That is cool stuff, Kent. I have been to the McDonald Observatory in the Davis Mountains, but unfortunately it was on a night when there had been seve...

I have done a fair amount of hiring. I have found that the "Hire for attitude, train for skill" motto works very well, but sometimes you can't afford ...

I knew it was in the works. I checked yesterday and didn't see it.Thanks.

Little known facts about Marfa, TexasThat is a great "story." I was in Alpine several years ago and a bunch of us went out to watch the Marfa lights d...

As far as I know (and I just looked) there is no antenna model option for the R10 in the OPUS antenna file yet. Trimble has had the absolute antenna c...

Very well presented webinar. For those who missed it and are interested, the recorded version will be posted in the "Online Leaning Resources" section...

I agree. Seafloor has some great solutions and John Tamplin is excellent to work with.

This is what a friend of mine down outside San Diego uses for a lot of the work he does in the desert. This article is a few years old, but he still r...

Not surprised. There are a lot of non-tangent curves in there using the chord bearing and distance to define them. Those rounding errors add up after ...

That's how I have always done it when successive monuments were not intervisible, which is often the case on larger parcels in the California foothill...

That's really too bad. The Editor for the California Land Surveyor's Association (CLSA) publication "California Surveyor" visited the museum in 2010 a...

I was taught to never change the angular relationship between the record courses for the portions of the boundary being "fit" to the found and accepte...

Section 8771(b) of the California Professional Land Surveyor's Act very clearly explains what is to be done and who is responsible for it:It shall be ...

I'm surprised>What contextThe physical mark is a bench mark. When you run a test on your CPU to check the processing speed, that is a benchmark tes...

I'm surprisedAlready have. The NGS Geodetic Advisor's office is right next to mine. Every time I see this error in one of their documents, I point it ...

I'm surprisedYou would think that a professional surveyor as intelligent as Kent would know that bench mark, in this context, is two words, not one. T...

Now that is FUNNY!!!

I started in 1977, so I have seen roughly the same evolution. However, I don't consider the things you mention to be what actually constitutes surveyi...

My career path crossed with Don's briefly in the late 1970's at small engineering firm in Angels Camp, CA. I was just a kid working as a draftsman (pr...

The road going to the County dump near where I live is named "Throwita Way."