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Alan Roberts
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RE: Hat advice required

Maybe you should buy two...

6 years ago
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RE: NGS Webinar Apr 25 on the fate of the US Survey foot

What you described was a very basic QC check at the time. The metric reading was taken to check if the numbers were not transposed or recorded in erro...

6 years ago
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RE: This week's encounter with indigenous natives

Maybe your encounter ended amicably?ÿ because of the benefit of not being of color or ethnicity.?ÿ Just an assumption based on the chit chat that you ...

6 years ago
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RE: Beerleg Book Club

I read when I was young. So it was a re-read and appreciated it more since time adds knowledge. Going to read Steppenwolf again and that will be the e...

6 years ago
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RE: Beerleg Book Club

Siddhartha?ÿ - Hesse The Things They Carried - O'Brien

6 years ago
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RE: My good deed for the day

I thought this was an April Fools joke but jokes on me. This comment is baseless and simply wrong. Another unique aspect is that a lot of the latino w...

6 years ago
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RE: Car shopping

It's an insult to draw an equivalent between land surveyors and car salesman.?ÿ

6 years ago
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RE: So- The noob needed some help....

My standard reply when presented with a situation like you described after a fix of something with a paper clip, cost hanger or scrap of wire is " I'm...

6 years ago
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RE: The barbarians have won

I never read any of his novels. I don't know anyone else who has either. I think people stopped reading them about a 100 years ago. But I am familiar ...

6 years ago
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RE: The barbarians have won

I read this article when it was published in January preceding all the horror and hoopla?ÿ hype of the HBO show. I thought it presented a different pe...

6 years ago
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RE: The barbarians have won

I followed your?ÿ Wikipedia hyperlink. So Alger was admitted to Harvard because his father was a well known Unitarian minister. He graduates and his f...

6 years ago
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RE: The barbarians have won

I've heard/viewed some of the synopses of this news event. There are some mail fraud charges for some but not sure about the other charges.?ÿ This is ...

6 years ago
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RE: OROVILLE DAM UPDATE

Perspective California is now the world's fifth-largest economy, according to data released Friday morning by the U.S. Department of Commerce. Its 201...

6 years ago
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RE: Does a surveyor "owe" anything to their community?

Yes. Consider the public disclosure aspects of the profession. If?ÿ one happens to witness while in the course of a survey, any illegal?ÿ dumping of a...

6 years ago
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RE: Mapping the Grand Canyon article

I have a copy of the map somewhere here in a storage box. Extraordinary map by a man who led an extraextraordinary life. A list of his accomplishment...

6 years ago
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RE: Frank Stanford, poet and surveyor in the Ozarks

Contemporary of Lucinda Williams whose father Miller was the head of creative writing program at Univ. of Arkansas and also post laureate of the USA a...

6 years ago
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RE: Sign now to sell Montana

Absolutely NO! Might be headed out to Glacier National Park in August and I need to stock up organic dental floss too.

6 years ago
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RE: Utopia, Wyoming

So a commune of Georgia redneck white supremacists with one young buxom woman attracted to the protagonist 'traiter'?ÿ become greedy for gold...hmmm. ...

6 years ago
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RE: Gonna be one crazy weekend

From experience, you'll need the above to preserve sanity.

6 years ago
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