Oh, Indiana

Man arrested Downtown after grabbing women's butts during 'mating call'

As police questioned Owens, 35, they learned he'd been running around Mass Ave "trying to get his heart rate up," court documents said. Owens told officers that running and displaying his energy is his "mating call," and that he was out that night looking for a mate.

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Floyd Robertson wrote:Man arrested Downtown after grabbing women's butts during 'mating call'

As police questioned Owens, 35, they learned he'd been running around Mass Ave "trying to get his heart rate up," court documents said. Owens told officers that running and displaying his energy is his "mating call," and that he was out that night looking for a mate.

This sounds partially like Bob's strategy

MattyFresh wrote:

Floyd Robertson wrote:Man arrested Downtown after grabbing women's butts during 'mating call'

This sounds partially like Bob's strategy

Bob has switched to in-home furniture sales. Not only do women come to him now, but then they go straight to the couch.

The Brass Spittoon just gained an extra level of importance. Fuck Indiana.

After generations of confusion, Michigan, Indiana to finally settle border

That would be a wall I would support.

Floyd Robertson wrote:The Brass Spittoon just gained an extra level of importance. Fuck Indiana.

After generations of confusion, Michigan, Indiana to finally settle border

Interesting article thanks for posting

There's a lot of borderline insanity in the US. Even some international borderline insanity with Canada. Got interested in the subject on a trip back from a client's plant in Ohio. Pretty sure there's a thread but can't find it.

Just an interesting tidbit. In order to get a land surveyor license in Hawaii you need to be able to write a legal description of the parcel of land in the native Hawaiian language.

The Pantry wrote:There's a lot of borderline insanity in the US. Even some international borderline insanity with Canada. Got interested in the subject on a trip back from a client's plant in Ohio. Pretty sure there's a thread but can't find it.

The country's land surveying was done a very long time ago. MSU used to have two one term courses on land surveying and in the second the methods of "first order" surveying, which is the most accurate were taught. It involves using umbrellas to keep the sun off the transient and windshilds to keep the wind off, all the time running a stright line through a wooded swampy wilderness for hundreds of miles, to get less accuracy than the typical GPS has now.

It is well past time political land bounderies are redone using modern tech.

Trapper Gus wrote:

The Pantry wrote:There's a lot of borderline insanity in the US. Even some international borderline insanity with Canada. Got interested in the subject on a trip back from a client's plant in Ohio. Pretty sure there's a thread but can't find it.

The country's land surveying was done a very long time ago. MSU used to have two one term courses on land surveying and in the second the methods of "first order" surveying, which is the most accurate were taught. It involves using umbrellas to keep the sun off the transient and windshilds to keep the wind off, all the time running a stright line through a wooded swampy wilderness for hundreds of miles, to get less accuracy than the typical GPS has now.

It is well past time political land bounderies are redone using modern tech.

GPS can get the boundaries extremely accurate. Problem is in determining where the original boundaries were. Like the article says, the only evidence may be a stained chunk of dirt from where the original wooden stakes decomposed. You have to be part surveyor and part archeologist to figure out what's what.

Jake from State Farm wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

The country's land surveying was done a very long time ago.  MSU used to have two one term courses on land surveying and in the second the methods of "first order" surveying, which is the most accurate were taught.  It involves using umbrellas to keep the sun off the transient and windshilds to keep the wind off, all the time running a stright line through a wooded swampy wilderness for hundreds of miles, to get less accuracy than the typical GPS has now.

It is well past time political land bounderies are redone using modern tech.

GPS can get the boundaries extremely accurate. Problem is in determining where the original boundaries were. Like the article says, the only evidence may be a stained chunk of dirt from where the original wooden stakes decomposed. You have to be part surveyor and part archeologist to figure out what's what.

There should be the original notebooks from the survey, which are actually the formal record of the survey, the wooden posts are just helpful markers.  To reestablish the boundry the notebooks allow the survey to be redone from its starting point and if possible, the "helpful markers" are found, but if not new markers are established.  (Yes I took both classes, it was fun, but I'm not cut out to be a Civil Engineer) Since this was a US Government survey it would have started from the nearest US Government Survey permanent benchmark, which are stone, concrete and metal with an exact point which has been verified by every means possible to be where it says it is. There is one on the MSU campus, if I remember it is in the center of what used to be a traffic circle north west of the Engineering Building.

Trapper Gus wrote:

The Pantry wrote:There's a lot of borderline insanity in the US.  Even some international borderline insanity with Canada.  Got interested in the subject on a trip back from a client's plant in Ohio.  Pretty sure there's a thread but can't find it.

The country's land surveying was done a very long time ago.  MSU used to have two one term courses on land surveying and in the second the methods of "first order" surveying, which is the most accurate were taught.  It involves using umbrellas to keep the sun off the transient and windshilds to keep the wind off, all the time running a stright line through a wooded swampy wilderness for hundreds of miles, to get less accuracy than the typical GPS has now.

It is well past time political land bounderies are redone using modern tech.

Headed back from a client's plant in Ohio with our salesman.  He got off I-75 at the last exit before the border to get gas.  

Turns out you can't get back on NB I-75 at that exit.  Had to take Summit Street north to cross the state border and get back on 75 in Michigan.  The permanent detour caused me to look up a map of where we'd driven thru after getting home.

There's a very small piece of Michigan in Lake Erie called the Lost Peninsula.  You can't get to the rest of Michigan by road without first driving into Ohio.



Michigan got the Upper Peninsula as compensation for the Toledo War

The Pantry wrote:

Trapper Gus wrote:

The country's land surveying was done a very long time ago.  MSU used to have two one term courses on land surveying and in the second the methods of "first order" surveying, which is the most accurate were taught.  It involves using umbrellas to keep the sun off the transient and windshilds to keep the wind off, all the time running a stright line through a wooded swampy wilderness for hundreds of miles, to get less accuracy than the typical GPS has now.

It is well past time political land bounderies are redone using modern tech.

Headed back from a client's plant in Ohio with our salesman.  He got off I-75 at the last exit before the border to get gas.  

Turns out you can't get back on NB I-75 at that exit.  Had to take Summit Street north to cross the state border and get back on 75 in Michigan.  The permanent detour caused me to look up a map of where we'd driven thru after getting home.

There's a very small piece of Michigan in Lake Erie called the Lost Peninsula.  You can't get to the rest of Michigan by road without first driving into Ohio.



Michigan got the Upper Peninsula as compensation for the Toledo War

Did you eat at Rudy’s Hot Dog?

No. Did you?

The Pantry wrote:No.  Did you?

I’m thinking about it.  Was looking for a recommendation.

The Pantry wrote:No. Did you?

Did you eat Rudy's hot dog?