As I read through others words I recall the Gary I knew, an accomplished scholar, a mentor, a friend. In addition to interactions at conferences, I had the pleasure of working with Gary on the ICTD 2010 conference, we served as program co-chairs along with Jonathan Donner. One reason I agreed to take this on was that Gary would be involved and I would get to know him, and Jonathan, better.
Through this I came to know Gary's sense of humour. He was brilliantly funny. I'll miss his laugh, it was infectious. I'll miss discussions about atrocious carpet designs. I'll regret that we never did start an Internet website to collect pictures of awful carpet. But I feel both lucky and grateful to have known Gary.
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