Religion joke trigger warning. ?????ÿ Q:?ÿ What did the Calvinist say after he fell down the stairs??ÿ A:?ÿ Well, glad I got that over with.

I don't have them close to hand, but they are worth tracking down.  Sinc's comrades carry on the torch here:  .  Very, very good people...

Thanks for the heads up.?ÿ Not cool, Carlson.

I've been surveying for about 20 years; licensed for 15.  Like others have said--it depends on what you mean by shortage.  And it depends on...

Might be a units thing. 0.0008 decimal degrees is 2" of angle, in which case you're in good shape. 0.0001 decimal degrees is 0.36", so would round dow...

Wow, haven't thought about that in a while.?ÿ It's been a few years since I've noticed the pilot scrubbing the green off?ÿthe tail rotor before return...

If you're content to process only L1 signals, I think you can get a free copy of Ashtech Solutions.?ÿ Probably could get a few others, too, if you're ...

I like the spirit.?ÿ Be prepared and do what you gotta do to get the shot.?ÿ Yeah, no survey observation is worth a human life; but then again, a huma...

Side note, not intended as a hijack:?ÿ I've used a number of digital levels over the last fifteen years--sokkia, topcon, leica--and they were all grea...

Had a similar experience (though they were more justified), when the Canadians found a few .22 cartridges rolling around in the first container they p...

I think that the text is conceptualizing it this way:?ÿ 1/2 of 1/2?ø is 1/4?ø.?ÿ 1/4?ø of range is then normalized (centered) around 5 1/2?ø (notice t...

I think it's fairly common to be paid at closing.?ÿ Back in the day when I did more residential stuff, I was paid at closing a lot.?ÿ Sometimes you ha...

GrafNav gets pretty high marks?/p> That being said, if you're just doing workaday surveying with one brand of receiver--stick with that vendor's softw...

I go one step further and write the whole description in latin.?ÿ Cuts down on calls from other surveyors nit-picking my grammar.

We won a lottery position for our oldest at a local public Waldorf charter, and I was thoroughly impressed at the open house.?ÿ I'm pretty leery of th...

Probably the equipment operator who parked in front of the backsight and left for the day.

There's no reason this can't work.?ÿ The successful examples I've seen are when a valued employee has to move and the firm would rather not lose him, ...