I attended the funeral just after Xmas for a 55-year old cousin whose death resulted from the aftermath of melanoma on a toe. I'm guessing he sunburne...

I can understand the mercury damping out some motions, but fail to see how it would affect pendulum swing.

I found an RPN app for my phone. Key layout isn't optimum, but the functionality is there. There may be others. As a plus, the app shows the stack c...

If you don't rubber stsmp or crimp. How do you put your seal on it?

Annual bump to top.

I took the EIT and PE (electrical) pretty much at the first opportunities and passes first tries. I was always interested in surveying and surveying h...

I alsi have hand-picked corn beside a wagon pulled by horses. They needed no driver, but just knew to keep pace eith you. While I've lived through a...

I grew up in that world, HC. Railroad was a few miles away, though. We got electricity in 1962. Before that, one white gas lamp anf one kerosene. Bat...

Weather here in eastern Iowa has been routine this week - some snow, the plows go, and life goes on. Back on Nov 29 was our first serious snow and so ...

The Harbor Freight multimeter for less than ten bucks (used to be 5) is useful and cheap enough to have one in every home, office, and vehicle. It do...

Was it Loyal Olson who was our expert on spirals? For circular curves I made a program that deals with both RR and hiway curve definitions. The link...

There are PDF files available for some editions.

One way to compare surveys would be to enter the new survey coordinate data in Starnet with fairly tight tolerances, and your angles and distances (no...

BTW, welcome back. We had some interesting exchanges back then.

In 1980 the coordinates would have been in NAD27, and would have been much different from Vermont SPC for NAD83. If the sets of coordinates are withi...

A friend who knows I like that kind of stuff picked one up for me at a garage sale for $5. At first glance there are two problems The leather strap ...

Sometomes passing a strong magnet over the area suspected of harboring an iron will leave enough magnetism for the detector, especially if the iron i...