Diandra writes about social networks at Cocktail Party Physics, in it really is a small world

This reminds me that according to the Oracle of Bacon and some simple math, I have a Bacon number of three, sort of. Back when I was in high school, the local TV station (WRGB Channel 6) must have been desperate to fill some news time, because they schlepped a few doors down the road to the high school and interviewed some of us. I was interviewed by Ernie Tetrault, the news anchor (though he got my name wrong — the name that appeared onscreen was “Tim,” and I was recognized by a teller at the bank the next day. “OMG, you’re Tim Swanson!” Fame is so fleeting*) Ernie Tetrault has Bacon number of 2, as he was in the movie Sneakers (as a news anchor) with Stephen Tobolowsky, who was in a movie with Kevin Bacon (Murder in the First).

*but this allows me to say “There some who call me … Tim”