gschrock, post: 361362, member: 556 wrote: A compulsion to straighten any pictures hanging on walls, or stacks of books/documents... wanting to know which way is north at any given time.
Stopping and staring at marks while on vacation...
I wouldnÛªt worry about that. Do you use a TSÛªs crosshairs to insure the picture is correct vertically and horizontally?
About North, IÛªve lived in the same house for 18 years and know where North is but I still canÛªt believe it. 🙁
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"Let's not forget about arguing with the Missus about which way is north (or any other direction) when vacationing..."
I'm lucky, SWMBO has zero sense of direction so when I really screw up driving somewhere she doesn't know the difference. :whistle:
Being a flatlander, I have a problem with entering through the main entrance, walk into the elevator and discover I'm on the fourth floor, and then push the SubSub Basement button in order to exit the rear side of the building at ground level. It's the same feeling I get in Chicago with Upper Wacker and Lower Wacker. It's just not normal.
paden cash, post: 361365, member: 20 wrote: Let's not forget about arguing with the Missus about which way is north (or any other direction) when vacationing...
Funny:
I measure for a living. My measurements are admissible into court as 'expert'....
Then why, oh why does my wife not believe me when we run to the home improvement store for blinds?..She has to grab a yardstick and verify what I've written down is "close"....:pinch:
I disagree... I don't know how many times I've cut a 2x4 short by some number that is usually a dyslexic moment. LOL! That is why I always measure twice and cut once. PS... my wife does the same thing.
The single most common surveyor's malady I've encountered in 35+ years at this trade profession is:
Pi$$ing and moaning about low pay and low-ballers - and not, as a group, doing anything about it.
And, yes, I'm as afflicted as the next guy. And, no, I haven't the answer.
My name is Peter, and I'm a Paceaholic. It's been almost a full day since I've taken a walk and almost 20 yrs. since I've done substantial field work and still, in the middle of a walk, I'll hear myself thinking . .97 . .98 . .99 . . I need help!
Holy Cow, post: 361387, member: 50 wrote: Knowing where North is is a big deal. I spent about four years in an office building that was aligned almost perfectly southwest to northeast. Drove me nuts. I decided it ran north and south. Coworker had decided it was east and west. One day we were to meet outside on the south side of the building. That didn't work too well.
A curse be upon those who design nonlinear roads and streets, especially when the only linear ones they allow never match a cardinal direction.
Guessing you have never been to the east coast. Good luck finding a street that follows any cardinal direction for more than 3 feet.... unless it is directly into the sun when one is going to or leaving work. (Driving directly towards that huge, very bright orb is extremely annoying.
A couple years ago, I was driving on a highway in NJ not long after sunrise. At one point, I had the sun glaring in my face from the left front of the windshield and the suns reflection shining directly in my face from a big, tall, shiny, metal looking sound wall. I was promptly ready to find that "engineer" who designed that snafu and put him out of our misery.
Many years ago, the Hancock high-rise was constructed in Boston. With all glass on all four sides. Well, the reflection from the sun promptly proved to be an issue for drivers. What kind of flaming idiot does not take such things into consideration?? I forget what the solution was in that case, if one was ever devised.
My wife and I both describe everything with cardinal directions. I am getting old so I have to stop and figure out which way is which. SWMBO " please hang that picture on the west wall of the bedroom". I was traveling east and there was a yard sale on the SW corner of the intersection. etc etc.
I gets confusing when the brain has started it's downward spiral! Getting old is not for sissey's!
Joe Ferg, post: 361442, member: 332 wrote:
I gets confusing when the brain has started it's downward spiral! Getting old is not for sissey's!
A few weeks ago, I made a comment along those lines to my father who promptly said "I think you know people older than you are". He is 90, my mother a couple years younger.
I laughed and told him I knew he wouldn't let me get away with saying that.
Nate The Surveyor, post: 361386, member: 291 wrote: Moe, where did you throw it?
🙂
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well, we were on a very remote ranch, I figured it out when I was in rattlesnake canyon, on the way out they had some had some garbage/burn pits, when I drove by one I pitched it all in with my gloves and the shirt I had on that day.
Peter Hughes-Davies, post: 361438, member: 48 wrote: My name is Peter, and I'm a Paceaholic. It's been almost a full day since I've taken a walk and almost 20 yrs. since I've done substantial field work and still, in the middle of a walk, I'll hear myself thinking . .97 . .98 . .99 . . I need help!
I catch myself doing that all the time. 😀
One thing I don't miss is surveying in the cold winds of central Illinois.. after a day of holding my field book with my left hand/arm turned upwards, it took 20 minutes in the truck to thaw it out enough to turn it back rightways.
FL/GA PLS., post: 361411, member: 379 wrote: About North, IÛªve lived in the same house for 18 years and know where North is but I still canÛªt believe it.
I sympathize. As far as my intuition is concerned North in the county I grew up in and North in the county where I live now are orthogonal to each other. Other places acquire some intuitive feel that I have to calibrate logically to actual North. I don't understand the feeling but can't escape it. One theory is that in my early school years the map of the US was on the wrong wall and it imprinted a false sense. I always need to think logically about directions and not give automatic responses because they are likely to be wrong if I've recently traveled.
It might have been better to have lived in one of those places that has no North without a compass rather than in the midwest with near-cardinal direction roads.
Here is an excellent example of the smart local people constructing roads where roads should be built and the silly highway builders insisting on diagonals and curves. Enjoy.
http://www.fordcounty.net/pdf Files/CountyMap-Appraisal-IndexMap.pdf
I've always thought it a bit ironic that Dodge City, yes that Dodge City, is in Ford County.
Concerning Directions (anyone under 55 can stop reading now):
My favorite Bob Eubanks mc'd "Newlywed Game" episode question:
"Ladies, in your neighborhood, from what direction does the sun rise? Remember ladies, we're talking about your neighborhood only."
The answers were hilarious. As they answered, each young lady sat square and turned slightly left to right with their palm extended straight out on its edge. And after some serious thought came up with three other directions...none answered "east".
When the men came back and were asked the question, they all screwed up their face and answered "east" with a grin. None of the wives got the answer correct.
One wife slapped her hubby with the cardboard "answer" sign and admonished him "he was asking about OUR neighborhood only!" :pinch:
That was one of the greatest shows ever conceived. You know they served alcoholic beverages to the couples prior to starting the show. I had a cousin who almost was on the show. They would interview dozens of couples in unofficial practices prior to selecting the ones to make it on the air. He was too dull, apparently.
They were looking for the couples where one or the other was likely to answer in unexpected ways. Such was the case with the wife who was asked where her husband would say was the most unusual place they had ever had sex. Her immediate response was: In the a**. That particular clip has made the all-time favorites compilation.
paden cash, post: 361467, member: 20 wrote: My favorite Bob Eubanks mc'd "Newlywed Game" episode question:
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My brain has an 8088 processor and a 20 trigaibyte harddrive.
Skeeter1996, post: 361489, member: 9224 wrote: My brain has an 8088 processor and a 20 trigaibyte harddrive.
Whenever you figure out how to re-partition your brain would you let me know. I'm out of space.
