From what I've seen, any ephemeris that a surveyor might use for Polaris or the Sun uses Universal Time (UT1) as the time argument, so that is what yo...

I used to work for the semiconductor arm of IBM, and they adopted ISO 9000. It was much like the other posters have described. It involved an in-perso...

I volunteer as an emergency medical technician. The only time I thought about taking a fire arm on a call (it would have been a .270 hunting rifle) wa...

About why the fire truck came: dispatch information is always treated with suspicion. Until someone from an emergency agency gets on the scene and det...

Many states allow documents to be signed electronically. The laws or rules that provide for this usually indicate that every electronic copy that is i...

What I wonder about with the pre-Revolution road in front of my house, and the early 20th century on the side, both town roads, is whether the centerl...

> Small hijack (sorry), but I always find it odd that I could deed to you any property I own without your signature "accepting" ownership.It always...

Money-saving and convenience ideas:Wool may be great, but it's harder to clean than synthetics.DuoFold sells thermal underwear in several weights at m...

Lots of professionals practice professions in a state even though they are not residents of the state. This is possible because for some professions, ...

Do they give them a new number when they get rot and a replacement is set about a foot from the original?

I always say something like "in case you have to use the search box in your email site, it may help to know my name is spelled ...

> Who notarizes the Notary? Another Notary?If a notary needs to acknowledge a document or make a sworn statement, the notary has to go to another ...

I'm not so sure I'd agree with "engineering mentality". When I designed integrated circuits, each layer was created by aligning the current mask to th...

Does your state have accuracy rules for GPS surveys and different rules for conventional surveys? Are there 6 sets of rules (conventional and GPS rule...

Best bang for the buck: 8 o'Clock Colombian peaks whole bean. (Consumer Reports for years and years rated 8 o'Clock coffee a best buy, but I don't kn...

Apparently they weren't writing about live sheep.

If the correct property line does something weird, wouldn't that be a reason to put in long-lasting monuments that can be identified as to the surveyo...

It's a dilemma. On the one hand, statutes and case law are different in various states, so many questions can't be evaluated without knowing which sta...

I tried the trial version of the latest Nitro Pro release on Windows 8.1. It had a kind of clunky user interface, but it worked. HOWEVER, it crashed p...

Maybe an idea from firefighters could help. On any fire that bigger than a dumpster fire, they set up a board, and everyone who enters the fire scene ...