Zenberg Blogue

In 1981, I temporarily worked for the United States Geological Survey as part of a project to update the map of the Stansbury Mountain Ran...

This is not a post about Mr. Rogers Neighborhood B ack when I was a teen, one of my favorite, after-school pass-times was Mr. Rogers Ne...

They say that a picture is worth a thousand words. This photo of Ronaldo is worth about 2,337 words... small words, but words nevertheless.

I can't stress how important it is for a land surveyor to carry an adequate amount of supplies with him. Nails are among the most impor...

I've always assumed that someday I'd stumble across a dead body. As a Land Surveyor, I've frequented some of the most remote and...

Early Surveying Practice by Richard M. Bennett

I'm not one of those people who watches TV when I fly. I like to gaze out the window in an attempt to figure out where I am, and find f...

Set the controls for the heart of Soquel. A sketch portrait of Rhetro Zenberg by Ronaldo. Thursday afternoon, July 24th, 2008. Last day.

Snow in Summer? Actually, white powdery ash covers the Bonny Doon landscape near Moon Rocks where the heavily wooded area was devastated in ...

Yesterday , Latter-day Apple -scruff techies lined up to become among the first to own the new iPhone 3G . I was passing through Los Gatos, ...

Aryans and Libert arians I n the mid-eighties, I took a job at an ice-production factory in Madison, Wisconsin. I walked in wearing a suit a...

Black Widow Spiders A s a land surveyor, I never know what I'm going to stumble upon. Some surprises are more welcome than others. Anyon...

A ctually, the FLDS only recently migrated to the L one Star State . For nearly a century, the obscure fundamentalist Mormon sect has been...

R onaldo Doolittle may have been a dog in his previous life. Like his grand-uncle John Doolittle before him, Ronaldo has the innate abilit...

Another Stake in the Bag .   C all me Fishmeal. In many ways, being a land surveyor is quite dangerous... even deadly. Some of the bigges...

When the Hyundai was first introduced in American, it was one of the less expensive new cars on the market. Many people, (especially the mor...

Putrefaction* is never a pleasant experience. Sometimes its overwhelming. I've had some of my strangest encounters with death while lan...

The shortest duration I ever held a job was one week. My father in-law got me a night shift position at BMC West building wooden trusses. I ...

Joe wasn't actually a Pagan, at least I don't think he was. When we met, he refused to shake hands, saying, "That's pagan!...