Re: [TUHS] G R Emlin

[Brantley Coile <brantley@coraid.com>]

I can't keep her from using her email address. She's the contact for coraid.com.

She came south with me after the the last International Workshop on Plan 9 at Bell Labs in 200?. 

cessna% who
bwc
gremlin
charlie
jcf
kaushal
none
tor
cessna% grep eml /adm/users
34:gremlin:gremlin:
cessna% 

> On Jul 20, 2020, at 9:49 AM, arnold@skeeve.com wrote:
> 
> Brian Kernighan acknowledges Grace's contribution as a reviewer
> of his memoir on Unix (published last year).
> 
> I asked Brian to follow up with Gerard Holzmann to add her to his
> alumni page (https://www.spinroot.com/gerard/1127_alumni.html);
> he did so.  The curious can look there to see where she went. :-)
> 
> Arnold
> 
> Doug McIlroy <doug@cs.dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Coming upon this dedication in  W.B. Yeats's book, "Irish Folk
>> stories and Fairy Tales", I felt a frisson of connection: "Inscribed
>> to my mystical friend, G. R." Mystically present in the Unix room
>> and on the 1127 org chart, G. R. Emlin took a place in our little
>> community akin to that of fairies in Irish peasant culture. First
>> encountered by Fred Grampp, G. R. manifested to others in various
>> guises, ranging from Grace Emlin, whom I remember as a security guru,
>> to a Labs-badged apparition now housed in the corporate archives
>> (www.peteradamsphoto.com/unix-folklore/). My most memorable personal
>> encounter was when I received from G. R. a receipt for paint for the
>> water-tower project (spinrooot.com/pico/pjw.html) as part of a request
>> for reimbursement. I passed the voucher up the chain of command to
>> our executive director, Vic Vyssotsky. Unfortunately for G. R., Vic,
>> despite his masterful ability to bypass bureaucratic obstacles,
>> declared he wasn't authorized to approve plant improvements.
>> 
>> Doug