I'm not wearing any green either. I'm Irish and I'll wear any damn thing I want, thank you very much! hehehe.
Dealing with the bureaucracy of a large governmental agency is one of the most mind-bogglingly silly things I've ever done. For a while I worked for a...
Depending upon where I'm doing a survey, I'll either use a local (city/county) benchmark from their records or I'll find some nearby NGS monuments to ...
I have encounter a few architects that haven't caused me any grief, but they are few and far between. I have, of course, dealt with the architect that...
jim.cox, post: 362720, member: 93 wrote: Mud, mud, glorious mudThere's nothing quite like itFor cooling the blood Setting pile positions today after t...
Wendell, post: 362511, member: 1 wrote: If you find yourself thinking about how you'd be happier somewhere else, you'll never be happy with where you ...
yswami, post: 362018, member: 7679 wrote: Aloha, Have an awesome weekend! I found this one particularly funny AND it is something I see so often ...
I found this quote from the article interesting: "But who says a bus or lorry is less likely to slow down, than, say, a disgruntled taxi driver or a c...
GeeOddMike, post: 362392, member: 677 wrote: FWIW, the NGS database includes a large number of intersection stations: water towers, radio masts, stack...
Ken Salzmann, post: 362397, member: 398 wrote: For those who did not see where their birthday is in this link, you missed this obvious fact, that pi i...
jim.cox, post: 362365, member: 93 wrote: How did you guys get a photo of my chainman? So you mean I have relatives that are surveyors as well?
FL/GA PLS., post: 362010, member: 379 wrote: I agree... Looks a lot like some of my very distant relatives from the Kenya/Cambodia region.
Though I failed to wear it today (it is Monday, I was rushed, I didn't sleep well last night, whatever), I have a "Cherry Pi" shirt that I typically w...
paden cash, post: 361288, member: 20 wrote: Shocker: None of us are gettin' out of here alive! :woot: Well, with a very few exceptions, we were all...
This is an issue that is getting a lot of attention here in California. And a lot of responsibility is being put on the local agency (i.e. County) to ...
Other than for some exercises in my classes in college, I've only used triangulation to get remote heights of inaccessible things (tops of towers, usu...
Holy Cow, post: 360943, member: 50 wrote: Yup. Words can really change. Back in 1978 my mother noted the rather bright-colored shirt I was wearing t...
Tom Adams, post: 360952, member: 7285 wrote: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog". Is a (at least formally a) well-known typing exercise beca...
Some of these I actually did know. Most I have seen somewhere before (but have thus far failed to remember them). Some are brand new to me. So why did...
BajaOR, post: 360770, member: 9139 wrote: My dad would uses "dope" in the same context as the website, as a replacement for "information" or for "reco...
