Difference between revisions of "User:Spindizzy"

Latest revision as of 13:35, 25 October 2012

74 / M / 40,-74

Biographical

Hi, my name is Rich and I live in the North Jersey graticule and most recently worked as a project manager for Hewlett-Packard. I recently stumbled across xkcd, which led inevitably to geohashing. Meanwhile, regarding Spindizzy, see this: [1]

Monty Hall's Law: "Always switch doors."

Expeditions

2011-10-10 40 -74: Far Hills fiasco...
2011-10-12 40 -74: Springfield, NJ
2011-10-16 40 -74: Edison, NJ
2011-12-08 40 -74: Bridgewater, NJ
2012-10-24 40 -74: Far Hills, NJ

Achievements I'm shooting for

Easy Geohash
Pub Geohash
Curse of Unawareness...see below. I checked this. Nope, not unless I was able to drive in 1930. Sigh...
Origin Geohash Will have to use the North Jersey graticule as alternate.
Retro coordinates reached

And whatever else I come across. So many categories, so little time.

Grabbed User:Wenslayer/KMLGenerator script to attempt generation of a Google Earth location history file for the North Jersey graticule. Installed Active Perl on my Win 7 64-bit box. Downloaded the current W30 history file allcoords.csv. The perl script took less that 1 sec. to create all geohashes from 1928 to date! 12/5/2011 - and apparently in disagreement with peeron's interpretation. I just did a 'manual' ping for by birthdate, and it's different from the perl script.
Did same for the New York City graticule looking for my Origin geohash. It's in the Atlantic ocean - will find alternate.

Spindizzy earned the No trespassing consolation prize

by almost reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-10.

Spindizzy earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-12.

Spindizzy earned the No Batteries Geohash Achievement

by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-12.

Spindizzy earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-16.

Spindizzy and Jevanyn earned the Tale of Two Hashes achievement

by meeting the challenge by Dvdllr to geohash in Springfield going to the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-10-12.

Spindizzy earned the Land geohash achievement

by reaching the (40, -74) geohash on 2011-12-08.

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-{{ASG|Y=1949|m=01|d=05|gender=M|lat=40|lon=-74}}
+{{ASG|Y=1949|m=12|d=05|gender=M|lat=40|lon=-74}}
 == Biographical ==
-Hi, my name is Rich and I live in [[Newark, New Jersey|the North Jersey graticule]] and most recently worked as a project manager for [http://www.hp.com Hewlett-Packard].  I recently stumbled across xkcd, which led inevitably to geohashing.
+Hi, my name is Rich and I live in [[Newark, New Jersey|the North Jersey graticule]] and most recently worked as a project manager for [http://www.hp.com Hewlett-Packard].  I recently stumbled across xkcd, which led inevitably to geohashing.  Meanwhile, regarding Spindizzy, see this: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_in_Flight]
+<br>
+<br>
+Monty Hall's Law: "Always switch doors."
 == Expeditions ==
-None, yet...
+<!--no public access-->
+[[Image:Arrow4.png|12px]] [[2011-10-10 40 -74]]: [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Far_Hills,_New_Jersey Far Hills] fiasco...
+<br>
+[[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2011-10-12 40 -74]]: Springfield, NJ
+<br>
+[[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2011-10-16 40 -74]]: Edison, NJ
+<br>
+[[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2011-12-08 40 -74]]: Bridgewater, NJ
+<br>
+[[Image:Arrow2.png|12px]] [[2012-10-24 40 -74]]: Far Hills, NJ
 == Achievements I'm shooting for ==
 *[[Easy Geohash]]
 *[[Pub Geohash]]
-*[[Curse of Unawareness]]...see below
+*[[Curse of Unawareness]]...see below.  I checked this.  Nope, not unless I was able to drive in 1930.  Sigh...
-*[[Origin Geohash]]
+*[[Origin Geohash]] Will have to use [[Newark, New Jersey|the North Jersey graticule]] as alternate.
-*[[:Category:Retro coordinates reached|Retro coordinates reached]] <-duh, can't figure out correct format to un-red this
+*[[:Category:Retro coordinates reached|Retro coordinates reached]]
 And whatever else I come across.  So many categories, so little time.
 <br>
 <br>
 Grabbed [[User:Wenslayer/KMLGenerator]] script to attempt generation of a [http://http://www.google.com/earth/index.html Google Earth] location history file for [[Newark, New Jersey|the North Jersey graticule]].
-Installed [http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads Active Perl] on my Win 7 64-bit box from here:
+Installed [http://www.activestate.com/activeperl/downloads Active Perl] on my Win 7 64-bit box.
-Downloaded the current W30 history file [http://www.amipsychic.net/coords/allcoordsW30.csv allcoords.csv].  The perl script took less that 1 sec. to create all geohashes from 1928 to date!
+Downloaded the current W30 history file [http://www.amipsychic.net/coords/allcoordsW30.csv allcoords.csv].  The perl script took less that 1 sec. to create all geohashes from 1928 to date!  12/5/2011 - and apparently in disagreement with peeron's interpretation.  I just did a 'manual' ping for by birthdate, and it's different from the perl script.
+<br>
+Did same for [[New York, New York | the New York City graticule]] looking for my Origin geohash.  It's in the Atlantic ocean - will find alternate.
+{{No trespassing
+    | latitude = 40
+    | longitude = -74
+    | date = 2011-10-10
+    | name = [[User:Spindizzy | Spindizzy]]
+}}
+{{land geohash
+    | latitude = 40
+    | longitude = -74
+    | date = 2011-10-12
+    | name = [[User:Spindizzy | Spindizzy]]
+}}
+{{No_batteries_geohash
+    | latitude = 40
+    | longitude = -74
+    | date = 2011-10-12
+    | name = [[User:Spindizzy|Spindizzy]]
+}}
+{{land geohash
+    | latitude = 40
+    | longitude = -74
+    | date = 2011-10-16
+    | name = [[User:Spindizzy | Spindizzy]]
+}}
+{{A Tale of Two Hashes | latitude = 40 | longitude = -74 | date = 2011-10-12
+| name = [[User:Spindizzy|Spindizzy]] and [[User:Jevanyn|Jevanyn]] | user2 = [[User:Dvdllr|Dvdllr]] | place = Springfield
+}}
+{{land geohash
+    | latitude = 40
+    | longitude = -74
+    | date = 2011-12-08
+    | name = [[User:Spindizzy | Spindizzy]]
-== Well, I won't get this... ==
+}}
-*[[Oldest Geohash]]