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  1. 13 minutes ago, Bob Chill said:

    Undertow is my fave. So raw and untamed. Made me drive fast a lot lol. Like any new band with a new sound that gets popular.... big production takes over and the gritty raw appeal just goes away. Aenima was still pretty raw and awesome but the change was in motion. Tool became very polished to my ear with Lateralus and 10k days. Lost me as a regular. Lots of bands do this.

    Rush and RHCP are big examples. Early stuff had a massive following and later stuff did too.... just different people. Countless examples. I loved 311's first 2 releases. Burned them up but man did they fall apart... and become really popular... lol. I have a knack for finding new sounds that I love then watch business run the sound into the ground lol

    I've found that when i look at a bands entire career, some of their best music usually is in their first couple albums.  Its when they are raw and coming out with a unique sound.  Look at bands like Korn and Deftones and so many more.  They have a DGAF attitude and its raw and crude and much more in your face.  

     

    Conversely, something I love trying to do is find raw outtake songs by other well known bands.  Led Zeppelin is really cool to do this too.  They laid down so many versions of songs before refining things and getting the final version.  Those are some of the most raw versions of famous songs and show the brilliance they had.  It just gives new perspective to familiar sounds.

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  2. 32 minutes ago, mappy said:

    hahaha we are talking about coordinate systems. 

    each coordinate system has a geodetic datum, which is the reference used for positioning the earth when locations were collected. Most commonly used is NAD83, which is based on the geodetic reference system of 1980. NAD27 is a totally different ellipse. If you were to plot the same points using each datum, they would not line up exactly, there would be an offset to take into account that change in earth reference position. 

    fun stuff! 

    you could always tell who was using 27 vs 83 cause there was an immediate 30 ft shift at the minimum.  Good times!!

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  3. 12 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

    Thank you. Those are communists who hate our freedoms. State plane or bust, glad Maryland only has 1 state plane. PA had 2.

    Thats because MD is so tiny it doesn't need 2 like VA.  Get a bigger state to be like the big boy states.  

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  4. 28 minutes ago, mappy said:

    It's incredibly annoying hahaha. I will be sent coordinates, but not the system they are in, so it's a guessing game. Always guess feet vs meters first, then narrow down to state plane or utm zones. I never ever check NAD27 systems. It's ancient. Get with the times people. 

    At least most of the stuff you work with HAD coordinates.  Old plats and deeds I worked on only gave descriptions like: 

    From the stump by old man Miller's barn go northerly 100 rods to the rock.  then go northeasterly 50 chains to the cedar post next to Ichabod Crane's headstone, thence southerly 85 cubits to the middle of the crick in Johnston's potato field, then westerly 400 paces to the point of beginning.  

    If I even had NAD27 I cried tears of happiness.  

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  5. 13 minutes ago, GramaxRefugee said:

    WSSC is still stuck on NGVD29. Which ripples through the survey world in MD.

    A lot of entities still use 29.  Just as some use NAD27 for state plane and not 83.  But those will be obsolete soon too.  Nerds and their GPS keep refining the earth geoid.

  6. 10 hours ago, Random Chaos said:

    Annapolis is currently 4.67 feet MLLW (3.86 feet NAVD88). Forecast is for this to reach 5.5 feet MLLW for Annapolis in just over an hour (about another foot), then to stop rising.

    I am calibrated to NAVD88 and this is what my gauge reads just north of the Bay Bridge:

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    How dare you hate on NAVD29!!!!!  I set so many benchmarks off monumentation that was NAD29!!!  

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  7. 1 hour ago, North Balti Zen said:

    Still no power. As always. I moved to some pocket of the county where every time there’s even a slightly elevated risk for wind we immediately turn into Little House on the Prairie. 
     

    no eta for restoration yet . 255 customers in my cluster getting ready to join Charles Ingalls in heading off to Mankato to look for work. 

    Hope you get juice back soon

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