morning all. Just cold here no rain till later.

Raining here. Go figure. I blame Jim for steering it the wrong way.

Richard, are the gas/brake/clutch pedals reversed in a RHD car?

Making files!

I just pumped out a LAS file that is a point cloud that has only 93,919,808 points, and that is the cropped version! It is "only" 2.27 GB. That should be fun for the client. Hopefully that have a modern computer. It always astonishes me to hear back from a client that is a professional in the industry working for a survey company and they tell me they are still running Win XP 32 Bit and can't deal with the file they requested and really need.

Each point is colored the color of the image so if you see the entire image it looks like a photo.Zoom in and each point is just a little point and each point has a 3D value in XY & X.

And CPUs measured in MHz not GHz.

Brent, I’ve been so focused on the recent off-season moves by the Packers that my eyes were on WI and I inadvertently steered the weather your way. Enjoy!

I hope we get another good rain or two this month. It all helps us stay out of another drought.

And more than 4GB of RAM!

This file is just stupid huge, but they ordered one big ol mosaic. The tiff file has to be saved with LAS compression to keep it under the 4GB limit that Photoshop has. Photoshop will open up a big tiff file, but chokes if you try to save it. My mapping software will churn out a 10 GB tiff file and never blink. It will open it and let you do whatever.

We like to run it through Photoshop to tweak the final color and get tweak the overall density. I have the very latest and greatest version of Photoshop, but is just does not let me save a tiff file bigger than 4GB.

I was just talking to my partner. We are bidding a job in Maui. That would be cool to get just to put it on our web page. We have people ask how far out do we work. We have done NASA, and North Dakota, El Paso, and Colorado. We have never been past the Rockies.

The stupid thing that the airlines do is the illogical pricing. We can get a round trip ticket to Maui for less than flying to Pittsburgh. Yea, that makes sense.

I love Maui! Need a roadie?

Maui is for sure beautiful. But it is a LOOOOOG way away. Even in a jet airliner it is a long ride.

One of my earliest memories is riding in a C-54 to the Hawaiian territory. Unpressurized, at 240 MPH facing the back of the airplane, with nothing to look at except waves, endless waves. No movies, nothing to do, it was terrible.

yep it is right at a 6 hour flight from here.

How far out into the Atlantic, or Pacific Ocean, or Gulf of Mexico do you go before you are considered Outside the Continental United States?

12 miles, I believe.

The flight in the C-54 was over 10 hours. Just endless droning of the engines and nothing to do was endless.

I don't claim to remember how many hours but math still works. ;)

My dad was a Pilot in the USAF. He figured he made the round trip from Hawaii to California over 50 times all in C-54s, C124s, and C47s.

On our first trip back from Hawaii we came back on the Matsonia. It was a cruise ship operated by the same Matson shipping line that is a big shipping company now.

If we get the Maui project the airplane we rent is over double the rate we pay locally. It is outfitted with life vests, life raft and flares. FAA required when flying over the ocean. The project is right on Maui but it is just a good idea to have that stuff on board.

I think that is right. On the cruise ship we took in Alaska they drove out into the ocean far enough to open the casinos. I went up there with a $10 and bet it and lost it instantly. Done. I usually throw away a ten spot at casinos that are right where I am. I did that in Michigan at the hotel we stayed at and in French Lick, Indiana. I have never gambled at the casino just a dozen miles from my house. I did bet on a few horse races. I was a big spender and had a twenty to blow. Two buck bets and all losers. 20 bucks blown.

So if wading out in one of those bodies of water in my underwear when 3 and 4 and bobbing around not touching the bottom doesn't count, then I've never been outside the continental United States.

Oh yeah, when I was 5 we flew from Houston to Jacksonville. The plane was out over the Gulf, but don't thing is was that far out. Some people changed sides of the plane with use because i freaked out being on the side of the plane that you could only see water when looking out the window. I was fine until the stewardess pointed that out. It was one of those lime green 727s.

Nope ya gotta be at least 12 miles. I have been to Mexico, Canada and the Bahamas. And Hawaii and Alaska. And Hawaii before it was a state.

As a senior in high school on the first day of English class the teacher asked everyone to write down the schools they had attended, and the states they had been to. Most of my classmates had gone to one school from 1st grade to 9th grade, then to the high school and had never been out of the state.

She got to me and I was writing furiously. I told her I was only up to 5th grade on my list and had not started on the list of states. She skipped me and I went last. I could not even remember all the schools I went to now without a lot of thinking. 11 different schools in 12 years of school. And a quite a few states even back then.

There are classmates of our kids that have not been further than 100 miles from our town. The only reason they have been that far is Madison has better shopping than where we live.

I have been to Canada and Mexico. Canada they flew us to a cabin on a lake with a float plane and came back a week later to pick us up. It is one of the reasons I don't like Northern Pike. I ate my life's worth that week. It isn't even good fish.

Mexico we just walked across the border into Mexicali and Algadones.

There are two foreign countries I would like to see. Australia and Scotland.

Brent, we really enjoyed New Zealand, Australia, Fiji, Iceland, Spain (Barcelona & Valencia) and Croatia. NZ is our favorite so far. I need to work on scheduling more trips to new places for 2018.

I went to Mexico back in the 1960s. I don't remember if we walked or drove across. I remember they were selling silver at cheap prices but I was a little kid and had no money.

My mom's aunt and uncle lived in Seattle and he was a crane operator at Boeing. He retired at age 55 and they bough a motor home. The bough one little piece of property on Oregon and stayed in their for 3 months a year to be called residents.

They were on the road the rest of the time. They drove all the way up to Barrow, Alaska and all the way south the Panama canal. They hit every national park, and would bump into another couple they knew at virtually every trailer park they stopped at. They did that for over 20 years.

For the trip to Panama they found a local Mexican to hire as a "security" guard and he rode with them to the southern border, and he knew the next guy to be the security guard. Mostly it was a way for the local um gang leaders to get a tax from the travelers.