User talk:Aperfectring

In truth Thomcat started the map thing, but because Washington is rectangular, I'm not sure whether he realized/intended it to be a map or just a chart. -Robyn 19:03, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Of course I intended it to be a map! :) Of course, when I created it, there was no "regional geohashing" achievement yet. --Thomcat 19:24, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Well there you go. I saw it as a chart. I didn't intend MINE to be a map straight off; it's only after I started filling in the chart that I realized it was a map. And I hereby declare Aperfectring's talk page to be the new place for everyone to have discussions. -Robyn 19:30, 27 August 2008 (UTC)

Huzzah! I finally have a talk page! Also, added Thomcat to the credits.

If you create a subpage User:Aperfectring/Florida and move your regional geohash map there, along with its associated categories, then the name of what it is a regional geohash for will turn up in the category listing. -Robyn 03:31, 9 October 2008 (UTC) Done --aperfectring 22:05, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Notification program discussion

In an attempt to keep my talk page a bit cleaner, this section has been moved to User:Aperfectring/Notification

Ping location for being added to the notification list

I just sent you an email requesting notifications. 3riador 16:18, 23 May 2009 (UTC)

Hi - so did I! Cheers --norsemark 10:05, 22 June 2009 (UTC)

Pls add my notifications to your list. I emailed a wiki page URL to the address provided. -- Jevanyn 17:21, 22 October 2009 (UTC)

I also! Well, I sent it late last week anyway, but in Jevanyn-time, that's 5 minutes ago! -- Jevanyn 17:06, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Well, I have a great excuse for not adding you yet. I left town on the morning of the 22nd, and didn't get back into town until last night, when I promptly did as a travel weary person does, go to sleep. I will add you in tonight, and you should start getting notifications tomorrow the 27th. --aperfectring 17:32, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Hi there. I just sent an email as well. --Nathan 06:21, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

Official "Be A Jerk" Space

This space is reserved for UnwiseOwl, so that he can be a jerk towards me.

My space is open for all, reflecting the values of a country and people who believe in equal rights for all, rather than an elite minority. You should try it some time. -- UnwiseOwl 02:56, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

It's quite like you to expect other people to do things for you, bow to your wishes of having your own space, instead of having their own free will. Why should people do what you want them to? I doubt it's a problem, anyway, as no-one else around here (apart from myself) is likely to want to behave like a jerk anyway. Jerk. -- UnwiseOwl 03:01, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Egotistic, me? Says the guy who calls himself 'perfect'. Anyway, I have to go work (some of us do that), so I'll catch your useless and impotent words later. -- UnwiseOwl 03:06, 6 March 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, just because one so warped as yourself is incapable of positive reactions doesn't automatically mean that other members of the human race (and I use the 'other' generously) are cruel heartless bastards too. Jerk -- UnwiseOwl 00:09, 10 March 2009 (UTC)

Dumbass -- UnwiseOwl 11:19, 16 April 2009 (UTC)

A motherless goat? What? May you lose something small but valuable, but find it later. -- UnwiseOwl 03:15, 27 May 2009 (UTC)

I'm going to use UO's space because OMG is that ever a scary picture. If I saw that at a geohash I might run away. -Robyn

Post office

Go RIGHT NOW! --joannac 22:40, 22 May 2009 (UTC)

Why is Homer Simpson on a stamp? Is he dead? :-) --Jevanyn 14:21, 28 October 2009 (UTC)

Saturday, May 30

Today's hashpoint in Miami, Florida is pretty good, right by Lincoln Road pedestrian mall in Miami Beach. Dtobias 14:50, 30 May 2009 (UTC)

Congrats on claiming the Astoria graticule!

Bot lords?

Where's your scarf? -- Jevanyn 14:55, 7 December 2009 (UTC)

The City of The Dallas

Nice hash in The Dalles, Oregon (45, -121) graticule on 2010-02-15. Only 20 virgin graticules left in Oregon, mostly on my side of the hill... -- Nn2s2u

Hosting

Hey, Do you want some space on my VPS for running bots and stuff? --TheJosh 02:58, 27 March 2010 (UTC)

Two Ape-related questions

These are probably in completely the wrong place, but I'm tired and CBA to find where is right, sorry.  :-)

• Why does putting the expedition category "Not reached - Did not attempt" cause the ape to remove the participants from the day's expedition summary page?
• Can you possibly get the Ape to not put meetup categories on any image files that are in Category:Icons, please?

Ta. — Benjw  _[talk] 22:01, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

• I believe I did this because expeditions which were not attempted, are not actually expeditions, and really should have been left as Category:Expedition planning
• I thought I had taken care of it not categorizing items which are a part of a template... Are these icons which are used for another purpose and not a part of a template?

In any case, I will take a look into both of these. I am in the process of migrating the bot to my new computer, so it may take me a little bit to look into them. --aperfectring 23:48, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

I'm not very good at explaining myself late at night, sorry.

• The 2010-08-29 51 4 expedition report appears on the list of expeditions for 08-29, but when JimL assigns it "Not reached - Mother Nature" it has full details and when I assign it "Not reached - Did not attempt" then it has full details except for the participants, who appear as "Someone went".
• See, for example, File:GeoSquishy_Achievement_Rain.jpg, which seems to be part of Template:GeoSquishy Rain but still gets the meetup cats.

I shall go away now and not interfere. — Benjw  _[talk] 09:16, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

I always seem to break the bot. I'm sorry for ruining your life. Anyway, I've put up planning pages for 2010-10-31 52 0 and 2010-10-31 52 -0 and it seems that for dates this far ahead, the formatting is broken on the expeditions table in the date page -- the template page Template:Expedition summaries/2010-10-31 doesn't have the line which sets the table style information. I also notice that the link to add a new ticket to the bot's page on relet's website seems to be broken -- it comes up with a page saying "Error: Forbidden. TICKET_CREATE privileges are required to perform this operation." — Benjw  _[talk] 08:08, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

No worries. I am quite positive it is because I didn't test future planned expeditions when I made the changes to tables. I'm sure its just a simple fix. I will look at it when I get home tonight. --aperfectring 14:35, 11 October 2010 (UTC)

Done!--aperfectring 03:13, 12 October 2010 (UTC)

Current events doesn't seem to be updating today... OtherJack 13:53, 15 March 2012 (EDT)

Thanks for the heads up. It should be updating soon. I reboot my comp yesterday and forgot to re-kick it. --aperfectring 14:04, 15 March 2012 (EDT)

Acting odd again - it's generally updating, but missing one expedition each on the 11th, 14th and 17th, and four on the 15th (judging by what's in the date categories.) Do you know what's up? -- OtherJack 13:54, 17 July 2012 (EDT)

Its not updating anything (as evidenced by the fact that there aren't date entries for the 17th or 18th at all on the current events page). I think I know why, and am testing it out right now. --aperfectring 16:20, 17 July 2012 (EDT)

Centicle interface working!

I've got a working centicle number generating interface (with version 3 of the Google Maps API, so it can't be trivially merged with peeron...)! It's a single file, and can be downloaded here: http://mibpaste.com/iQxOdD . Just give it two GET parameters, lat and lng and click whichever centicles you want to select, then copy the line at the bottom. If someone wants to host it, and/or has suggestions for improvement, please speak up! JesseW 04:05, 9 May 2012 (EDT)

Copy of the source for the Notification program

I would like a copy of the source, in order to try an add customized subject lines, and an automatic link to the graticle page. JesseW 16:08, 28 May 2012 (EDT)

I'll try to get it posted to github within the week, but this is turning out to be a busy one for me, so it might be next week. I'm keeping the email notification from this unread in my inbox so I'll remember to do it. --aperfectring 18:21, 29 May 2012 (EDT)

No hurry. Thanks for getting back to me. JesseW 19:41, 29 May 2012 (EDT)

ping... JesseW 01:26, 2 August 2012 (EDT)

ack --aperfectring 11:07, 2 August 2012 (EDT)

Finally there! Finding time was the problem, but I have now found it. The code is included in the [pygeohashing] toolshed, along with the source for AperfectBot and ReletBot. Enjoy!

Usage: notify[wiki].py <notify_file> <pass_file>

I'll add examples "soon". The notification bot page should have an adequate explanation of what is required in notify_file for each bot, though. For the pass_file, line 1 is the source gmail address, line 2 is the plain text password.

They are run from a single cron entry which starts well before the DOW is announced, and the bot will wait until a valid DOW number appears before sending notifications. Both bots will now notify for all available dates as soon as they become available. My cron run Mon-Fri.

That's wonderful! I also see that you updated the code to add links in the emails (which is also gratefully appreciated.) I'll see what I can do with providing additional features, bug-fixes, etc. Thanks again. JesseW 02:12, 11 August 2012 (EDT)