bucky ball

I  woke up with the phrase "bucky ball" in my head, I must have been dreaming about it right before I woke up. I was trying to think, what does it mean? I heard it somewhere, I read it somewhere. Was it the nickname for the Italian game I wrote a report on at Dwyer? No that was Bocci ball. 10 hours later I found myself at the mall at Brookstone looking at a toy called Bucky ball. I hesitate to fall into the trap of assigning a connection where there is none but, it was quite an odd experience.

I looked it up, it's an atomic configuration made from carbon. It used to be on my NetBSD screensaver in college. Why on Earth I thought of it this morning for the first time in 6 years I'll never know. Why I saw it 10 hours later I won't either.