No offense to accountants but do you suppose that, at professional conferences attended by accountants, that a typical icebreaker goes, “So Bob, how…
Category: Column
05.11.2025
Pragmatic Mystic
Christopher Alexander’s Vision of a Living World
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…
05.11.2025
Bamboozled
There’s a new form of trespass in town, and it can stump the most diligent property owner. It can also stump surveyors trying…
05.11.2025
Thoughts on Licensure and Chesterton’s Fence
A recent article from the American Society of Civil Engineers’ webpage infrastructurereportcard.org provided numerous examples of an on-going effort across many of these…
03.06.2025
Geo Week 2025 — A Milestone Event for Geospatial Technologies
Geo Week 2025, held in Denver from February 10–12, was the largest in its history, attracting 3,222 participants from 49 countries—an 8% increase…
03.06.2025
Terminus
Well, it is February, and like all of you, (suuure…), my thoughts go straight to the Roman god of boundaries and boundary markers….
03.06.2025
What Lawyers Don’t Know
In my work with people in the legal profession, I find many have very limited or no experience with property complications and their…
12.31.2024
Re: Has Technology Made the Professional Surveyor Obsolete?
Thank you for bringing these articles back and please keep up the good work. A good reminder to our profession about the value…
12.31.2024
Is it Intelligent to Attack the Artificial?
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…
12.31.2024
Reflections of a Former Former Land Surveyor
2001 was a big year for me: I quit a fundamentalist Christian cult and adopted new beliefs about the eternal, moved from the…
