Freezing Saddles 2021 – Daily Photo Scavenger Hunt

[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:
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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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