User:Thomcat

58 / m / 47,-122

Thom is an umpire and a programmer, devoted husband and father of two, bicycling Seattle resident and beer drinker. He plays war games and role playing games, both face to face and through email. If he's not doing any of those things on a given weekend, you might find him travelling the North American continent or reading a book.

My GPS is the trusty Garmin iQue 3600 (with Palm OS 5.2.1!) and yes, that's a little hula Lilo on the dashboard of my 2001 Focus Wagon. My plan is to try to visit hashes between 3 and 5, and I nearly always have a game or two with me. If I can only get close, I use Chris Michels page to tell me just how close.

Known Geohashers

Geohashers I've met face to face. If I've got you wrong, please correct!

Marcy, SparroHawc, Nukewaste, Jack, Sparkamusprime, SalusaSecondus, Leoger, AaronStJ, Girlstyle, Christian, Mike, Andrew, HarlequinsDad, Harlequin, and Wnvoss.

Geohashers whose meeting with me contained a mis-matched time coordinate

Denouement, Stalefries, Robyn, Wade and Litho.

Geohashes

overall stats: 46 attempted, 34 successful. Notes on achievements listed inline, ribbons on a separate page.

2008-11-25 48 -122 Marysville; hash and a haircut - 128 bits.

2008-11-24 47 -122 Seattle's Eastlake neighborhood.

2008-11-23 47 -122 A Sunday at Farrel-McWhirter park.

2008-11-10 47 -122 A near repeat of 2008-09-01 47 -122.

2008-11-05 47 -122 Magnolia, on the shore of the ship canal.

2008-11-04 47 -122 South Snohomish, the home field of the Cascade Model Helicopter Club.

2008-10-19 47 -122 A parking lot adjacent to Ingersol Rand, south of downtown Seattle.

2008-10-13 47 -121 South of Lake Joy, near Carnation and Duvall.

2008-10-12 47 -120 A field near the town of Monitor.

2008-10-11 48 -122 Just west of Arlington, right off the highway.

2008-10-10 47 -122 Just off a 4WD trail in the Tahuya forest near Belfair.

2008-10-09 48 -122 Another street, near Marysville this time.

2008-10-08 47 -122 Sunset geohash on residential street in Fircrest, and the start of a Consecutive Geohash.

2008-10-02 47 -122 A ravine by a freeway offramp; Alternate: First Thursday in October meetup.

2008-10-01 47 -122 An almost sunrise geohash in Bothell, 3.2 miles from work.

2008-09-27 47 -122 Southern portion of Whidbey Island, near a park.

2008-09-24 47 -122 The front of a house in Bothell, less than 3 miles from work.

2008-09-23 47 -122 A not-so-public triangle near White Center.

2008-09-04 47 -122 Thick forested property near Lord Hill.

2008-09-01 47 -122 A neighborhood park in near Sahallee.

> 2008-08-30 47 -122 Alternate: PAX expo meetup.

2008-08-29 47 -122 A not-quite-vertical drop from the North Meadow.

> 2008-08-28 47 -122 Alternate: Hot Fuzz on the Pedestal.

2008-08-27 48 -122 Smith Island in Steamboat Slough near Everett.

2008-08-20 47 -122 East of Everett, Near the NE corner of my graticule.

2008-08-13 47 -122 South of Tacoma in a greenspace.

2008-08-09 46 -119 Near hills named The Butte and Jump Off Joe. Second part of a Multihash.

2008-08-09 47 -119 Just off I-90 near Moses Lake - exactly 200 miles from home.

2008-08-08 47 -121 Farmer's field near Carnation.

> 2008-08-07 47 -122 Alternate: First Thursday in August meetup.

2008-07-30 47 -122 Late night Speed Racer achievement.

2008-07-26 47 -122 Saturday meetup in the park, hashpoint nearby up a hill, near piles of trash.

2008-07-25 47 -122 Nobody home; geohash in the backyard.

2008-07-24 47 -122 Failed to cross a river or slough to this isolated point.

2008-07-19 48 -121 No Trespassing in North Cascades.

2008-07-17 47 -122 Easiest geohash thus far, right on the path of a public greenspace in Silver Lake.

2008-07-09 47 -122 A pleasant greenspace near Pine Lake.

> 2008-07-03 47 -122 Alternate: First Thursday in July meetup.

2008-06-30 47 -122 Private property, near a pool, in the Brier neighborhood of North Seattle.

2008-06-28 47 -122 Rode my bicycle to Fremont, a block south of the visible Hales Pub, where we also did some Phonebooth Stuffing.

2008-06-27 47 -122 Medina South Park (no, I didn't see Cartman). My son was yet again the Drag-along, and I was in my Tux.

2008-06-24 47 -121 Up a 'no-vehicle' horse trail and within some brambles. MNIMB!

2008-06-20 47 -122 Mill Creek residential neighborhood, and a sunny day (somewhat unusual for Seattle).

2008-06-19 47 -121 Second Snoqualmie attempt in a week, this one is just off Highway 2 near Gold Bar.

2008-06-15 47 -121 Just off I-90 at 436th street; was unfortunately on private (and inaccessible) property.

2008-06-13 47 -122 A driveway in south Bellevue (or Factoria), just off I-90.

2008-06-12 47 -122 Just blocks from Cosmo's Deli, where the kids and I had lunch. Got as close as I could without a machete - thanks Mother Nature.

2008-06-07 47 -122 Located in the back yard of a private property, but the accommodating owner agreedto allow a picnic and a game of Twister. I was the First Geohasher to arrive.

2008-05-29 47 -122 A rural road near Cedar Mountain; a gravel truck was just dumping a new road surface while I was there.

2008-05-23 47 -117 A farmer's field near Tyler in the Spokane graticule

Wiki

Planned changes in italics

• merged the Active and Inactive graticules to become the page All Graticules
• set Active or Inactive on all graticules linked from that page.
• removed state and province abbreviations on North American graticules.
• helped set up and edit the United States category (and others) for North America
• cleaned up double redirects; pruned several unused redirects; general cleanup
• added to templates and ribbons
• search for expedition pages lacking Category:Expeditions and add same, or Category:Expedition Planning for expeditions not attempted.

If you actually attempted an expedition, please log your story and change the category!

• read every expedition page(!) and add a category for success or failure, along with failure type.

If I get this wrong on your expedition page, please change it!

• dig through user pages to find expeditions and create pages for them.
• dig through all Graticule pages to uncover hidden expeditions (Ninjas!).
• through inspection of Category:Expeditions, determine first geohash in each graticule.
• using Category:Expeditions data, automatically track expeditions, graticules with the most expeditions, etc.

Washington

A map of all Washington Graticules and First geohashers. Actual graticule is linked behind the Washington place name if different.

48, -124 Neah Bay	48, -123 Port Angeles Robyn	48, -122 Bellingham Thomcat	48, -121 North Cascades	48, -120 Lake Chelan	48, -119 Omak	48, -118 Kettle Falls	48, -117 Colville
47, -124 Forks	47, -123 Olympic HarlequinsDad	47, -122 Seattle Marcy	47, -121 Snoqualmie Thomcat	47, -120 Wenatchee PBnJ	47, -119 Moses Lake Thomcat	47, -118 Davenport	47, -117 Spokane Thomcat
46, -124 Ocean Shores	46, -123 Aberdeen	46, -122 Mt St Helens	46, -121 Mt Rainier	46, -120 Yakima	46, -119 Tri Cities Thomcat	46, -118 Walla Walla	46, -117 Pullman	46, -116 Rogersburg
		45, -122 Vancouver unknown...	45, -121 White Salmon	45, -120 Goldendale	45, -119 Crow Butte

Purchases

Besides vehicle fuel and the occasionally ferry fare, I have made a few purchases related to geohashing. They are

• Thermometer - digital readout, in case "cold" is ever an option.
• Machete - official army variety. I don't want Mother Nature to stop me from a conscutive geohash this weekend.
• Sidewalk chalk - for those urban geohashes, something to mark the location and occasion.

No, I don't have a portable boat yet. I do have some water shoes, in case the hash is near the shore.

Important Locations

Origin

• 47.319607°, -116.700839° in the Coeur d'Alene, Idaho graticule.

Scotland

• 55.45807°, -2.682467° in the Northumberland, United Kingdom graticule.

Work

• 47.802966°, -122.196443° in the Seattle, Washington graticule.

Today

Today's Seattle and Globalhash locations.