I swear there are only 5000 people in the world.
I had fun today hanging out at TCAF with David Malki! and Ryan North, and mentioned to Ryan that--as my Scottish relatives would say--"I kent yer father", quite independently of the connection he and I have via "Machine of Death". (I also had fun hanging out with
other afterward!)
One of the Queen's mentors on the robotics team is the grandson of one my mother's oldest friends, whom she has known since they were in grade three.
And today I learned that I am three degrees away from Osama bin Laden: one of my oldest friends trained briefly with Osama's judo coach--Jimmy Wu--in Taiwan.
I am also, for what it's worth, two degrees away from Brian Mulroney, George Bush I, and the Queen. What are the odds of that if there are really 7 billion people in the world?