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

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[bikesnick]

@drevil 208675 wrote:

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

LASER == “Light Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation”

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[LeftyLaura]

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

I’m presenting my world-wide jet-setting favorite place of repast. IHOP: International House Of Pancake!

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[Kbikeva]

@Indiana 208723 wrote:

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.

My son lives out west and in his job regularly deals with the Bureau of Land Management, so when Black Lives Matter started gaining traction as BLM, I kept having to make the mental jump to context. Similar to when everyone started using DMV for this area. I was still stuck on that slow and infuriating experience trying to get anything done connected with licenses and autos.

[Sophie CW]

2/26/21 – Acronym or Initialism (3 letters or more)
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M-NCPPC: Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission

[Catedrew]

@drevil 208675 wrote:

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

2/26/21 – Acronym or Initialism – BBT = Branch Banking and Trust

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[Nadine]

@accordioneur 208715 wrote:

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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STI also stands for sexually transmitted infection. That’s what it meant in MY former life. [emoji16] (I was an AIDS/Health educator 88-03.)

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[Kbikeva]

@Nadine 208741 wrote:

STI also stands for sexually transmitted infection. That’s what it meant in MY former life. [emoji16] (I was an AIDS/Health educator 88-03.)

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There’s a group of cyclists who ride out of the Green Lizard who go by “STD’s”…swim team dads. They have jerseys proclaiming STD in BIG letters.

[Steve O]

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

ERO – The Electronic Return Originator (ERO) is the Authorized IRS e-file Provider who originates the electronic submission of a return to the IRS. The ERO is usually the first point of contact for most taxpayers filing a return using IRS e-file.

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[drevil]

2/27/21 – the words “Black” and/or “White” (any language)

On February 27, 1981, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder started recording Ebony and Ivory. Fun fact: while Billboard magazine ranked it #59 of the Hot 100 songs of all-time, Blender magazine named it the tenth worst song of all time.

On your ride, find the word “black” or “white” on a sign. If you capture both words in one snapshot, you’ll get 2 points.

Happy hunting!

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[AlanA]

@drevil 208744 wrote:

2/27/21 – the words “Black” and/or “White” (any language)

On February 27, 1981, Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder started recording Ebony and Ivory. Fun fact: while Billboard magazine ranked it #59 of the Hot 100 songs of all-time, Blender magazine named it the tenth worst song of all time.

On your ride, find the word “black” or “white” on a sign. If you capture both words in one snapshot, you’ll get 2 points.

Happy hunting!

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Who else here had a subscription to Blender? I really miss that. I’m pretty sure I still have all the old issues!

[bigredboiler]

2-26-21 Acronym or initialization

Busy day and missed the midnight deadline. Found and marked up way too many pics on my ride though

Here is one to share
IRL = in real life

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[cvcalhoun]

2/27/21 – the words “Black” and/or “White” (any language). If you capture both words in one snapshot, you’ll get 2 points.
The only issue on this was timing. The store was inside a mall, and was open 11:00 to 7:00. My son and his family were coming over at 11:30, and likely staying past 7:00. And I wasn’t at all sure that I could get back from the mall by 11:30 if I got there at 11:00.

And then I realized that while the store wasn’t open until 11:00, the mall was open at 10:00. And since I only needed to take a picture, I could get there at 10:00, take the picture, and get back before 11:30.

No bike in this one, since I didn’t have the nerve to take it into an enclosed mall.

And yet again, I am thankful for the vaccine, which enabled me to go into a mall–albeit an uncrowded one first thing in the morning, wearing an N95.

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[CBGanimal]

2/27/21 – The words “black” and/or “white” ( in any language) 2 puts for both

Found a bar in the most picturesque town about 25 miles south!

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[CaseyKane50]

2/27/21 – the words “Black” and/or “White” (any language)

No sneaking around in a mall for this photo. The store is located on King Street in Alexandria. If SteveO looks carefully, he can see my bike in the reflection.

[LhasaCM]

2/27 – black and white

U Street NW in DC

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