Oh I sent the noaa space weather stuff out and sent pics of the issues today to several fellow surveyors abroad telling them to be extremely cautious ...

SMI cogo card. I still have mine like you bought it around the same time for sure. When I was in college they told us to buy a TI who knows very basic...

So it seems they must have bought the rights or something from hp as they are all based off of a hp model. Nice. I guess my old calculator collection ...

It looks kinda like a hp. Will look into that. I don’t red no 200 calculator though but I reckon everything is going up now days.

RPN helps offset my dyslexia. That is not a tall tail. Something about performing computations with RPN vs a regular calculator. Long formulas and eve...

Yeah the one in TBC is very similar. At first I thought maybe they bought them out. I started using that as I was tasked with checking plats for multi...

Yeah and since HP stopped making them the prices are through the roof. If I can get my other 35s repaired I will give it to him. I will keep my 35s an...

I was thinking about you today. At the ball field watching my daughter play softball. I was talking with the wife and telling her what you were doing....

Great analogy. So true. This is true with many of the tools we have today in surveying. That is a big part of what we do. We should use the correct t...

Man you are innovative. That’s what it is all about. Seeing a problem making a solution and test and verification of that solution. Keep it up. I th...

Maybe Mother Nature was showing us how to transport items better just ride the local tornado. Man that is unbelievable. We found some odd things over...

Oh how I know. Trust me I know. A few years back I was seeing this done for a particular municipality for a water line. They have a specific way. So...

I think your statement is great. Unfortunately I am doing cut sheets for rough grade curb and gutter storm water line anything that gets a cut fill po...

Here is where AI can be used today it has been done way before this latest fad craze. Now this means that those that want to use it they must be willi...

So all in one direction. That except the one outlier could be systematic in the rod itself. One piece rod or two piece rod. NGS has a published docu...

Hey I got kudos for telling you about that presentation. The wife loves when she gets to hear from outside the agency that surveyors are reading and ...

I will have to make a phone call. See if they have the edm one out yet. I will have to take out the trash and do extra honey do’s to get on the wife’s...

Yeah. That’s what this guy from NGS said. Back then they had no harness or safety belts. Just climb and do what needed to be done. Those old marks a...

Billl. That guy I mentioned above who is still at NGS helped build that one. If I remember the story correctly he had his son there as well. His son ...

My brother bought some investment property in TN. It had a couple trailer houses on it he rented. I can out to visit and discovered a cemetery on the...