Marc massaged it through some pipes to get an RSS feed of the UofI DPS crime reports.

It proves for entertaining reading. Such as:

An unknown person(s) poured two bottles of laundry detergent in the fountain near the Admissions and Records Building, 901 W. Illinois St., U. sometime after midnight on July 21. Staff estimated the costs of labor and de-foaming agents for clean-up at $300.

Yes, that’s bad — but think of how “green” they were being, doing their laundry outside.

A construction worker paid restitution ($186) for breaking a wood parking arm in a lot at Assembly Hall, 1800 S. First St., C. on July 7. According to the report, the man drove his truck across a pedestrian walkway to enter the parking lot without paying the fee and struck the arm. A witness recorded the truck’s license number and the incident also was captured by a surveillance camera. When interviewed by police, the man agreed to pay for the damage and the $5 parking fee.

And best yet:

Dumbass1, 22, of U. and Dumbass2, 21, of Paxton (not their real names) were arrested on a charge of criminal trespass to state-supported property on July 14. At 2:05 a.m. Urbana and U. of I. police responded to a call of a burglary in progress and a report of suspects on the roof of the Bread Co. building. Dumbass1 was arrested after an U. officer identified him as the suspect he had seen on the roof of Krannert Center for the Performing Arts, 500 S. Goodwin Avenue, U. a few minutes later. Dumbass2 was arrested at about 2:36 a.m. when a U. of I. officer saw him walking with a woman on the west side of KCPA. According to the report, the officer became suspicious because Dumbass2 was not wearing a shirt, shoes or socks and was covered with dirt.

So, enjoy!

You’re a classic - powerful, athletic, and competitive. You’re all about winning the race and getting the job done. While you have a practical everyday side, you get wild when anyone pushes your pedal. You hate to lose, but you hardly ever do.

Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.

Richard micro-blogged a link I thought was interesting along these lines: a graphical designer looking at libraries. What insights can we gain from people whose focus is outside our typical maxims? Be sure to read the long version of the report, where she considers different storing/stacking/piling methods and comes around that shelves are the most functional. (Duh .. Although any library has every method of globbing books together.)

I don’t particularly care for her spine labels, but I like the evolution of thought in her notes (let’s do whole spine jackets to find things… wait, that’s terrible…) The outside perspective is interesting.

“Hello lightning bug.”

As I walked towards the window, it flashed me again. It was stationary. Odd. Upon closer inspection, I noticed the bug outside was larger. It was a big, brown spider dangling in front of my window, holding a lightning bug. Neither moved, nor did I, as my hopefulness slid off my face and took my smile with it. The lightning bug flashed again, and I couldn’t tell if its glow was dimmer the second time, or if it only seemed that way. We stared at each other for a good few seconds.

My lips tightened and curled into a smirk. In an quick instant, I felt every emotion for a doomed insect — Regret. Pain. Retaliation. Remorse. Inevitability. Acceptance. I finally settled on irony. Sometimes, even hopelessness glows.

“Goodbye lightning bug.”

Star spangled banner — ex (she does kimi ga yo better, I think)
Flourish for wind band / R. Vaughn Williams — ex
Bacchanale : from Samson and Delilah / Camille Saint-Saens — ex1, drum corp ex2
Scenes from “The Louvre : based on Ancient Airs / Norman Dello Joio
El Capitan / John Philip Sousa — ex
Jupiter / Gustav Holst, transcribed by James Curnow
John Williams : the symphonic marches / John Williams, arr. by John Higgins
Inglesina ["The Little English Girl"] / Davide Delle Cese — bad ex, ex
Gershwin : a medley for concert band / Ira and George Gershwin, arr. Robert Russell Bennett
Illinois Loyalty / Thacher Guild, arr. Mark H. Hindsley — ex with mace!