@williwaw Amen, brother. That old typing class in high school was the most useful class ever.

I found it. The HP scan software has a batch counter. I unchecked the box. Horrible software.

@jitterboogie Standard around here is a bunch of large cockroaches and often a large black widow with a guaranteed food supply.

It only happened once but my Leica rover got a message something like: Position of base differs from that expected.?ÿ

It only happened once but my Leica rover got a message something like: Position of base differs from that expected.?ÿ

You can't be everything to everyone all the time. I have a core group of wonderful clients who feed me a lot of work and pay by return mail, but somet...

You are fretting over arcane details. I for one am tired of sending a note to our peers and telling them once again their ALTA boundary is off all the...

And then there is the firm that has modern hardware and software but often hand annotates the data, so sometimes the stated radius is really the arc l...

For years I had basically the same dream about the miserable large firm I left 22 years ago to start my own firm. I'm in the office, utterly bored wit...

Wells Fargo locked one of my accounts when I was on Kauai - because I was paying for various expenses not in Tucson. Of course, I was on vacation. The...

@aliquot Well yes, exactly. The dumpsters will change location twice a week, or more.

What Andy said. I so enjoyed taking RADU on a tour of Tucson and showing him the cactus.

I cannot make change. I am in awe of sales clerks and bank tellers. I can be defeated by any lock or entry code. Yesterday I had to call the client t...

I still have my K&E log log duplex decitrig slide rule bought in 1959 when I was a much younger engineering student.. Amazing (and complex device)...