A few decades ago I was working at IBM; my coworkers and I were getting a good laugh about a patent that was written up in Electronic Engineering Time...

Maybe a down-to-earth scenario would help. Some lots have granite monuments placed back when the meadow is sold off by the retiring farmer. Fifty year...

Ham radio operators I know are using these, and seem to think they are ok, except they are very difficult to program through the keyboard. But if you ...

The aluminum channel seems to be in a basement, which probably has a stable temperature. So expansion and contraction between marking from the steel t...

I'm still waiting for the snow to melt below the tops of my boots.

> I would keep using the wood lath and let the landowner decide what to replace your wood lath with. I have set T-post next to corners or on the pr...

I found a discussion of precision issues in Excel atbr>Superficially 15 digits would be enough to give adequate results even if one was using state pl...

Wild guess: you subtracted the area of the right of way that the public possesses under the road that passes by the parcel, and the assessor didn't.

Kent has a pointAs for fire hydrants, the ones in the north usually have the nut to turn them on at the top, which might seem like a good place to mak...

Numbers still don't matchI forgot that Wahl's csv file used packed degrees, minutes, and seconds. Also, I had a wrong date in my spreadsheet. After I ...

Excel DDMMSS to Decimal DD.xxxxxxI've made an Excel spreadsheet attempting to compare results from MICA and Wahl for 5 dates in 2015, spaced 90 days a...

Excel DDMMSS to Decimal DD.xxxxxxMy initial reply is that I think the appropriate frame of reference to use is apparent geocentric. I wouldn't use top...

Excel DDMMSS to Decimal DD.xxxxxxI tried to compare results from MICA to Wahl's results, but I MICA offers a choice of several reference frames (appar...

If it's a tough pan that isn't Teflon coated, and you have good ventilation in the kitchen, you could run it through your oven's self-cleaning cycle. ...

A lesson from emergency servicesI volunteer as an EMT. The police officers in our town have some level of emergency medical services credential. When ...

I spent some time teaching high school math. Sometimes the graphing calculators didn't have a very good way of distinguishing between a negative numbe...

The thing about a municipality is they don't have a town employee walking along each road every week, seeing that the area where a pin is has not been...

Shouldn't some distinction be made between determining a line that is lost, uncertain, or not clearly marked on the ground, versus using marks that we...

There are a few Chinese brands of HTs, which are substantially less expensive than the brands that have been sold in the US for decades. Some models a...