@gary_g So a 275 year-old British surveyor did this??????????

@hpalmer That sounds like some computer-generated plans for a small hospital addition. I started discovering places where what I got for total dime...

Knew a fellow who was an excellent hand draftsman. He made an excellent living working for clients long after computer drafting was the norm.

@hpalmer Wow. Amazing. Just seeing the names of Richard Schaut, Jerry Broadus and L. Paul Cook jerked my mind out of Forward into Neutral for a s...

Anyone remember the name of the road on which POB Magazine received mail?

Damn!!! Clicked on this thread and looked at a bunch of posts before looking to see who said what. First, one was from a guy who hasn't posted in qu...

Hippie!!!!!!

I passed on surveying in a town that barely exists yet today. The potential client had told me that he had purchased a lot or two or three that were ...

Reviewed a survey recently that reminded me of the town that was once there but on an adjoining tract. So, he didn't need to address any questions th...

@mightymoe ... 42. The number 42 is, in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams, the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Un...

@norman-oklahoma Amen. Agree with everything you said. A visit to the POB version was like sitting next to a pond in the evening listening to the...

Someone, somewhere once said something about 42 being the only number that mattered.

Just make sure you pay yourself immensely for that future corner cutting Try to consider the time it would have taken in the days before they unscram...

I bet most of us over 40 have a few somewhere around our house from coming home in our pockets.