Had my first early #Christmas get-together on Saturday evening. The closer to Christmas, the busier people are, and the worse traffic gets. So we like to be early. 🤪

'Twas a lovely evening. 😊
I learned something new!

Mi-sòaⁿ Chhin / 麵線親 / 面线亲

I'm translating it as "noodle relative/s". 😄 It's about relations like in #SixDegrees but with some relatives in the [thin] connecting threads. #Chinese #Fujian #Minnan #Hokkien #family

Do you folks have a similar thing in your #language? 😃

"Streetcorner Symphony" is the fifth and final single from American singer-songwriter #RobThomas's 2005 debut solo album, ... Something to Be. It was released on October 16, 2006. The song features #JohnMayer on #leadGuitar and #backingVocals (though Mayer is not credited as an official artist). This song has been featured on advertisements for ABC's Thursday-night lineup, including #UglyBetty, #GreysAnatomy, and #SixDegrees. Thomas.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJht1qpzIQU

@TwoClownsEating @heapy just realized that’s a clip from the Elephant man, directed by Mat's favorite, David Lynch and starring John Hurt, who, in another vehicle appeared alongside Tim Roth and Terence Stamp in… wait for it, 'The Hit.'

Judith Chalmers may or may not have provided technical advice to the production.

There's more: The Hit was directed by Stephen Frears. When she was training as a nurse at Addenbrooke's in Cambridge my Mum had a date with Mr Frears. He was studying Law at Trinity college and took her out in his 'Bubble car'. You climbed in to it by opening a door comprising the bonnet and windshield.

Determined to plumb the depths of this rabbit hole, I scoured Wikipedia for evidence of a link between anyone previously mentioned and Kevin Bacon. Imagine my delight and astonishment to find this diagram on the Six degrees page. Because they both starred in the 2012 drama film 'Jayne Mansfield's Car,' John Hurt has a Bacon number of one. And so I suppose I have a 4. Tenuous, but joyfully claimed.

Edit: added hashtags

#SixDegrees #Film #Serendipity

This is a concept I've always been fascinated by - the small world theory. Six degrees of separation, or fewer, between any two people you can think of. Seems highly improbable, but as Steve Strogatz puts it - "The math begs the question, not of "how is it possible that the world is that small" but, "how could it be otherwsie?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYlon2tvywA

#science #sociology #smallworldtheory #sixdegrees #6degrees #sixdegreesofseparation #nature #culture

I always love the international flavor of Marina Sofia's #6Degrees posts. This month's list takes us to Japan, Britain, Ancient Greece/Troy, Romania and Czarist Russia.

#bookstodon #BookBlogger #reading

#SixDegrees of Separation: September ’25 https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/09/06/sixdegrees-of-separation-september-25/

Knowing when to take the drawing away (Sketch of the Week for Week 21 of 2025) https://www.davideriknelson.com/sbsb/index.php/2025/05/sketch-of-the-week-knowing-when-to-stop/ #art #drawing #LightAndShadow #newsD #newsF #SixDegrees #sketch #sketching #StrongLatinas #StrongWomen

Marina Sofia's post this month is "a criss-crossing of oceans and time periods this month: the United States, Britain and Japan each appearing more than once."
#6Degrees #bookstodon #BookBlogger #reading

#SixDegrees of Separation May 2025 https://findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/05/04/sixdegrees-of-separation-may-2025/

Social Media

https://kuemmerle.name/social-media-2/

Today's #DreamTheater #DriveTimeTuneage #SixDegrees

Aww man. By the time #MySpace came around, I already had social network fatigue. #Sixdegrees, #Uboot, #FriendsReunited, High 5 (?) and my old sixth form friend pressuring me to sign up to #Friendster so I could connect with her uni mates (????)... after that I was done with social network sites and didn't care when MySpace came around. I probably would have liked it though, and had the most garish profile page.
#SpaceHey — a space for friends.
https://spacehey.com/

@Metalstats

Yngwie Malmsteen to Cozy Powell?

#SixDegrees #music #metal

@shoq

Just keep networking.

Do not give up.

#SixDegrees

🆕 NEW Blog Post!

I'm fascinated by the way in which Mastodon social graphs develop and expand. To prove that these are important, I made a little blog post, looking at Mastodon followers.

#blogpost #socialmedia #socialnetwork #followers #sixdegrees #kevinbacon

https://jrashford.com/2023/07/31/your-social-network-is-bigger-than-you-think/

Did The Devil and Mick Jagger Inspire The Voice of Starscream, Number Two Decepticon From The Transformers?
#1970s #1980s #voiceover #vo #cartoons #classic #scifi #transformers #WTF #mystery #sixdegrees
https://funhouseradio.com/2022/10/16/starscream-devil/

A coworker of mine was sent a package from the #unabomber but it was after the first ones went off and was intercepted before delivery to his office. So, yeah, #sixdegrees from madness. Rest in hell, Teddyboy.

Robert Altmann printer Paul Celan's poem! Altmann is the father of Roberto Altmann, excellent friend of my late ex-husband Marc Froment-Meurice. I met Roberto once in Paris, probably in 1999.
#SixDegrees #Celan #Altmann

The book I'm reading is Todtnauberg: Die Geschichte von Paul Celan, Martin Heidegger und ihrer unmöglichen Begegnung, by Hans-Peter Kunisch.

@ian Damn right. Though I hope they don't start having votes on it :)

We went through decades of this with #IRC, when #Eris forked off the main universe, to create #EFNet, then the major forks of #Undernet, #Dalnet and #IRCNet - I suppose the big difference here is that different servers can allow different functionality within the same galaxy.

We just need to bring back #SixDegrees and the only change we need to make on it, is to make sure that the only post editor is #TECO

#BringBackTECO

@RWParlerWatch

For those who don't get it - if we're all #SixDegrees from Kevin Bacon, we're also six degrees or fewer from those who want us dead.

This is pretty dope: Six Degrees of Francis Bacon http://sixdegreesoffrancisbacon.com/?ids=10000473&min_confidence=60&type=network
#EarlyModernPhilosophy #FrancisBacon #JohnLocke #KnowledgeIsPower #FranceIsBacon #graph #sixdegrees #SmallWorldNetwork #Empiricists #NaturalPhilosophy