Alex Heberling

Not too long ago, in the course of my work at the CRL, I scanned many pages of La Baïonnette, a French magazine from the first World War.  It was apparently a much more political publication than what I grasped while flipping through the pages looking for my next scanning victim, though I did tend [...]

There was another impromptu hash today that was particularly close to where I live.  It was in a neighborhood in Upper Arlington in my home graticule of 40N, 83W. The hash was in the backyard of a residential area as pictured, so we didn’t actually stand at the location like usual.  In the interest of [...]

Today’s geohashing adventure took us once again to Westerville, Ohio!  The hash today was on the corner of Smokeburr Dr and Sunbury Rd, in the middle of a residential driveway.  We didn’t do chalk drawings this time, since it was private property, but we did go for a walk on the adjacent Hoover Dam. Ohio’s [...]

Chris and I recently started getting into geohashing.  There’s a whole wiki dedicated to it, spawned from a comic that laid out an algorithm for determining daily, random coordinates based on the given day’s date, the most recent Dow opening, and your home latitude and longitude. Using the wiki to organize, there are official meetups [...]