User:Thepiguy

About me

Greetings to my fellow geohashers, both near and far! I'm currently a UBC physics and computer science student living in Richmond and will bike/bus to the ends of the earth for that perfect hash point!

I don't get to nearly as many locations as I'd like to, but I'm going to try and get out more! I just bought a brand new Devinci hybrid bike and I'm willing to bike any distance to get an awesome bicycle geohash!

I may also be heading to Germany for a co-op job in May of 2009, which should make for some exciting trans-continental geohashing.

One quick note about my user name, if one were to add in the spaces it would be The Pi Guy. As in that mystical mathematical constant, and having nothing to do with the animal commonly known as bacon. If we ever meet at a geohash, ask me how I got the name Pi; it's a good 30 seconds worth of entertainment.

36 / m / 49,-123

Current Plans

I'm getting up in 6 hours; I've got 7 litres of gator aid in the fridge, three changes of clothes and a kayak rental at a marina over 100km away. If I'm never seen alive again, I want my ashes spread over each Vancouver geohash location for the next month. Let's hope it wont come to that... Thepiguy 04:10, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm rooting for you! I don't want to have to make all those geohashes to spread the ashes! -Robyn 10:00, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

I have returned! 22 hours and 7 minutes after I left. Imma' go sleep now. Thepiguy 08:31, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

Noooo, first tell me if you beat me or not! -- Arvid@work

Geohashes Reached

My current count is 7 successful geohashes in 3 different gradicules, including 3 Saturday meetups. (Posted most recent first)

2008-08-19 49 -123 Four in a row! I biked out to north east Richmond on my "way" to work.

2008-08-18 49 -123 For my third geohash in three days; I dragged a few friends out in the dark!

2008-08-17 49 -123 A mid-morning adventure through Vancouver.

2008-08-09 49 -123 Transit geohash, all by my self, in the rain. =(

2008-06-18 49 -123 Bike geohash, and an accidental geohash!

2008-05-31 49 -122 First Saturday Geohash meetup!

2008-05-27 49 -123 First Geohash! Land Geohash achieved!

Geohashes Attempted

2008-08-16 48 -123 An epic bike ride with a great view!

2008-07-19 49 -123 Ended up biking 109km and still has a great day!

Other Geohashers Met

In order of first encounter:

• srs0. A fellow UBC student, we're in the same program and work at the same co-op job. We spend... far to much time together. He's working at the computer next to me even as I type this.

• Some guy in his car at the 2008-05-31 geohash in Surrey. We never even got his name! Do you know who he is?

• Warren at the 2008-05-31 geohash in Surrey. He came all the way from Bellingham!

I haven't yet, but I'm sure I'll run into Robyn at some point too!

Achievements Earned

it's pretty obvious, but I'm sort of really obsessing about my achievements. I don't care how non-notable it is: if there's a ribbon, it's goin' up!

thepiguy earned the Consecutive geohash achievement by reaching 4 consecutive hash points starting on 2008-08-16.

thepiguy earned the Drag-along achievement by dragging Lauren, Taryn and Josh to the (49, -123) geohash on 2008-08-18.

thepiguy achieved level 2 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Vancouver, British Columbia and 2 of the surrounding graticules.

thepiguy earned the GeoTrash Geohash Achievement by cleaning up the (48, -123) geohash on 2008-08-16.

thepiguy earned the No trespassing consolation prize by almost reaching the (48, -123) geohash on 2008-08-16.

thepiguy earned the Public transport geohash achievement by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2008-08-09 via 410 Railway and 404 Ladner buses.

thepiguy has visited an Easy Geohash by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2008-06-18 without really trying.

thepiguy earned the Bicycle geohash achievement by cycling to the (49, -123) geohash on 2008-06-18.

thepiguy achieved level 1 of the Minesweeper Geohash achievement by visiting coordinates in Vancouver, British Columbia and 1 of the surrounding graticules.

thepiguy earned the Regional geohashing achievement by reaching a hash point in all possible GVRD graticules.

thepiguy earned the Land geohash achievement by reaching the (49, -123) geohash on 2008-05-27.

Geohashing Check Lists

I have yet to forget anything of great importance, but that's probably just a matter of time.

The very basics

• Keys
• Wallet
• Phone
• iPod (for those solo-hashes)

The geohashing basics

• GPS (with coordinates!)
• Camera
• Google map of area
• Geohashing signs
• xkcd shirt
• Nibs (Gotta' love Nibs!)
• Extra batteries for the electronics

For any bicycle geohashes

• Bike (!)
• Helmet
• Gloves
• Sun glasses (more for bugs than for sun)
• Bike lock (with keys)
• Bike repair kit
• Bike lights and reflectors (never know how long a geohash might take)
• Lots of water
• Extra snacks/lunch

Picture Gallery

I was flipping through my pictures, and thought it might be neat to create of few collections of pictures from multiple expeditions. The result (or lack there off) can be found here!