Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt

[drevil]

EDIT 3/23/21 – FINAL RESULTS POST: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=210265#post210265
EDIT 3/17/21 – FINAL WEEK POST HERE: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=209861#post209861

I love taking photos, and having a goal usually ups the fun factor, so I’m doing a daily photo scavenger hunt.

Every night, I’ll post something you have to take a picture of the next day (along with the date). I’ll try my best to post before midnight.

It might be an object (a stop sign), a theme (something blue), specific (e.g., a bike laying on the ground), vague (e.g., confusion), a mish-mash of those, or none of those.

Rules:

1. Obvs, you should be a participant in Freezing Saddles ’21
2. It has to be on a bike ride on the day it was requested
3. It has to be posted on the day for which it was requested, i.e., 12:01 AM EST to 11:59 PM EST for the day it was requested. Sorry, I won’t count ones that aren’t posted for the day it was requested. That’s part of the challenge
4. The reason I say “for the day it is requested” is because I might do requests a few days ahead of time, but don’t take and/or post the pic until that day comes.
5. It has to be posted here on the forum in this thread
6. There should be text either in the title or in the post with the date and the found object/theme. Another option is to “Reply With Quote” the post with the request, i.e., simply click that button on the bottom right of my request so it is quoted above your picture
7. Description, short backstory or location are optional (but nice). That said, if your pic is abstract or not obviously relatable to my request, please explain (e.g., I ask for “happiness”, and you post a pic of a tennis ball you found on a ride, please explain how that tennis ball = happiness)
8. It has to be a picture you took, so if you’re in it, it either has to be a selfie or done with a self-timer
9. Only one pic/day. Please don’t pad by adding more than one pic/day
10. It has to be a picture, not a video
11. Let’s stick to things you find out there during your ride, and not things that you bring or make yourself (unless otherwise specified). Example 1: if I say find “2021”, don’t scratch it into dirt. Example 2: if I say find a flower, don’t bring a flower with you on your ride and take a pic of that. This kinda takes the fun out of looking for things, which is the whole point. (Rule added on 1/2/21)
12. Unless specified otherwise, your bike does not have to be in the photo. (Rule amended on 1/4/21)
13. Found item needs to be clear and discernible (or legible if text) in the picture. If you are using Tapatalk and are having trouble posting pics that are large enough, let us know and I/we can try to help you with it. (Rule added on 1/3/21)
14. Filters are OK, but no obvious/blatant photoshopping… not that I know anything about such things

Photoshop? by bikecentric, on Flickr

Scoring: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kgsAzaLIXN-IJMjscyNnQTNvWEp__VzgGBSkJDYrTfs/edit?usp=sharing

1. If you follow all the rules above, it’s 1 point/picture. I’ll like your pic if I have added the point to the tally sheet.
2. If I feel like you haven’t met all the rules, I’ll give you .25 points for the effort (Added on 1/11/21)
3. I’ll keep a tally with your forum name. I may reach out to you via the forum’s messaging, or ask you to reach out to me in a post in this thread.
4. EDIT ON 3/17/21: THIS WILL NOT HAPPEN ANYMORE -> At the end of FS, every like in each of your pic posts = +1 point. I’ll add these up at the end
   So for example, your pic has met all the conditions at the top, and has 3 likes. That will add 4 points (1 for the pic +3 for the likes) to your pot.

Notes:

1. Prizes TBD
2. Contest starts 1/1/21 and goes until the last day of FS ’21
3. Some of these will be hard. Fret not, some will be easy, so skip those days that are too difficult
4. Don’t ever ever ever ever do anything that can put you in danger or will result in hurting yourself. I promise I won’t ask for any pics of you riding on the Beltway
5. I might post pics, but mine don’t count in the contest

EDIT 3/17/21 -SEE FINAL WEEK POST HERE: http://bikearlingtonforum.com/showthread.php?18102-Freezing-Saddles-2021-Daily-Photo-Scavenger-Hunt&p=209861#post209861

Topic

[Nadine]

2/26/21 – acronyms

I found a number of acronyms on my ride, including some unintentional ones (took me a minute to understand that part of the instructions – whoopsie [emoji4])

I found VIN, ART, NOVA, WOD, W&OD (same trail, different acronym [emoji1744],) and NVRPA. I went for the double acronym of the last 2 on the sign with the map of the Arlington loop at the intersection of the Custis and the W&OD – though it’s weathered and hard to read despite my attempts to clean it for the picture.

Here: WOD: Washington & Old Dominion. (trail) and NVRPA: Northern VirginiA Regional Parks Authority

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[DCAKen]

2/26/21 – Acronym or Initialism (3 letters or more)

I’ve worked at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for a good long time and I still have to look up some of the acronyms and initialisms that I come across in documents and websites it publishes. I joke with my coworkers that NOAA really stands for the National Organization for the Advancement of Acronyms

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[accordioneur]

2/26/21 – Acronym or Initialism (3 letters or more)

DISTILLERS:

DIS: Distributed Interactive Simulation – A military simulation technology for connecting remote simulations together to form large exercises. We were in essence inventing Internet gaming – I even had some articles on how to synchronize multiple players over the Internet published in Game Developer Magazine back in the 90’s

IST: The Institute for Simulation and training. The Army funded a lot of the DIS work out of Orlando. The University of Central Florida set up IST, an academic research center to support simulation research.

STI: Stanford Telecommunications, Inc. A firm I worked with back in those early days.

TIL: Today I Learned that STI went out of business a long time ago.

ILL: Internet Leased Lines. Back in those days, plain vanilla Internet connections weren’t fast enough for realtime simulation, so we used leased T1 lines.

LLE: Low Level Emulation. One of the first simulations I wrote was in the Lisp language on the Symbolics computer. Later, it was possible to emulate a Symbolics on a Mac and we ported the simulation over to that platform. The original MacIvory was a hardware board that you added to the Mac, so only partial emulation.

LER: Learning Environments Research. IST did a lot of research in how to build synthetic environments that best support learning.

ERS: Economic Research Service. I’m pretty sure we pitched this organization that they should be using (our) simulation technology to improve their analyses. Never got a contract out of it.

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[Jessica Hirschhorn]

M.E.B.A.

https://www.google.com/search?q=m.e.b.a.%20headquarters

Maritime Engineers B Assn

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[AlanA]

2/26/21 – Acronym or Initialism (3 letters or more)

I was planning on trying to come up with 3 letters from my park sign (and hoping for the best), but after I took that picture, I came across a recently overworked MDOT snow plow sitting in the lot (and hoping that there is no more snow!) It also has the words spelled out (MD Dept. of Transportation). How convenient. And now, I don’t have to try to find some random 3 letters. The less I have to think, the better! And, who knew. They have a trademark on that symbol.

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[josh]

@accordioneur 208715 wrote:

2/26/21 – Acronym or Initialism (3 letters or more)

DISTILLERS:
…

If my script is right, I think you missed out on 21 distinct three-characters-or-longer initialisms/acronyms embedded in “DISTILLERS”. You’d better get on that! I’ll toss ISTI (Instrumental Software Technologies Inc.) your way.

[CaseyKane50]

2/26/21 – Acronym or Initialism (3 letters or more)

DONUT – Direct Observation of the Nu Tau.

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[Serdar]

@drevil 208675 wrote:

2/26/21 – Acronym or Initialism (3 letters or more)

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United Parcel Service (UPS)
https://www.strava.com/activities/4855497115

[HokieBeth]

2/26 Initials or Acronym

“WMATA” Washington Metropolitan Area Transportation Authority aka Metro

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[Indiana]

2/26/21 – Acronym or Initialism (3 letters or more)

BLM on the MBT
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I assume that’s Black Lives Matter on the Metropolitan Branch Trail, and not the Bureau of Land Management tagging the path.

[AlanA]

@josh 208718 wrote:

If my script is right, I think you missed out on 21 distinct three-characters-or-longer initialisms/acronyms embedded in “DISTILLERS”. You’d better get on that! I’ll toss ISTI (Instrumental Software Technologies Inc.) your way.

I think someone wastes a bit to much time on these silly games!!

[AlanA]

@CaseyKane50 208720 wrote:

2/26/21 – Acronym or Initialism (3 letters or more)

DONUT – Direct Observation of the Nu Tau.

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You deserve a bazillion points for that one!!

[historygeek]

2/36/21 acronym or initialism
Bladensburg Waterfront Park

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[camiller]

2/26/2021 Acronym

APA – American Pharmaceutical Association (APA is actually used by a lot of different organizations and industries. Being in the medical field, this is the one that first came to mind.)

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[LhasaCM]

2/26 – Acronym

WAR – Wins Above Replacement. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wins_Above_Replacement

(I wrote many a graduate school economics paper using this and other “advanced” stats in baseball to keep the subject interesting)

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