Live and re-learn
I’ve been a citizen of California for 41 years, and I learned here long ago that the narrow staircase-like parallel terraces on many ranchland hillsides were caused by cattle grazing on horizontal paths, because ungulates aren’t climbers. I have seen cattle on some of these, so the story made sense. But my knowledge of geology, which is greater than the average former Earth Sciences student, was just increased by learning that this kind of land surface is called a terracette. Which, says the link, is an enigma. Cattle maybe. Slumping soft soil maybe. Both maybe.
Guess that means we’ll slap a tariff on the winner
WSJ: U.S. and Ukrainian Forces Went Head-to-Head in an Exercise. Ukraine’s Drones Won.
Help other doors open past a closed one
While Netflix has been stuttering through buffering issues at our house the last few times we’ve watched it, my wife and I were reminded again how essential our friend Dave Täht was, and remains.
As our mutual friend Eric S. Raymond put it (here, via Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols), “His work on mitigating bufferbloat improved practical TCP/IP performance tremendously, especially around video streaming and other applications requiring low latency. Without him, Netflix and similar services might still be plagued by glitches and stutters.”
Normally we might call Dave, just for fun and advice. But he’s been gone for more than a year now. And everyone’s networked world—and much else—remains diminished by his absence. Perhaps more than ever.
Yet we (or at least I) don’t know where or how Dave died. For closure, however one defines it, that kind of knowledge is good to have. If anyone out there has that information (no longer news, for what that’s still worth), please feel free to share it here or with me privately. Thanks.
Profiles in Burnage
Classmates.com sends unwanted emails to me, assuming I am an alumnus of Alliance Christian High School, about which I otherwise know nothing. I have been unsubscribed for some time. I just tried again.
Happens
Reason: Border Patrol Saves America From Canadian Trucker Delivering Goods in New Mexico. First source is Canadian trucker arrested in New Mexico for alleged cabotage violations, in Freightwaves. And now I know what Cabotage means.
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