Re: bill manning

[Stan Barber <[e-mail]>]

I knew Bill early in my career while he was at Rice when Sesquinet was
starting up. I worked for Sesquinet’s first customer, Baylor College of
Medicine, at the time, and worked him often as that effort was started.

I offer condolences to his loved ones. I will always remember him fondly.

On Sun, Jan 26, 2020 at 6:54 AM Bob Hinden <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Rod,
>
> Thanks for the very nice note about Bill.  I too will miss him.
>
> Please express my condolences to Julie and the rest of his family.
>
> Bob
>
>
> > On Jan 25, 2020, at 8:34 PM, Rodney Van Meter <rdv=
> [e-mail]> wrote:
> >
> >
> > This morning I talked to Julie Manning, Bill's wife. Bill died early
> > Saturday morning, at home in Oregon.  Most of you know Bill was
> > waiting for a new heart. He would perhaps have gotten one next
> > month. I guess the old one just wouldn't hold out long enough.
> >
> > I first met Bill in about 1995, when I returned to ISI after my first
> > stint in Japan.  He had taken a position in the Los Nettos project at
> > ISI, a regional network project in the days when Internet service and
> > operations work was still heavily shared between business and
> > academia.  Bill brought an operator's eye to the project, often seeing
> > things differently from the researchers in the group.
> >
> > Bill kept the most erratic hours of any non-student I've ever met.  He
> > might be in the office at 2am or at 2pm, either was equally likely.
> > I'd ask, "Bill, what time did you come in?" He'd reply, "10am."  "I
> > was here before that, and you were already here, it must have been
> > earlier."  "Greenwich Mean Time."
> >
> > And in one phase of life, "Bill, where do you live?" "Seat 4A."  He
> > would speculate about his average altitude and speed over the previous
> > month.
> >
> > And, like any good geek, Bill had a spectacular collection of tie-dye
> > t-shirts.  He came by the look honestly: growing up in the Bay Area,
> > he had actually snuck into Grateful Dead rehearsals held in a barn,
> > and had traveled as a deadhead for a while.
> >
> > At ISI, we called Bill "the bad idea fairy".  He always brought a
> > slightly-off-kilter view of technical problems, which triggered
> > endless discussions of fascinating, if usually implausible,
> > alternatives.
> >
> > He had the most broad-ranging musical tastes of anyone I knew, and
> > would eat almost anything (though, like me, he didn't drink alcohol).
> > I was often envious of his eating and musical experiences.  He
> > certainly lived life to its fullest.
> >
> > On one occasion, I recall, we were eating lunch in a Thai restaurant
> > for the first time.  Bill called for the food "the way you'd make it
> > in Thailand".  The waiter went back into the kitchen and came out with
> > a few raw Thai chiles.  Bill ate one whole, without even breaking a
> > sweat.  The owner of the restaurant immediately came out to see who
> > was eating them.  Pam became a friend to our group.
> >
> > On other occasions, when the waiter asked for his order, Bill would
> > point to another person at the table, and say, "I'll have what she's
> > having."  "Well, what is she having?" "I don't know, I haven't heard
> > her say."  Once in a while, he would point to someone else in the
> > restaurant and say, "I'll have what they are having."  It was funny
> > and sometimes disconcerting, which was very Bill, and it was also his
> > way of making sure he himself was eating (and thinking and doing) as
> > broadly as possible, without getting stale.
> >
> > Bill worked in a bakery before joining Texas Instruments and
> > accidentally falling into computer networking.  (When we first met, he
> > was commuting between Houston and L.A.; Julie and the kids were still
> > in Houston.)  I believe he attended a series of colleges but never
> > finished his bachelor's degree.  Just a few years ago, however, Jun
> > Murai convinced him to get a Ph.D.; this took clearing administrative
> > hoops to demonstrate that Bill's life experience matched that of a
> > bachelor's degree, which it certainly did.  I was honored to be on his
> > Ph.D. committee.  I literally created a "trouble ticket" accounting
> > scheme to track change requests for his thesis.
> >
> > Bill was a valued member of the WIDE Project here in Japan.  He worked
> > with the DNS root operations group here, and participated in as many
> > WIDE meetings as he could.  He also came to Keio University's Shonan
> > Fujisawa Campus when he was in Japan, and one of the best things about
> > Bill was how seriously he took the students and their work, treating
> > them like adult colleagues.
> >
> > Bill had friends on all seven continents, and for all I know on the
> > International Space Station, as well. He was loved by us all.
> >
> > Julie does not plan to have a funeral immediately, so there is no need
> > for flowers or the like. The family may do a memorial service in Utah
> > in the spring.
> >
> > He was a unique and wonderful human being. And a good friend.
> > Rest in peace, Bill.
> >
> > —Rod
> >
> > Rodney Van Meter
> > Professor, Faculty of Environment and Information Studies
> > Keio University, Japan
> > [e-mail]
> >
> >
> >
> >> On Jan 26, 2020, at 13:06, Jorge Amodio <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> So sad :-(
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 9:12 PM Randy Bush <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >> we have lost another one
> >>
> >
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