Difference between revisions of "User:Mystrsyko"

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Geohashing Highlights
Abandoned racetrack - Carpentersville, IL
Steak & Shake party - Bolingbrook, IL
36 mile bike hash - Buffalo Hart, IL
Whitetail deer swarm - Ashland, IL
Hashscot world record - Chicago, IL
Racing severe thunderstorms - Petersburg, IL

About

I was born and raised in the Aurora, Illinois graticule, where I discovered geohashing while browsing through the XKCD blog. After some periodic expeditions, I ended up moving down to Springfield, Illinois. Living in a new area, I find geohashing to be the perfect way to explore my new home. While I recently bought a new car, I prefer not to burn gas to make it to geohash points and so try to bike instead. It also gives me a great opportunity to build towards my fitness goals when I bike to hash points. So far, some of the longest rides I've ever done were in pursuit of geohashes, and I see more and longer ones in my future. In fact, I even need my own bike stats page!

Other things about me:
Bowling
Photography
xkcd inspired webcomic

I was also the user responsible for updating the Most active users page, but this has been automated (to some extent). I will still be making manual counts, and eventually creating "Most active users by year" pages when I finish.

Geohashing Goals

- Get the Springfield, Illinois graticule into the top 3 most active in a month

- Make Springfield the most active graticule in Illinois

- Go geohashing at least once each month

- ~~Earn a Virgin Graticule achievement~~. Done 2015-01-19

- Bike to a hash outside my home graticule

- Bike more than 100 miles during an expedition.

- Complete the Most active users statistics database

- Complete a full Minesweeper Geohash and Bingo geohash achievement

- Geohash in all 27 graticules for Illinois

Illinois map progress: 6 / 27 - 22.2%

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Expeditions

Completed

2013-09-27 42 -88 Near the Fox River in Carpentersville, Illinois.
2013-11-08 41 -88 A small prairie near Aurora, Illinois.
2013-11-24 41 -88 With DolphinTreasure, Rookiek13, & 5 friends at Steak & Shake in Bolingbrook, Illinois.
2014-05-23 41 -88 Near a school baseball field in Romeoville, Illinois.
2014-07-05 41 -87 With Haberdasher outside a mall in North Riverside, Illinois.
2014-10-07 39 -89 With DolphinTreasure in a harvested corn field in Buffalo Hart, Illinois.
2014-10-24 39 -89 With DolphinTreasure at Hobby Lobby in Springfield, IL.
2015-01-19 39 -90 Encountered whitetail deer with Dolphintreasure in a harvested corn field north of Ashland, IL.
2015-04-16 39 -89 A hurried expedition to a farm field near Tallula, IL.
2015-04-27 39 -89 Thwarted by a privacy fence that appeared from nowhere in Springfield, IL.
2015-05-28 39 -89 With Dolphintreasure next to a creek in Springfield, IL.
2015-05-28 41 -87 With Dolphintreasure and OtherJack in the Brighton Park area of Chicago, IL.
2015-06-07 40 -89 Racing thunderstorms to the side of a road near Petersburg, IL, with Dolphintreasure & Rookiek13.
2015-06-23 39 -89 33 mile bike expediton to a corn field near Tallula, IL.
2015-07-06 39 -89 A short but dangerous expedition to the center median of a highway in Springfield, IL.
2015-07-11 39 -89 In an empty lot on the southwest side of Springfield, IL.
2015-08-13 39 -89 With Dolphintreasure next to a corn field along Haugh Road, west of Springfield, IL.

In Planning

Achievements

x14 Land geohash achievement
x7 Bicycle geohash achievement
x2 No trespassing consolation prize
x2 Meet-up achievement
x1 Prize Poultry consolation prize
x1 Mother Nature's Bitch consolation prize
x1 Midnight Geohash
x1 Drag-along achievement
x1 Holy hash honorable mention
x1 Virgin Graticule achievement
x1 Multihash
x1 Earliest geohasher achievement
x1 Sex Geohash achievement

In progress

Mystrsyko achieved level 3 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Aurora, Illinois and 3 of the surrounding graticules.

Mystrsyko achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement

by visiting coordinates in Springfield, Illinois and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

Mystrsyko earned the Two to the N achievement

by attempting to reach 2⁴ hashpoints on 2015-07-11 39 -89 and is promoted to Level 4 (Expeditions).

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 == About ==
-I was born and raised in the [[Aurora, Illinois]] graticule, where I discovered geohashing while browsing through the XKCD blog. After some periodic expeditions, I ended up moving down to [[Springfield, Illinois]]. Living in a new area, I find geohashing to be the perfect way to explore my new home. I don't own a car anymore, but I never liked burning gas just to go to a point and go home again, so it's not really that different. It also gives me a great opportunity to build towards my fitness goals when I bike to hash points. So far, the two longest rides I've ever done were in pursuit of geohashes, and I see more and longer ones in my future. In fact, I even need my own [[User:Mystrsyko/Bike stats|bike stats page]]!
+I was born and raised in the [[Aurora, Illinois]] graticule, where I discovered geohashing while browsing through the XKCD blog. After some periodic expeditions, I ended up moving down to [[Springfield, Illinois]]. Living in a new area, I find geohashing to be the perfect way to explore my new home. While I recently bought a new car, I prefer not to burn gas to make it to geohash points and so try to bike instead. It also gives me a great opportunity to build towards my fitness goals when I bike to hash points. So far, some of the longest rides I've ever done were in pursuit of geohashes, and I see more and longer ones in my future. In fact, I even need my own [[User:Mystrsyko/Bike stats|bike stats page]]!
 Other things about me:
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 <br>[http://mechanixcomix.blogspot.com/ xkcd inspired webcomic]
-I am also the user responsible for updating the [[Most active users]] page. If it's more than two months out of date, or you find or add expeditions after I update, please let me know so I can recount.
+I was also the user responsible for updating the [[Most active users]] page, but this has been automated (to some extent). I will still be making manual counts, and eventually creating "Most active users by year" pages when I finish.
 === Geohashing Goals ===
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 ==Expeditions==
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 # [[Image:Arrow2.png|15px]] [[Image:GHTR_car.png|15px]] [[2013-09-27 42 -88]] Near the Fox River in Carpentersville, Illinois.
 # [[Image:Arrow4.png|15px]] [[Image:GHTR_car.png|15px]] [[2013-11-08 41 -88]] A small prairie near Aurora, Illinois.
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 x1 [[Sex Geohash|Sex Geohash achievement]]
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 {{Minesweeper geohash
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+{{Two to the N achievement
+    | count = 4
+    | date = 2015-07-11
+    | latitude = 39
+    | longitude = -89
+    | name = Mystrsyko
 }}
 [[Category:Land geohash achievement]]