bilateral kellerberrin

Some kind of adventure game, rock climbing etc, there’s no way my team is gonna win, my partner is the youngest player, and I already know we are behind. We find some apricot danishes along the route.

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Had beer and falafel with chris last night, bashed his ear about Kellerberrin and what is going on. I had been reading “small worlds” by Duncan watts on the train. I had a bit of trouble with some of the maths which he quickly introduced, but the concepts are fascinating – six degrees of separation really does exist. I was particularly into some postage experiments done in the sixties. In one model, letters are intended for a recipient in new york, but sent to someone completely unrelated in LA. The LA recipient should post the letter on to one person that they know the name and address of, who they reckon has a good chance of getting the letter closer to the final recipient. What they found is that usually this chain of letters only took about 6 links to reach the intended recipient, even though there was no connection with the first person in LA. Chris and I talked about the kinds of things I could do in keller, experiments of this nature. Mapping the social networks between people, or something. But something of the researcher in me (which is not a very strong part) tells me I need to have a “hunch” or a desire or at least something I have an itch to find out before embarking on anything of that nature.
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