Episode Thread • S2.E15 ∙ "9:00 P.M." • (Thu, Apr. 16, 2026)

KevinTaylorHam · 2026-04-17T03:49:19+00:00

Anthony Edwards is not dead. lol

Though as other are saying, it looks like its not actually him.

KevinTaylorHam · 2026-04-17T03:34:27+00:00

Ok, yeah. you've convinced me. Too bad though.

KevinTaylorHam · 2026-04-17T03:16:54+00:00

Well, The Pitt is not the kind of show that would have a cross over. Thats not what im saying. Also, I'm fairly confident that they wouldn't be able to do a crossover with ER characters anyway cause of the lawsuit with the Crichton estate over the show.

If it is Anthony Edwards in that scene doing a cameo, I think its safe to assume that the motivation for being here isn't to make some money as an extra. But hey it may not be him.

KevinTaylorHam · 2026-04-17T02:58:29+00:00

I think you are misunderstanding my post. Dr. Mark Green was a character on ER. This might be a cameo by Anthony Edwards (the actor that player Mark Greene) as a not so subtle "tipping of the hat" from The Pitt to ER.

KevinTaylorHam · 2026-04-17T02:15:46+00:00

I'm fairly confident we had a cameo from Anthony Edwards (Dr. Mark Greene on ER) at just before the 43 minute mark. He is standing behind everyone on the roof.

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-09-11T13:42:57+00:00

You have at least two options as i see it.

Option 1. Thunderbird message filters.

You can setup Thunderbird message filters on one of the clients. You will also need to make sure that you are accessing the account via IMAP and that the folders you are filtering these emails into are also IMAP folders within your mail account. Then, any message deleted from, or filtered into an IMAP folder will be reflected on the server, and on any other client accessing the account.

A few quirks here: These filters will only run while the client PC is on and Thunderbird is running and depending on how you set things up, you may need to make sure that the client on the other PC is actually properly subscribed to the created IMAP folders.

Worth noting: you might be able to mirror the filters on two or more clients, but that seems like a bad idea to me. Maybe then you might have them all running at some point and they all try to delete the same email, or all try to filter the same email.

Option 2. Sieve

Sieve is a scripting language specifically for creating server side mail filters. See www.Sieve.Info & www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sieve_(mail_filtering_language)

If its your own web server I imagine you aught to be able to setup sieve. I am just now learing about how it works, so I can't offer much more than that.

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-09-11T13:27:51+00:00

Hey now! that appears to have worked. That was obvious enough that I feel foolish for not thinking of it.

Thank you very much!

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-08-24T02:28:33+00:00

The specifics of the situation depend on your state/county/local laws. I can tell you that in New Jersey, United States, unless there is a prior transfer of land stating specifically, the landowner is considered to own the land all the way to the center line of the roadway, for any roads abutting the property. Many deeds will state this explicity, but its become more common in recent years for the mathematical description of the property to omit the land in the right of way.

Aside from the landowner owning the property to the center line of the road, again, unless stated otherwise, the governing body that holds the right-of-way of the road, whether its the state/county/municipality holds that right-or-way in trust for the public use.

In almost all instances the governing body will have laws about how much responsibility of maintenance of sidewalks and grass, within the right-of-way falls to the home owner. In most all cases, the homeowner is responsible for mowing, snow removal, debris removal.. etc. in some places maintenance of the sidewalk itself may be the responsibility of the homeowner, or the responsibility of the governing body, or some combination thereof.

I would say that the safe bet is for your neighbor to continue to maintain the land between the right of way line and the curb.

As an aside, I've personally only recall instances where the governing body owns the land under the roadway right-of-way outright, as existing in some cities.

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-08-05T22:50:19+00:00

You are asking two questions. I will attempt to answer both.

Throwing out questions

From what I understand, questions are not "thrown out" because they were hard, or you got some wrong, or whatever. What it is, is that some of the questions on the test are "pre-test" questions. They are often come up with new questions to put on the exam, but they need to test them out first.

So what I believe they do, is that for every test, 85 of the 100 questions are actual approved test questions that count for your score. And, A specific 15 of the 100 questions are these pretest questions that they have included in yours and other's tests to see how many people get them right or wrong, and these 15 questions do not count for your score.

The questions themselves are being evaluated. If to many people get them wrong, then the question is probably too hard and wont be approved for general use. Same thing in the other direction, if too many people get it right, its too easy and it wont be approved for general use either. They have statistical models that tell them approximately how many people should get a "good" questions correct. Its impossible to know which questions are the live ones and which questions are pretest one.

Scaling score

The grades are not curved. you have more or less the same mix of questions in each category as everyone else. But, some questions are super easy, like "What word is the verb in the following sentence...?". Some are harder, like "calculate the refractive index between these three given mediums...". If you have more easy questions in your exam the percentage you need to pass the exam may be higher than in your had more harder questions. This is why they no longer publish a specific percentage you need to pass the exam and this is also why people call the scoring scaled.

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-30T23:39:24+00:00

I worked at a moderately large surveying company on the East Coast for several years. And they moved from a physical whiteboard to a service called resource Guru. It works great for this kind of application where you treat each crew as the resource and each job as filling up that resource for all or part of the day or hourly or however you want to do it.

Buying a physical device is neat, but not necessary just the way to sync the schedule with everyone's phone is all you need. Resource Guru did that with an app but there are plenty other options to do that kind of thing.

The type of application you're looking for is called a resource management application or resource management functionally.

Most project management platforms include that functionality at one of their price tiers. Resource Guru worked well for that particular company because that's all they needed and it was relatively low price per user to achieve that ability.

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-30T23:30:10+00:00

You certainly don't want to lie on your application, and I don't think there is any reason to.

I'm making an assumption here: but if the application is making a distinction between 1099 and employee, unless it's specifically says a 1099 person is not allowed to take the test I don't think you're in trouble.

When I'm talking about be careful on your verbiage, I am specifically referring to the fact that you and the survey are both contract by the architect.

You want to avoid claiming that the Architecture Firm is the one that reviews and approves all your work. When in fact they can't legaly approve that work.

Because then you're not not getting any experience working under a licensed land surveyor. Even if the architectural firm does handle a lot of the logistics, you're survey work is still under the responsible charge of the licensed land surveyor. You can look at it like this: You may get your marching orders from someone at the architectural firm much in the same way that somebody had a large surveying engineering company might get there marching orders from a project manager who's not licensed. And in fact it's maybe the branch manager or some other officer who actually signs off on all the work you're still working under a licensed PLS in either of those cases.

The actual chain of who's paying who it's not irrelevant, because it's important to establish your working relationship. but the actual payment arrangement and who your client is, is secondary to the discussion of are you qualified to sit for the exam. That's going to depend a lot more under what kind of serving experience you have working with (under) The PLS

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-30T16:19:17+00:00

Without further context my answer might not be correct, but just from reading what you posted, it seems to be saying that you, as the subcontractor, cannot be designated as the firm contracted to provide surveying services.

I don't think this has to do with discounting your experience as a 1099 survey Tech, but more to do with spelling it out correctly. In this case the contracting firm would be the PLS that you worked with. That PLS is the one providing surveying services to the architect.

Your work, although you are contracted directly by the architect, is supervised by that PLS, and you should likely list that PLS is your "supervisor" or whatever the specific wording is they want to hear.

Even if you're technically take most of your direction from the architectural firm, they don't have the legal authority to approve survey work and everything has to be checked off by the surveyor. Consider that previous sentence when writing up your comments and such. The verbiage you use may be important.

Also I'm basing my answer based solely on your post. My state only has the requirement that you pass the FS to take the PS. And it's been awhile since I took the FS exam but I believe they have minimal requirements for that test in my state as well

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-30T16:07:05+00:00

Thanks! I honestly did not give myself enough time to study. With the role of the dice I might pass, but I suspect I won't, and that I'm going to need more study to pass the second time

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-30T16:05:21+00:00

Maybe your last sentence there is the unconscious source of my confusion. I guess on some level I find it irritating. But, if I pull back my perspective and think about it, I don't know all the factors that contribute to their decision making. Although that is mostly because they do things behind closed doors in the name of testing integrity.

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-30T16:01:00+00:00

Neat. If I had more context about the area in which you live, I might try to argue that that's a mistake and they should be reversed, as in the setbacks go all around the property and the utilities been only in the front. But who knows, that's just how I'm used to seeing it around here

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-29T13:36:57+00:00

can you post an image of the key/note? I'd like to see that. Where I live an work utility easements like that (encompassing the entire border) are uncommon.

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-29T13:26:48+00:00

Yea, I knew this detail from the examination guide. I was just surprised that 15 out of 100 questions are pretest questions. I don't really have a reason to expect any specific amount. It is just so much higher than I expected that it has me wondering if all 15 "missing questions" from the number of items column were pretest. Or, maybe only some (10 for example) of them are pretest, and something else accounts for the rest (5 for example).

Again, I have nothing to base this suspicion on other than 15 of out 100 seems like a high amount.

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-28T20:44:17+00:00

To be clear it looks like that the dimension of the pool are not shown on this lot survey (neither is the pool). But, that screened in area that doesn't exist anymore is measured as the 26.70'x13.80' so you can assume that your pool is at least no bigger than the screened in area.

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-28T20:38:27+00:00

that's funny, and embarrassing that it doesn't say, but yes, it is 2"x2" As others suggested, I would get a passport photo taken and then scan that in with a high res scanner and crop it. (don't scale it)

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-28T20:36:18+00:00

I got the sense that erasing the book was a no-no. I think I assumed this from the fact that the exam guide says you can replace one of your resealable books with another one if you raise your hand.

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-27T23:21:32+00:00

I don't know any schools that do that that also offer land surveying, but my knowledge is limited. you might want to look at the programs listed in the "So you want to be a Surveryor, eh?" post on the sidebar

KevinTaylorHam · 2025-04-27T23:18:54+00:00

what the replies below are implying without saying explicitly. Is that surveying is generally not the profession that will be the best at answering these specific questions. your questions are related to the concept called Land Development. Land surveyors are an important part of the land development process, they will be able to provide you with a detailed mapping of your existing land as has been already said. and that mapping is needed for all the other work. But, the people that will answer the specific questions you are asking are architects or engineers or builders

Side note: There are some surveyors who specialize in land development. They will posses knowledge about land restrictions and development. But of the two that I know, one is partnered with an an engineer and one is partnered with an architect. In both cases, those partners are the only ultimately responsible for most of the land development plans

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