N O T O R I O U S :: A Pointless Game

[rcannon100]

I steal all my best ideas from er, Mikey, yeah, that’s the ticket…. Mikey. If I am not mistaken, a few years ago Mikey ran a FS game called “The Presidents.” The game was simply a list of the Presidents in order. Players cycled to some location in Washington D.C. that could be identified with that president in some way. The player took a picture and posted the photo to the forum. If the photo got three likes (if people could figure out what the photo had to do with that president), then the player got the point and the game moved on to the next president on the list.

Notorious is a game played the same way, only instead of a list of presidents, it is a list of Washington D.C.’s notorious history – some good, some bad, some ugly. Players take a photograph (with their bike) that in some way identifies that item on the list. If the player’s photograph and post to the forum nets four likes, it receives the point, and we move on to the next item on the list. Players can choose to explain their photo or not.

* Item is in play after the score is posted for the previous item
PHOTO
* Photo should be taken after an item is in play +
* Photo must include your bicycle
SCORING
* Photo must net FOUR likes to get the point
* If two posts net four or more likes before I notice, the post with the most likes wins. If there is still a tie – I will find some other arbitrary and annoying way to award the point.
* Group finds, everyone in the photo who is identified gets the point
* Tim the Enchanter gets all the cookies

+ This is a soft rule. It’s one thing to take one photo on your way in because you know the item is going to be in play today. It is another thing to spend sunday racking up photos – posting pictures of an item at night time when the item has only been in play during the day time – or posting a picture on a bright sunny day when its snowing outside.

There will be prizes. Probably a bunny or a hand grenade. Not really sure at this point.

And of course we start with:

1. Watergate {Tim the Enchanter}
   
2. Exorcist Stairs {SteveO}
3. Air Florida Flight 90 {Benihana}
4. Seven Dirty Words {Huberww}
5. Titanic Memorial {Benihama}
6. September 11, 2001 {NemaVeze}
7. 1968 Washington D.C. Riots {Streetsmarts}
8. Ghost Bike {SteveO}
9. Borf / Bobby Fisher Memorial Building {NemaVeze}
10. Headquarters of the American Nazi Party {Kitty}
11. “The Bitch Set Me Up” {Judd}
12. Bonus Army {Kitty}
13. John Wilkes Booth {Kitty}
14. “I Invented the Internet” {Kitty}
15. Japanese American Memorial to Patriotism During World War II {Kitty}
16. Price, Birch & Co. Dealers in Slaves {Emm}
17. Charles Syphax {Reji}
18. Cool “Disco” Dan {Kitty}
19. Dead Man’s Hollow {Kitty} {SteveO}
20. Dwight W. Watson and his tractor {PeteD}
21. Pork Chop Row {Kitty}
22. George Lincoln Rockwell {Emm}
23. Deep Throat {kitty}
24. Elizabeth Ray {NemaVeze}
25. Aldrich Ames {EMM}
26. Joan Mulholland {SteveO}
27. Kathryn H. Stone, Virginia Legislature {Reji}
28. Mary Ann Hall {NemaVeze}
29. Fanne Foxe {Streetsmarts}
30. St Asaph Racetrack {CBGanimal; Karen W}
31. Fawn Hall {NemaVeze}
32. Democracy, An American Novel {kitty}
33. John Warnock Hinckley {NemaVeze}
34. Slacker {Kitty}
35. Carlo Valdonoci June 2, 1919 {kitty}
36. Assassination Attempt on Harry Truman {NemaVeze}
37. May 10, 1970 bombing of National Guard Association {SteveO}
38. 1977 Hanafi Siege {SteveO}
39. Sherry Rowlands {Kitty}
40. Richard Berendzen {Reji}
41. Monkey Business {SClaeys}
42. Lunch counter sit ins, Arlington VA {CBGanimal}
43. Rita Jenrette
    
44. Brigadier General Albert Pike {Benihana}
45. Hall’s Hill Wall
46. Laurence Henry, Glen Echo Amusement Park
    
47. Cornelius Hawkins {Kitty}
48. MCI, “A law firm with an antenna on the roof“
49. Helen Lane, Arlington School Board Member
50. Charles Sumner School
    
51. The Langley Aerodrome {PeteD}
52. Lt. Thomas Selfridge {Kitty}
53. June 22, 2009 WMATA
    
54. The assassination of Orlando Letelier {Benihana}
55. Freedman’s Village
56. Hurricane Agnes
    
57. Ronald Deskins, Michael Jones, Lance Newman, and Gloria Thompson {SteveO}
58. The Pagans and the Avengers {NemaVeze}
59. May 22, 1856: Abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner
60. Assassination of James Garfield
61. H.R., Bad Brains
    
62. 1972 Public demonstration of the ARPANET / Internet, and AT&T’s refusal of DOD’s offer to sell the Internet to AT&T {Benihana}
    
63. Berman v. Parker {SteveO}
    
64. Gandhi Statue {Benihana}
65. Jackson City
66. Victims of Communism Memorial
    
67. Three Sisters Island {Nemaveze}
68. Obey Andre the Giant
69. Raoul Wallenberg
    
70. Pizzagate {NemaVeze}
71. Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsberg {Benihana}
72. The Underground Railway/Harriet Tubman {Kitty}
73. Spiro Agnew
74. Robert Hansen
75. Walter Krivitsky, Bellevue Hotel
76. Harold “Kim” Philby
    
77. Bill Clinton’s McDonalds {SteveO}
78. Federal Relocation Arc, Cartwheel Tower, Mt Weather
79. Marv Albert
80. Luna Park
81. Henry Rollins
    
82. Salad Days / Minor Threat {Benihana}
83. Jack Kent Cooke
84. Jhoon Rhee
85. The Mayflower Club
    
86. Old Capitol Prison: Belle Boyd and Rose O’Neal Greenhow {Benihana}
87. Jonathan Pollard
    
88. Mary Pinchot {SClaeys}
89. Rick Adams
90. Jon Postel hijacks the DNS, DNS Wars, CORE, ICANN
91. NSFNET, ANS, MAE-East, Priv-Com
92. Vitaly Sergeyevich Yurchenko
93. Rose O’Neal Greenhow
94. Rayful Edmond
    
95. Hell’s Bottom {NemaVeze}
    
96. Washington Senators {PeteD}
97. Murder Bay
98. Dickie’s Gulch

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[rcannon100]

And Benihana gets the point for noticing that Gandhi was still in play

Next: Cornelius Hawkins

[benihana]

@rcannon100 175290 wrote:

And Benihana gets the point for noticing that Gandhi was still in play

Next: Cornelius Hawkins

I was surprised he was still up for grabs after 6 days.

[Kitty]

@rcannon100 175290 wrote:

And Benihana gets the point for noticing that Gandhi was still in play

Next: Cornelius Hawkins

Ha! I noticed that this morning and was going to head there after work. Well done!

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[Kitty]

This is a really appropriate one for the Lenten season of acknowledging and atoning for one’s sins. From the Georgetown website:

“The university permanently named a building*Isaac Hawkins Hall – formerly known as Mulledy Hall and renamed as Freedom Hall in 2015 – in a courtyard ceremony next to the university’s Dahlgren Chapel.

Issac Hawkins was the first enslaved person listed in the 1838 sale document.”

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[Steve O]

@rcannon100 175290 wrote:

Next: Cornelius Hawkins

Here’s my artistic shot of GU

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[rcannon100]

Kitty makes her triumphant return to Notorious and gets the point

Next: 1972 Public demonstration of the ARPANET / Internet, and AT&T’s refusal of DOD’s offer to sell the Internet to AT&T

The Internet was an experimental network from 1969 to 1972. Having succeeded at the experiment, DOD ARPA did not want to be saddled with operating it. So they tried to give it to AT&T to operate. In 1972, one of those classic moments in history, AT&T had no interest and no use for the Internet. The Internet could not possibly work according to AT&T. See http://www.cybertelecom.org/notes/internet_history70s.htm.

Th 1972 public demonstration of ARPANET took place at the site of another NOTORIOUS item.

[Kitty]

And the internet lives on! I’m so happy to count ARPANET as my neighbor.

As a bonus photo (right), given its proximity to the ARPANET building, I always thought of the big silver work of public art with its wizzing jumble of arrows as an artist’s rendition of “the birth of the internet.”

I was disappointed to learn that it’s supposedly “Cupid’s Garden.”

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[rcannon100]

I’ll give a little hint. The item is looking for the location of the first public demonstration of the Internet / ARPANET which took place in 1972. Kitty is in fact out in front of the operational ARPA office, basically the place where DOD cut the checks to the universities developing the ARPANET. But for the location of the first public demonstration of the Internet / ARPANET one would have to cross the river.

[benihana]

I know I know, I just probably won’t be able to get over there today

[benihana]

Here is the real location of the 1972 ICCC held at the Washington Hilton, also where Reagan was shot.
Had to bikeshare to get there!

[Kitty]

I stand humbly corrected.

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[PeteD]

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If not for the short sightedness of the AT&T contingent whom were dead set on circuit switching, the history of the internet would be vastly different. A friend described to me presenting his TCP/IP stack for the UNIVAC at a conference and getting grilled by someone from Western Union. Imagine if some University employee’s software given away for free was going to put your entire corporation’s plans for the future in the dustbin of history.

[rcannon100]

Benihana is moving up for the challenge, getting the point for the First Public Demonstration of the ARPANET

Yeah this one is kinda incredible

Next: Lt. Thomas Selfridge

[Kitty]

From DCMilitary.com:
“The first military test flight of an aircraft was made from the Fort Myer parade ground on Sept. 9, 1908, when Orville Wright kept the Wright Flyer in the air for a minute and 11 seconds. The thirteenth test flight ended in tragedy when, after three minutes aloft, the aircraft crashed. Wright was severely injured, and a passenger, Lt. Thomas Selfridge, became the first powered aviation fatality.”

Thanks to this, I now know why the Air National Guard base near my hometown in Michigan is named “Selfridge!”

(Hasty photo for fear of arrest…)

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[benihana]

There is a Thomas Selfridge gate too.

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