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From: David Leimbach <leimy2k@gmail.com>
To: Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com>,
	Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Boyd
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 06:46:37 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3e1162e60507110646652e1d1@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32a656c2050711051169d14298@mail.gmail.com>

I'm very sorry to hear this...  Boyd and I had a bit of a rough start
chatting on IRC but we were beginning to really hit it off... He gave
me lots of useful advice and I'll not forget the guy ever.

This is a very sad day.

Dave

On 7/11/05, Vester Thacker <vester.thacker@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm very much in shock. It's hard to believe that a good friend is
> gone. Boyd will be sorely missed to say the least. My condolences to
> his family.
> 
> --Vester Thacker
> 
> On 7/11/05, Dave Lukes <davel@anvil.com> wrote:
> > There's no easy way to say this, so I'll just say it.
> >
> > Boyd was found dead in his flat in Paris a couple of days ago.
> >
> > His ex-wife Cath just called me to tell me.
> >
> > Friends hadn't heard from him for a while, so they called the police
> > who broke in and found him dead.
> >
> > Sorry to be so blunt, but, like I said, there's never an easy way to
> > say this kind of thing.
> >
> > A wake and memorial will be forthcoming in some form.
> >
> > DaveL.
> >
> >
>


  reply	other threads:[~2005-07-11 13:46 UTC|newest]

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 [this message]
2005-07-11 15:38     ` Devon H. O'Dell
2005-07-11 15:41       ` Jack Johnson
2005-07-11 15:36 ` Dan Cross
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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