Calvinball 2019 Official Thread

[mrhappy_onabike]

You may have to take a detour to get your free espresso

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[sszibler]

SiberHobbes has found a warm drawer for the night at what one employee calls “The Best Bike Shop in the City!” But Hobbes doesn’t like hibernating for too long, he prefers being out and about, so someone rescue him from movie night (“Edge of Tomorrow”) soon!

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[drevil]

sszibler;186463 wrote:

siberhobbes has found a warm drawer for the night at what one employee calls “the best bike shop in the city!” but hobbes doesn’t like hibernating for too long, he prefers being out and about, so someone rescue him from movie night (“edge of tomorrow”) soon!

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matt & steve!!!!

[josh]

Ok I wanted to get in on the action. Figured I’d stop by Detour and see if the Calvinball (Friendshipball? Need to track the finds again) was still there, because I need more coffee rides. It’s right next door to the notorious Darna Lounge. No one claimed it yesterday, so I enjoyed my espresso courtesy of SteveO/MrHappy.

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I spent some time trying to get the Calvinball #dangerpanda down (dropping the Calvinball at least once) with no success, and my hands were getting cold so I gave up. This is the best you’ll get.

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I believe I qualify for double points as a first-time finder.

Proposed ordinance: If you hide the Calvinball at a brewery, then you receive 2 bonus points.

[josh]

Hobbesball has been retrieved. Didn’t want it stuck there too long.

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[sszibler]

@josh 186517 wrote:

Hobbesball has been retrieved. Didn’t want it stuck there too long.

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Him! He looks good now. There’s still a friendship CB out there for like over a week.

[cvcalhoun]

@sszibler 186577 wrote:

Him! He looks good now. There’s still a friendship CB out there for like over a week.

Perhaps it’s time to give some extra hints on exactly where it is?

[sszibler]

You don’t recognize the neon sign? If you go to the coordinates mentioned, it would be difficult to miss. What store has a huge W?

[josh]

One Calvinball has been hidden:

You received a “Telegraph” of the Calvinball’s location at the Entrance to Hell in Alexandria.

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[Thor]

Hobbes has been frolicking around the alleys of Old Town, found some left-over Heineken and is now sleeping off the buzz in a miniature Siberian forest, but don’t make him sleep there all night!!!

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[Steve O]

@cvcalhoun 186598 wrote:

Perhaps it’s time to give some extra hints on exactly where it is?

Oh, c’mon! I live way over in Virginia, have no clue about these neighborhoods or establishments, and about 90 seconds of sleuthing was all it took to figure this out.

[cvcalhoun]

@sszibler 186600 wrote:

You don’t recognize the neon sign? If you go to the coordinates mentioned, it would be difficult to miss. What store has a huge W?

Nope, don’t recognize any of it. Then again, I rarely go to that area. And when I do, I’m focused on finding Friendship Heights, not on what stores may be in the area. Plus, as I recall, you said it was in Friendship Park, a location that doesn’t exist on Google maps. At a guess, I would have assumed it was a park.

But I’m not your target audience anyway. I get involved in Freezing Saddles for four reasons:

1. To motivate myself to get out for at least a short ride every day.
2. To motivate myself to commute by bike more often.
3. To motivate myself to bike rather than taking Uber for errands.
4. To meet people.

Since riding in my limited spare time is not one of my goals, I have only a passing interest in Calvinball. If I needed to go there for some other reason, and had some free time, I’d look. If we’re talking about a 10-mile ride to look for it, I’m unlikely to do so.

[cvcalhoun]

@Steve O 186633 wrote:

Oh, c’mon! I live way over in Virginia, have no clue about these neighborhoods or establishments, and about 90 seconds of sleuthing was all it took to figure this out.

I wasn’t looking for it. I was merely commenting that if it had been there for a week, it was probably difficult to find.

I think Szibler is under the impression that I go there often, because we’ve had a couple of flybys there. I don’t. I was there those times because I couldn’t take my own bike, and had to use a Jump. And I was blindly following Google maps to Friendship Heights, because that is as far as I’m allowed to take a Jump.

[josh]

Sszibler’s lost Calvinball:
Presumably somewhere near the Friendship Heights Whole Foods, next to Friendship Heights Park. W sign shown on Street View here. I don’t know the area well enough for the last three photos to help without being there in person, but if that aids anyone else, please go retrieve it.

I’m putting out a 3x points bounty on this.

[sszibler]

@cvcalhoun 186638 wrote:

Nope, don’t recognize any of it. Then again, I rarely go to that area. And when I do, I’m focused on finding Friendship Heights, not on what stores may be in the area. Plus, as I recall, you said it was in Friendship Park, a location that doesn’t exist on Google maps. At a guess, I would have assumed it was a park.

But I’m not your target audience anyway. I get involved in Freezing Saddles for four reasons:

1. To motivate myself to get out for at least a short ride every day.
2. To motivate myself to commute by bike more often.
3. To motivate myself to bike rather than taking Uber for errands.
4. To meet people.

Since riding in my limited spare time is not one of my goals, I have only a passing interest in Calvinball. If I needed to go there for some other reason, and had some free time, I’d look. If we’re talking about a 10-mile ride to look for it, I’m unlikely to do so.

I thought I saw you bemoaning the fact that there were no Calvin Balls near you, which is why I braved the snow and windchill to hide it there. I figured if it wasn’t at your exact location the Metro could help with its wonderful (kidding) elevators. You were sick at that time, so it would have been easy to miss.

Possibly Steve Mitchell will get it since he lives right there.

The idea was to put it near Friendship themes since it’s the Friendship Calvin Ball.

The original post was on page 13, #130, but someone else pretty much just spelled it out. The pictures will help.

If you do a google maps search for Friendship Heights Park, it will come right up. Without the search you have to go in very close, which might be the case if you were looking for Friendship Blvd.

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