Willy's rant of the day

or they could have copied MOST of the 36 by 48 inch plat on 8.5 by 11 inch sheets and attached that.

Ken

Oh trust me, I'm with you. From time to time, I get an 8.5 x 11 page with 10 or more drawings I'm supposed to decipher and draw correctly. While not being able to read a thing. Drawings that were most obviously made in some sort of cad program, but all I get is a pdf.

Then there are the "full size" 8.5 x 11 sheet with a complex drawing (again, obviously made in a cad program) which isn't fully labeled.

And the sales folks and client wonder why I scream, yell, and get upset, but above all, why can't I draw it?? And why wasn't it drawn 5 minutes after being given to the sales person (though I got it hours later)?

We have a few Counties that require a letter size reduction of all surveys being recorded. They then sell copies of them when you try to get a copy of the survey.
Don't they know all of us are old? It's hard enough to read 8 point text. Reduce it to 3 point and we don't stand a chance..

When I was a kid the phone book was less than one-quarter inch thick and you could read it from across the room. Today it is three inches thick and you can't read it without a magnifying lens.

One might begin to think there are at least two conspiracies at work here. One being old age (with failing eyesight), the other being youngsters insisting on smaller print to try to make us old folk go away......

Holy Cow, post: 406529, member: 50 wrote: When I was a kid the phone book was less than one-quarter inch thick and you could read it from across the room. Today it is three inches thick and you can't read it without a magnifying lens.

They still make phone books?

I knew SOMEONE would ask that question sooner or later.

Yes. They do. I receive something like five different ones every year.

Holy Cow, post: 406529, member: 50 wrote: When I was a kid the phone book was less than one-quarter inch thick and you could read it from across the room. Today it is three inches thick and you can't read it without a magnifying lens.

You still have phone books?! Cool.

Idiots guide to mucking things up.
Hmmm somebody is gonna get rich, writing that book!

I absolutely hate curve and line tables. I'm sure the cad tech that puts these on a sub plats never actually surveyed in the field. I've seen really stupid things like "C23" and the length is 1.25 feet so 3 digits in "C23" and 4 digits in "1.25", you mean you really connot fit that in ? If you have to do curve and line tables your scale is too big, and that's a mistake. I don't mind seeing addition information shown in curve and line tables, but each lot should be dimensioned on the face of the plat. I really just hate having to jump back and forth from table to plat to try and do a survey.

thebionicman, post: 406468, member: 8136 wrote: Don't they know all of us are old? It's hard enough to read 8 point text. Reduce it to 3 point and we don't stand a chance..

Yeah, it's almost as much fun as trying to read email on a smartphone outside at noon. 😉

John, post: 406533, member: 791 wrote: One might begin to think there are at least two conspiracies at work here. One being old age (with failing eyesight), the other being youngsters insisting on smaller print to try to make us old folk go away......

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity -- Hanlon's razor

HEY! Some of us resemble that comment.

aliquot, post: 406534, member: 2486 wrote: They still make phone books?

Yup, and they go from wherever the "Delivery Person" deposits them, usually in the bushes, right into the recycle bin. 😉

[USER=413]@RADAR[/USER] not if it grows shrooms. 😉