Read somewhere that no-till soil has way more mycorrhizal fungi than tilled dirt. Sounds like that old timer was proof it works.

Did your grandpa ever admit it was on purpose or did you just find out from the watchmaker?

Smell works better than most people realize.

Right, because apparently the secret to good wings isn't the sauce, it's chemistry class. Guess I'll be over here in the corner apologizing to my baked chicken for years of neglect.

That university story matches what I have seen too. I know three IT directors in the Kansas City area who tested EVPN-VXLAN on small sections of their campus and none of them kept it long term because troubleshooting became a real headache. Some vendors talk like MPLS is done, but for a lot of us running medium sized sites with mixed gear, it still just works without all the extra complexity.