I'm still trying to recover. I gave two talks on Friday, one in Abbotsford and the other at Vancouver CFI, which wasn't hard — it was just fun. And then they took us out for a night on the town, and we shut down two bars, and we only got back to our hotel at almost 4am. This was some kind of record for stamina. I also had the TrophyWife™ with me for a change, and now she's got the impression that these kinds of late night shenanigans are routine on my out-of-town jaunts.
There's one preliminary account of the event so far; everything was taped and will probably end up on youtube someday. More photos can be found via Fred Bremmer.
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"Our spectroscopic observations reveal the galaxy to be even farther away than we had originally thought, right at the distance limit of what Hubble can observe." -Gabriel Bremmer
I really do love illusions of all sorts, in large part because they fit nicely into my narrative about the fallibility of human thought, but illusions are also great as windows into the ordinary working of our brains.