Eric Colburn, PLS

Category: General

  • Surveyor’s Saturday Serendipity: Mark Knopfler – Sailing To Philadelphia

    Surveyor’s Saturday Serendipity with Mark Knopfler performing Sailing To Philadelphia, a song about sailing and land surveying with Mason & Dixon in song!

  • Memorial Day 2013

    The boy in this picture was so patriotic, saluting every soldier and passing flag in the parade.

  • Professional Land Surveyor Top 10 At Ten

    Professional Land Surveyor Top 10 At Ten

    Top 10 at 10 Here are today’s Top 10 trending posts as of 10 tonight: AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Guts Google Earth The Professional Land Surveyor Podcast Episode 4 Trimble Survey Software Improves Productivity for the Office and Field AutoCAD Civil 3D 2013 Survey Hotfix Video AutoCAD Civil 3D for Land Surveyors Coordinate Systems Refresher…

  • Land Surveyor Wins Record 640 Million Mega Millions Jackpot, Invests In Land Surveying Business

    Land Surveyor Wins Record 640 Million Mega Millions Jackpot, Invests In Land Surveying Business

    Land Surveyor Wins Record $640 Million Mega Millions Jackpot, Invests In Land Surveying Business In a stunning turn of events for a Gunter County land surveyor Rod DeLenker, last Friday, he won the record $640 million Mega Millions jackpot! I was fortunate enough to interview Rod this morning. Here is my interview with Rod DeLenker: Eric:…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup March 25, 2012

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup March 25, 2012

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Premium Post Updates How To Create a Standout Professional Land Surveyor Company Marketing Strategy Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup March 18, 2012 A Few Older Posts, Too: Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup March 11, 2012 AutoCAD Civil 3D How To Trim Image to a Surface Border Video…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup September 18, 2011

    Professional Land Surveyor Weekly Roundup: Professional Land Surveyor Source Twitter Weekly Updates for 2011-09-18 USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection Now Online Sokkia Releases NET-AX Series of Automated Total Stations for 3D Monitoring LightSquared Video to Debunk Several GPS Interference Myths-Facts or Propaganda? Defense Department Seeks to Protect GPS Operations Against LightSquared Network House Aviation Subcommittee…

  • Fisherfield Mountains Re-measured by The Munro Society

    The heights of three mountains in the remote Fisherfield Forest area were re-measured during July by members of The Munro Society. Two of the mountains were found to be less than the given map heights.   The re-measured heights as processed by the OS are as follows. Beinn a’Chlaidheimh, 913.96m      previous map height, 916m Beinn Dearg Mor, 906.28m      previous…

  • Twitter #FollowFriday Professional Land Surveyor Recommendations

    Here are this week’s Twitter #FollowFriday Professional Land Surveyor Recommendations: @wkfd – WKFD is the Twitter account for the Kung Fu Drafter blog. They are drafters and geeks trying to share information with people with similar interests. I highly recommend visiting The Kung Fu Drafter blog, as it is a fun site and full of…

  • Surveyors, Symbols, Crosshairs, Targets, Bullseyes & Sarah Palin

    Surveyors and their symbols are getting a lot of attention in the press today. Rebecca Monsour, Sarah Palin’s media aide, said that the geo-locational images shown on the electoral map Palin posted on her Facebook page last March are not rifle sights, but are actually surveyor’s symbols. This is in response to the recent shooting of 18…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Links This Week

    Professional Land Surveyor Links This Week: Business: Unemployment Insurance Weekly Claims Report for Week Ending October 16, 2010 Surveying: Pakistan Government to Approve Land Surveying & Mapping Bill to Bar Unregistered Firms | Business Recorder Business: Consumers More Likely to Use Businesses Active on Social Media News: New Zealand Modernizes its Infrastructure Network with Trimble GNSS Technology | Trimble…

  • Sometimes It’s Time To Clean The Works

    Week in review, the good, the bad, and the ugly. This past week was, for me, both productive and frustrating all at the same time. While I accomplished a lot of what I set out to do, by weeks end not everything on my To Do List got done. In fact, a few of the…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Links This Week

    Professional Land Surveyor Links This Week: Surveying: It’s official: Mt. Rainier is still as tall as we thought | KOMO News | komonews.com — An expedition used new GPS technology to fine-tune measurements of our area’s largest mountain and confirmed Mt. Rainier is indeed 14,411 feet tall. more… Surveying: High cost in land survey to…

  • Twitter #FollowFriday Professional Land Surveyor Recommendations

    Here are this week’s Twitter #FollowFriday Professional Land Surveyor Recommendations: @Lyme_Warrior – Misdiagnosed with Rheumatoid Arthritis for 10-years, Jo-Ann reassessed her condition, care, and treatment, taking the bold step of questioning her supposed “health care” and sought alternate (but logical) explanations for what was happening to her. Long story short, Jo-Ann has recently been diagnosed with…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Links This Week

    Professional Land Surveyor Links This Week: Surveying: New surveying business finds perfect niche near courthouse wpcva.com — The Aaron A. Dooley Land Surveying office in Rustburg has found the perfect home in the old drugstore building across from Campbell County Court House. “I thought it would do well in Rustburg since it’s close to where everybody comes…

  • Spotted Turtle Found While Land Surveying

    Yesterday I was cutting line for a roughly 40 acre survey I’m working on when I came across this Spotted Turtle. He or she – we really didn’t get to know each other that well in the short time we visited together – turned out to be the shy type. Spotty can’t be blamed for…

  • Twitter #FollowFriday Professional Land Surveyor Recommendations

    Here are this week’s Twitter #FollowFriday Professional Land Surveyor Recommendations: @wkfd – WKFD is the Twitter account for the Kung Fu Drafter blog. They are drafters and geeks trying to share information with people with similar interests. I highly recommend visiting The Kung Fu Drafter blog, as it is a fun site and full of…

  • Microsoft Research Street Slide View Video

    Here’s a neat video I came across showing Microsoft Street Slide browsing of street-level imagery. The Microsoft Research YouTube Channel has this to say about this video: “Street Slide is a novel browsing interface for street-level imagery that combines the best aspects of the immersive nature of “bubbles” with the overview provided by multiperspective strip…

  • Land Surveyor Catches Record Catfish in Missouri River

    Land surveyor Greg Bernal recently caught a possible world record 130-pound catfish in the Missouri River. Wow! His catch is six pounds heavier than the world’s record landed about four years ago. As fantastic as that is, it is reported that 20 years ago he caught the Mississippi state record with a 103-pound catfish he…

  • Professional Land Surveyor Survey-So, is it the Heat or the Humidity that’s worse?

    In this week’s Professional Land Surveyor Survey, I’m asking the question: So, is it the Heat or the Humidity that’s worse? With it being in the Dog Days of Summer here in the northern hemisphere I’ve been seeing a lot of weather related talk about the heat and humidity – hence this weeks Professional Land…

  • Top 10 Reasons I Am So Done With Today

    It really wasn’t a bad day today, but now it’s 11:00 pm, I’m tired, and thinking about the day that was. So, here are the top 10 reasons that I’m so done with today: 10 – Getting up at 4:45 am after working until midnight is not as fun as you might think. 9 –…