For some reason this reminded me of something many years ago when I worked in an old institution with steam heating- there was a resident who liked to...

Star*Net really could use a partial line comment-out character; I've also used the (') in a pinch, but I do not like the fact that it essentially turn...

Interesting timing for this post- I've been practicing my cursive writing skills the past couple of days since I got a decent fountain pen. It definit...

Congratulations. I'm sure the feeling is much like the one I had when I paid off my mortgage almost eight years ago- it felt like someone came along a...

It is/was published by Systranova Software, IIRC it cost around $18 or so. It interfaced with an old SOKKIA SET TS quite well. The TS setup is a bit q...

I find this thread most interesting. I can only see it from a civil servant point of view since I've worked in the public sector longer than some folk...

Hmmm... the plot thickens...

I agree 100%. If deceased, the surveyor no longer has control over his/her caps and the potential for someone misusing them is significant. If they're...

It would be great if someone could re-publish it, along with some other out-of-print surveying texts, e.g., Skelton (managed to get a second edition o...

I just landed an almost-pristine copy of this book for $40; I have wanted one for a very long time now. On another note, one of our local surveyors ac...

I wonder if the term "P-gun" is more colloquial in nature... that's what we call hand levels out here in the Pacific Northwest. I suppose it's akin to...

I still carry one, though I now haul a 16-ounce one versus my old 24-ouncer which I semi-retired recently. I find I don't use it nearly as much as I u...

Can't say I've ever done triangulation, though I have certainly studied it. A number of years ago we came across some GLO notes where they stated that...

Driving through an interchange 20-plus years later and remembering most of the numerous gyrations one went through to redesign the off-ramps and on-ra...

I sure wish I could get some magnesium rod and caps for notification when an ambitious lawn mower strikes them...

eapls2708, post: 361004, member: 589 wrote: I don't know if it's so much that there are no younger people entering the profession as it is that organi...