It’s not what you know but who you know they say — well, who do you know?
My wife was watching a TV programme called Human Footprint the other day,
which had all kinds of information about what we consume and produce from
the cradle to the grave. For example, if all the farts the average person
produces over a lifetime were collected and set alight, they would produce
a 35000 litre fireball.
One of the more interesting statistics was that the average person knows
1750 people in their lifetime — that is, people they can remember within 2
years of having met them.
I thought it might be interesting to try to list the ones that I’ve known:
where I know them from, how I met them, and what I can remember about
them. Family, friends, teachers, work colleagues, acquaintances, people
one meets on courses and conferences, and so on.
So far I’ve managed to list 144, and the target of 1750 seems a long way
off. I wonder how they arrived at that figure. But it’s been quite fun.
Many of the people I’ve listed I haven’t seen for years, and I’ve no idea
what happened to them. Some people one can find out more about by a Web
search — and, interestingly enough, Google is not necessarily the best
search engine for this purpose. For some people Google produced page after
page of irrelevant results, while Altavista popped up information about
the person I was looking for at the top of the list.
See URL below for links etc.
http://khanya.wordpress.com/2008/04/28/who-do-you-know/
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Steve Hayes from Tshwane, South Africa
Web: http://hayesfam.bravehost.com/stevesig.htm
Blog: http://methodius.blogspot.com
E-mail - see web page, or parse: shayes at dunelm full stop org full stop
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