From: Dan Cross <cross@math.psu.edu>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Boyd
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:36:10 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050711153610.GA8757@augusta.math.psu.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89a0c2b76047e048c66667a7a8837cb8@anvil.com>
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 12:27:47PM +0100, Dave Lukes wrote:
> A wake and memorial will be forthcoming in some form.
How awful. I liked Boyd. He was quite a character....
Boyd was very into military things; he wore cammies and picked up
various military type gadgets. He often chose the names of characters
from war movies as his IRC handles (I remember, `Master Gunnery
Sergeant Hartman', a promotion of the crazy Drill Instructor character
played by R. Lee Ermey in Stanley Kubrick's, `Full Metal Jacket': `I am
Gunnery Sergeant Hartman, your Senior Drill Instructor...').
When I was still on active duty in the US Marine Corps, Boyd took a
trip to Normandy for the 60th Anniversary of D-Day. He sent me a stone
he'd picked up from Omaha Beach. I was very touched by the gesture.
I believe Bruce saw him recently and spent some time at his flat.
Despite his bravado, which put people off at times, I think he was
fundamentally a good guy. This is a shame and a big loss.
- Dan C.
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-11 11:27 Dave Lukes
2005-07-11 12:11 ` Vester Thacker
2005-07-11 13:46 ` David Leimbach
2005-07-11 15:38 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-07-11 15:41 ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-11 15:36 ` Dan Cross [this message]
2005-07-11 17:28 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2005-07-11 22:41 ` Steve Simon
2005-07-12 21:14 ` William S.
2005-07-12 22:05 ` Gorka guardiola
2005-07-13 18:28 ` Federico Benavento
2005-07-13 19:43 ` geoff
2005-07-13 19:53 ` Ronald G. Minnich
2005-07-13 19:57 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-07-13 20:10 ` Charles Forsyth
2005-07-13 20:16 ` Dave Lukes
2005-07-11 12:19 Dave Lukes
2005-07-12 0:26 YAMANASHI Takeshi
2005-07-12 0:38 ` Adrian Tritschler
2005-07-13 5:35 ` Dave Lukes
2005-07-13 5:45 ` George Michaelson
2005-07-13 5:45 ` Andy Newman
2005-07-13 7:49 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-07-12 6:46 ` geoff
2005-07-12 7:09 ` Sascha Retzki
2005-07-12 7:30 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-07-12 7:35 ` geoff
2005-07-12 7:46 ` Bruce Ellis
2005-07-12 11:33 ` Vester Thacker
2005-07-12 9:00 ` Dave Lukes
2005-07-12 12:05 ` Harri Haataja
2005-07-12 13:10 ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-07-13 0:48 ` William Josephson
2005-07-12 7:43 Fco. J. Ballesteros
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