I grew up just outside Pittsburgh and used to take piano lessons across the street from his house.
Not to make light of a sad situation, but good lord, Nick, is there anyone famous you haven't met? :-) Forget "Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon." Thanks to you, everyone on the list is separated from Mr. Rogers, Harry Anderson, John Perry Barlow, and many others I don't remember, by just two degrees, us to you and you to them.
On a related note, has anyone on the list read _Nexus: Small Worlds and the Groundbreaking Science of Networks_ by Mark Buchanan? I'm about two-thirds of the way through it, and it's absolutely fascinating. It has covered ecology, the internet, the connections between neurons in the brain, mob behavior, protein networks in bacteria, and many other networks in terms of "small-world" network theory.
Does anyone know how _Nexus_ compares to some of the other books on this subject, like _Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age_ by Duncan Watts, or _Linked: The New Science of Networks_ by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (other than the fact that all three of the books mentioned have a colon in the title :-)?
Reggie Bautista
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