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That screen is pretty damn gorgeous.

Fort Knox and the White House were also paid for with tax dollars. ;)

Semantics. If you're hiking on someone else's property, that's trespassing.

That's a great read, thanks for posting it.

Sounds like you graduated from the GeekSquad's training academy :). Nice rig! As for Crysis, that would depend much more on the graphics hardware than processor and ram. Most of the people playing Crysis at the higher end settings are running one of the later nVidia or ATI GPUs like the 8800GTX...

Brave Sir Robin ran away. Bravely ran away, away! When danger reared its ugly head, He bravely turned his tail and fled. Yes, brave Sir Robin turned about And gallantly he chickened out. Bravely taking to his feet He beat a very brave retreat, Bravest of the brave, Sir Robin!

I saw it. For my money the early 70's take on it, with Charleton Heston, was more effective. But you're right about the effects. They really managed to convey the sense that NYC was empty, and had been for a long time. With respect to some of these questions about buildings. I don't know how...

I would think it more likely that some other species would experience an advantageous mutation and inhabit that vertical niche, rather than that cats would spontaneously evolve the ability to fly or sail :).

They're pretty well marked in my experience. The road that leads up to the Cutts Bogs from the south is barricaded on both sides where it crosses Calico Rd., for example. You're not in any danger of wandering onto private land in the immediate vicinity of the pumping station, though.

That second point qualifies as a general weakness of handwritten communication, and one of the reasons it will ultimately go the way of dial phones. The first point is a different matter, I think. Correctness of syntax and logic are important regardless of the medium, and I share your dismay...

I hear you, but the overall decline of handwriting skills applies far beyond the boundaries of surveying. It's a dying skill because it's just not needed the way it used to be. They don't even teach it in our elementary schools here anymore, beyond the basics in the early grades. The...

Getting caught carrying a sword around in public is going to result, I think, in at least an intensive questioning session, and at most you'll have your mug on The Smoking Gun the next day, in as much as carrying a sword is seen to be more or less synonymous with "nutbag". I like to think I...

I took mechanical drawing in high school in the mid-seventies, and then again in college in the early eighties, but there is little call for it now. Drafting has been replaced by CAD system skills.

I think it would take several millenia to erase all traces of cities, interstate highways, concrete bridges, and the like. Concrete rots fairly rapidly, but piles of stuff would still be there, and then there's Mount Rushmore, and plastic water bottles. Anyway, we've been here for a few...

It's interesting technology, based on overflights rather than satellite imagery, but as Guy alluded, the coverage just isn't there yet.

The last time I got into a cedar swamp, before I started using Permanone, I drove an hour home and pulled 11 of them off me. Itched for weeks. Does that make me hardcore? Or stupid?

Yep, I can see it clear as day now, especially the triangle made by 542, 653, and the Ives Branch. Oh well, guess the bad news is that isn't the location of Tub Mill. The good news is there was a mill on Ives Branch where it crosses that road, according to the map. Do we know anything about that...

Yeah, I assumed the map maker just got it wrong. The map is of the whole state, and there are a lot of features missing. Ives Branch isn't even shown, for example, even though it's larger, probably because there was nothing notable on it. I keyed off of the name of the stream and the road...

A Possible Location for (the) Tub Mill? Spurred on by Jerseyman's dates I took another look at some scans of old maps. I had obviously been looking in the wrong place anyway, being fixated on the large pond on Ives Branch. Here's what I discovered in an 1833 map by Thomas Gordon: The...

Thanks for the information, Jerseyman! That's 100% more than I knew previously. It makes sense that the name derives from a very old association, as there doesn't seem to be any indication in later maps that I have that anything was there. Do you think the name "Tub Mill Branch" might be...