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Monday, June 13, 2022, Day 19 I was greeted by strong winds and grey clouds early in the morning. Despite the wind, the mosquitoes and...

Monday, June 13, 2022, Day 19 I was greeted by strong winds and grey clouds early in the morning. Despite the wind, the mosquitoes and...

I took three years of architectural drawing in highschool. Just enough to realize it was not where I wanted to go in life (although it...

Not sure what you mean by that.

Plotting tool.

Yes. We used the engineers rule. And the architects rule. I have an undergrad degree in geography. When I started environmental...

"I also had another visitor: a chipmunk, which took an interest in the ingredients I had laid out for cooking. No, actually I was the...

I totally agree. Yes! I love backcountry skiing!!! The Alps offer a suitable playground for this. In late winter, our cabin is an...

Not really. If you restrict most units to their base function - displaying lat/lon while using a paper map - batteries last a very long...

Here's one that most people won't recognize. Well, ppine might...

I use a map and compass for my navigation tools (no batteries to go dead). As nice as the GPSs are, they are battery hogs. I would...

This was my air navigation computer. it is a circular slide rule, among other flight calculation tools. The reverse side is used for...

I do a fair amount of finish carpentry...those folding rules are the best for precise, inside measurements. Slide rules, yeah, I relied...

I will never consider a compass as obsolete. it is my primary navigation tool and will remain so, even though at times I do carry and...

Late 1970s, calculators were ubiquitous, but I still carried my slide rule to important exams... saved my butt once. Still have one...