Thomas Lord Has Died

A good front page editorial on him: https://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2022-07-10

"Tom Lord was one of the last of the real Berkeleyans, not the goofy stereotypes of the long-gone “How Berkeley Can You Be?” parade (started by a guy who lived in Piedmont) but a data-driven free-range public intellectual who was not hampered by conventional thinking. He knew a lot about a lot of things that really count, and he wasn’t shy about telling you so. He showed up frequently at Berkeley public meetings to politely set officials straight on what they were doing, even when pompous officials allowed him no more than a one-minute sound byte. ..."

Not to be confused with the HN and github tom-lord

Known to many people as the original author of GNU arch: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_arch

TIL the original author of GNU arch shared my name and was born in the same state as me!