Office building

I drove over to MSRI in Berkeley today for some games talks. I was late because a truck tipped over in Oakland and spilled something nasty on the freeway. When I finally reached the accident site, there was a white powder in the air, and hazmat-suited guys on the side of the road. It looked a little bit like a scene from The Simpsons.

"Ah yes—I'm sure this is perfectly harmless," I assured myself as the white powder flowed smoothly over the car and I drove on through.

I took this photo of an unoccupied office building 20 minutes earlier as I sat in my then motionless car, roughly near the Oakland Colosseum on highway 880.