User:Gazpacho
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I am a software developer at a Seattle company. I attended Stanford University for my master's degree and before that was in East Tennessee, where I grew up. My interests are in computing and Western history.
One particular area of history I've taken an interest in, which might seem surprising, is the history of roads (all kinds, rail, trail, paved). I think my interest comes from watching a documentary about the rediscovery of the Arabian fort of Ubar. After falling in the first century A.D., it was found nearly 2000 years later by following the traces of unimproved roads through the open desert. You have to respect anything that durable. Roads that connect human settlements are economically significant to those settlements. In a war, they're militarily significant. If they're big enough, then they're historically significant. Great roads never die, they just get renamed.
Articles to which I have been a leading contributor
Anglo-Cherokee War - Anthony Poshepny - Bonus Army - Burton W. Folsom, Jr. - Callback (computer science) - Charles Robert Jenkins - Covert operation - Diner - Domed city - Edgar Buell - Family values - Fort Loudon (Tennessee) - Larry Timmons - List of military conflicts spanning multiple wars - Monitor (synchronization) - Plastic shopping bag - Slave patrol - Spruce-fir moss spider - Tail recursion - Therac-25
POV disputes in which I have intervened
- Augusto Pinochet (User:172 vs. User:VeryVerily)
- Khmer Rouge (User:Shorne vs. User:VeryVerily et al., unsuccessful)
- Human rights in the United States (User:Shorne vs. User:VeryVerily)
- George W. Bush (User:MONGO vs. User:JamesMLane et al.)
- Creation science (User:Ungtss vs. User:Bensaccount et al., unsuccessful)