It's a small world...

[williamjm]

I've just got back from a meal the company I work for generously decided to feed us at an Italian restauraunt called Prezzo just north of the river in Cambridge, which had fairly mediocre service but quite nice food (including a dessert called "chocolate biscuit cake" which prompted some discussion about whether 'biscuit' and 'cake' should be mutually exclusive terms).

Over the meal I ended up discussing Edinburgh University with one of my colleagues who was doing a pHD in the Physics department when I was doing my undergraduate degree there. At one point he mentioned his two pHD supervisors, I recognised one of the names immediately as one of my lecturers, and thought the other was familiar. After a little while I realised that the second name was familiar partly because he was dsky's Dad [1].

This is probably one of those things that isn't as unlikely as it seems. Although it seems surprising to have someone you know (or a relative of theirs) brought up in random conversation with someone else who should have no connection to the person mentioned, it maybe isn't such a coincidence when you consider that 5 of the 18 people in my office are, like me, graduates of Edinburgh University's Computer Science or Physics departments (or in one case a former employee of the EPCC where dsky was currently studying) and the colleague I was talking to probably supervised some of my Computer Simulation labs at Edinburgh University.

[1] Unless of course, I'm getting confused.

Comments

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

As we all know, everyone is within seven degrees of someone else.

[dsky.livejournal.com]

Quite likely as it happens as he does that sort of thing...