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Topics: 19 / Replies: 283
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RE: The Rabbit Hole comes with pictures

@bill93 That is close to what happened, but Ken Thompsonƒ??s C compiler hack predated the notion of remote tech support. It was simply a way for Thomp...

5 years ago
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RE: Living dangerously today

I am NOT saying this applies to Mr Cow, but the above discussion makes me recall the old expression ƒ??All hat, no cattle.ƒ? ???? I first heard that ...

5 years ago
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RE: No OSHA here

For more non-OSHA fun, look at photos and movies of USC&GS's Bilby tower work. The crew members would climb up the outside of a tower (routinely 1...

5 years ago
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RE: Is this a tree or a stump?

@holy-cow I think I've read about Osage Orange here on SurveyorConnect in the past. Interesting about the hedges. There's a variant of espalier known...

5 years ago
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RE: Is this a tree or a stump?

Iƒ??m glad that SurveyorConnectors enjoyed learning about pollarding. Seeing old, pollarded trees is something Iƒ??ve enjoyed when traveling in Europe...

5 years ago
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5 years ago
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RE: Is this a tree or a stump?

@holy-cow I remember Michael J Pollard!

5 years ago
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RE: Is this a tree or a stump?

Could these be trees that have been recently pollarded?

5 years ago
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RE: Doing precisely what the client wants can produce results verging on insanity

@jim-frame Drill Hole, in this case made in a stone of a stone wall. Pretty common around New England, at least when clients or surveyors have seen fi...

5 years ago
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RE: Books on projections, coord systems

I don't think this thread has yet mentioned Van Sickle's "Basic GIS Coordinates" book:/p>

5 years ago
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RE: Doing precisely what the client wants can produce results verging on insanity

@holy-cow Here in MA, pie-wedge lots are created even on dry land! Here's an excerpt from a 1990 plan. Note the "Set I.P." It's dry land in that locat...

5 years ago
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RE: Doing precisely what the client wants can produce results verging on insanity

It's not at all rare here in Massachusetts to see suburban or rural subdivisions with "chicken necks" or "road-killed snakes." Some of these are attem...

5 years ago
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RE: Bill from VT

@richard-imrie I remember the sarcastic bumper stickers that said "Visualize Whirled Peas."

5 years ago
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RE: Title Company

@murphy "Per the advise of Knud Hermansen I also search forward in time from the current deed on file." That's a good thing to do, but forward searche...

5 years ago
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