It's the last hurrah for the conference. The mood of the people, the packing of the things, the music, all are of a kind of generic "moving on" "thinking of home" theme. It's not literally over yet, but the box of memory all this is being packed into is out and open. In a way, this is the counterpart to Hypatia for me -- both are expressions of who I am.

Just finished the keynote on Von Neumann. It was interesting and funny -- I'm probably going to want to see if I can get some of the original materials from the appropriate libraries. I didn't realize that so many of the greats early this century worked in the same place...