Thanks for the link; I've read with interest. I work with a man who very much fills the "Lois Mould". I am very interested in the theory of human interaction at the heart of the essay, and am off to google to see if I can find out some more...

I'm always pleased to introduce somebody to Lois. I did some network theory stuff for my doctoral thesis and I really love the whole concept. It always makes me think of astronomy, for some reason. A kind of mapping of the way human psyches connect.

Ohhh, I like the astronomy analogy. Much better than the relationship maps we touched on, very briefly, in undergraduate Sociology...and that is before you weave in that wonderful Farscape quote where John tells Aeryn that she always becomes the center of his reference chart. ;o)

I loved this article and spent too much time reading his other pieces yesterday.

I had heard about the "Six Degrees of Separation" - saw the movie, even - and it is cool that one can be so close to others.

For instance, I am connected to one of my favorite actors, Johnny Depp by three degrees. My friend Bob Marley, (the comedian), was in a movie with Willem Dafoe, who was in "Once Upon a time in Mexico" with Johnny Depp. Awesome!