From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 11:36:10 -0400 From: Dan Cross To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Boyd Message-ID: <20050711153610.GA8757@augusta.math.psu.edu> References: <89a0c2b76047e048c66667a7a8837cb8@anvil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <89a0c2b76047e048c66667a7a8837cb8@anvil.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Topicbox-Message-UUID: 63c4749e-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 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.