That's the name of Pete Fountain's Mardi Gras marching band, "The Half Fast Marching Band," I believe.
He used to teach English at Dominican College on St. Charles Avenue. My first wife had him for one of her classes. Dominican was later bought out by...
In almost ALL cases, the "plane" is inside of the ellipsoid. I believe American Samoa has a tangent case; don't remember about the Virgin Islands. F...
When you point that to a optically flat front-surface mirror and get your crosshairs to coincide with the image of the return of your crosshairs, you ...
Agreed. That's how I originally got into teaching. It avoids conflict of interest.
The technology for laser scanning has been changing rapidly for over 15 years. The Achilles' Heel is the software. Leica's "Cyclone" software is fab...
That crap can happen when you least expect it, including from within your own family (or in-laws as happened to my kids). It's real and you never kn...
I am with Kent on all of this.
November 1968 thru November 1971 - last two months of AMS and the entire existence of TOPOCOM. It became DMA H/TC in January 1972. Was at ACIC (as a...
Interesting. When I was at Army Map Service all the buildings were named after Topographic Engineer Officers, primarily from the Revolutionary War. ...
Essentially this screws the State of California because ...The SCOTUS used coordinates to describe the sinuousities of the coastline rather than emplo...
News flash for KentOffshore Lease Boundaries in the Gulf of Mexico are defined by the Bureau of Land Management for Louisiana and Texas State Plane co...
We have two Zeiss/Trimble geodetic levels at LSU. One is for indoor optical tooling and that data is recorded manually. The other is for outdoor geo...
Surveying in Germany - rules, rule the rules...Consider looking at U.S. Civil Service jobs on U.S. Military bases. You might be pleasantly surprised ...
Standard equipment in the Republic of Panama during the 1950s for grass cutters was a machete, a bastard file and a newspaper (for carrying the machet...
I have a half-dozen First-Order Triangulation Targets designed by Wild Heerbrugg to accept automobile headlights. Designed and build in the 1950s. A...
Looks a lot bigger to me. Is it? Will it fit in a pocket holster in the rear jeans pocket? (And not show?)
Walking in the neighborhood: Ruger LCP .380In my car: Springfield .45ACP XDs or Boberg .45ACPHome: S&W 625 snub nose .45ACPMost dangerous area I g...
Women that know what they're doingare completely covered and most people don't even realize they're nursing when sitting next to them and look directl...
All universities and most junior colleges have academic advisors/career counselors. In Louisiana they are actually licensed, don't know about other s...
