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I saw the oddest thing riding home on the bus today. Hundreds of people walking across campus, almost all of them going uniformly in the same direction, and almost all wearing orange. The reason it was so noticable was almost everyone that I could see was moving in the same direction. It was interesting how extremely strongly that contrasted with the usual foot traffic on that part of campus, which is probably about the same concentration at that time of day, but moving in random directions.
There was, in fact, a specific reason for the behavior. The Illini basketball team had a welcoming reception-thing this afternoon when they came back from the national NCAA championship game. But there you could definitely tell what direction they were going by just a casual glance. That siuation was similar, actually, to the sort of work I did as a graduate student. High energy physics discerns patterns and structure by analyzing the motions of many small particles.
I'm pleased to report that Neil Gaiman's sculpture is well under repair.
Penguicon is cranking up. I'm riding up with UHACC. I can't wait!