@stratman59 This reminds me of one of my favorite "urban tales" about surveying: A newbie who insisted he knew how to run a robotic instrument was s...

@skeeter1996 "...a lawyer that would take any side for money." Isn't that a definition of a lawyer?

And the people with the most money are the biggest skinflints.  

OK, I'll bite.?ÿ What's a turtle hull? (Maybe I have one and don't know it!)

@just-a-surveyor I always heard it as "I have seen the enemy and it us" attributed to Pogo, the cartoon character.

@millshot259 Well, 40 meters by 100 meters is about 328 feet by 131 feet, say 43,060± square feet. Not quite an acre. 0.1 meter is about 0.32...

Is that 4,000 meters by 4,000 meters (3,950?ñ acres) or 207.5 meters by 207.5 meters (10.6?ñ acres) for us non-metric old fuddy-duddies?

It is sooooo hot the corn in the field started popping and the bull thought it was snow and froze to death.

Maybe it was a nut case. Or a junk call.

While set up one day outside a fancy restaurant five young girls came out who obviously had ti many martoonies. One said, "Take our picture!" I said, ...

I'm a fan off double simultaneous leveling using 3 meter rods with the 301.555 centimeter offset between the left and right sides of the Invar strip. ...

You could always run one set in feet and the other in meters if you could figure a way to use two rods, or one with front-feet and back-meters.

"Original" three-point resections were done by measuring the two angles only. Now a person can measure the distances with ease, so a two point will gi...

"Least squares" by its very name implies that the sum of the squares of the residuals is minimized. It does not adjust the measurements "the least". ...

One of the city crews left a backsight out and drove into the office without it. It just so happened that the supervisor drove that way home, recogniz...

I was accosted one time by the Director of Public Works for the city of La Habra Heights (I think he was also the deputy dishwasher and chief janitor)...