Honey, I Finished The Internet

11 Replies to “Honey, I Finished The Internet”

1. Cool, I liked it.

2. Used to be a chainman in Prince George, when they actually used chains and plumb bobs, and etc., – anyway surveyor Vic Bartell, told me that when they surveyed the northern boundary between the provinces and the territories, they had to keep making corrections as the line kept pulling north. It occurred to them that in such a long survey the plumb bob would be pulled slightly north by the magnetic north (that makes compasses work)very, very slightly, but enough to throw everything off.

3. That was pretty neat. Have downloaded the Google earth zip file as don’t really know where the border is south of here and the clearcut trail is at least a reference point. Also curious about what kind of surveillance hardware is on what is like the longest seismic line in the world.

4. Now that was enlightening and somewhat entertaining as well.
   Good stuff.

5. Informative and interesting….. how the idealists visualized the internet would be used. Well, back to the .xxx sites.

6. I used to get a charge out of telling my American friends that Canada owned down to the mouth of the Columbia which put most of Washington State in Canada. They actually studied very little of the 54 – 40 or fight saga in history. The history of that era I studied weakly mentioned that if not for the HBC supporting American settlers into Fort Vancouver the USA would never acquired the State. As I read more about this history I found the opposite. The HBC actively encourage American settlers into Washington and Oregon. The Company even formed a subsidiary which purpose was solely agriculture production.
   The reason American possession of the Pacific Northwest was supported by so many settlers was the USA guranteed Land title on farms that had been homesteaded for over 10 to 15 years.

7. You have to love the geeks.

8. the crookedest border in the world is at Baarle-Nassau in Holland and Belgium where parts of Holland are contained in parts of Belgium contained in parts of Holland . I think it was by house lot the crenelations are so small

9. Larry,I guess you worked for McWilliam,Whyte,and Gobel in PG. My wife worked for them a couple of years in the late 70’s.
   Vic and Dale were good guys. I remember her coming home so dead tired after cutting line through the bush out by Chief Lake all day.

10. Don Morris – thanks for the info on McWilliam, Whyte, Gobel and Assoc., Dale and Alex and Vic and the whole bunch of them were great guys. Don’t know why they kept me on, Vic could stride over every windfall in his way, while I tripped over every twig, certainly didn’t have bush-legs! But I was honest, and when you’re 300 ft, down line, the surveyor couldn’t ask for any thing more. When you closed a survey within 3/10 of a ft. in a 5 mile boundary for an Indian Reserve, up and down hills, thru swamps and across raging creeds etc.- well, they were gonna keed you on, no matter what a klutz you appeared to be. In my time,the girls (women) in the office were eager to out and cut line and chain, but management were opposed. Your wife must have convinced them shortly after I left. She deserves all those memories (good and bad) that she earned.

11. SDA bait.