Creepiness…
November 22nd, 2006I’ve been reading Wil Wheaton’s blog (again, ghastly word!) and followed a link on there to his wife’s blog and then on to her sister’s blog. I must admit it felt a tad creepy following these links and bit by bit finding out more about his life and those of his loved ones. I felt like a real intruder or maybe some sort of stalker… isn’t there a law against that? Anyway, I’m not going to link to the two blogs I ended up at just because that feels wrong.
Howver, I did find out that Wil’s wife is Croatian (I think, but I got a bit confused…) and that got me thinking about the Kevin Bacon game. You know the one where you see how many links it would take you to get from one (seemingly unrelated) person to another, and try to do it in 4 or less? I can sense that you’re not with me here, so here’s an example…… imagine I want to try and link to the Pope (bear with me here). On the surface, that might well be impossible, especially as I’m not a Catholic anymore, but listen to this. My Mother’s step-mother (my step-grandmother) was Uber-religious, (to the extent of giving me prayer-cards for birthdays when I was a kid). She used to regularly go to Rome to kiss the Pope’s ring (cut the jokes!), when the Pope used to be Pope John Paul II. So, therefore I am ‘related’ to Pope (Benedict) via my Mother, her Step-mother, and John Paul II! So how many moves is that? I think I count 4, so I win!
Do you get my drift here? Are you still with me? Wake Up there at the back! SO, the way I see it I can get to Wil Wheaton in 4 moves too; my P.A. Lana is from Croatia (do you see where I’m going with this?), Mrs Wheaton is also from Croatia, and obviously, she is married to Mr Wheaton. So, bonzaaa! I am ‘related’ to Wil Wheaton in 3 moves! Actually, I bet if I put some thought into it, I could come up with loads more connections to him….. there’s the whole geek-factor that he has in common with Miles (tehehe! Shhhh), for starters, then there’s California, and Guinness and erm… well…
OK, OK, I can see this is getting a tad sad so we’ll leave it there, shall we, and pretend this post never happened…..
