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RE: Oddball street names

Our local "refuse transfer station" aka "the dump" is on Throwita Way.

4 years ago
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RE: Poop Like A Champion

@flga-2-2 That show is a treasure. We have the whole collection. They cracked each other up constantly. ?ÿ ?ÿ ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Poop Like A Champion

I remember hearing Tim Conway say that he was eating so much fiber that he was pooping wicker furniture.

4 years ago
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RE: Control Points Using GPS and Total Station

@lukenz It is a pretty comprehensive research project and report commissioned by Oregon DOT with Oregon State University. ODOT wanted to see if they ...

4 years ago
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RE: Control Points Using GPS and Total Station

Some interesting findings on integrating observations, including post-processed RTN vectors, into control networks. Just came out last week. ?ÿ

4 years ago
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RE: Seeking licensure advice

@aliquot I only have an AA degree in general ed, partying mostly, but I have been licensed for 34 years and have been rather successful, some might s...

4 years ago
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RE: Three(3) weeks until deadline for input on SPCS2022

Yes, for entities that submitted a request last year for LDP zones, they have until the end of this month to submit the design and parameters to NGS f...

4 years ago
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RE: Correspondence

@bstrand In late summer of 1980 my brother came home on leave from the Air Force. A few of us decided to have a party and got a keg. I had turned 21 ...

4 years ago
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RE: Roads of yesterday

Lots of great old photos in the NOAA Coast and Geodetic Survey collection. This subsection is titled "Getting There"

4 years ago
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RE: Seeking licensure advice

Move to California. There is still an experience only path to a California PLS license. Oh, and the state DOT is hiring land surveyors all across the ...

4 years ago
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RE: Best guitarist you never heard of....

Tony Rice, who passed at age 69 in December.

4 years ago
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RE: Brain teaser

@mathteacher Notice all the surveyors dropped out a while ago. Easier to calculate an original corner "off" by 0.07'. Of course, the OP is a surveyor...

4 years ago
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RE: survey crew "disagreements"

Within weeks of starting my state career in 1993, I got loaned to work on a field crew working out-of-town. We actually had two crews working on the s...

4 years ago
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RE: Brain teaser

The answer is obviously Pi. Pi is the answer to almost all things. If not, it's Avogadro's number: 6.02 x 10 to the 23rd. If I ever need to solve the...

4 years ago
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RE: Missing the old days

I recall spending days plotting original ground/design template cross-sections station by station then "buggying" the cut/fill for each and using end ...

4 years ago
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RE: Retirement

I had everything all set to retire last Halloween at age 61, then I messed around and got promoted. I figured in the COVID world there wasn't much to ...

4 years ago
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RE: ** ABSOLUTELY NO POLITICS **

Please don't ban my tin foil hat.

4 years ago
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RE: NGS Monument Preservation

Did you file a mark recovery noting the current condition? As Bill said, the vertical on this mark is modeled to NAVD88. Either of the marks he sug...

4 years ago
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