So following xkcd’s geohash algorithm as featured in this comic and made easy by this site and documented by this site, we went out to Encinitas to hit our point for Saturday. Our expedition was added to the wiki here.

Some pictures:

Yes, I now own a GPS
Side story: We left home at around 2:45PM to Fry’s since Kristi’s Garmin (GPS) didn’t display coordinates. We got to Fry’s probably around 3:15 to pick up a GPS that showed coordinates. (Garmin Nuvi 200!!) Anyway, we were able to get to the front of the Fry’s line (it was around 3:30 and we still needed to get to Encinitas at 4:00PM for the scheduled meeting time - around 15 miles away) thanks to the badass Fry’s salesman that sold me the Nuvi after I told him we were in a rush. We ended up making it to the meetup point in Encinitas at 3:58 and got pictures at exactly 4:00PM. So the Hero of the Day award goes to the nameless Fry’s salesman.

Side story 2: We went to Home Depot afterwards to buy wood for the old radio to convert to a gaming computer. More on this next time…

Postscript: A new almostflan coming soon…
Post Postscript: Lakers are in the finals!!! I’ll post on how my predictions went later (after the finals…)