I was in Illinois for a couple of days this week to deliver a VMware info session at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Going into it I had no idea that UIUC was the #4 CS school in the country so I was blown away by the number of people in attendance; far greater than at Waterloo or Stanford combined! They also asked so many good questions that we nearly overran our scheduled time.
Urbana-Champaign seemed like a pretty neat city. I spent a couple of hours at the local natural history museum on Wednesday morning, where I encountered a pair of tour-guides-in-training. One of them was French and seemed quite shocked that neither the other student nor the teacher had ever heard of Asterix and Obelix. They were equally surprised that I had.
On the flight home I inadvertently discovered that:
a) wireless electronic devices do work on aeroplanes during flight, although T-Mobile doesn't have much coverage over most of middle America;
b) the flight crew have no way of telling if you leave them on.
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