My Cisco router is still doing quite well, although they got out of the consumer market a few years ago. They might still make commercial-grade hardwa...
" What does it mean if the Chi-Square Lower Bound is exceeded?"It means your survey was too good, i.e., the tolerance parameters may be set too high o...
I've seen too many instances where re-written deeds actually introduced ambiguities which did not exist in the original description. I suspect it resu...
More than once I've gotten a puzzled look when I would say "There's more of (this or that) than Carter has pills!"- yep, getting older here...No doubt...
My current favorite is Kirkland Signature (Costco) House Blend, it's pretty good in my opinion.I still think the best cup of coffee I ever had was abo...
I ran the instrument for about three years before becoming a PC. However, I bore a lot of responsibility before and during that time, especially when ...
In the office I work at, we've been a Leica shop since I started there over ten years ago. Once in a blue moon there will be a hiccup of some sort, bu...
Definitely a hit-or-miss purchase with goods from China. I have one tribrach that's halfway decent and another that is not. Prisms might be OK for gen...
We just staked anchor bolt locations for a 90-foot steel square tube sign bridge a couple of weeks ago; these structures have VERY little tolerance fo...
We use both Viva (SmartWorx) and Carlson here. My outstanding(!) instrumentman prefers Carlson while I tend to use Viva for fieldwork, though I can ru...
^^THIS.^^Such a process also helps if you inadvertently zero the gun when you should've keyed in an azimuth, et cetera... (though redundant shots may ...
We've had issues in the past with inability to export RINEX data because of older firmware/LGO clashes, and our ancient (2006) GPS-only Leica 1200 uni...
Yep, I struggle big-time with red. Orange is sometimes tough. Pink is NO fun, either.Many years ago I persuaded the PC at the time to purchase yellow ...
In the days of slide rules and trig/log tables, 477.5' was most likely the value used for the radius; in this day and age with super-whiz-bang calcula...
...you research current and superseded highway R/W plans- on the route you traveled or are traveling- while on vacation (done it).
It used to be Nalley's around here....back when they made Nalley's Chili locally, it was actually not too bad. Then they moved the facilities to Iowa ...
I am also very fond of the Schonstedt GA-52Cx detector. Used one in the DOT for quite a few years now, and I bought my own several years back and it p...
The main reason I still book them (yes, good old-fashioned manual entry) is because I want to make sure that 50 years from now- when I'm picking rutab...
I was taught by a PC to do the following:BS > FS > BS ^ BS > FS > BS.We would zero the TS on the BS and turn and record an angle direct, e...
WOW. Just WOW. That was one truly intense storm that caused all of that damage...
