{"id":6470,"date":"2025-05-01T11:45:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-01T18:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/?p=6470"},"modified":"2025-12-31T14:45:50","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T22:45:50","slug":"a-little-humor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/index.php\/2025\/05\/01\/a-little-humor\/","title":{"rendered":"A Little Humor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Crazy Eddie\u2019s\u00ae Discount Survey Equipment<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>by: Carl C. deBaca<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text has-media-on-the-right is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:auto 47%\"><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Has the high price of technology got you down? Did you go to bed laughing about all those foreign countries taking a beating from the application of our patriotic tariffs, but woke up unable to afford any new survey equipment?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Well then, check out Crazy Eddie\u2019s\u00ae. Our prices are insane! Take a look at our custom transits, super-cherry theodolites, and extremely in-demand beetle distance meters. And Eddie throws in a free add-chain with every instrument purchase. We\u2019re blowing the crap out of high prices! Tariff- schmariff, we\u2019ve got what you need, or more importantly, what you can afford!<\/p>\n<\/div><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"749\" height=\"813\" src=\"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CrzyEddie.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6472 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CrzyEddie.png 749w, https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/CrzyEddie-276x300.png 276w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 749px) 100vw, 749px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the impending collapse of the survey instrument industry, why be caught flat-footed or (US Survey Footed)? The Sokkia GTS2b with an SDR33 that only works in International Feet, is the package you need! Remember how great the Seventies were? Well now you can work just like it\u2019s 1975! Remember those three-person field crews? It\u2019s time to bring \u2018em back!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With the patriotic tariff situation putting lithium batteries beyond the ability of most people to afford, perhaps you want to explore more \u2018mature\u2019 options. Why spend upwards of $100K on a new Leica\u00ae Robotic Total Station when Crazy Eddie\u2019s\u00ae can put you in a better than new, upright image Wild T-1, with it\u2019s unlimited and speedy stadia technology. As fast as you can write down three rod readings and the horizontal and vertical angles, (in your free, Write-in-the-Rain field book), the person of rod can be moving to the next point. You should be able to collect upwards of 300 points a day (real results may vary).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And if you are a GPS user, and we are not talking GNSS here, we are talking good old fashioned American GPS, then Crazy Eddie\u2019s\u00ae, has found a supplier that can hack into the chipset on your Trimble\u00ae 4700 receiver and eliminate the terminal error that rendered them unusable at the end of 2024. With just a few minor modifications you are back in business, (but without the ability to use Glonass, Galileo or BeiDou satellites \u2013 who needs those foreign satellites, anyway?).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Come on down to Crazy Eddie\u2019s\u00ae today! Modern technology is just a word, Vintage, is where it\u2019s at! <em>Bitcoin, Dogecoin and Gold bars, readily accepted<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">This Ad submitted by Dan Manion, seemed appropriate to go along with this article.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"756\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SurveyAddcropped-756x1024.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5210\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SurveyAddcropped-756x1024.png 756w, https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SurveyAddcropped-221x300.png 221w, https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SurveyAddcropped-768x1041.png 768w, https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SurveyAddcropped-1134x1536.png 1134w, https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SurveyAddcropped-960x1301.png 960w, https:\/\/www.centralcoastclsa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/SurveyAddcropped.png 1186w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 756px) 100vw, 756px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crazy Eddie\u2019s\u00ae Discount Survey Equipment by: Carl C. deBaca Has the high price of technology got you down? 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