Category: Bad Backsights

In my first five years as a young surveyor, I had the privilege of working with a PLS who was maybe ten years…

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

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

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

Well, it is February, and like all of you, (suuure…), my thoughts go straight to the Roman god of boundaries and boundary markers….

Artificial sweeteners—sounded good in theory, but now they are thought to be bad for us. Faux meat—real yecch. The synthesizer versus the electric…

It seems like the fastest way to get into a vigorous debate, if not an outright argument, with your fellow surveyor is to…

The First Amendment to the US Constitution enshrines the Freedom of Speech, along with the Freedom of Religion, right to assemble peaceably and…

I used to listen to Art Bell’s Coast to Coast radio show when driving across the desert at night. His shows were full…

There are always more questions than answers. This seems to be a universal law and it certainly holds true in my experience. Every…