2001 was a big year for me: I quit a fundamentalist Christian cult and adopted new beliefs about the eternal, moved from the…
Author: Angus Stocking
12.31.2024
Product Review: Better Aerial Targets, Better (& Less Polluting) Aerial Surveys
James M. Dickey, PLS, has been in the profession for more than 25 years, and has been a Principal at Cinquini & Passarino,…
08.24.2024
Book Review: Temenos: The Design and Experience of Urbanism as Spiritual Path
Urban planners and land surveyors are natural enemies, or so it seems when we surveyors struggle to accommodate Byzantine zoning regulations and arbitrary…
06.10.2024
The Pier Stone, and Thomas Jefferson as Geomancer-in-Chief
Probably the majority of American land surveyors know of the Jefferson Pier’s existence, while at the same time having only hazy and subtly…
01.29.2024
Land Surveying & Crop Circles
I am interested in crop circles and believe them to be a perplexingly powerful phenomenon that demands serious investigation not because I am…
01.11.2024
GEODNET: Global Earth Observation Decentralized Network
A Permissionless, Blockchain-Enabled Network of 3,000 RTK Stations (and Counting) That May Be the Future of Precise Location
Assuming you’ve ever traveled by plane, train, ship, or automobile, or received a package in the mail or through a shipping company, or…
11.01.2023
Everything is Somewhere: A Few Words in Favor of Libertarian Ideals
I read Carl C. de Baca’s (PLS) August 2023 column, Anatomy of a Conspiracy, with great interest and approval which perhaps is no…
09.24.2022
The Noblest of Trades
Combining in a single profession—in a single day’s work, sometimes—mathematics, law, field work, historical investigation and sundry other skills, land surveying is rightly…
07.11.2022
In Memoriam: Christopher Alexander
“Really one of the very largest problems that is facing the Earth just now, is rarely mentioned—and that is the spread of ugliness.”…
