> Now I'm back in AZ.Wait, what? You moved back?

Confident Enough To Post The 4/2014 Coordinates ?Sure![Pre]LAT: 29 29 45.59576 0.006(m)W LON: 95 15 30.29392 0.005(m)LAT: 29 29 50...

I was contacted privately (and will treat the contact as anonymous) with the following question:> Jim, I hate to be Debbie Downer and did not want ...

> I know a local fellow that builds furniture.> He doesn't own any tools except a hatchet and a hammer.> The furniture looks like crap.Never ...

> You know, one of the amazing things about Javad as an equipment manufacturer is what an incredible mess their website is.I disagree. The Javad s...

The "Thin Blood" Thing> When they got me into surgery around 7:00 (after the transfusions) they found a Mallory-Weiss tear, probably caused by esop...

The Baby Aspirin ThingMy doc told me years ago -- 10? 15? -- to take a daily baby aspirin, so I did. For years. Then about 5 years ago I had a mole ...

> Consideration should be given to balancing backsite and foresite distancesThe whole point of reciprocal leveling is to address severely unbalance...

> C&R cancel exactly only if the two backsight distances were equal and the two foresight distances were equal.In my case, I ran closed level l...

> Observe both directions, apply curvature and refraction and mean the resultsBy taking simultaneous reciprocal observations you eliminate the effe...

> Anyone ever use this method for transferring elevations across rivers or other bodies of water.The closest I've come was last year when we did 3 ...

Generally, who is advocating button pushing in this thread?> the subject under discussion, i.e. the merits of determining the uncertainties of RTK-...

Plumb Bob Hook> Can those be purchased and retrofitted?Just bend a piece of stiff wire to suit, drill an appropriately-sized hole through the cente...

I knew I had a photo of the insides of a GEB171 somewhere, but it took me awhile to find it:Lots of silicone to wade through...

16 oz for me. It's been many years since I've actually carried one, though; on the rare occasions on which I've needed one in the last couple of deca...

> R-8's are "phase centered" and there is no "north" orientation.Well, almost: about 0.6 mm x 0.2 mm eccentricity, according to NGS.