Richard, glad to see you made it through the stroke. Hope you mend quick.

Yeah Richard knock off the scary stuff before we pay Glen to drive over and lecture you.

Get better soon.

One of the projects I "delivered" to the client via FTP and email just today is one that the surveyor decided to do in "plant coordinates" for some reason. Basically he spits on the ground and put a target there and say that is the start point of the world, 0-0.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1600717142.jpg

The issue is this map will not align with any other map ever done. Normally we work in a State Plane system that all 50 states have their own State Plane and all work together with other maps.

So this is your new word for today. Equirectangular projection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equirectangular_projection

We just provide what the client wants, and we can't care less why. Even if it does make me scratch my head.

We have a client like that. 40 plus years of plant coordinates and not a care in the world about how they fit in with the rest of us.

Glen, saw a podcast on a small company that benchmarks and recommends hardware for speific software/tasks on computers for the best thruput for tasks like you guys mapping stuff. its all in how the processor cores, memory, video, video procossesors, memory and drives are all used, not just how the manufaturers say they work. Talked about how a simple system update can turn a multi-core monster with amiltiple video cards/GPUs into a death trap taking the same time as a single core one monitor off the shelf box with limited memory. It was as if the software couldn't actually take advantage of the updates made in hardware without losing congrol of and speed in other areas.

All the ways evrything is optimized and accellerated now made me glad I am not trying to do cutting edge photoshop or data crunching no more

If I cant get my left hand working better, may have go find some speech to text stuff.

This is the max built-in dictation.It does surprisingly well. I would have to get used to using it. Using it would be faster than typing with all the extra backspacing for corrections. Especially with big words of life back spacing corrections and especially

My business partner uses Siri a lot to dictate a email or text message to. It takes practice to learn to speak and use the punctuation and think ahead of what to say.

I use that for short text messages, like on my way, or be home soon.

Definitely take some getting used to.

Better than when you're left last two fingers don't type the right keys.

The weatherman predicted a 90% chance of rain starting at 5:00 AM. So far we have received .01 inches. That qualifies as rain, but it is limit of measurable rain. So far this year we are still below the normal in temperature, and just 1/2 an inch or so below normal rainfall, so pretty much at normal. We have received 34.12 inches since Jan. 1st.

Morning all. So far I have voided the text to speech tech.

My nephew and brother use speech with their phone and CarPlay to edit and send texts and emails while driving.
Brother has Trigeminal neuralgia so the speech thing is not working for him.

The new iPhone IOS 14 keeps pushing the text to speech option. I truly prefer email to most info exchange. As a geezer I never got the two thumbs typing and I just poke with my index finger. I am just happy the keyboard is a QWERTY keyboard on the phone and not the insane one number is three different letters depending on how long you poke it keyboard.

Well Summer is over. It is fall now.

Yep time to rake leaves and pick up chestnuts off the lawn.

We still have summer here. At least until next week. Should go test all the gauges in the Cobra. I haven't driven it far enough to see if the oil temp works.

It's still in the 80s and 90s here.

We still getting to the mid and low 80s each day. It is just 63 right now, and drops to the 60s most mornings.

We have a few weeks left of warm weather.

Morning all. 58 with a light rain. Yep its fall.

We are in the lows in the 50s and highs in the mid 70s. Just about perfect.