Goofy art?

This is visible from the deck off the hospitality suite we are using for our Division events. I think it's supposed to be an ivory woodpecker, but no one seems to know why it is there.



Ate pretty good today, too. All free - breakfast paid by SIAM, a mathematics publisher, lunch paid by IOP, a physics publisher, and dinner paid by Thomson Scientific, a database vendor (dinner was a pretty good Pad Thai).