
015	2009-09-13 50 -1	Hilsea recreation ground			43			3	Maoi-taoi
014	2009-09-10 51 -1	Litchfield				136		6
013	2009-09-06 50 -1	Harbridge, New Forest				63	46	2
012	2009-09-02 50 -2	Iwerne Minster				195
011	2009-08-30 51 -1	Barton Farm, Winchester				59			Mapaholic
010	2009-08-15 50 -1	Bierley, Isle of Wight		40		12	68		DavidMiller
009	2009-08-10 50 -1	New Forest, near Hythe		5		19	15
008	2009-08-08 50 -2	Chesil beach, Portland, Weymouth			233		16	1
007	2009-08-07 50 -1	Field near Rockbourne					9
006	2009-08-01 50 -2	Charlton Marshall, Dorset				148		1	04housemat,Mahahahaneapneap
005	2009-07-27 50 -1	Romsey, Hampshire				192		1
004	2009-07-27 51 -0	Flitwick, near Luton				248
003	2009-07-22 50 -0	The Road To Bognor				93	2
002	2009-07-18 50 -1	Hambledon Cricket pilgrimage!				49		9
001	2009-06-28 50 -1	Hedge End Recreation Ground				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

Hashing Statistics

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

Score Card

Hashes Reached

	-3	-2	-1	-0
52	x	x	x	1
51	1	1	4	5
50	x	3	11	1

Expeditions

	-3	-2	-1	-0
52	x	x	1	1
51	1	1	5	5
50	x	4	14	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
Jan
Feb																													1
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Previous years can be found here

Long-term Intentions

Origin Displacement Retrohashes

Earn various Displaced origin geohash achievements (some of these are rather ambitious, I'll admit!)

Continent	Country	Hash	Comments	Optimism score 0-100
Europe	UK	1965-05-06 50 -2	Right on a footpath by a river in Dorchester	99
Europe	UK	1965-05-06 52 0	Marginally within somebody's front garden, but arguably public as within GPS accuracy of public land	85
Europe	UK	1965-05-06 54 -2	In the Pennines, in the middle of a moor I think. A bit of a hike from the road but doable once in the area	80
Europe	UK	1965-05-06 53 -0	Hull, waterside business park, I think, right next to the Humber - should be easy once there!	80
Europe	UK	1965-05-06 53 -1	Next to a canal and the M62 near Sheffield. Sounds inaccessible, but satellite imagery makes it look relatively easy.	80
Europe	UK	1965-05-06 51 -3	On a green (or the fairway?) on the Aberdare golf course near Cardiff in Wales :)	70
Europe	UK	1965-05-06 52 -2	Telford, not sure about access, looks like some houses but fairly urban	40
Europe	UK	1965-05-06 50 -1	On the Isle Of Wight: 100m from path, in a field - needs careful permission planning	30
Europe	UK	1965-05-06 51 -2	Dursley, 30m from a path but is in a field!	30
Europe	UK	1965-05-06 52 -3	Dyfnant Forest, Wales: In some sort of field but it looks rugged so might be accessible but I'm dubious	20
Europe	Mallorca	1965-05-06 39 3	Next to a road but not ON it. Looks like an orchard.	10
Asia	Japan	1965-05-06 35 139	A normal-looking street in Tokyo! Could be done.	10
Undefined	Hawai'i	1965-05-06 20 -156	On Maui - therefore expensive to get to. Thought it was a short walk into the hills... but it seems it might be restricted access	5
Africa	Nigeria	1965-05-06 5 6	(I liked the pattern of 5 and 6!) Only about 50m from a road, but it’s in trees, and near a house.	2
Asia	Nepal	1965-05-06 27 86	About 300m from a trail in the foothills of Mount Everest. I might try this one day if I'm feeling foolhardy.	1

Other

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

Achievement Ribbons

Ongoing

Macronencer earned the xkcd Nullaturion achievement

by attending 6 Saturday meetups.

Macronencer achieved level 5 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Southampton, United Kingdom and 5 of the surrounding graticules.

Macronencer achieved level 6 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Swindon, United Kingdom and 6 of the surrounding graticules.

Macronencer earned the Two to the N achievement

by attempting to reach 2⁵ hashpoints on 2014-04-27 52 -0 and is promoted to Level 5 (Expeditions).

Macronencer earned the Two to the N achievement

by reaching 2⁴ hashpoints on 2009-10-02 51 -0 and is promoted to Level 4 (Coordinates reached).

Completed

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.

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.

Macronencer earned the Circus Geohash Achievement

by juggling at the (51, -0) geohash on 2010-02-17.

Macronencer earned the Consecutive geohash achievement

by reaching 2 consecutive hash points starting on 2009-08-07.

Macronencer earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging his friend Paul to the (50, -2) geohash on 2009-09-02.

Macronencer earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging his friend Nodders to the (50, -0) geohash on 2009-09-18.

Macronencer earned the Drag-along achievement

by dragging his son (known as Micronencer) to the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-04-23.

Macronencer earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement

by cleaning up the (50, -2) geohash on 2009-08-01.

Macronencer earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement

by cleaning up the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-08-07.

Macronencer earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement

by cleaning up the (51, -0) geohash on 2014-04-23.

Macronencer earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (50, -1) geohash on 2009-06-28.