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Well, not that anybody would notice but I haven't been around a lot lately, as my work has really been in overdrive for the last 6 months.

In case none of you know, I am the HDS Project Manager for a Civil/Survey firm in the Detroit area. (http://www.metcohds.com) The "HDS" stands for High Definition Surveying, which is data collection with extremely high speed lasers......by high speed, I mean 500,000 data points (x,y,z) per second. We use this technology to create As-Builts of entire facilities. I've done projects at some of the largest Nuclear facilites in the Country and have mapped "millions" of square feet of Automotive plants (the meat of our work at this point).

The reason I bring all of this up, is that I was asked to perform the High Definition Surveying services for two extremely kick ass projects coming up in the next three months.

The first one is for an organization called CYARK (http://www.cyark.org) and will be the collection of all the data on the Myan Pyramids of Chitzen Itza in Mexico. Cyark is a historical preservation society (non profit) that does this work all over the world. This past winter, we collected data on the Historic Tudor Place in Washington D.C. Cyark liked the work so much, they gave us the project in Mexico!

The next project will be happening at the end of September and into October and is being put together as a joint effort through the Autodesk, LEICA and Trimble and will include mapping "many" of the areas on Easter Island!! I will be taking an absolute shitload of pictures, videos etc., etc. etc. and am more excited than you can imagine!

Easter Island is the most remote inhabited island in the world. I've been given a list of things to bring.....including a Satelite Phone, mosquito nets and lots and lots of DEET!

Double D.....you can be damn sure I'm diving!

I'll keep you all posted!!

Later!

Rim.

I hate you right now.....

Seriously man, this gig rocks... Be safe, be good(ish), and don't knock-up too many island girls....

We look forward to the pics and a full report!

I don't think I could have said it any better myself st4, lol...

Kick ass stuff RIM...

have fun and be safe !

8-) Absolutely cool!!!!

becareful of the Islanders -ala Cpt Jack Sparrow- or just carry alot of Paprika ;)

That sounds like a really, really sweet job. Congrats on getting those projects! Have fun while you're doing it too

Damn man. The job sounds awesome. Hope you have a kick ass time and yeah all the vids and pics would be cool to see.

I don't suppose you need an assistant, photographer, divemaster, gofer, lackey? I am absolutely and totally envious of you right now. I am totally looking forward to seeing the pics and hearing the stories. I suppose this means you'll be incommunicado for awhile too. Damn!

D....I take you....shit, I'd take all of you, in a fucking minute! Honestly, this is a once in a lifetime chance and I can't believe it came my way!!!!

I looked into a SATPHONE today.....they are very reasonably priced. I can get one with Voice and Internet for around $150.00 a week (+ a per minute charge). The cool thing is, the company is going to take the hit on this one.

You guys can be guaranteed that I will be posting as much as I can while I'm there!