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RE: Get Kids Into Survey -- should we become a sponsor?

Mixed feelings on this based on many years of being involved, or having staff involved with various efforts to attract "kids" to the profession. Altho...

3 years ago
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RE: Happy Thanksgiving

We had a very difficult year, but it could have been so much worse. Our son-in-law was hospitalized in early August after suffering a psychotic break ...

3 years ago
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RE: 20 Hilarious Things Actually Said in Court...... all lawyers are very smart so beware

Years ago I was taking a seminar given by an attorney specific to serving as an expert witness as a surveyor. He was talking about types of evidence a...

3 years ago
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RE: You know why you no see?

Just before I got my license I worked for a utility company for a couple of years. A couple of the party chiefs were mostly worthless (lifers who didn...

3 years ago
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RE: Crappy Monday

A similar story

3 years ago
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RE: Roundabout

@andy-bruner?ÿ Quite a few years ago I was involved in a project to replace/increase size of a water pipeline that was inside of a carrier CMP pipe u...

3 years ago
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RE: Roundabout

@dave-karoly?ÿ Also one on Highway 49 in the huge metropolis of Plymouth California.

3 years ago
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RE: Who invented this term and why?

A friend it Texas uses the term "Out of pocket" for when they will be out of cell service on otherwise unavailable. Huh? She also says "hacks me off"...

3 years ago
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RE: MSL height difference with different brands

Seems the same assumption was made about 26 tidal gauge stations a hundred plus years ago.

3 years ago
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RE: Old school skills

Ah, the ammonia when running blueprints or changing the ammonia bottle on the machine! Been there. Hated it when we had a set of blueprints going out ...

3 years ago
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RE: Best practise for surveying boundaries?

Lots of guidance documents, some specific to the UK, here:

3 years ago
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RE: Hunting stories

Back in the day Mickey Mantle had permission to deer hunt on a large ranch every year. This one year he asked Billy Martin if he wanted to come along ...

3 years ago
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RE: Which one is it?

Just wanted to make sure it closed. Didn't want to come up short!

3 years ago
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RE: Those little rituals

I collect and restore old gas pressure lanterns and lamps. Often a Friday evening ritual, especially as the days get shorter, is to light a few on my ...

3 years ago
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RE: Rounding Error

Many years ago when calcs were printed on dot matrix printers and the lot fronts didn't add up to the total along a long tangent on the RW, a mentor l...

3 years ago
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RE: Link Disappeared

Works for me too.

3 years ago
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