On May 21, the marvelously geeky webcomic XKCD published a cartoon that showed the basics of
an algorithm to get a unique set of coords in your region for
any day. The method involves combining the date and the opening
value of the Dow and passing it through a common "hashing"
program called MD5. The technique is called Geohashing, and you
can read more about it on the original blog
entry, or at the Geohashing wiki.
The short version is, you get a random-ish daily offset from
your integral lat & long, in Rochester's case, from 43, -77.
Foo's first thought was, what a great way to come up with
geocache coords! Then his second thought was, Oh, dang, over 80% of
our graticule (the rectangle that begins with our integral lat
& long) is either in Lake Ontario or across it in Canada.
However, just on a lark, he checked the Geohashed coords for May 21
- Day 0 of Geohashing. And... serendipity!
LOOK WHERE THEY ARE!
Congratulations to Big_Whoopin for the FTF.
The cache is BYOP (or could someone please contribute a small
pencil or pen; we forgot to add one to this container when we were
hiding it). And lastly, we hid it right on the computed coords,
please re-hide and conceal it well.
Happy Caching!