Monday, January 09, 2006

Can we all be connected by Blogs too?

How cool is this? Are we all really linked to each other in 6 steps? I would like to study that myself-but I do not have any time! (I found this on my Yahoo news page)

The theory that everyone in the world is separated by at most five acquaintances was first proposed in a 1929 short story by the Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy. The story was called "Chains," and while the six degrees theory was a purely fictional conceit, the idea proved popular.
In 1967, psychologist Stanley Milgram tried to test the theory by sending several letters to random people in the Midwest. The letter featured the name, address, and occupation of a single person on the East Coast; participants were asked to forward the letters to the people who they thought were most likely to know the person. It took an average of five intermediaries to reach the target.
The experiment came into some scrutiny afterwards, but the results were published in
Psychology Today and gave birth to the phrase "six degrees of separation." Playwright John Guare popularized the term with his play, which later became a film starring a then up-and-coming Will Smith. But get this -- the original 1967 experiment was repeated in 2001 with email, and the same results came back! Then there's that whole Kevin Bacon business....
Speaking of separation, I am still looking for my good friend Greg Nauser…if anyone out there in the blog-o-sphere knows him…direct him to my site PLEASE. I tried to keep in contact with him but he dropped the ball…so maybe that is a good reason to quit looking for him isn’t it? I doubt he wants to be found? Oh well, I doubt I would find him anyway-even though my sister doesn’t live to far away from him…they were friends too-Greg & my sister.
So, thinking of Greg and the whole thing I have with redheads- (Greg was my first redhead love.) my new favorite show is Four Kings…How funny was that? I was laughing my ass off. I hope it stays on! Seth Green-what a cutie!!!
Nothing else really new from this weekend. I hate this blog set up. Going to change it tonight maybe…playing Monopoly with the little one is too fun! Except she bought all the railroads and I was going broke!!! She is still a bit mouthy-but we are working on that…Miss dad. He is doing wonderful though, so I am happy. Getting airline tickets to Florida for the summer!!! Going to sweat my brains out on the beach for a whole week!!! Maybe take Max to Disney…

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