We have a situation in California where a very rural county (least populated in the state) doesn't want the state to open the mountain pass highway th...

Ask Jeeves.

I think that is Don Poole.

Yes, Mark even wrote a school paper on him as the "Most amazing man I ever met." Turned out he hadn't done any of those things. He was a cook on a cat...

@rankin_file Make sure you use the correct foot for the conversion!!!

@micheal-daubyn-2 The first time I showed my youngest daughter a rotary phone (she is now 22) at about age 12, she asked how it worked? I started to ...

I got #4, 9 and 12. 9 was an educated guess. Clueless about the rest of them. The Time Machine one made me think of something I heard years ago, alth...

I was diagnosed with glaucoma at the age of 30 and am now 60, so I have had a lot of diagnostics done on my eyes. A few years ago my doctor talked me ...

@mightymoe My dad always said that about Gunsmoke; "Kansas doesn't look like that anywhere."

@geeoddmike My experience with working with NGS geodesists versus academia has been quite similar. I have seen some pretty ugly encounters when two a...

There is a western series on ME TV on Saturday mornings that I had never seen, nor heard of, called Trackdown. Robert Culp is a Texas Ranger, albeit n...

In the early seasons of Gunsmoke in black and white, 30 minutes per episode, and with Chester instead of Festus, all the characters seem to be much "t...

Sorry to hear. His avatar always made me chuckle.

GeeOddMike, Thanks for sharing. I never met him but have met both Drs Snay and Soler. Dr. Soler was honored at the UESI/Cal Poly Pomona Conference in...

June of '59.?ÿ

That is a work of art!!!

Although not exactly the change in tilt, you might want to research the history of the array of latitude observatories that were established around th...

@lurker I have done exactly that in the past when, as you said, the parties are agreeable. I suggested they have the document notarized, then put cop...

I go with Zinnia.

@warren-smith My brother and I both learned that word in grammar school. 45 letters and 19 syllables. Just one of hundreds of useless trivial facts I...