Wellllll, at least it wasn't an M44 Coyote "trap."

A few off the top of my head (because I have been there). Nevada City, Montana (and California) Virginia City, Montana Idaho City, Idaho Moscow, I...

Yup, but it was 50 years ago. They DO "work" (and DON'T need batteries), but I would rather have a modern passive gradiometer (Sub-Surface or Schonste...

Area 51 or Skinwalker Ranch???

Tourist Season AGAIN!

You again?

I remember spending many nights in a USFS "Tent Shack" @ 9000 ft. MSL, balancing earth-work under the light of a Coleman Lantern by hand calculations ...

@flga-2-2 The 0000 was even worse. I have a compete set somewhere, probably out in the garage. Probably a Leroy Set too. It all belongs in a museum (...

I hear ya man! I started in 1968 and all I can say is; What a long strange trip it's been. Loyal

@mark-mayer Actually the first definition of the US Foot relative to the Meter was in the Metric Act of July 28, 1866 (AKA The Kasson Act) which stip...

Is there an Ellipsoid v. Geoid joke in there somewhere?

Okay, I (think) I get get it. Call of the wild, back to nature, yada yada etc. BUT, while I'm all for having a Cougar in the house for a night or two...

1% ????ÿ That would be 1.01 or 0.99 (10,000ppm) or 1 foot in 100 feet! I can't imagine ANY combination of prism offset. environmental correction, Cu...

@mark-mayer Excellent outline Mark!!! That pretty much follows the same SOP as I have used for decades (even before OPUS). I suppose that you could e...

Acronyms v. initialisms A pet peeve of mine, and a discussion at the saloon from time to time (BION Believe it or not). The following is from Gramme...

Actually SOS is not an acronym. It's origins are in the maritime use of Morse Code around the turn of the 19th/20th Centuries. ...---... ?ÿ???? ?ÿ

"I've never been able to stand on a high place, without thinking about jumping off" James Simon Kunen, The Strawberry Statement, 1969 Even stepping ...