Each week, we present a surveying problem for you to solve from the third edition of “Surveying Solved Problems for the FS and PS Exams” by Jan Van Sickle, PLS (formerly "1001 Solved Surveying Fundamentals Problems"), some jokes, trivia or other amusing items and a cool link to brighten your day. If you have a joke or link you would like to share, please submit it to sowal@bnpmedia.com.

Joke of the Week

A guy walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter methodically placing "Love" stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over them. He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over them.

His curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the balding man and asks him what he is doing. The man says, "I'm sending out one thousand Valentine cards signed, 'Guess who?'"

"But why?" asks the man.

"I'm a divorce lawyer," the man replies.

Source - www.ajokeaday.com

Problem of the Week

The term fiducial marker, as it is used in photogrammetry, is best defined as

A. one of the (usually) two images on a photograph that define the axis of the tilt
B. a premarked target set on the ground to balance the stereo model
C. one of the (usually) four objects connected to the camera's interior that form images on the negative as each photograph is taken
D. the plane that defines the camera's focal length

For answers - www.pobonline.com/Articles/Fun_Games_Answers