It is always encouraging to see "old timers" like this still kicking around and enjoying life. I do recall that I had a summer job surveying for a uti...
On the topic of standards, I find this comic particularly applicable.
It is stories like these, when others relate the passion and satisfaction that they get from a career in surveying that I realize that I made a good d...
I've played in bar bands off and on over the past 15 years. Mostly "off" these days. I enjoy playing. And since it is typically local, there isn't too...
I have found that people (myself included) often see that the "obvious" standard should be whatever standard they are using. I will often be contracte...
I've run in to a similar situation here in California. In my hometown the Hetch Hetchy aqueduct runs generally east-to-west through the north part of ...
These types of jobs are the most interesting to me! These types of jobs are the ones the client is least interested in paying to have it done properly...
In some communities, firing a paintball gun (or airsoft gun) is almost as bad as firing a regular gun. I know that in some cities, if you shoot a pain...
I need to use that $10/$990 explanation. I like that! I always find it amusing when a developer will be building a several million dollar project and ...
Welcome Dave. Also, I looked up kajillion and there was something about hyperbole and such. I didn't realize it was a term for geometry!B-)
Like you said, I'm probably guilty of this at times. Then again, proportioning something that may cause a variance of about a foot typically isn't see...
surveysc, post: 341845, member: 107 wrote: You will probably need to download a driver from HP for Windows 10. Good luck. Yes, good luck indeed. I'v...
Tom Adams, post: 341271, member: 7285 wrote: I would always be hard-pressed to proportion in a corner after property has left the public domain. I a...
I've always called this "Zen Surveying". I've managed to do it a couple of times out in the field. There was one monument, a 1" iron pipe marking the ...
Around here, the general practice seems to be that witness corners are set on line (or prolongation thereof), generally at an even foot distance. I do...
I'm definitely not an expert, but I've done a few ECs. For that deck, is it attached to the house? My understanding is that if it is "free standing" (...
Our office was able to secure a solid Xerox 8330 laser printer. It is a work horse and spits out good work very quickly. If I'm just running a single ...
When I first started surveying, I got a crash course in field procedures. Fortunately, my chief had a good grasp of how to do topography work that wou...
Welcome, welcome. Don't worry about the peanut gallery here. We're all nuts.
Yeah, high school and college history was systematic. Step 1: Attend lecture and take notesStep 2: Study notesStep 3: Take exam which is based entirel...