Category: Column

10.25.2025

The Age of Disbelief

We are entering into a time when we will have trouble believing our lying eyes. So far, AI appears to be mostly used…

10.25.2025

Did you happen to read the editorial by Juan Plaza that NSPS helpfully linked on the Surveyor Says website? It is entitled Are…

10.25.2025

This is not the article I had intended to write for this issue. But I can no longer restrain my frustration with what…

08.13.2025

Several years ago, Angus Stocking wrote the following: We are working in hills above the Pacific Ocean, retracing GLO corners set more than…

08.13.2025

In the latest setback for the integrity of licensure and the protection of professions, some states are ‘streamlining’ their boards of regulation by…

08.13.2025

Several times in previous columns (e.g. The Noblest of Trades, 09.24.2022) I have tried to express, probably too pompously, that land surveying (and…

08.13.2025

Much of what surveyors say, do, and write is beyond the simple comprehension of non-surveyors. Our specialized knowledge can be even harder to…

05.11.2025

Pundits have proclaimed for years that our society has peaked, and subsequent generations will have it harder than the one before. Everything is…

05.11.2025

No offense to accountants but do you suppose that, at professional conferences attended by accountants, that a typical icebreaker goes, “So Bob, how…

05.11.2025

In 2005 I reviewed the first two books of architect Christopher Alexander’s four-book magnum opus, The Nature of Order in two columns—Life, the…